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Creosote posts

mordeith

Hi folks,
I need to replace an existing post and sheep wire fence. Current posts are just pressure treated (I presume) and are rotting and breaking at ground level. I've been told creosote posts should last 20 years. Is this correct as I was toying with just getting concrete posts altogether (although presumably that will be a lot more expensive).
I'm not doing the work myself.

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cacs

Jonny303 wrote: »

Slightly off Topic but only as they've been mentioned here.

Macnamara Fencing, anyone have much experience of dealing with them? Looking at buying quite a bit off them but haven't dealt with them before

I bought off the them a few times they are gets. I have theirs in since 2015. I was only nailing a few staples into them last day and I did notice how hard the timber was compared to another cresouted post I bought the same year. Buy the rough posts the smooth ones Don’t seem to go as black as the rough ones. Just seem a better post

hopeso

It looks like creosote posts are the next thing to be banned. My supplier told me a few months ago that they were going to be taken off the market, but I didn’t know if it was right or wrong as I heard nothing else about it until today, when an article from the Irish independent came up on my phone, stating that they will be banned in Europe early next year.

Hard Knocks

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119551886#Comment_119551886

Yea it won’t be available after the spring time, I see ads for alternative treated posts

Glaceon

I thought they were banned already but obviously not. It used to be possible to go up to a CIE/Irish Rail depot and get old wooden railway sleepers but the creosote was a problem.

[Deleted User]

Final decision is due in October I heard....looking likely to be banned though

New treatment is double cost per stake than creosote

[Deleted User]

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119562659#Comment_119562659

I dunno,it was the lad I buy stakes off told me,going from e2.50 to circa e5 a stake to treat em apparently

Seemingly cresote contains arsenic,so I'd assume it's well on well to be banned.....pity because it's great stuff to hold,wouldn't like to work all day with it mind