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He tells me that I should have enough product to fill 2 of the 10' posts completely with the epoxy. The math I found is 3" x 10' = 3.67 gallons X 2 posts = 7.34 gallons. Without any rebar taking up space in the added steel tube, the math says 2.25" x 10' = 2.065 gallons. That would allow me...

Bottoms up here. So rip it all out, and scrap it all, then hand mix a yard and a half for each of the 5 posts? I wish you did live closer, you could help! @Old Fart why yes it is, and worse than the price, is the difficulty finding any! I considered going square, but read the round was...

Alrighty, so I've got my epoxy, I've got 2 sections of steel tube, and the conditions are forecasted to be good for having at it. I'll cut down the 126", and add a filler piece to the bottom of the post for the 105" round tube, to have them both around 115", so if I overflow the center of the...

Awe come on man. Really. So I waited in hopes, that 1 of 3 I was actually provided emails for, would help. I wasn't sure if, so I waited to hear from each before moving on to the next. All were "friends of a friends friend" kinda thing, and went through forwarded emails, so I never had...

Ohmagee If that's not the truth! I guess I've given up on the architect's guy and her 24-48 hours he was to be contacting me. Called a big plumbing outfit and got a name for the guy she used for an Amazon building, he's not gotten back to me, even dropping the plumber's name with her...

Yeah, but with frequent repairs to keep square from what I hear. Actually the frame isn't as much as the lumber, which shocked me. Just the 13 pickets and three 2x4's was just under half my weight. But I get what you're saying. I'll have to mock one up and weight it. Ugh, why do engineers...

Ah, the back corner. Honestly that one would probably never be a problem, as I don't foresee it getting used. Yes, I know what you mean, and I can still flip flop that one. I hinged it that way so to open it, it's least likely to have **** piled in the way haha. I wasn't going to have one...

Darn, that high up. I understand the principle, I'll just have to revisit the available space

Well I feel like I'm in preschool and doing fingerpainting. Sorry, I couldn't come up with a better method. So green is lumber fence Red is the problem posts Blue is swing gates. That's why I can't add an additional external support. Unfortunately the way I set everything up is to have the...

But do you really think that it's safe with only a few inches of "extra" space? At grade, and down a good foot, is only a 10" sonontube. In that 10" is the 3" essentially centered. Kinda only leaving me ~3" to work with. Now I do like that triangle idea, to an oversized plate, that would allow...

And as far as my tube inside the post idea, yes I understand the 1/16th of an inch will compound over the 10', however, ⅝" is less flex than I'm currently seeing, and according to my super confused calculations, if I managed to use the right numbers, the 2.5" round steel tube should be capable...

I'll be the first to admit I haven't got a clue. But I've done my due diligence and researched for countless hours to weed through most of what I read to determine what of the meat and potatoes was sensible and repeated. Never in a million years would I have expected digging some holes...

I'll be the first to admit I haven't got a clue. But I've done my due diligence and researched for countless hours to weed through most of what I read to determine what of the meat and potatoes was sensible and repeated. Never in a million years would I have expected digging some holes...

@PCustoms Sorry for lashing out. The city sent another love letter, while the other half is complaining that this is taking too long and more than expected, while I'd been on several phone calls with the post manufacturer and their grumpy old non listening codgers who kept reading from the...

Thank you Bill. BassJam, you were much better prepared to respond. When I kept hearing that "fill her with Crete and git er done", it was just so frustrating that I couldn't remember the verbiage of why, I just remembered that I knew it wasn't all many think it is, as far as durability...

OK, well you've hung around this long, so here's a copy of the email I've prepared for an Engineer, when the time comes I know where to send it? But it's got all the facts as I know it, and in one place. Hi, thank you kindly for your time. I'm not sure what you've been told, but I'm...

@FMB4 I've read plenty about CFM or something like that, the bollards in front of Walmart and ATM's, but it is simply not the same in narrow posts, it doesn't scale down accordingly from the traditional 8" to my narrow 3" That's where I got my 5% number, which isn't really much gain. I don't...

@billconner But here is a site with many different calculators. This page is "cantilever beam load", and I plugged in my numbers, but I don't understand the results or the graphs. https://calcresource.com/statics-cantilever-beam.html

Post was sold as Schedule 40, but I have my doubts. Seems to have a wall thickness of 0.125 Section modulus of 0.6364 Yeild strength of 25,000 psi Bending strength of 252 lbs Bending moment 6' cantilever is 18,160 lbs in That's the numbers that seems to match up with the dimensions I measured...

Alright, what angle are you looking for? Down a hollow tube? Maybe the dirt around the the footing? The label on the post? Looking at a picture of the gate frame ain't gonna say much. Sorry for sounding rude, but I've already said that I would prefer to have actual numbers before sealing...