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Rant: A city inspector in Boise told me my 6-foot cedar posts were fine for a 4-foot fence, and I've been overbuilding for a decade.

He said, 'You're putting a Corvette engine in a mail truck,' and now I'm rethinking every materials list I've ever written, so what's your rule of thumb for post size to fence height?
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thea143
thea14329d agoMost Upvoted
Honestly, I just double the post height for anything over four feet.
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hall.finley
Tbh @thea143, that rule works until you're trying to bury an eight-foot post and realize you've just ordered a telephone pole. Gonna need a bigger hole and a whole different kind of weekend.
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