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<P>Jeffers,</P> <P>Are you sure about the posts being 6x6 sawn timber? Where I came from many of the foundations were round log type. Why do all the work of sawing the timber? Stands the weather better if it has not been sawn too.</P> <P>If you can live with round posts, I would drill holes right through the ply and push the "posts" through so that they can be level at the top. You can trim the excess under the base board after the glue dries. Drill the beam to take each post. Alternatively drill a few to give adequate strength, but leave the rest to be but joints to save work.</P> <P>The posts material is up to you. Wood if you like. Wire if you like, then disguise it as wood. Even nails if you get the right size, but cut the heads off.</P> <P>I just thought of another way out idea. If you want square posts, you could use wire or nails then coat them with some filler to give a square shape. Bit of a pain doing that. I really think you would find many posts were round. Except those that were made of brick .</P> <P>The critical thing of course is to drill "square holes". Holes that go perpendicular into the ground that is.</P> <P> </P>
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