Post Buddy Pack of 2 Easy Fence Post Repair Kit (to Fix 1 Broken Wood Post), Quick and Simple to Install, Effective, Durable Steel Stakes

So easy to use. The post I repaired was actually broken completely off from the cement. I used three of these to secure it back on. I’m 66 years old. The thought of having to dig another hole, and mix cement and replace the entire section made me tired! These worked perfectly and were super easy to do. And I did it by my self. Don’t know how long they will hold but it’s good for now and very sturdy. I live in the panhandle of Texas and we are expecting 80 mile an hour gusts today. So let’s see how this stands up!

Gate post rotted, the one with the latch. Just getting someone to replace the post very hard and super expensive. Last fence post I had replaced cost $350 (2 hours work, plus post and concrete) over two years ago. Saw a YouTube video about these and decided to give them a try. Wow! The rotted post is not rocking. It is as if the whole post was replaced. Very easy to install. I am disabled and did the install while sitting on my mobility scooter. The instructions say to use number 10 screws, but the Amazon description does not. I used #10 2 1/2 exterior wood screws and a hammer drill to drive them into the post. Total time to install, for this very senior person, was 20 minutes at most. I used a 4 pound hammer to drive the metal staps into the ground. I do not know how long this repair will last, but I suspect it will be years. Several monts later. Just did a second post, this one is number 5 post of 15 for this fence. Took less than 10 minutes and this post is the most stable. Someday the whole fence will need to be replaced, but that is years away. In the mean time, Post Buddy keeps the fence strong.

Not hard to use, not easy to use. Stability offered depends on the post and the concrete as much as anything.

I had a 4”x4” fence post that my neighbor hit with their car. The post is completely broken at the base. His Elmer’s glue did not do the trick. Thanks neighbor. I installed a set of these (2) and the fence post is now sturdy like it should be. These work exactly as described and are super easy to install. Has held up to some pretty strong wind gusts.

This is a pretty great product. They aren’t thin or weak as you might think, 1/4” thick metal flat bar that is coated in weather proof material. They have predrilled holes in them & work pretty good. I would suggest that you make sure you don’t have posts that are set in concrete because you won’t be able to get them into the ground as deep as they need to go. I had to modify one of them because of this, but I was a metal fabricator for a long time. So if you have concrete set posts? I would suggest buying ones that would be suitable for your needs. Besides that? I would recommend these to anyone who needs to fix a falling post. As a matter of fact, I already recommended them to a neighbor who has a few leaning posts. Hope this helps.

I had been using the Simpson ones that HD (and amazon) sells to fix my 20 yo fence. They worked ok, but were a PITA to pound in, and I could never get more than one to fit on a post. They also looked terrible after beating on them with the 3lb hammer (since they were so hard to pound in). These are 10x better. Much easier to put in and look great since they are much easier to hit. The post is solid as can be. Definitely need two per post to make it solid. Used the front/back configuration. Highly recommend these.

I purchased two one-post packages because I needed to stabilize a couple 4x4" Cedar Posts supporting my seven-foot wood panel fence installed by Amerifence some 15 years ago. All of the original 11 4x4 cedar posts supporting the fence panels have rotted at and probably below ground level. A recent windstorm caused the better part of that length of fence supported by those posts to lean over my neighbor's 4-foot chain link fence at a 45 degree angle and I was worried that the weight of my wood fence might damage my neighbor's fence if it fell down onto it. I used a single post buddy piece to support each of my four worst posts. I used only one post buddy piece for each post because I realized that the rot in my posts was too bad for even 3 or 4 post buddy pieces to "fix" even one post. I was quite impressed by how one post buddy piece helped in stabilizing my extremely rotted fence posts. Had my 4x4 posts not been so rotted, I believe the Post Buddy system would have worked well for me. Finding a single post buddy piece insufficient for my own situation, I anchored each of those posts with ropes and a twelve inch earth anchor as a temporary fix while I arrange to permanently replace the rotted posts. Know that my 4x4 cedar posts were set three feet deep with DRY Cement by my fence company. I have already had to replace the posts on one-third of my fence line two years ago because of the posts rotting at ground level. My post replacement plan for this third of my fence line is the same as I deployed for the first fence line that failed two years ago due to ground level rot. The plan involves new ground-contact, treated Pine 4x4 posts inside three foot deep 4x4 vinyl post sleeves in 3-foot deep 6”x6” post holes, with a few inches of pea gravel at the base and mixed-with-water concrete around the sleeves to protect the pine 4x4’s from contact with either cement or ground water. My intent is to be able, in the future, to detach fence panels, easily extract any deteriorating posts, replace those posts with new 4x4’s into the sleeves and re-attach the fence panels ... to avoid having to remove rotted concrete-adhered 4x4 posts and the concrete itself. Hope this helps anyone who cares.

I could not hammer them between the post and concrete as advertised.

I was little skeptical, but the steel is thicker than I expected and seems to work well. The top of the concrete was lower than the ground so the post rotted. I added 2 braces and build up the concrete to be above ground to prevent further deterioration. Some posts were not as bad, so I added 1 brace to the front and added concrete. Time will tell if this works. 2 of the posts are too far gone and I will do a proper replacement pulling the concrete up,.installing new post and concrete. If the posts are not too far gone, this system should work. I was also surprised that it was not that hard to hammer the brace in, I used only a regular hammer.

I used this to fix a fence post that had completely rotted through at the ground. The gate was attached to that post, and it wasn't working very well. With these steel pieces pounded into the ground, on adjacent sides of the post, the fence is now decently solid, and the gate works well. It has lasted for two years so far. We still have to replace the fence at some point, but it's allowed us to defer the costly fence replacement project.

Bent at first application

I wasn’t sure this Post Buddy repair kit would work for me, given my fence posts barely have any concrete around them, but I decided to give it a try anyway. To my surprise, it worked really well! I hammered it into the ground to secure the post, and it’s now stable - still wobbles a tiny bit in high winds, but it’s a huge improvement from before. The kit isn’t super cheap, and it would be nice if there were more than two stakes in a pack, but it’s still far cheaper and easier than replacing the entire post. Very happy with the results.