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  • #32
    southkilkenny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 88 ✭✭southkilkenny


    I bought approx 20-30 off him approx 2 yrs ago, though only drove a few of them in the spring there. So too early to say. If claims of equivalent to English electricity board poles and their longevity do hold up, then happy days. Was decent enough to deal with for the bit I did anyway.


  • #33
    toleratethis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭toleratethis


    hopeso wrote: »
    Reggie. wrote: »
    It is fair as hes one of the most hatest men in the county

    The county? He’s hated internationally thanks to his behavior on forums...
    If I never drive a stake again, I certainly won’t be buying his.....

    Tbh, I'd be interested in those stakes to try out, but like you say I won't buy from him. Going to give concrete a whirl.


  • #34
    Odelay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,013 ✭✭✭Odelay


    paddysdream wrote: »
    Balcas used to be a good stake perhaps 10/15 years ago but now no better that anything else.
    Bought "cresoted" stakes here for a job about 3 years ago.Nice profile stakes as it was along a farm entrence.Think they were balcas;NI stakes anyway.Not too cheap.From a major agri company so no fly by night chancers
    Took about 3 months for them to turn totally white.Must have been spray painted.

    What do you use to drive them in with? Machine bucket or post driver?


  • #35
    hopeso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭hopeso


    toleratethis wrote: »
    Tbh, I'd be interested in those stakes to try out, but like you say I won't buy from him. Going to give concrete a whirl.

    There's a crowd in Cork doing the black creosote stakes. They have ads on Donedeal. They're supposed to be a good stake. I'm thinking of giving them a ring, and see if they deliver......


  • #36
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,499 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Anybody use those recycled plastic posts from Clare?


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  • #37
    Cattlepen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 791 ✭✭✭Cattlepen


    I’ve used them all. Octo ****e. Any kind of tanilised ****e. Pdm gone to ****e. I think the most of them are only dipped in creosote. No depth of penetration through the stake. The tyrellspass ones are a different story. Yer man might be an arrogant twit but the posts are the best i’ve Ever used. Pick any random post out of the bundle for a H straining frame crossbar and when you cut the point off you can be guaranteed it will be black all the way through. And boy does it sting. I had to get a weedeater visor for driving them because of creosote splashing in my face


  • #38
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    Cattlepen wrote: »
    I’ve used them all. Octo ****e. Any kind of tanilised ****e. Pdm gone to ****e. I think the most of them are only dipped in creosote. No depth of penetration through the stake. The tyrellspass ones are a different story. Yer man might be an arrogant twit but the posts are the best i’ve Ever used. Pick any random post out of the bundle for a H straining frame crossbar and when you cut the point off you can be guaranteed it will be black all the way through. And boy does it sting. I had to get a weedeater visor for driving them because of creosote splashing in my face

    I'd buy them up the north before I'd go to him


  • #39
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    If ye want good stakes I can send a load of Oak and Chestnut stakes. Easily over 30yrs lifespan.
    1.80m = €2.20 each + transport.
    2.0m = €2.50 + transport.


  • #40
    wrangler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,543 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Cattlepen wrote: »
    I’ve used them all. Octo ****e. Any kind of tanilised ****e. Pdm gone to ****e. I think the most of them are only dipped in creosote. No depth of penetration through the stake. The tyrellspass ones are a different story. Yer man might be an arrogant twit but the posts are the best i’ve Ever used. Pick any random post out of the bundle for a H straining frame crossbar and when you cut the point off you can be guaranteed it will be black all the way through. And boy does it sting. I had to get a weedeater visor for driving them because of creosote splashing in my face

    They're so dense as well, it's like driving a steel bar in the ground, he's a business man too, When I was collecting stakes during the winter he pointed to the empty slatted shed and said there's a shed that didn't lose money, In fact it was actually making money at the time for him for another use.


  • #41
    enricoh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,403 ✭✭✭enricoh


    Anyone try leave the posts in a 50 gallon drum with waste oil in it over the winter?
    Or is that an old wives tail?
    No doubt there'd be an issue if u had an inspection!


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  • #42
    kevthegaff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,084 ✭✭✭kevthegaff


    Concrete posts are popping up around here, bit of hassle bury Ing them. How much are they


  • #43
    49801
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,844 ✭✭✭49801


    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Concrete posts are popping up around here, bit of hassle bury Ing them. How much are they

    If you’ve old single slats around their not a bad job. A disc will cut through two maybe three before it’s worn out. Just dig a hole and concrete after that. Lifetime job for straining posts.


  • #44
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,293 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Say my name wrote: »
    Anybody use those recycled plastic posts from Clare?

    Tried the plastic posts from Superwood twenty years ago, or more.
    Hard to get driven (not really rigid), you'd need to make a hole with a bar first.
    Too hard to drive a staple into, they then brought out a version with a row of holes pierced into them to get the staple started, but invariably the post would turn a little during driving, and the holes didnt line up with the wire...


  • #45
    Say my name
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,499 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Tried the plastic posts from Superwood twenty years ago, or more.
    Hard to get driven, you'd need to make a hole with a bar first.
    Too hard to drive a staple into, they then brought out a version with a row of holes pierced into them to get the staple started, but invariably the post would turn a little during driving, and the holes didnt line up with the wire...
    He was on Twitter there last autumn and winter with them. And nothing since.

    I was thinking he's either busy out supplying customers and doesn't need any more online publicity or he's gone wallop.

