Friesianfan
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- Cornwall
I d be grateful for opinions on the above. I’m just about to order. Many thanks.
Octopost or fence n forget?
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Loftyrules
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- Location
- Monmouth
Have you looked at scanpole? https://www.burtboultonhaywood.com/our-products/agricultural-fencing/ worked out cheaper than both of the above on my calculations
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Id try calders and grandidge
organicguy
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- Location
- North East of the south west
I suggest you cut 6 inches off the top of both and see which has creo in farthest.
Pistonbroke
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Fence and forget stuff comes from there anyway
atlas
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- Location
- shropshire
I have had some off calders and grandidge they were cheaper than fence and forget and delivered for the price as well f and f charge delivery on top .
Danllan
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- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
We've got both... pretty Octoposts around a letting cottage and proper creosoted posts from F & F around the farm where it matters. The Octoposts are sometimes as 'heavy' with creosote as the F & F ones, but usually not; the treatment does seem to have penetrated well on them though.
I'm happy with the Octoposts around a holiday let - as required by Mrs Danllan's aesthetics - but I don't buy into the spiel about them, not sufficiently enough to have them around the fields. By that I mean that it simply doesn't make any sense to me for them to claim that a machined post can be as strong as one 'in the round', or that having any rings exposed is a help in extending a post's life.
When I've had to cut them, F & F posts have been clear winners in terms of penetration. One other thing I've noted is that when put in the Octoposts' points 'crumple' more often than others do... It's also total boll*cks that they always present a flat face for railing etc., they are a bit easier to put in straight than half-round posts, but it's still a pain to get them aligned.
F & F have a reputation that I think is well deserved, Mark was finding it hard to get the right wood at one time. As has been noted above, there are other sources of well-creosoted and well-grown posts
Loftyrules
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- Location
- Monmouth
Ah interesting thanks. That solves that mystery then
- Location
- North Wales
Not knocking octoposts. They will last the 25 yrs they're guaranteed but to me they cut off the sap wood which gives the post flexibility and takes the treatment. So make an inferior product for the sake of a bit of marketing and biomass chips.
I'd go with FnF personally.
I'd go with FnF personally.
Friesianfan
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- Location
- Cornwall
Thanks for everyone’s advice. I went for scan pole from moorland timber. Arrived yesterday
Looked at chestnut but everything seems to be Kent and I am North Yorkshire.
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
What was your reasoning please? Never heard of scan pole before.
- Location
- North Wales
BBH has been renamed, Scanpole
- Location
- Ceredigion
I dont think they sell direct
But they seem to have a nework of people selling them including Exmoor Hay and Straw
- Location
- Ceredigion
- Location
- Ceredigion
https://www.burtboultonhaywood.com/stockists/ here
Can some get a price off Mole Valley
Can some get a price off Mole Valley
- Location
- North Wales
Scanpole/BBH are pushing their new range of machined round posts.
Trouble is they machine off the softwood which gives flexibility and takes the treatment thus creating a weaker/poorer treated posts which is no better than octoposts.
You can still get proper cundy posts from them but they're pricing them higher to get you to buy the machined round.
Worst of all they won't stand by poorly treated posts and are quickly throwing away their reputation as a supplier of quality.
Trouble is they machine off the softwood which gives flexibility and takes the treatment thus creating a weaker/poorer treated posts which is no better than octoposts.
You can still get proper cundy posts from them but they're pricing them higher to get you to buy the machined round.
Worst of all they won't stand by poorly treated posts and are quickly throwing away their reputation as a supplier of quality.
It’s a disgrace the quality of wood posts. Why are they allowed to sell such crap. We have some runs which are all shot after about 5-7 years. Have some larch to put in who knows how long they will last. Is the wood in creosoted stuff the same as the others ?
Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
I have had that argument with one of their suppliers!! They will end up no better than the rest before they have done.
- Location
- North Wales
Depends what you've brought. Creo is generally red wood pine. Some tanalised UC4 is redwood as well but a lot of the short lasting posts are spruce.