Creosote posts beware !

[General-Lee]

Clipex

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Yes cooler day would be better , but given I near enough fence the entire farm with the old crappy posts before we realised how rubbish they were , you never know which fence is going to fall next thus we are always doing fire brigade repairs once cattle are out even though I spent a fair amount of the winter going around doing repairs , so much so that you get little time to do new fences now for always repairing the semi new stuff !

Clipex Ecoposts are the bees knees for repairing failing fences.

 

[bovrill]

Creosote is carcinogenic, be careful folks

What isn't?

 

[Fergieman]

Where do you buy these creosoted fence posts? The treated posts up here are crap and don't last anytime at all. Would love a good supplier of creosoted timber fencing supplies.

 

[Grassman]

Are we still not trusting the tanalised posts? Even the incised ones?
Surely if dried redwood and properly treated it should be good.
Mole valley put 15 year warranty on theirs.

 

[ARW]

Are we still not trusting the tanalised posts? Even the incised ones?
Surely if dried redwood and properly treated it should be good.
Mole valley put 15 year warranty on theirs.

Do you really think they will give your money back when they are rotten at 14 years?
On some garenteed posts you have voided the garentee when you hammer a staple in

 

[Paddington]

Where do you buy these creosoted fence posts? The treated posts up here are crap and don't last anytime at all. Would love a good supplier of creosoted timber fencing supplies.

http://www.fenceandforget.co.uk/

 

[Grassman]

Do you really think they will give your money back when they are rotten at 14 years?
On some garenteed posts you have voided the garentee when you hammer a staple in

Oh I know that but it's a sliding scale warranty including some installation cost.

 

[tepapa]

Are we still not trusting the tanalised posts? Even the incised ones?
Surely if dried redwood and properly treated it should be good.
Mole valley put 15 year warranty on theirs.

But it's the same timber and the same chemical. They are only treating them differently, so hopefully should be better but i wouldn't hold my breath.

 

[Paddington]

We had the telegraph post outside the house replaced last year. I asked the contractors how long it had been in, considering it was creosoted, only ten years was the reply. I don't know what the criteria Openreach use to decide when a pole needs replacing (it didn't look rotten, hadn't fallen over etc). In the process of replacing every post, strainer etc with creosoted ones I was a bit taken back until they told me about a post down the lane they had replaced which had been there since the1940's.

 

[Cheesehead]

We had the telegraph post outside the house replaced last year. I asked the contractors how long it had been in, considering it was creosoted, only ten years was the reply. I don't know what the criteria Openreach use to decide when a pole needs replacing (it didn't look rotten, hadn't fallen over etc). In the process of replacing every post, strainer etc with creosoted ones I was a bit taken back until they told me about a post down the lane they had replaced which had been there since the1940's.

That's what hot dipped tar does for you but that is more labour intensive we have some old one that my dad thinks they were the original ones when his grandad brought the farm in 1921, still as tough as bug**** and a pain to get a nail through can't say that about the new posts.

 

[Princess Pooper]

creosote on the skin and sunshine has. always been bad news. I learned that one in the early 1980's when helping at a stables and creosoting loose boxes and rustic show jumps.

 

[S J H]

Are we still not trusting the tanalised posts? Even the incised ones?
Surely if dried redwood and properly treated it should be good.
Mole valley put 15 year warranty on theirs.

I'd trust peeled over incised, the timber they use for them looks pure shite to me. And my thinking is that incisions just create more of a place for damp to sit and rot.

 

[Hilly]

Where do you buy these creosoted fence posts? The treated posts up here are crap and don't last anytime at all. Would love a good supplier of creosoted timber fencing supplies.

Glendale engineering do Octo posts that are creosoted, you no fancy clipex ?

 

[snarling bee]

Famel cough pastilles had creosote as their active ingredient. They were good to.

Edit: A quick google - they are now banned
Other search engines and cough sweets are available!

 

[Cheesehead]

Famel cough pastilles had creosote as their active ingredient. They were good to.

Edit: A quick google - they are now banned
Other search engines and cough sweets are available!

I thought is was Vick sinex that used certainly clears a blocked nose

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Worked in a cresotte plant for one hot summer in my shirt sleeves never had a problem .that was the old stuff .We were cutting up sleepers as well

 

[David.]

Had a similiar experience this time last year, creosote burned face from the spume created when the hammer hit the post tops, whilst holding posts, on a hot day.
Never had it happen before.

 

[tepapa]

Had a similiar experience this time last year, creosote burned face from the spume created when the hammer hit the post tops, whilst holding posts, on a hot day.
Never had it happen before.

Put a feed bag over the post to stop any splash.

 

[ARW]

Had a similiar experience this time last year, creosote burned face from the spume created when the hammer hit the post tops, whilst holding posts, on a hot day.
Never had it happen before.

Bash plate on the post knocker reduces this