It be sad news. Wind has blowed down part of me fence. Edgar's ok but two of his fence post feinds have snapped. They is set int concrete and snapped just above it. Convinced naybor to let me fix it. Gerrin two of them concrete repair post fings from bnq. 1m tall. And some post fix concrete. Parently yer dunt mix it. Tis pre mixed. Yer shuvvit int hole dry then add water. Bit like planting.
 
Or a little one. Eye has a bosch sds ammer driller wiv chissel function but it may be a lot of wurk ferrit.

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Hippo said:
It be sad news. Wind has blowed down part of me fence. Edgar's ok but two of his fence post feinds have snapped. They is set int concrete and snapped just above it. Convinced naybor to let me fix it. Gerrin two of them concrete repair post fings from bnq. 1m tall. And some post fix concrete. Parently yer dunt mix it. Tis pre mixed. Yer shuvvit int hole dry then add water. Bit like planting.
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Postmix very good stuff goes off quick, 15 mins depending, don't drown it just tamp round the post and water it, moisture in ground will cure it as well
Good luck with it. hard days work coming :D
 
Those breakers in @Hippo 's posts should be perfectly adequate. Much better than labouring away with a hammer and chisel. I've had a couple over the years that were more or less identical but Erbauer branded. One of them broke out all the rock in those pictures I posted earlier in this thread of digging out the ground around the back of a house to help deal with the damp. So a few lumps of concrete should be well within its capabilities. My first one eventually expired after many hours breaking rock, so I bought another one.

If you get a smaller one with an SDS Max fitting it's worth getting one that drills as well as hammers (usually a bit more than a hammer only machine), because then it can be used as a large masonry drill too.
 
landowner said:
Postmix very good stuff goes off quick, 15 mins depending, don't drown it just tamp round the post and water it, moisture in ground will cure it as well
Good luck with it. hard days work coming :D
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Does it really set ard after 15 minutes? Ard enuff to attach a post and an 8 foot length of 6 foot tall fevver board fence? Eye were finking if leaving it 24 hours to set instead.
 
Brown said:
Those breakers in @Hippo 's posts should be perfectly adequate. Much better than labouring away with a hammer and chisel. I've had a couple over the years that were more or less identical but Erbauer branded. One of them broke out all the rock in those pictures I posted earlier in this thread of digging out the ground around the back of a house to help deal with the damp. So a few lumps of concrete should be well within its capabilities. My first one eventually expired after many hours breaking rock, so I bought another one.

If you get a smaller one with an SDS Max fitting it's worth getting one that drills as well as hammers (usually a bit more than a hammer only machine), because then it can be used as a large masonry drill too.
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Will the smaller one break me garage floor when eye knock down me garage? It has replaceable bushes. The bit one doesn't but its got a lot more cracking force. Floor is about 50mm fick.
 
I haven't timed it with a stopwatch, but those postmix and postcrete products are pretty brisk. That's why they recommend you put them in position first, before wetting them. There isn't enough time to mix them separately in a wheelbarrow for example. Like all cement products, they cure harder over a long period of time, but I've found them functionally firm after I've had time to drink a cup of coffee.
 
The main criticism I have of those rapid setting post mix products is that they're quite expensive for what you get. It's OK if you're in the position to make very narrow post holes, but can get very dear if you've got big ones, for example if you've broken out someone else's lump of concrete. If you are in a position to leave it for a day or two, you might be better off filling up the Freelander with ordinary sand and cement. When I'm doing this sort of job I often re-use the lumps of concrete I've dug out to help fill up the space and use the new stuff to fill the gaps.
 
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Will the smaller one break me garage floor when eye knock down me garage? It has replaceable bushes. The bit one doesn't but its got a lot more cracking force. Floor is about 50mm fick.
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I don't see why not. I bought a Bosch SDS Plus drill & hammer machine of the kind that has the motor at a right angle to the drill bit back in the 1990s. They don't make that particular model any more, but would be equivalent to what's called a 5kg machine. I hammered through a terrific amount of masonry with it for over 20 years. For all I know it could still be working today, but I left it at a friend's house pre-Covid, and haven't been round to get it.
 
Hippo said:
Does it really set ard after 15 minutes? Ard enuff to attach a post and an 8 foot length of 6 foot tall fevver board fence? Eye were finking if leaving it 24 hours to set instead.
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Late to the party....sorry.
We put in a whole line of posts, gravel-board and panels in without stopping, about 6 a day for 2 days.
We aligned the posts perfectly on a stringline and vertically on 2 corner faces, dumped the postcrete in tamped it down and watered it and moved on to the next hole. By the time the next 2 posts were in the 1st was ready to accept a fence panel.
Only caution to guard against is gusts of wind causing the part-set postcrete to snap open.
after 24 hours everything is rock-solid. :)
 
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DanClarke said:
... that I have pulled the pin on the "Shipley" quote to have that lathe brough here. :)
Now I am in a funk and a panic to clear a space. Arghhhhhhhhhhhh! LOL :D
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I'm very pleased to hear you have a new lathe coming. What did you go for in the end?

I still think a new lathe deserves a new shed. I'm sure they'll let you squeeze another one into the back garden under 'permitted development'.
 
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