Fencing Post Recommendation

grange mac

Can any of you reccomend a good supplier of fencing posts.

Was at ploughing and there was a guy selling treated posts with a tar sleeve in them and he had a 20year warrenty with them. Cant remember who he was, except he was bedside the big red dot timber chalets....

The other posts I saw were the creasote octagon posts which seem to be decent also...only issue is my local coop wanted 7.80 for a 5' 4" yesterday. I had thought they were around 5.50 for a post.

Need 200 and will be driven by machine....

Thanks in advance

Grueller

grange mac wrote: »

Can any of you reccomend a good supplier of fencing posts.

Was at ploughing and there was a guy selling treated posts with a tar sleeve in them and he had a 20year warrenty with them. Cant remember who he was, except he was bedside the big red dot timber chalets....

The other posts I saw were the creasote octagon posts which seem to be decent also...only issue is my local coop wanted 7.80 for a 5' 4" yesterday. I had thought they were around 5.50 for a post.

Need 200 and will be driven by machine....

Thanks in advance

Don't know where you are Grange but the best posts around here by a country mile are sold by Tommy Williamson in Enniscorthy.

grange mac

Am in the depths of south west cork:D

49801

grange mac wrote: »

Am in the depths of south west cork:D

For real creosote posts PDM is the only choice imo. These can be sourced through Farm relief services.
PDM have a web site that had list of stockists but I cannot find now. I know Desmond fencing in cork does them too but if your deep SW you’d be better if going through FRS I’d say.

Gawddawggonnit

I renewed post and rail fencing on horse paddocks in ‘07 with that pdm crap. Ophelia blew down over a km of it earlier on. Was guaranteed for 20yrs...

Oak or chestnut will last a lifetime.
I’m buying chestnut pencils atm for €1.20 that are 180cm high. 2m high strainers are €2.50 and in oak. I’m sure the Lads exporting calves would be glad of a backload.
Would there be any hassle with importing non treated timber with regard insects?

Bullocks

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I renewed post and rail fencing on horse paddocks in ‘07 with that pdm crap. Ophelia blew down over a km of it earlier on. Was guaranteed for 20yrs...

Oak or chestnut will last a lifetime.
I’m buying chestnut pencils atm for €1.20 that are 180cm high. 2m high strainers are €2.50 and in oak. I’m sure the Lads exporting calves would be glad of a backload.
Would there be any hassle with importing non treated timber with regard insects?

Did you follow up on the guarantee ?

I haven't a clue about importing timber but I hope more comes in , the stuff we are buying for building is absolute muck .

Gawddawggonnit

Bullocks wrote: »

Did you follow up on the guarantee ?

I haven't a clue about importing timber but I hope more comes in , the stuff we are buying for building is absolute muck .

I did...waste of time. Gave me a spiel about a 15% discount on material and I’d have to pay labor.
Very curt reply from myself finished the conversation.

Muckit

Concrete stake. Erect and forget about it.

White Clover

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I renewed post and rail fencing on horse paddocks in ‘07 with that pdm crap. Ophelia blew down over a km of it earlier on. Was guaranteed for 20yrs...

Oak or chestnut will last a lifetime.
I’m buying chestnut pencils atm for €1.20 that are 180cm high. 2m high strainers are €2.50 and in oak. I’m sure the Lads exporting calves would be glad of a backload.
Would there be any hassle with importing non treated timber with regard insects?

Were the posts rotten?

yosemitesam1

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I renewed post and rail fencing on horse paddocks in ‘07 with that pdm crap. Ophelia blew down over a km of it earlier on. Was guaranteed for 20yrs...

Oak or chestnut will last a lifetime.
I’m buying chestnut pencils atm for €1.20 that are 180cm high. 2m high strainers are €2.50 and in oak. I’m sure the Lads exporting calves would be glad of a backload.
Would there be any hassle with importing non treated timber with regard insects?

As long as the bark is removed I'm fairly certain it's OK to import.

Bullocks

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

I did...waste of time. Gave me a spiel about a 15% discount on material and I’d have to pay labor.
Very curt reply from myself finished the conversation.

Poor form from them

Muckit

Anorher thing to factor in is the hassle of taking out rotten posts... pulling staples and chainsawing. Ends up expensive firewood. Burns well though

Cattlepen

I agree wit dawgawdownit. Pdm products are crap. Have given them a scandalous amount of money over the last 10 years but it makes no difference. Sometimes posts ha tar creosote bet in 3 inches, sometimes they are just dipped. When you cut the post for the h-frame strainer you see what i’m Talking about. Management in the company is not pleasant to deal with either. There is a man in Westmeath selling imported posts that look like the business to me. Thick pitch tar bet in near the center of post like it should be

Gawddawggonnit

White Clover wrote: »

Were the posts rotten?

Yep.

Gawddawggonnit

Cattlepen wrote: »

I agree wit dawgawdownit. Pdm products are crap. Have given them a scandalous amount of money over the last 10 years but it makes no difference. Sometimes posts ha tar creosote bet in 3 inches, sometimes they are just dipped. When you cut the post for the h-frame strainer you see what i’m Talking about. Management in the company is not pleasant to deal with either. There is a man in Westmeath selling imported posts that look like the business to me. Thick pitch tar bet in near the center of post like it should be

Oak doesn’t need any treatment...

farawaygrass

Muckit wrote: »

Concrete stake. Erect and forget about it.

