Long lasting fence posts (FG2 grant)

[Farmer Roy]

We have gone to chestnut posts and not regretted it, no more rotten bottoms.

untreated hardwood ( eucalyptus “iron bark” ) posts here will last at LEAST 50 years or more.

 

[Zedlock]

Our recycled plastic has an expected service life of 50+ years. The posts aren't currently permissible in FG1/FG2 schemes but we are working on it...

 

[Still Farming]

Someone told me they wouldn’t allow creosote posts? That may of been wrong but I didn’t want to put 2km’s of fences up only to find we won’t be paid for them.

Damageing and poisonous to bugs most likely?

 

[pellow]

Our recycled plastic has an expected service life of 50+ years. The posts aren't currently permissible in FG1/FG2 schemes but we are working on it...

How much is a 75 mm 1800 mm post please?

 

[Y Fan Wen]

untreated hardwood ( eucalyptus “iron bark” ) posts here will last at LEAST 50 years or more.

Ffestiniog Railway were using sleepers from Australia at one time, (Jara or Kari?).
They reckoned you needed diamond tipped tools to work on them.

 

[Zedlock]

How much is a 75 mm 1800 mm post please?

Hi, the closest size match is 80x1750mm, these are £10.72 in brown, £9.93 in grey. Prices ex. VAT and delivery. Attached is our fencing price list. Product page: https://zedlock.com/hanit-recycled-plastic-fence-post-round-80x1750mm-brown.html

 

[puntabrava]

I’ve just bought 700 pressure creosoted 90mm machined posts…they had one cut in half and it had gone right through. Apparently they are made by the company that makes the telegraph poles….they certainly look excellent posts and the stench of creosote off them is unreal….time will tell whether they last

Supplier and cost would make the post relevant in some way.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Supplier and cost would make the post relevant in some way.

Mole valley…I can’t remember exact price now. It was £4 something

 

[puntabrava]

Mole valley…I can’t remember exact price now. It was £4 something

I went to Frome market last week and mole valley next door had some of the blackest posts I have ever seen,makes a change from some strainers I put in 15 years ago and they rotted away in 5 years. Think they had a major problem back then and have tried to address it.

 

[Headless chicken]

Ffestiniog Railway were using sleepers from Australia at one time, (Jara or Kari?).
They reckoned you needed diamond tipped tools to work on them.

We used acacia I think. Nearly impossible to get the staples in and nearly had a hernia lifting them.

 

[smallholder99]

oops, I will ask Mark, next time I have to get some posts from him, I know Morgan's of Aberystwyth sell some sort of Creo posts, but I have had a lot of tanilised posts from them in the past (when they were under a different ownership ~ Mount Trading), and those posts were very quick to rot, so I have been a bit dubious of their creo posts.

they also sell redwood posts, any good

 

[super4]

Does anyone know if you can use telegraph poles as strainers for the FG1 grants?

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Does anyone know if you can use telegraph poles as strainers for the FG1 grants?

have done, but I have a feeling I shouldn't have!

 

[Overby]

Current dilemma is the posts supplied by the local merchant, which all round here use, have trebled in price in the last few years to £8, incl vat, and, from personal experience, have a lifespan of 4 - 5 years in many cases. Cheap, rubbish imports.........but they conform to the required standard.

We're getting a local sawmill to chop ours, conforming to the RPA requirements :

"Use softwood timber that is fully peeled, coated with wood preservative and pressure treated, or treated with an HSE approved industrial wood preservative, to comply with Use Class 4 as defined in BS8417:2014 ‘Preservation of Wood - Code of Practice’. You can also use untreated durable timber as set out in the Forestry Commission guide to forest fencing."

A mix of pine and larch, both classed as 15 year durable softwoods.

 

[tepapa]

What size posts are you using?

What are you treating the timber with or are you using untreated durable timber?

 

[tinsheet]

Does anyone know if you can use telegraph poles as strainers for the FG1 grants?

paint them in creosote, no one will know.

 

[ploughman1963]

paint them in creosote, no one will know.

Remove all identifying features/tags and paint with creo after putting the fence up. The cost saving and increase in life expectancy is easily worth the effort.

 

[Stag fencing]

Just to check what untreated durable posts are people using I have fair amount of grant work to carry out, I have been using uc4 post and strainers from a local supplier and they are ok to work with but I don’t have much faith in their lifespan. Just wondering what others use, what they get on with and price comparison
Thanks

 

[Pistonbroke]

Just to check what untreated durable posts are people using I have fair amount of grant work to carry out, I have been using uc4 post and strainers from a local supplier and they are ok to work with but I don’t have much faith in their lifespan. Just wondering what others use, what they get on with and price comparison
Thanks

Uc3 are treated once and don't last,uc4 are treated twice with the same stuff that doesn't work anyway. We had some treated larch stakes 12 years ago and they're still perfect but supply was sketchy.A couple of local firms selling them now again

 

[Still Farming]

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