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Height is where fences fail, and the failure is almost never the panel — it is the post. Put a six-foot hurdle on a post with half a metre in the ground and the first serious gale will lean it. This post exists so that does not happen.
Why the extra length matters
It gives you a proper 60cm or more in the soil with 1.8m still standing, which is the depth a full-height panel actually needs. A six-foot boundary catches real wind, and while a woven hurdle sheds most of it, whatever load remains goes straight into the post at ground level.
Use these on any exposed, coastal or very soft site too, whatever the panel height. The extra depth is cheap insurance and it is the difference between setting a fence once and resetting it after a bad winter.
The specification
Identical to our 1.8m post in a longer length: machine-rounded to a uniform 100mm so ties bite at any height without slipping, chamfered at the top so rain runs off rather than soaking into the end grain, and machine-pointed at the base so it drives straight instead of wandering off your line.
The treatment is UC4 — the use class specified for permanent ground contact, and a deeper, more thorough pressure treatment than the general green preservative used on rails, gravel boards and decking. It is what separates a post you set once from a post you replace.
Setting them. One at each end of the run and one at every 6ft join, so a five-panel run needs six posts. Concrete them on soft ground or open sites; driving is fine on firm ground. Allow a good 60cm below the surface.
Then fix each hurdle with four stainless steel cable ties per upright — eight per panel — fed through the weave and pulled tight against the post. Ties come fifty to a pack, enough for six full-height panels. Suits both hazel and willow at 5ft and 6ft.
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