Long lasting softwood fence posts

[tepapa]

I think you hit the nail on the head.
I put in deer fencing exactly 30 years ago, I only kept the deer enterprise for 10 years but the fencing is still here .I got sitka spruce posts properely dried and then pressure treated (with what I dont know supposed to be tanalised) but 95% of the post are intact.It really is incredibile as most of the tanalised spruce posts only last about 5 years aprox

The EU banned the arsenic out of CCA. Tantalised timber is not treated the same as it was 30 years ago.

 

[renewablejohn]

No, I was kinda hoping @renewablejohn might be interested as he seemed to be keen on making the other plastic posts.


If anyone knows of a supplier/ importer let me know.

Could really do with finding out what type of plastic is being used as that looks more of an extrusion rather than moulding.

 

[Farm buy]

The EU banned the arsenic out of CCA. Tantalised timber is not treated the same as it was 30 years ago.

I still think it was the drying that allowed the soakage of the preserivative in as an spruce post got the same time supposed to be tanilised rotted away after 5 yrs.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Could really do with finding out what type of plastic is being used as that looks more of an extrusion rather than moulding.

He says in the video it's recycled upvc windows I think. Beyond that I know nothing.

 

[Willie adie]

It doesnt matter the supplier wont stand good up here when a claim was made against a supplier
They wriggled out of it by asking.
What put them in ?
What were the ground conditions?
How long did they sit before you put them in ground?
Did you cut a notch for stay?
Did you make a hole in the post with staple or nail?

 

[puntabrava]

Mole valley sell them with a 15 year warranty. If they rot at least you have a decent company to go back too.
I bought some creosoted ones from Batsford timber and they snap in half when pushing them in, taking them back when I get 5 minutes.

 

[tepapa]

Mole valley sell them with a 15 year warranty. If they rot at least you have a decent company to go back too.
I bought some creosoted ones from Batsford timber and they snap in half when pushing them in, taking them back when I get 5 minutes.

Probably snapped because it's pine which is weak at the consentic ring of knots. I suspect a small diameter post in hard ground.

 

[renewablejohn]

He says in the video it's recycled upvc windows I think. Beyond that I know nothing.

Thanks. Had not picked up on that but it makes sense. Will investigate local window supplies.

 

[William G]

Any one tried staple lock as opposed to clipex

 

[fox]

Would like to try pressure treated creosote posts rather than home dipped. Anyone let me know a good supplier? Some on here saying £4/post for creosoted, we have been quoted almost that for 5’6” 4-5” posts from local supplier.

 

[tepapa]

Would like to try pressure treated creosote posts rather than home dipped. Anyone let me know a good supplier? Some on here saying £4/post for creosoted, we have been quoted almost that for 5’6” 4-5” posts from local supplier.

Are you any where near a McVeigh Parker?

 

[fox]

Devon. Have had wire sent down from them before, I’ll give them a call thanks.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Devon. Have had wire sent down from them before, I’ll give them a call thanks.

They have a depot in Devon now - between Willand and Cullompton.

 

[RhysT]

I believe mcveigh Parker use same Newport creosote plant posts as fence and forget.

 

[ollie989898]

Of all the trade and importing and exporting in the world, there must be a way of someone making a business importing decent posts that are made from some wood grown somewhere that lasts 20 years without any treatment?

How in the fudge did everyone's Grandad cope, today nobody dies from arsenic poisoning but nothing fudging works!

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Any one tried staple lock as opposed to clipex

I've just done about 70 yards, my first attempt. I re used the railway sleeper strainers put in in 1963.
Pros and cons; lock doesn't matter how far you get the post in, cx has to be exact. I used 1 cx post in a depression cos the lok post kept lifting out. The cx has a tab to hold it in. Staples are a bit more hassle to put in than clipping.
Reckon I'm going to be using both now depending on the ground.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

I've just done about 70 yards, my first attempt. I re used the railway sleeper strainers put in in 1963.
Pros and cons; lock doesn't matter how far you get the post in, cx has to be exact. I used 1 cx post in a depression cos the lok post kept lifting out. The cx has a tab to hold it in. Staples are a bit more hassle to put in than clipping.
Reckon I'm going to be using both now depending on the ground.

How much cheaper is staple lock?
(Apologies if it's been mentioned before in the thread)

 

[carpenter1]

Would like to try pressure treated creosote posts rather than home dipped. Anyone let me know a good supplier? Some on here saying £4/post for creosoted, we have been quoted almost that for 5’6” 4-5” posts from local supplier.

Try moorland timber

 

[Y Fan Wen]

How much cheaper is staple lock?
(Apologies if it's been mentioned before in the thread)

I paid 4.75 for 100 post batch and 180.00 for 1000 clip box.
I've just realised that it is Versalok that I've been using, not Staplelok.

 

[james ds]

Why is it that the creosote posts I used 10 years ago are now all rotting off?

They were local timber and not dried enough to take cresote , they look the same from the outside , but cut them and they tell their own story. Here are two cresote stakes , one fast grown and little cresote and the second one slow grown and properly cresoted

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