29th July 2011, 07:21 PM
Archie
If you want a good experiment involving posts and digging, you could see if sticking pairs of big posts in either end of an oval (sausage-shaped, actually) common postpit is quicker than digging 2 seperate postpits, my guess is that it is (having spent the last 30-odd years finding the easiest ways of removing landscape by hand), when the posts need to be stuck in 1m+ and 1-1.5m apart, so big enough to stand in the hole and work it alternately in each direction, and the slot only needs to be size of the post at each end - see the Marne Barracks, Catterick report (?PPS 2009 or 2010, not got it to hand)....ok, ok, so I've probably got the same thing on my site (also Neo) so have to declare a vested interest and would love some experimental evidence, and from your point of view it actually answers a specific academic question which makes the whole thing look good :face-approve:
If you want a good experiment involving posts and digging, you could see if sticking pairs of big posts in either end of an oval (sausage-shaped, actually) common postpit is quicker than digging 2 seperate postpits, my guess is that it is (having spent the last 30-odd years finding the easiest ways of removing landscape by hand), when the posts need to be stuck in 1m+ and 1-1.5m apart, so big enough to stand in the hole and work it alternately in each direction, and the slot only needs to be size of the post at each end - see the Marne Barracks, Catterick report (?PPS 2009 or 2010, not got it to hand)....ok, ok, so I've probably got the same thing on my site (also Neo) so have to declare a vested interest and would love some experimental evidence, and from your point of view it actually answers a specific academic question which makes the whole thing look good :face-approve: