Can I Use Landscape Timbers for Fence Posts?

[Chicken Fruit]

We use landscape timbers all the time for fence posts. They work great for us!

 

[Judy]

We recycled some chain link on wood. Do need a top rail, though.

 

[Chicken Fruit]

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Use raw hemlock from a sawmill. In that application it'd last quite a few years, and at a couple bucks for a 1x6x8 board its waaaay cheaper than anything else. It'd make a nice top rail.

Home depot usually sells mistinted stains for like 5 bucks a gallon, it goes a long way to protect the stuff.

 

[cmjust0]

Hard to nail a hemlock board to a t-post, though, which means she'd be back to setting a wood post in cement every 8'.. I think I'd pay someone to drive the real pipe posts and install the chainlink before I'd do that.

But, that's just me.

Dang...I'm starting to feel like I'm only bringing problems instead of solutions. I hate that feeling, so I might shut up for a while.

 

[Raven1]

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Please don't anyone shut-up all of this is very helpful I need to think all the way around this plan plan plan build once

 

[Im4Eggcellence]

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Well... since we're in all out no holds barred brain-storming here... how about securing it to the T posts by boring a couple of holes on each side of the T posts and strapping it to them - perhaps with some real hefty zip ties, or even the "old fashion way "wire"

 

[Raven1]

That is a great idea and would give me a way to connect my netting Thanks

 

[Raven1]

I could staple wire fencing to board and wire or zip board to t-post but again the $ go up again

 

[cmjust0]

Can I just ask...why 6' high or bust? You said other sizes were a pain, but I never really asked why that was..

I'm not going to try to sway you or anything like that...just thought it might give us all a little more insight into exactly what the situation is.

 

[cmjust0]

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Been thinking about the netting.. They make t-post insulators for poly tape fencing that would probably work well for electrified netting. You'd maybe just have to use a few extra to make sure the net stays off the post.

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