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Suitable wood for building a jetty?


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Afternoon.

 

I need to put in a small jetty in my pond - nothing serious just a couple of posts in the water with some horizontals to the bank and filled in with planking/decking. I think I can live with some treated softwood beams for the horizontals and decking but I don't want the posts dissolving within a year or two. I am just going to ram them into the ground under the water.

 

I have access to chestnut and green oak poles but should I go for a treated softwood instead? There are no fish in the pond but would like to avoid preservative in the water if possible.

 

Anyone had experience of this kind of thing?

 

Thanks

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Can't help with the timber, but I'm reminded of a story my dad told of his national service days as a Sapper. Giving a lesson on 'piles for piers', the sergeant-major said "...and I do not mean 'emerrhoids for the haristocracy."

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