<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">David and All:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I remember someone burying 5 foot pieces of telephone poles, cross-wise, perhaps 3-5 feet deep at the end of a row. Most of the trellises I built in Biglerville PA survived.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did have a Geneva Double-Curtin grape trellis fail when, after a big wind storm flipped up one side of the Double-Curtin grape trellis, the terrific imbalance caused the posts to snap off.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Come on where are all of the experts like Jon Clements or others who are the experts. I thought that one (or by now several) states had Extension Bulletins on this subject.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Be well, George</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 31, 2017, at 2:04 PM, David Kollas <<a href="mailto:kollas@frontier.com" class="">kollas@frontier.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Kurt and Mo:<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thank you for your comments.<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>If pull-out is the reason for discarding the Duckbill anchoring method, I wonder if a larger model would<br class="">overcome that. The largest Duckbill model is about 12 inches long. A second line of “duckbills”, also by Foresight <br class="">Products, is called Manta Ray, and is made for increased resistance, installed with hydraulic jackhammer. There <br class="">are also options for stoney soils (ductile iron, hot-dipped in zinc, rather than the standard aluminum). However,<br class="">searches of company websites, and telephone contacts, have been short on pertinent,applicable value in my recent <br class="">efforts.<br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> The thought of trying to put auger-type anchors in my stony land does not appeal to me, and driving<br class="">posts has never attracted me either. Channel iron does seem worth trying, but I am hoping to find something<br class="">I could get really excited about.<br class=""><br class="">David<br class="">Kollas Orchard, CT<br class=""><br class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">apple-crop mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:apple-crop@virtualorchard.com" class="">apple-crop@virtualorchard.com</a><br class="">http://virtualorchard.com/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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