cedar or treated post?

[Caustic Burno]

Hate to hear that.

We have a lot of old cedar fences. Most were done when my dad was a teen so they are 40-50yrs.

My dad use to tell us stories about having their arms inside the hole with the post hole diggers on corners and how big of a hole they would dig to put a crooked line post in. We pulled a couple corners one time and they were around 6'6" deep. :shock: He wasn't BSing us.

The new treating is worthless the post don't last 5 or 6 years here.
I have post I know my dad had and are still good and have been pulled up and reused.
The few Cedars I have left on the place I have been saving for hard times.

 

[Jake]

Hate to hear that.

We have a lot of old cedar fences. Most were done when my dad was a teen so they are 40-50yrs.

My dad use to tell us stories about having their arms inside the hole with the post hole diggers on corners and how big of a hole they would dig to put a crooked line post in. We pulled a couple corners one time and they were around 6'6" deep. :shock: He wasn't BSing us.

The new treating is worthless the post don't last 5 or 6 years here.
I have post I know my dad had and are still good and have been pulled up and reused.
The few Cedars I have left on the place I have been saving for hard times.

We use all osage orange hedge posts. They will last absolutely forever, can't drive a staple in them but outside of them burning up they are hard to beat. A creosote or something similar won't last around here and I'll be damned if I'm limbing cedars when the hedge is so much easier.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Just came in from putting in post on a stretch that was replaced after Rita.
Those post almost lasted 10 years. What chaps me they last no better to marginally
to a sorry landscape timber and are sold at a premium price.
I think they have got to the point they have designed them to rot so you have to come
back and buy more. Kinda like a 60 month battery goes out at 59 months.

 

[backhoeboogie]

They tell me treated lumber changed Environmental requirements. Maybe the same chemical change applied to posts too?