u/More_Light_1396

I’m putting in a picket fence in a hurry on our farm to comply with some insurance requirement. I’ve got some question on posts. The soil here is clay mostly , frost line is 4ft. Fence will be 4 ft high.

1. am I better to use sonotubes or not? In clay soil I was planning on using tubes to provide smooth sides.
2. Am I better to set the post in or set the post above ground with a concrete anchor?
3. What about where there will be a gate? Am I better off setting in ground there?
4. The fence goes over my leaching field - can I get away with a few spikes for those posts? How can I prevent movement for those posts as much as possible ?

Thank you for your wisdom in advance

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Five years ago I had a bad car accident in which I lost someone. Living in Quebec I was offered to take SAAQ salary replacement benefits, but my salary at the time exceeded widely said benefit, it was administratively complex and my head was not all there - plus I had a huge back of sick leave. So I said no thank you and used my sick leave instead.

Fast forward to now I’m medicated and on psychiatric care and headed to LTD and probably medical retirement as a result. SAAQ says they should have been first payee and is insisting that they will give me salary replacement indemnity retroactively. This is where it gets fun.

If I’d asked from the start, essentially half of my days would have been indemnity payments and half sick leave with pay; instead I used all sick leave with pay. Normally these things are sorted out from get go between SAAQ and dept but now SAAQ saying they’ll cut me a cheque and it’s my issue to sort out with dept. but how? Logically this would translate into a sick leave “refund” of about 700 hours, extending my slwp period by 9 months before ltd; but HR says they’ve never seen a case like this and unsure what to do. We’re talking about a 100k cheque here with big tax and benefit implications.

Has anyone ever heard of something like this?

Thank you I’m truly lost