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When I do a floating brace or a dead man brace. I have to do some cutting of the brace post. This exposes non-treated wood. What is the best spray paint to use in the field to spray on this exposed surface as a preservative?
 
Treatments only penetrate so far, but if you cut it with a chainsaw and expose the non treated portion, it doesn't matter how good the treatment was. I'm looking for a product to spray on just that part.
 
Properly treated wood is pressure treated throughout it's entirety.


Not an issue.

If you paint pressure treated wood before it is thoroughly dry you will be trapping moisture inside it, and the growth of wood rotting fungus.

There are also different grades of pressure treatment. Get the good stuff.

http://www.naturalhandyman.com/iip/infxtra/infpre.html
 
Why don't you just get a can of spray on pruning paint? You use it to paint the end of tree limbs after pruning to keep infection/rot out, but the tree can still breath.
Or build your brace exactly the length of 1 post...
 
I use a piece of pipe for the brace and weld 3/8 or 1/2 rod about 3 or 4 inches long on the front side and one that is about an 1 or 2 inches longer than the post is wide on the back side. By leaving the extra lenght you can run your dead man (anchor wire) or brace wire over it and you don't have to notch the post. All you have to do is use a cordless drill to drill holes in your corner post tighten your deadman wires and stretch your fence. When done this way it doesn't matter what kind of post you use.
 
If ur that worryed about it u can still buy coppertox. In fla anyway. At lowes. Cut it with mineral sprits or dieseal. Aply with a pump up sprayer. Some people use burnt motor oil and fuel and apply several times. But if its already treated, u might not have enought treatment in the middle but its good enough.
 
Shortgrass said:
used motor oil or diesel
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I was thinking the same thing. Should repel the outside moisture, but does it prevent it from "breathing" through cut off area?

I use it on my wood posts to keep some of the horses from chewing the tops of my posts up. Guess that is what happens when you kep the in park for too long!!
 
http://www.powerflexfence.com/how-to/post-and-fence-assembly/how-to-build-a-floating-brace-assembly/

That's the link to the floating brace, as you can see, there is some cutting and exposing of wood, I'd like to have a spray can to spray the exposed wood right after I cut it and them assemble the brace. Because the the post is at an angle, it needs to be cut.

I am eliminating the notch on the vertical now with the following product.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frApH49wpfs

The posts I'm buying are CCA .40 treated.

Hopefully some day they'll get the price down on the recycled plastic lumber and we can use that for fence posts.
 

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