Buying a BX23S and need advice on an Auger mounted cement mixer

[SidecarFlip]

Why are you making a job bigger than it has to be! When I hired a fence contractor they came in dug the holes by hand. Set the post, added bag of concrete then poured in some water. No cement mixer!

My SOP for most (not all) posts as well. Bore the hole, crumb it out, set the post in (I coat the bottom and sides of the post that are in contact with the ground with liquid driveway sealer even if PT posts (they last longer), drop in the post, add one or 2 bags of Quickcrete and cover with soil. The Quickcrete allows you to easily square the post and ground moisture will set the Quickcrete, no water added unless the soils is extremely dry.

 

[GreensvilleJay]

Up here , I had a guy come and drill, mix, toss in my posts CHEAPER than me renting machine and buying bags of mix. When all 16 posts were in I said 'WOW', they were ALL in line !!
You may want to rethink the buying equipment - doing it yourself idea. Sit down with pen and paper, look at cost of materials and YOUR TIME. Yes, I know it's nice to do the work,well maybe the first 8-10 holes.After that it's not fun anymore.... I've got 18 more posts to do(one fence) and it'll take me 3 weeks to remove all the 'stuff' next to the old fence + remove old fence to make a 'clean slate'. 3 hrs later the new fence posts will be in, plumb,straight and true.
The big deal is your TIME. Odds are 1/3rd way into the first fence line 'something' will come up and poof the entire day is SHOT.....

 

[North Idaho Wolfman]

Why are you making a job bigger than it has to be! When I hired a fence contractor they came in dug the holes by hand. Set the post, added bag of concrete then poured in some water. No cement mixer!

100% agree, dry setting posts is 100% effective and way faster!

 

[NHSleddog]

If all you are doing is setting fence posts pack them any way you want to. Packed dirt is fine if you pack it good enough.

A guy I play cards with that owns a fencing company said he only uses dry on lightweight fence that does not need to resist wind. All the fancy and vinyl fence, the posts are set dry enough to hold them then wet to fill. The fence is installed the next day.

Sonotubes and footings require proper cement regardless.

 

[PaulL]

Assuming it's a wire fence, probably not much wind load. If it's some sort of solid fence, different story. Here in NZ we'd always just ram the dirt for the posts on a wire farm fence. Concrete sounds pretty luxury to me. Having said that, ramming dirt is no fun, and if you had a tractor mounted mixer, concrete wouldn't be too hard.....

 

[NHSleddog]

Up here , I had a guy come and drill, mix, toss in my posts CHEAPER than me renting machine and buying bags of mix. When all 16 posts were in I said 'WOW', they were ALL in line !!
You may want to rethink the buying equipment - doing it yourself idea......

In my case I will be that guy you call that comes out and does it for you in a few hours.