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Wooden Fence Post?

I would be very concerned about those dark oily posts; cut the end off a couple and see if the treatment goes right through; if not they're just dipped in used oil and won't last. There are lighter tan colored posts that are pressure treated. Creosote has been banned for years; railroad ties are not even allowed to be used in feedlot construction where an environmental approval certificate has to be issued! We have some CCC posts in that are over 50 years old that are still good and wish we could get more! Now we will only buy green treated posts and only from a handful of suppliers. We've been burned too many times from fly by night peddlers and won't allow them on the place. Fencing is too hard and expensive to have to redo it in several years!
 
Yes they will use some pine, however pine is a high end wood and it is a toss up as to make a corner post os demensional lumber. My son and nepew hauled 100 of loads to your plant NR and also to LM.

When you pound a oily post, wear goggles.

CA
 
I think he said these were Jack pine. These are some of the best posts that I have seen. There is a lot of tree rings on them, they are very heavy, and sharpened in a wedge style. The question is : Does anyone know for sure if they are penta treated and then dipped in oil or what is this plants treatment process?
 
jigs said:
you guys and your silly fences..... I just show my cows the county map, and tell them where I want them to graze...... never have a problem!
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Damn Freegrazers :wink:
 
Vermette Wood Preservers are a reputable company, as far as I know. I didn't realize they were using penta treatment now (I thought they only used green treating there), but I don't believe they will be oil soaked. If there is any oil on them, I do know that some places will coat a post in oil after pressure treatment to help weather outside.

So, as long as your posts are truly from Vermette, you should be fine.

Rod
 
Broken Fence Most posts were jack pine and treated with CCA. Green posts are good if they are treated right but if they were frozen they looked good but would not take any penatration.[/quote]
 
RAC said:
Broken Fence Most posts were jack pine and treated with CCA. Green posts are good if they are treated right but if they were frozen they looked good but would not take any penatration.
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Welcme to the Forum, RAC. Good comment about the frozen posts! I had not thought of that.

DOC HARRIS
 
Green wood with a rating of .33 is for above ground use, .60 is for below grown .It should say on the tag on the post which one its rated for. Becaouse its green doesn't mesn it won't rot. They changed the proccess from sienide to zinc and copper which will destroy your fasteners in a matter of weeks unless you use hot dipped calvinized.
 
Hi Doc, I have been checking the site out for awhile finally signed on.Used to work for a treating company, treating frozen posts were a good way to save money. Not as much chemical used. It all so depended on a variety of things (moisture, hardness of wood, pressure time).
 
If your cows are eating your posts then I would question if they are getting enough salt and/or mineral. Sure sounds as if they are lacking something.

JD
 
Locally, the green treated posts are $4.05 for 3 1/2" green treated posts and $3.40 for the 3" posts. These are priced in bundles, with it being a dime per post higher if not in a bundle. Anyway, $4.05 is 19% higher than $3.40, but considering that you get 36% more wood in a 3 1/2" post than in a 3" post, it would still seem to be the best buy. :wink:
 
My prefernce is hedge posts. Seems they last forever..........or until a bull fight.......or a mad cow trying to escape............or..........
 
I like steel post's Good RR Ties for corners and corrals or 6" post 8' long for $10.When I was a kid we had a wood spliter that would split 6 1/2 post's we would cut and split post's in late May peel and stack them they peeled very easy that time of year.In turn we would sell them for a $1.00 each.All were white oak.Red oak here makes for poor post and poor fence lumber make nice furniture and for what the wood plants pay for good red oak I would buy treated or steel with the money.A white oak post will last from 10 to 30 years depending on the post.Jack pine post's here are so brittle if a cow bumps into them they break off.In the lowground alot of people are useing cattle panel's made into baskets filled with rocks as their corners.
 
Denny; Did you use any kind of treatment on the white oak posts? That's a great life for a post. The only ones that even come close up here were the good old creosote treated posts and they've been banned for years up here. We still have some creosote's that were put in the 50's and 60's that are ok!
 
cowsense said:
Denny; Did you use any kind of treatment on the white oak posts? That's a great life for a post. The only ones that even come close up here were the good old creosote treated posts and they've been banned for years up here. We still have some creosote's that were put in the 50's and 60's that are ok!
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Sometimes we would pour our used oil on them trick is they need to be peeled.I worked for a guy in highschool we would pile up post 6 or 8 ft high and burn them it would burn the bark off and char them we would put out the fire once they got charred good.
 

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