Reciprocating Saw Blades Vs Fence Posts?

Stigura

Being given a load of rotted old fence posts. About four, five inch ones. Aim to slice them into stove sized lengths. More brutality than finesse so.

Amazon is just blowing my mind with so many makes and types, for wood alone. Anyone suggest the blades for such a project, please?

Thanks

DublinDilbert

Stigura wrote: »

Being given a load of rotted old fence posts. About four, five inch ones. Aim to slice them into stove sized lengths. More brutality than finesse so.

Amazon is just blowing my mind with so many makes and types, for wood alone. Anyone suggest the blades for such a project, please?

Thanks

I'd cut with a circular saw, a reciprocating saw would take ages. Two cuts with a circular saw would be much quicker.

Stigura

Hmm. Never even thought of that

I do have a circular ..... Oh, f**king shoot me, someone!

Okay. Scrub the entire thread! LMAO! I'd clean forgotten I have a Mitre Saw, down in the stables! I can feed posts through That beast all day long! Little log factory!

My apologies, lads. I've had a hellish week and my mind's just starting to function again!

God, I feel So stupid now! Engage bloody brain next time!

/Thread!

Lumen

Burning treated timber in a stove releases arsenic. Bad idea and illegal.

Stigura

If this timber was 'Treated', I doubt it would rot as quick as it does

These are just plain, field fence posts. Not some urban garden stuff.

That said? The stuff he's used to replace them with? Yes! Weird, unnatural 'brown' sort of stuff. Clearly 'Treated' in some way. Never seen the likes before.

That'll be His problem for disposal. No way I'd put That in my stove.

The Continental Op

I think the only place that CCA Chromated copper arsenate is used now is farming fence posts? Its been effectively banned in most of the world since 2004 in anything for domestic use.

Lumen

The Continental Op wrote: »

I think the only place that CCA Chromated copper arsenate is used now is farming fence posts? Its been effectively banned in most of the world since 2004 in anything for domestic use.

Ah right you are. Looks like the current stuff is "Copper Azole", whatever the hell Azole is.

I guess there's still a risk if you're dealing with old treated wood though.

tDw6u1bj

Stigura wrote: »

If this timber was 'Treated', I doubt it would rot as quick as it does

These are just plain, field fence posts. Not some urban garden stuff.

That said? The stuff he's used to replace them with? Yes! Weird, unnatural 'brown' sort of stuff. Clearly 'Treated' in some way. Never seen the likes before.

That'll be His problem for disposal. No way I'd put That in my stove.

There is no kind of fence post that won't have been treated and no kind of treatment that's ok to burn.

Don't do this.

(FWIW, the correct answer to your original question is "chainsaw")

dodzy

Lumen wrote: »

Ah right you are. Looks like the current stuff is "Copper Azole", whatever the hell Azole is.

I guess there's still a risk if you're dealing with old treated wood though.

https://youtu.be/OXRBELZpKak

The Continental Op

I naively thought I was going to learn something about Copper Azole

893bet

Not worth burning any type of treated timber in your house and release chemicals into into your own house, aside from environment.