applejack
Member
- Location
- just south of middle england
For you guys that do alot of fencing would you recommend creosoted or pressure treated stakes with regard to longevity and value for money?
Fencing posts
- Thread starter applejack
- Start date
- Location
- Ceredigion
These and no im not on Commision ,
- Location
- Northumberland
Absolutly peed of with so called pressure treated timber. Got posts rotted off at ground level after 5 years.
When I was young fit & keen I cut Scotch trees down in a mature wood we had. Cut them to length & took them to the local sawmill where they cut them into 3" x 3" Brought them home & stacked them up for a summer. Another local sawmill had a creosote hot tank & they put them through that.
Last week the lads were altering a fence round the garden. They were amazed to find some of those 46 year old posts were 100% sound at ground level. Only deteriation was on the tops
When I was young fit & keen I cut Scotch trees down in a mature wood we had. Cut them to length & took them to the local sawmill where they cut them into 3" x 3" Brought them home & stacked them up for a summer. Another local sawmill had a creosote hot tank & they put them through that.
Last week the lads were altering a fence round the garden. They were amazed to find some of those 46 year old posts were 100% sound at ground level. Only deteriation was on the tops
Hilly
Member
- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Everyone is focused on the treatment these days , the penny ain’t dropped you need to treat a decent product Morden timber is sh!t no treatment can turn a sows ear into a sill
Purse .
- Location
- Ceredigion
Seem good value
Doing all the work to put the fence up I wouldnt want them even for 50 p each.
If you did the work yourself you would soon learn , got a conscience and / arent a fly by night contractor.
If you have plenty of money and just pay others to do your work all the time then thats a different matter.
There will never be any of that sort of waste of money shit on my farm ever again
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- Location
- Ceredigion
Best get some quality grass seed bought then [emoji23]
Ah, now that's a different matter
Too good to be true????
The creo ones look good but I doubt that they’re like the ones in the photo. 2-3in are not much cop especially if thyre mostly 2in
More than adequate for electric fencing though.
- Location
- Ceredigion
They have two sorts of Crio in Stock . The ones everyone is buying and some cheaper ones that I use that seem just as good
SilliamWhale
Member
How much do you pay per post?
Those look a good buy for patching.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Everyone is selling those now.just over £4
- Location
- Ceredigion
That's what these are
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
I recommend creosote to customers - I only use creosote at home.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I think I posted on here, the wind farm used a fencing contractor who said he has about 35 farmers he fences for, and only one uses creosote posts and one uses 15 year guarantee posts, all the rest the cheap Wynnstay posts. I can not understand it, I only use Fence n' Forget posts here. I also can not understand the Wind farm using cheap posts, some gateways they have done three times in the last 10 years!
- Location
- North Wales
I pretty much only fence for customers that use creo. I do a bit in clipex and I will knock intermediate shite posts in between creo strainers if they supply them, which some do.
It's good for the customer as they will get a fence that should last decades on the flip side it's horrible stuff for me to use.