If you can, find a supplier of farm fencing materials, you can purchase treated round posts with a slight taper, 5"-6", 6"-7" etc. in various lengths. Ask if you can select yours from the pile.( you are only getting a few (or one) Good reasonable pricing on these too. I buy 5"-6" diameter tapers, 12' long and put 3'-4' in the ground.
Heavy clay here and could tamp 'em in tight with rock, but I use the quick set concrete following bag directions and rock with a heavy tamping bar. It's like they're set in stone. My preference is 16' spacing. Hang your own Hang by all means, but these posts are not "sawed out" like milled lumber, so have long grain strength and are in fact Southern yellow pine trees, plantation grown, and run through a sizer. As permanent as can be, stiff and strong. Buy the fattest posts you can deal with. It's overkill but looks good to have 10' sticking out of the ground. No crossbar needed if you get decent depth of set and soil is firm.
We seem to be always experimenting, perfecting and learning. A million ways to hang.
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