From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:100j5gq$2fnms$1@dont-email.me...   
      
   On 5/20/2025 7:13 AM, Jim Wilkins wrote:   
   > and you are much too far away to borrow my reject* pipe bollard   
      
   Several people said, "Just throw some pipe under it," including my buddy   
   who delivered it.  That doesn't really work in sand, and I was a bit   
   disappointed in him for that.  My method of setting it on square timbers   
   (reclaimed guard rail posts) as skid surfaces worked.  It was a lot of   
   work which I expected, but it worked just the way I envisioned.   
      
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   Needing timbers or pavement under the pipes seemed so obvious I didn't want   
   to insult you by mentioning it. I've kept the scrap 6x6s and other PT the   
   neighborhood contractor threw into his scrap pile. We saved him several   
   large dumpster loads by burning the untreated wood scrap in big party   
   bonfires, his wife supplying the snacks. The small PT scrap blocked up the   
   pallets I store my firewood on, to slow or prevent their rotting. I had   
   enough 6x6 timbers to support the shed high enough to back the trailer   
   underneath. It's kept logs downed in late fall off the ground over winters.   
      
   Pipes do tend to twist out of parallel and need to be knocked straight   
   again, with chocks handy to block them, they can be as much annoyance as   
   help. The timbers under them should be overlapped at the ends instead of   
   abutted, which may let the pipe force them apart.   
      
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