Subject: Re: how to preserve fence post cheaply

From: [email-masked] (Eric Hill)
Date: 31 Aug 1993 21:43:59 GMT

I dug the holes a little oversize and put crushed limestone around the posts. 
I had to pull a post 8 years later and it looked like new.

Eric Hill

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Frysinger of Blue Feather Farm)
Date: 31 Aug 93 19:46:39 GMT

>From article <[email-masked]>, by [email-masked] (Andrew Davidson):
> 
> I have a ten acre pasture I want to fence. I can get all the fence post
> I need from trees on my property. The trouble is finding a cheap way
> to preserve them. The local lumber yards sell something called "Copper
> Green" for $10 a gallon. Is there any thing cheaper/better. As a side
> note, I live in California. Many products are no longer avaliable, so I
> expect I will have to order this stuff from out of state.

I don't know what sorts of trees you folks have out there, but I use
untreated locust posts.

They last the same 30 years that wolmanized pine lasts, without the
extra work, chemicals or cost.  If you've got (or can get) locust,
that'd be your best bet.

Steve

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From: [email-masked] (Steve Cooper)
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1993 21:00:31 GMT

Andrew Davidson ([email-masked]) wrote:

: I have a ten acre pasture I want to fence. I can get all the fence post
: I need from trees on my property. The trouble is finding a cheap way
: to preserve them. The local lumber yards sell something called "Copper
: Green" for $10 a gallon. Is there any thing cheaper/better. As a side
: note, I live in California. Many products are no longer avaliable, so I
: expect I will have to order this stuff from out of state.

: thanks in advance

: Andy

I live in Oregon and I put in some posts that were pressure treated
cedar and they rotted out in about 4 years.  I ended up cementing some
painted steel 1/4 x 2 inch bars into the ground and then bolting the
fence post "stumps" (what was left above ground) to the bars.  It rains
alot here and the ground is damp most of the time.  I'd sure like a good
solution if anyone knows of one.