- Location
- Lancashire, Home of the Deluge
....just slide it on.....easy to lift the legs out if an animal gets stuck...
Postsavers - failed
- Thread starter ARW
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As a representative of Postsaver I'm sorry to see your posts have failed. Our product is independently tried and tested and as a result we have full confidence in it. Like you say these posts will have likely had poor treatment especially when wet. The Postsaver Pro-Sleeve is designed to work in conjunction with UC4 posts that have been correctly treated to the required levels. The issue with sleeving posts such as these is that they can contain insipient decay whereby the post is beginning to rot before the sleeve is even applied. This is even more of an issue if the posts are wet as decay begins when the moisture content is above 25%. If this is the case, as I suspect is likely here, the barrier sleeve will be able to do little to stop the issues of pre-existing decay. We take pride in our guarantee, however, the terms must be met for the posts to be guaranteed. If you have any questions please visit our website for more details: www.postsaver.com or call us on 01452 849322. Thanks.
- Location
- somerset
took a long time to reply, 17 months.
- Location
- Ballyclare Northern Ireland
So basically what your saying is that your product is only guaranteed to work on a post that shouldn't need it? And interestingly the post in the original photo was only rotten where your product was applied.
Paddington
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- Location
- Soggy Shropshire
UC4 treated wood is for contact with soil, so I would surmise that this includes all fence posts sold as tanalised after 2005 ?
I'm thinking some specs demand the wood is very dry before it's treated, possibly incised too.
This helps, as matey points out, rot mostly occurs above a given moisture content.
But however dry it starts, timber in ground contact - and that includes however far up capillary action takes the moisture- will inevitably soon be above the threshold, - certainly in climates such as Western UK.....where longevity in stock fences might be useful.
Use pressure treated creo, or naturally durable species. end of.
Im still struggling to knock in staples into oak posts dad put in here 50 years ago. Still hard/solid.
Hate to think how much they’d cost now but they will do 100 years I bet.
sawn oak/chestnut will be very dear, but cleft chestnut is often pretty well priced.
Yes. Ive used a lot of cleft chestnut last couple years. Jury is still out but I’m hopeful.
dryish parish? If the SC gear is sound, expect decades.
Not tonight….
(Just in from checking a heifer who looked like she as thinking about calving)
dry here vs most of Devon. Our valley and next door often referred to as the frying pan of Devon.
- Location
- somerset
we erected a fence in 1996, using alternate split and round creosoted stakes, the splits are still sound, the rounds are long gone, rotted off, at ground level.
interesting. I recall a stake peeler I used to do a lot with reckoned splits took treatment better
- Location
- somerset
and l have been convinced they do, ever since those posts started to rot off. Actually moved to2-3in stakes, for a while, thinking the preservant would would get right through, some and some, on that.
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- blight calving continental roots