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This wood post broke just leaning on the stack, CCA, nine bucks.

Our favorite material for fence posts here in Tennessee is either locust or Osage orange. Rumor has it that a locust fence post can wear out three post holes before it rots!
Jerry

That may be, we still have a few honeysuckle post as old as I am. No way you can drive a staple in.

You need some hedge/bois d'arc/osage orange.

Hard telling how old this one is, set by grandpa/great grandpa I'm guessing on a fence that has since been removed. Brace post made for an impromptu jungle gym a few years ago for my boy.

We have lots of termites in our area. Only wood posts that seem to last very long are railroad ties or utility poles. There are some old mesquite posts that have lasted a while. Steel seems to work best.

Lists of moisture here, creosote poles are good. Treated doesn’t last as long.

What he said!

The stuff they treat wood post with now days is junk. Creosote was definitely the best. We have some mulberry post that have been there since 1950. There are 5 on top of a deep sand hill. I figure the water draining away quickly is what has kept them from rotting. Cant drive a nail or staple in them, either.

Thank God for good cordless drills and 1/8" drill bits. I have many sixtyfive year old black locust posts in my fence lines. Staples easily enter predrilled holes and they stay.

Living near the oil patch there's lots of pipe available....

I just built some pipe corners for son in law.

We get good posts from North Dakota of all places.


Green right to the center.

This stuff will ruin bugs teeth.

Best farming decision I ever made was to go to creosote and steel posts with 4 strands of Red Point bob wire and a high tension electric wire in the middle. Except for trees falling on the fence or somebody hitting with a piece of equipment never had a problem with fencing or cattle out on the four lane directing traffic.

Did anyone here know Osage Orange and mulberry are in the same family? I think there is lots more silica in hedge though. Be Well, Rustyzipper.

bob wire. LOL.

I use Bois D Arc when I have them available. Other than that its cedar or treated. Can't get the creosote anymore. But I've seen those rot too at times.

Gotten to the point I put in 10 inch bottom cedar from the farm most times now. Bigger hole, PITA but those cedar last a bit longer than the small line posts.

I have been taking out a fence that was put in around 1975. Creosote posts. All of them rotten and have been for at least 5 years. We do get a lot of moisture. If it was a dryer climate they could still be standing but not in Iowa. I'd like to know how long the green treated posts last in Iowa. Not that I will be alive to do anything with them is 25 or 30 years but My kids will.

kwg

Sixty yeas ago, the Drikes, and I think that is spelled wrong, could be bought all over. Good creosote posts, and poles.

Then Dirkes went to penta treatment, no nearly as lasting. We still have many of the good posts in use.


Any use or see the concrete posts? They are good until the wire loop that is to hold the fence wire rusts away.

some of the pressure treated stuff these days is total junk. snow plow snapped off a 4x4 a couple winters ago just by tossing snow against it and the mailbox. when i see people putting 2nd story decks up on those things i just cringe.

i wish you could buy creosote still. i still have standard grade fir 2x6's that me and my dad creosoted and built a porch out of in the mid 70's. when i tore it down, they were still good.

Our local store sell, "Creosote" posts, they stink badly enough, but the black is panted on, they still run nine bucks for a line post.

Years ago, our neighbor gave a dad a stack of old locust 4x4's that he'd had sitting behind his barn for years. Dad had us kids use them for fence posts. We spent a week putting them in but when we started to string wire, it was a lost cause. They were so hard that it was impossible to get nails in them. We even tried drilling them but those little drill bits would just get hot and break. We ended up digging them all out and using them for firewood.