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<blockquote data-quote="Farm Fence Solutions" data-source="post: 1521309" data-attributes="member: 26621"><p>CCA is better than Creosote, but either one needs to be properly applied to the posts. The last load of creosote posts we bought, we sent back after over a year of fighting with the treatment plant. 20 years ago, you had a much better chance of buying quality timber posts than you do today. Your local Western Kentucky treatment plant started out doing a good job, but have turned out nothing by trash for the past couple of years, so buyer beware. Fence gave you a good solution, but it's not perfect for those of us that live in wet areas. SS40 galvanized is a 100 year post, even in acidic soil....and it'll never rot your wire. Cheaper than SS80, too. Down where Fence lives, it'd dang sure be an easy choice to skip the galvanized. It only takes a year to start seeing rusty wire on raw steel posts around here, so that's why I'd prefer galvanized. I pulled some CCA posts this week that have moved with me twice in the past 20 years, and they are still just fine. I also have plenty that are 5 years old, and the only thing holding them up is the T post thats wired to them. As a consumer, you are entitled to bore sample test results from each charge that you purchase posts out of. I only know of one post treater that will actually provide the test results, and most of the rest don't even know what the standard is, let alone do any testing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farm Fence Solutions, post: 1521309, member: 26621"] CCA is better than Creosote, but either one needs to be properly applied to the posts. The last load of creosote posts we bought, we sent back after over a year of fighting with the treatment plant. 20 years ago, you had a much better chance of buying quality timber posts than you do today. Your local Western Kentucky treatment plant started out doing a good job, but have turned out nothing by trash for the past couple of years, so buyer beware. Fence gave you a good solution, but it's not perfect for those of us that live in wet areas. SS40 galvanized is a 100 year post, even in acidic soil....and it'll never rot your wire. Cheaper than SS80, too. Down where Fence lives, it'd dang sure be an easy choice to skip the galvanized. It only takes a year to start seeing rusty wire on raw steel posts around here, so that's why I'd prefer galvanized. I pulled some CCA posts this week that have moved with me twice in the past 20 years, and they are still just fine. I also have plenty that are 5 years old, and the only thing holding them up is the T post thats wired to them. As a consumer, you are entitled to bore sample test results from each charge that you purchase posts out of. I only know of one post treater that will actually provide the test results, and most of the rest don't even know what the standard is, let alone do any testing. [/QUOTE]
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