On 28/12/2014 08:21, Chris Hogg wrote:
My mother has concrete posts supporting a chain-link fence across the
bottom of her garden. Put in in the mid-1950's. The posts are falling
to bits due to spalling.
8X
And there's so much salt in the air in West Cornwall, driven off the
sea by winter gales, that those steel Metposts only last a few years.

So concrete ones only last 50 years by the seaside?

That's long enough for me - and presumably ours would do better well inland.

Andy