fishpick
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Thanks for the input - I was hoping someone just had the right pipe size. I can go to my local plumbing supply house but they are typically not friendly to non contractors and showing up with a 4x4 chunk and asking to wander the pipes in the yard might light the guys head on fire (which makes sense because they are both plumbing and electrical so a fire is not out of the question)... and I didn't think the right size would be in a big box store.
To the Pythagorean theorem guy - I did that - I was looking for an answer not a number.
@grsthegreat - I wish I could do that - but here in western NY - railroad ties are impossible... AND - the whole point of doing this is - where my range is located is at the soft sandy swampy end of our field. Every year I have to add more trees to top of the berm and more soil on top of the trees to keep the height where it needs to be because it is continually sinking into the sandy silt in the spring.
I have a set of 4x4's in the ground now a ways back from the berm for hanging steel - want to move them up close to the berm... but need to be able to pull them to drive through the area to add stuff on top of the berm.
To the guys that recommended the post sleeves - that's not a bad idea, hadn't thought of that - but any I have seen are not a robust as a schedule 40 pipe (or other pipe) - usually they are pretty flimsy - and my concern there is when it's so squishy and I'm driving close to them without a post installed to top off the berm- they collapse some - and then I'm back to digging out and resetting.
@Hay Dude - I think this is probably the simplest answer.
To the Pythagorean theorem guy - I did that - I was looking for an answer not a number.
@grsthegreat - I wish I could do that - but here in western NY - railroad ties are impossible... AND - the whole point of doing this is - where my range is located is at the soft sandy swampy end of our field. Every year I have to add more trees to top of the berm and more soil on top of the trees to keep the height where it needs to be because it is continually sinking into the sandy silt in the spring.
I have a set of 4x4's in the ground now a ways back from the berm for hanging steel - want to move them up close to the berm... but need to be able to pull them to drive through the area to add stuff on top of the berm.
To the guys that recommended the post sleeves - that's not a bad idea, hadn't thought of that - but any I have seen are not a robust as a schedule 40 pipe (or other pipe) - usually they are pretty flimsy - and my concern there is when it's so squishy and I'm driving close to them without a post installed to top off the berm- they collapse some - and then I'm back to digging out and resetting.
@Hay Dude - I think this is probably the simplest answer.