fence posts

RhysT

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Swansea
Fence and forget get their posts from the Creosote plant in Newport. They have a few different agents around the country if you check out their website it says who the agents are. We only use fence and forget, the owner is a good guy to deal with. Oldest posts here are 3 years now and looking good.
 

tepapa

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Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
I have seen a video before of metal posts similar to clipex but with a length of plain wire slid in from top to retain all other wires.. anyone know what they are called?
Davles posts, kiwikit are selling them.
I can see they have a use as fencing on short term grazing (3-5yr type) where you could easily pull the wire up and take it away.
 

nails

Member
Location
East Dorset
Fence and forget get their posts from the Creosote plant in Newport. They have a few different agents around the country if you check out their website it says who the agents are. We only use fence and forget, the owner is a good guy to deal with. Oldest posts here are 3 years now and looking good.

Looking good after 3 years:rolleyes:. I should hope so. See if they last 30 odd years like the cleft oak we used to use
 

nails

Member
Location
East Dorset
are your cleft oak stakes, similar to cleft chesnut , and whats the price differential.
The cleft oak were always cleft with no rounds and were split out of any unsuitable timber for milling Used to get all shapes and sizes with some big enough for a strainer I don,t get any cleft oak now , last person i knew doing them died a fair few years ago. My father used to do a couple hundred a year for our own use and i have done them but not in any quantity. Pricewise they were dearer than regular softwood but cheap in the long run. I use chestnut now from Dorset Fencing Supplies. Years ago fencing materials used to be what was available locally. The last 20 years there has been some real crap on the market.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Fence and forget get their posts from the Creosote plant in Newport. They have a few different agents around the country if you check out their website it says who the agents are. We only use fence and forget, the owner is a good guy to deal with. Oldest posts here are 3 years now and looking good.
Thats the beauty of tff, i hadnt heard of Burt, Boulton & Haywood in newport who have agents all over.
 

RhysT

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Swansea
Looking good after 3 years:rolleyes:. I should hope so. See if they last 30 odd years like the cleft oak we used to use
We’re based 2 miles from the M4. Got about 300m of fencing that they put up when they done the cutting towards the motorway in approx 1976. You can still knock a nail into the wood even though the wire and netting is rotting away.
Shame the softwood posts have gone so poor! Fence wood suppliers should be ashamed of themselves selling us this crap!
 

som farmer

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Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
The cleft oak were always cleft with no rounds and were split out of any unsuitable timber for milling Used to get all shapes and sizes with some big enough for a strainer I don,t get any cleft oak now , last person i knew doing them died a fair few years ago. My father used to do a couple hundred a year for our own use and i have done them but not in any quantity. Pricewise they were dearer than regular softwood but cheap in the long run. I use chestnut now from Dorset Fencing Supplies. Years ago fencing materials used to be what was available locally. The last 20 years there has been some real crap on the market.

how do get on with the cleft chesnut ? allways get our strainers from them. telegraph pole cut down
 

Grassman

Member
Location
Derbyshire
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I am a bit disappointed with a 6" octapost I had to cut the top off
 

tepapa

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
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Quite disappointed in this strainer I had today, don't like cutting tops but this had mushroomed beyond recognition and needed tidying up.
 

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