On 1 Sep 2006 12:57:05 -0700, wrote:


wrote:

I don't know how long modern wood posts would last. But it's gotta be
easier and cheaper to put screws/nails into wood than, say, a cast iron
pipe. And it's easier than putting a stainless steel achor bolt
into the top of a cast iron pipe filled with concrete onto which you
could hang your fence wood.

But if you go that way, let us know how it works out. It might look
cool.

As a follow-up, and not that I'm recommending anything, but I wonder
how that cheap sch 40 black plastic ABS pipe filled with concrete would
be as a fence post. I wonder if it'd be strong enough on it's own, of
if it'd need to have a little re-mesh inside before you fill it with
concrete.

Even if you don't paint it (and it's readily paintable), the carbon
black that they add to it is supposed to keep UV rays at bay.


Why not just make the fence-post out of concrete, at that point?
(or buy pre-made concrete fence posts.)