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Ill John

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How do you store your used fence posts? I have to keep them outside, no inside room, stacked them horizontal, up on rails, went to use them, found sevral rotted. How do you do this? Thanks, John
 
We used to store our used cedar posts up off the ground on a couple of railroad ties. Then we would stack alternate layers going the opposite direction.

My Dad always soaked his wood fenceposts in a barrel of used crankcase oil. The barrel was inside our machine shed, so it didn't collect moisture. We would fill the barrel with as many posts as would fit and then fill the barrel with the junk oil. Sometimes the posts would soak in the oil for months. When we were working with new posts, we soaked both ends.

When those posts were removed from the oil, they were kind of messy to handle. But some of those posts that we treated that way are still in service 40 years later, and if I pull them out of the ground, the part that has been buried still looks real good. It also seemed to be a good way to use the junk oil productively.

I seldom use wood posts any more, other than an occasional railroad tie. Steel T posts are just so much less work to deal with, especially in my rocky ground. Good luck!
 
My dad use to try to reuse wood fence posts.

And unless they were hedge posts I would not reset them anymore. Cause they would rot off in about 2 years. I got tired of digging the same hole 2 years later.

Seems like once they were in the ground and then taken back out they would rot very fast when put back in the ground.

And they rotted faster out of the ground then what new ones do also.

Gary
 
stand them vertically otherwise they retain the water and decay.Throw a piece of tin over the top to deflect water from running down inside.
 
Thanks for all the replys, I'll try some horizontal and some verticle. If I had hedge posts, wouldn't have a problem, I'm replacing a split rail fence that had hedge posts, they have been in the ground here for 20 years and were in the ground before that another 20 at least. Can't drive a nail in them.
 
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