You got there before me

Muckit

farawaygrass wrote: »

You got there before me

Everything else you will end up doing again...and again. So which is the cheap and which is the dear job? But everyone has a different perspective.

I'd at least advise to use concrete strainers and props and stakes at a bend.

oldsmokey

Muckit wrote: »

Everything else you will end up doing again...and again. So which is the cheap and which is the dear job? But everyone has a different perspective.

I'd at least advise to use concrete strainers and props and stakes at a bend.

Thrres a lad advertises in the journal, in charleville, dupplies larch stakes, i find them good.soak before use in creosote.

White Clover

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

Yep.

That was poor trial of them. One would expect tanalised to last that long.
It's a shame that some companies don't appreciate their customers, I'm sure they have allowed enough of a margin to cover scenarios like yours dawg.

Attie

Electric poles as aposed to telegraph as they last longer put them in 30+ year's ago and some still going strong.
Need a cheap source though.

pms7

Have you considered Clipex galvanised steel posts, most coops stock them, seem like a good job

B Rabbit

To the OP.

I think this may be the company you are looking for. They also had ESB pole rejects? Handy for hanging gates etc (rejected due to knots)

Cattlepen

B Rabbit wrote: »

To the OP.

I think this may be the company you are looking for. They also had ESB pole rejects? Handy for hanging gates etc (rejected due to knots)

That’s the man with what I thought were good posts that I referred to earlier

visatorro

Was quoted 7.50 for 6ft pdm posts. Is that dear I wonder?

visatorro

Was quoted 7.50 for 6ft pdm posts. Is that dear I wonder?

Genghis Cant

visatorro wrote: »

Was quoted 7.50 for 6ft pdm posts. Is that dear I wonder?

Last time I bought them I paid E8 for them. I bought some of the hexagonal ones too for another job at the same money, and I liked the look of them. Be interesting to see how they last compared to each other.

sonnybill

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Last time I bought them I paid E8 for them. I bought some of the hexagonal ones too for another job at the same money, and I liked the look of them. Be interesting to see how they last compared to each other.

I have put in the Octo posts also and be interested to see how they fair out, think trick is not to damage the tops when tapping them in.

I also bought a pallet of the Agriknives ones mentioned above as meant to be same spec/same crowd that make the ESB poles. Time will tell I suppose

charolais0153

sonnybill wrote: »

I have put in the Octo posts also and be interested to see how they fair out, think trick is not to damage the tops when tapping them in.

I also bought a pallet of the Agriknives ones mentioned above as meant to be same spec/same crowd that make the ESB poles. Time will tell I suppose

90+% of poles break/rot at ground level for us ao cant see how damage top affects it

sonnybill

charolais0153 wrote: »

90+% of poles break/rot at ground level for us ao cant see how damage top affects it

Kind of an elevated , chambered top on these Octo posts that throws off the water.. Thinking being that if you smash the crap out of it with a sledge hammer it would take water down through the stake .. But I agree with you also it's at the butt they go !

grange mac

charolais0153 wrote: »

90+% of poles break/rot at ground level for us ao cant see how damage top affects it

Did any of ye see the guy selling posts at the ploughing with a tar sleeve @ground level?
That would stop the rotting where posts meet the ground.

Muckit

charolais0153 wrote: »

90+% of poles break/rot at ground level for us ao cant see how damage top affects it

True. But water can also seep down through crack and disintegrate them from the inside out. It'd look ok after 15years but then would crumble when you'd go near it

lakill Farm

visatorro wrote: »

Was quoted 7.50 for 6ft pdm posts. Is that dear I wonder?

Gave 8.50 for 6ft pdm the other day in frs as my usual lad was waiting the pdm delivery

Also gave e30 for king posts. 7ft and 12inch diameter easy. A serious beast of a post.

memorystick

B Rabbit wrote: »

To the OP.

I think this may be the company you are looking for. They also had ESB pole rejects? Handy for hanging gates etc (rejected due to knots)

H iron in concrete is the way to hang a gate.

lakill Farm

memorystick wrote: »

H iron in concrete is the way to hang a gate.

An old CIE rail track is the only job

charolais0153

https://www.moore-concrete.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Gate-Post-Moore-Concrete-1024x768.jpg
Thsts what we use

MfMan

charolais0153 wrote: »

https://www.moore-concrete.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Gate-Post-Moore-Concrete-1024x768.jpg
Thsts what we use

About how much does these come in at? They cheaper than galvanised equivalents?

lakill Farm

MfMan wrote: »

About how much does these come in at? They cheaper than galvanised equivalents?

I got similar from killeshan concrete in Offaly. Think 30e each plus you need the metal carriers. They are e7/10 each.
So 2 concrete posts and 2 carriers cost about e80

charolais0153

lakill Farm wrote: »

I got similar from killeshan concrete in Offaly. Think 30e each plus you need the metal carriers. They are e7/10 each.
So 2 concrete posts and 2 carriers cost about e80

Get them for 22e locally

lakill Farm

charolais0153 wrote: »

Get them for 22e locally

Great price. I only bought one set. I have 2 gates hanging towards each other and a centre post in front of a compound for silage bales.

Put concrete posts and wire around the rest of it.

PoorFarmer

lakill Farm wrote:

I got similar from killeshan concrete in Offaly. Think 30e each plus you need the metal carriers. They are e7/10 each. So 2 concrete posts and 2 carriers cost about e80

€20 here delivered if I wait for the truck to be going my way. Great job for hanging gates