Fence Posts

Good loser

Good loser wrote: »

Saw new bales black plastic posts in coop recently.
Probably 5" diam and 5/6 ft long. Very sturdy and can be machine driven, take nails etc.
Pricey at €14 each.

Ouch. Lad I know got heartwood oak posts for €12 a couple of years ago. I'd prefer the oak to plastic.

ruwithme

Ifarmwefarm cut the tops of a few so called creosote/pdm posts for a recent video. The creosote depth into the posts varied.

Are we being sold a pup on these??or does it only need to be shallow enough towards the centre of post to be effective for the claim of up to 15years life span.

White Clover

ruwithme wrote: »

Ifarmwefarm cut the tops of a few so called creosote/pdm posts for a recent video. The creosote depth into the posts varied.

Are we being sold a pup on these??or does it only need to be shallow enough towards the centre of post to be effective for the claim of up to 15years life span.

I don't think they were PDM posts. He said they were creosol or something. Watch out for imitations, there is creoCote available too, another imitation.

First PDM posts were driven here 12 years ago. I haven't had to replace one yet anyway.

ruwithme

White Clover wrote: »

I don't think they were PDM posts. He said they were creosol or something. Watch out for imitations, there is creoCote available too, another imitation.

First PDM posts were driven here 12 years ago. I haven't had to replace one yet anyway.

Using pdm here from frs since 2013,have yet to take the saw to one

DBK1

ruwithme wrote: »

Ifarmwefarm cut the tops of a few so called creosote/pdm posts for a recent video. The creosote depth into the posts varied.

Are we being sold a pup on these??or does it only need to be shallow enough towards the centre of post to be effective for the claim of up to 15years life span.

We put down hundreds of PDM posts in a big dairy farm here around 1999/2000. At least half of them are still there and none rotten yet. The other half were all taken up a few years back when they got out of dairying and turned about 100 acres of paddocks into 1 big field with and it’s all leased to a tillage man.

The pdm’s they took up were sold on for €2 a stake and have been reused and are all still perfect.

I put some down in my own land at the same time with sheep wire and 2 strands of barbed wire and haven’t replaced one yet either.

memorystick

Slightly off track but is a single strand of electric ok for bucket reared calves if they are trained first in the shed? I would rather not put up a second as I lost a hogget in a fence a few years ago. Thanks

mr.stonewall

I set up a small corner of the field with pigtails and 3 rows of the polytape( floursent type). The corner is sheltered and has a single strand of electric wire and a good hedge behind it. They stay in that for 2-3 days. The biggest running out of them is in the 1st 10 mins. It is the sense of freedom. With the corner I only have to watch the polytape for the few mins until the all get a shock. And then they figure out the wire in their own time. Generally only let out in bunches of 10-15 as it's easier to manage. Ps no wire or training done in the yard.

cjpm

memorystick wrote: »

Slightly off track but is a single strand of electric ok for bucket reared calves if they are trained first in the shed? I would rather not put up a second as I lost a hogget in a fence a few years ago. Thanks

Single will do if it’s at the right height, but to be honest for double strand is far superior.

cjpm

I keep a reel of string and those plastic temporary stakes and I go around the boundary of whatever paddock they are going into an put up a temporary second strand. Works great.

Alibaba

Are the plastic fence posts any good ?
Sick of replacing the wooden ones every 5 or 6 years ..