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Split stakes for boundary fencing

  • 16-02-2015 5:39pm
    #1
    ford4610
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    Hi folks,

    What is yere taughts on 5 foot by 5 inch split stakes for boundary fencing are they any good? As when they are split they will be treated in the centre not like round stakes.
    Or have ye any other opinions?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    Username John
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    ford4610 wrote: »
    Hi folks,

    What is yere taughts on 5 foot by 5 inch split stakes for boundary fencing are they any good? As when they are split they will be treated in the centre not like round stakes.
    Or have ye any other opinions?

    Thanks.

    Wouldn't be a fan of split stakes, not sure they last very long.
    I would go for heavy creosoted ones when it's a boundary fence, expensive tho, up around 6euro / stake.
    Or if you could get old ESB or phone poles and cut them up, you'd get 3 good stakes from each one.


  • #3
    Miname
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    im going with the octo posts this year. 20 year guarantee and made with larch. e7 each plus vat


  • #4
    Muckit
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    I don't know why more people don't use concrete posts. I put down treated stakes about 14 years ago and a lot are gone at the butt. For the sake of a euro more....


  • #5
    Miname
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    Muckit wrote: »
    I don't know why more people don't use concrete posts. I put down treated stakes about 14 years ago and a lot are gone at the butt. For the sake of a euro more....
    digging holes, conrete around them and then tap a machine off them and crack.


  • #6
    mayota
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    Miname wrote: »
    digging holes, conrete around them and then tap a machine off them and crack.

    No concrete around the stakes, only the strainers.


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  • #7
    Muckit
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    Miname wrote: »
    digging holes, conrete around them and then tap a machine off them and crack.

    Ya only concrete in the strainers and struts. Just clay against rest. Nobother then.

    Next bit of fencing l'm doing l will be using them.


  • #8
    Miname
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    Muckit wrote: »
    Ya only concrete in the strainers and struts. Just clay against rest. Nobother then.

    Next bit of fencing l'm doing l will be using them.

    would it not take forever between digging holes standing them, packing them and then tying the wire back?


  • #9
    Muckit
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    Get through it quick enough if you have a good lad on the digger with a shoring bucket or a small auger. Tying the wire is handy enough.

    Any bit the land commission or the council do on turns is still in good nick.


  • #10
    Midfield9
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    Anyone any idea the price of a concrete post?


  • #11
    49801
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    Using PDM posts here and expect them to last.
    Da clipex style fencing looks interesting though.


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  • #12
    blackdog1
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    Couple of oak trees fell last year in the storm. Got them cut up and put a good few on the boundary. Should last 30 years. There was some weight in them.


  • #13
    Bodacious
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    blackdog1 wrote: »
    Couple of oak trees fell last year in the storm. Got them cut up and put a good few on the boundary. Should last 30 years. There was some weight in them.

    Oak has to be split to last that long .. Smaller diameter section s with bark on won't cut the mustard .. I've split oak ones here that are 60 years


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