Chris Green wrote:
harry wrote:
I don't know how good it will be at preserving the post but I bet it has
annoyed the resident woodworm which were infesting it badly in one place.

If the post is in a non-visible place, a plastic bucket/other container
nailed/glued over the top is the best preserver of timber posts.
They rot from the top and at ground level.

I have a few hundred round wooden posts supporting electric fencing
around our smallholding. I don't think I have ever had one 'rot from
the top'. When they fail it's *always* at or just below the surface
of the ground where they tend to stay wet *and* there's air.

+1. Just replacing my garden fence (which is about 25 years old) and
whilst theres a little rot at the top of some posts, its not structurally
damaging. As you say, the problem is at ground level. Im treating the
bottoms of my new posts with creosote (the real stuff).


Tim


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