Plastic wood fence posts?

[Guss109]

 

Sure it wouldn't be to expensive to get them sent down the road to you. Plenty of companies to freight them down

[scbk]

Can you not get hold of some nice larch or creosote posts locally? Would last as long as plastic!

[Gary Prentice]

15 minutes ago, daltontrees said:

I'll probably go for these fascias.com ones. You're probably off the hook, Gary, not having to lug 120kg of plastic up to Scotland. But thanks for the offer.

There's probably more weight in the back of my pickup with the two dogs 

[daltontrees]

1 minute ago, scbk said:

Can you not get hold of some nice larch or creosote posts locally? Would last as long as plastic!

Do you reckon? I've got to buld the posts into the brickwork, and I really don't have a feel for how long wood would last in that situation. I'm just worried that if I get it wrong I will have no way of replacing wooden posts.

 

I tried to get larch for a fencing job 8 years ago, and the loc fencing supplier just looked at me blankly, then said he couldn't giarantee what wood his posts were. I gave up because luckily I had just felled a load of beautifully straight Lawsons for a client and used that after soaking its feet in thinned bitumen paint for a few weeks.

[daltontrees]

5 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

There's probably more weight in the back of my pickup with the two dogs 

Two dogs, 120kg? What the f*&% are they?

 

[scbk]

1 hour ago, daltontrees said:

Do you reckon? I've got to buld the posts into the brickwork, and I really don't have a feel for how long wood would last in that situation. I'm just worried that if I get it wrong I will have no way of replacing wooden posts.

 

I tried to get larch for a fencing job 8 years ago, and the loc fencing supplier just looked at me blankly, then said he couldn't giarantee what wood his posts were. I gave up because luckily I had just felled a load of beautifully straight Lawsons for a client and used that after soaking its feet in thinned bitumen paint for a few weeks.

A lot of the old fenceposts were larch, and are still standing 30/40 years on, and that's 3" square posts.

 

Maybe try a proper sawmill rather than a fencing yard, or maybe look up Octoposts

 

https://www.daviesimplementsltd.co.uk/product/creosote-posts/

[Gary Prentice]

9 hours ago, daltontrees said:

Two dogs, 120kg? What the f*&% are they?

 

Rotties. I think they were around the 60 kilo mark each last time they were weighed.

 

they're just a couple of big lap dogs. Busa..  He's a wee bit bigger now

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[daltontrees]

8 hours ago, scbk said:

A lot of the old fenceposts were larch, and are still standing 30/40 years on, and that's 3" square posts.

 

Maybe try a proper sawmill rather than a fencing yard, or maybe look up Octoposts

 

https://www.daviesimplementsltd.co.uk/product/creosote-posts/

Thanks again. Problem is I only need 6 or 8. I love the idea of the octoposts, and I miss creosote. But you have to buy the 90x90s in bundles of 99.

 

Local sawmill closed 5 years ago, now a Dobbies garden centre :-(

[daltontrees]

2 hours ago, Gary Prentice said:

Rotties. I think they were around the 60 kilo mark each last time they were weighed.

 

they're just a couple of big lap dogs. Busa..  He's a wee bit bigger now

Aye well you'll need something meaner than them to look after you when you come up north. We are living on the set of Trainspotting up here.

 

Joking, of course.

[Gary Prentice]

He's grown a wee bit since then!