    They'd be nice alternative to a timber post. Like what you say about the pilot hole. I'd imagine they wouldn't take much abuse with a post driver. Too shock absorbent. A post hole borer would be the job.


  • #46
    toleratethis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 147 ✭✭toleratethis


    hopeso wrote: »
    toleratethis wrote: »
    Tbh, I'd be interested in those stakes to try out, but like you say I won't buy from him. Going to give concrete a whirl.

    There's a crowd in Cork doing the black creosote stakes. They have ads on Donedeal. They're supposed to be a good stake. I'm thinking of giving them a ring, and see if they deliver......

    McNamaras?
    kevthegaff wrote: »
    Concrete posts are popping up around here, bit of hassle bury Ing them. How much are they

    5 foot 6 posts with reinforcing rods were 6.15 inc vat last I checked. I see a few around here that have been up a long time. Also some metal posts from a former goat dairy been there 35 years I'd say, look perfect from the road all the time.


  • #47
    hopeso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭hopeso


    toleratethis wrote: »
    McNamaras?



    5 foot 6 posts with reinforcing rods were 6.15 inc vat last I checked. I see a few around here that have been up a long time. Also some metal posts from a former goat dairy been there 35 years I'd say, look perfect from the road all the time.

    Yes, I think it’s McNamaras......but I only know what I’ve heard


  • #48
    hopeso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭hopeso


    Reggie. wrote: »
    I'd buy them up the north before I'd go to him

    Who sells them up there? And are they independent of him?


  • #49
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Say my name wrote: »
    Anybody use those recycled plastic posts from Clare?

    Tried the plastic posts from Superwood twenty years ago, or more.
    Hard to get driven (not really rigid), you'd need to make a hole with a bar first.
    Too hard to drive a staple into, they then brought out a version with a row of holes pierced into them to get the staple started, but invariably the post would turn a little during driving, and the holes didnt line up with the wire...


    OK, they were a bit awkward, but are they still functioning?


  • #50
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,293 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    hopeso wrote: »
    Who sells them up there? And are they independent of him?

    I bought them from McCorry Agri in Fermanagh. Just across the road from Sean Quinns glass factory, a whole mile across the border....
    And they get them from Tyrrellspass anyway..


  • #51
    Nekarsulm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,293 ✭✭✭✭Nekarsulm


    Jb1989 wrote: »
    OK, they were a bit awkward, but are they still functioning?

    They never really functioned, as you couldnt drive a nail or a staple into them.
    Ended up in the garden with strings tied around them for peas or something.
    Still as good as the day they were bought, though...

    I had bought pig slats off them for weaners, and they were a super job.


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  • #52
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    hopeso wrote: »
    Who sells them up there? And are they independent of him?

    Yeah I heard its independent from him. I have to call a fella


  • #53
    jimini0
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,102 ✭✭✭jimini0


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    If ye want good stakes I can send a load of Oak and Chestnut stakes. Easily over 30yrs lifespan.
    1.80m = €2.20 each + transport.
    2.0m = €2.50 + transport.

    What would the transport cost?


  • #54
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    jimini0 wrote: »
    What would the transport cost?

    No idea.
    I think groupage rates are around €180/palet space. Two palet spaces would be needed because of their length. The weight limit would be 2t/palet space. How many stakes could be fitted into two palet spaces?


  • #55
    1373
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭1373


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    If ye want good stakes I can send a load of Oak and Chestnut stakes. Easily over 30yrs lifespan.
    1.80m = €2.20 each + transport.
    2.0m = €2.50 + transport.

    Are they round or square, maybe a picture


  • #56
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    1373 wrote: »
    Are they round or square, maybe a picture

    Both.
    They’re just straight branches/small trees that are cut and pointed. Air dried for two years. No treatment whatsoever. None needed.
    I’m not using the oak anymore because it’s impossible to drive or screw an insulator or staple into them.
    If I remember I’ll take a pic.


  • #57
    yosemitesam1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,109 ✭✭✭yosemitesam1


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    Both.
    They’re just straight branches/small trees that are cut and pointed. Air dried for two years. No treatment whatsoever. None needed.
    I’m not using the oak anymore because it’s impossible to drive or screw an insulator or staple into them.
    If I remember I’ll take a pic.
    Debarked?


  • #58
    Gawddawggonnit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭Gawddawggonnit


    yosemitesam1 wrote: »
    Debarked?

    Yes, but not totally skinned, iykwim.


  • #59
    Jb1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,791 ✭✭✭Jb1989


    Nekarsulm wrote: »
    Jb1989 wrote: »
    OK, they were a bit awkward, but are they still functioning?

    They never really functioned, as you couldnt drive a nail or a staple into them.
    Ended up in the garden with strings tied around them for peas or something.
    Still as good as the day they were bought, though...

    I had bought pig slats off them for weaners, and they were a super job.

    Would a cordless drill, drilling pilots, or screwing in some other form of a steeple Been any addition?


  • #60
    hopeso
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,490 ✭✭✭hopeso


    Gawddawggonnit wrote: »
    No idea.
    I think groupage rates are around €180/palet space. Two palet spaces would be needed because of their length. The weight limit would be 2t/palet space. How many stakes could be fitted into two palet spaces?

    What part of the country are you in? Maybe someone could collect them.....


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  • #61
    Reggie.
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,632 ✭✭✭✭Reggie.


    hopeso wrote: »
    What part of the country are you in? Maybe someone could collect them.....

    Hes in france


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