cresoted fence posts

happylad

Hello.

I was going to upgrade some of the farm fencing and was thinking of using Cresoted posts. I can borrow a friends post driver for putting them down.

Do you think cresoted posts are worth the extra money to buy in relation to how long they last.

Have priced PDM and Standish sawmills. Standish are more compeditativly priced. Anyone any experience of using Standish cresoted posts.

I was goin to use 7ft 7inch posts as strainers and 6ft 3inch to 4inch posts for everything else. Are these the sizes people would advise for fencing for sucklers.

Thanks

Miname

Go with the 5-6 inch for normal and the 9" for strainers. Make sure to put in corner boxes they are worth the effort

Coonagh

Go for PDM posts no comparison, you'll be cursing yourself in a few years time if you don't. We're constantly replacing standish posts here with PDM's. Using any other fencing stakes is a case of penny wise and pound foolish.

quader

:mad::mad::mad:same here constantly replacing standish stakes with pdm not even getting 5 years out of some of them

frazzledhome

PDM no 1
FRS Roscrea do a very good creosote
Griffith Paulstown KK good creosote
Other crowd run a mile, pigtails would last longer.

Greengrass1

PDM all the way. We bought stakes from Standish yrs ago and our homemade ones with no creosote or tannilising lasted longer

onyerbikepat

What kind of timber do PDM use in their posts? I have put a few down the last few years. To me, treatment is one thing but the type of timber is even more important.
I pulled up old Oak posts this year. They were still intact and I reckon they were at least 35 years old. I cut them up with the chainsaw and they wer as hard as concrete.

blue5000

Larch or oak are the best timbers to use for fencing. Those 6' stakes in FRS are good but not cheap at around 7 yoyo each. I use them, but only put them down about 18''. At ground level is where they rot. I'm hoping to point them again and re-use them (when I'm 80).

td5man

Anyone using the octo posts, think they're from Latvia?

The Cuban

td5man wrote: »

Anyone using the octo posts, think they're from Latvia?

I must also ask what are "PDM" posts?

onyerbikepat

http://www.pdm.ie/

PDM supply FRS (farm relief Services) with their posts. That's where most farmers get them, via FRS.

frazzledhome

The Cuban wrote: »

I must also ask what are "PDM" posts?

PDM are a company in Kildare who specialise in treating timber. They treat all ESB poles and look how long they last