Best wood for fence posts.

[Stereo]

I'm building a short fence soon and rather than buy treated posts I was thinking of sourcing posts and rails from the wood. I've got tons of over stood hazel coppice, loads of sycamore, some young elm which I want to coppice anyway and lesser amounts of ash which I will also coppice.

 

Will hazel rot if used for posts?

[Daniël Bos]

None of those are any good really....

 

What you could do though, is use the elm. Cut it into posts, point them then stack them so the points are all together held about a foot off the ground. Then make a sharp blazing fire underneath the points, enough to just start burning the posts, it'll lengthen their lifespan in contact with the soil a huge amount.

[Stereo]

Thanks. Would it also be worth soaking then in something?