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Treat fence posts
preserve
UNIVERSITY PARK, P*.
- - Under most climatic
conditions, untreated fence
posts of such non-durable
species as aspen or pine will
last only two to five years,
but this service life can be
extended considerably by
using one of several treating
procedures.
Probably the most ef
fective means of treating
posts outside of using
pressure treating is to treat
with a hot and cold bath
using an oil based preser
vative such as creosote,
copper napthenate in oil, or
environmentally clean
pentacholorphenol (EC
Penta) in oil. The procedure
is to place the posts, usually
the butt area that will be in
ground contact, in hot
preservative for several
hours. Then either allow the
preservative to cool with the
posts immersed in the
preservative or quickly
transfer the posts to a tank of
cold preservative. Alter
nately, some degree of
protection can be given to
wood soaking, dipping or
brushing treatments with
creosote, copper
naphthenate or en
vironmentally clean pen
tacfaolorphenal (EC Penta)
solutions. For these treat
ments, posts should be well
seasoned prior to treatment.
Preservations can penetrate
sapwood easier than heart
wood so round posts having
an intact sapwood basnd will
treat better than sawn posts.
There are several means
of treating posts at home
with water soluble preser
vatives. The simpliest
to
lifetimes
procedure is to steep or soak
posts in water solutions of
chemicals such as copper
sulphate (16 per cent
solution) or cfaromated zinc
chloride (5 per cent
solution). Either green or
dry posts can be treated in.
this way. If green posts are
psed, complete sapwood
penetration can be obtained
by setting posts upright in
pails of the preservative
solution. The solution. The
chemical will diffuse
through the moisture in the
wood to the top of the posts.
Since the salts used are
water soluble, the preser
vative will be leached or
washed out of the posts in
time.
A longer lasting treatment
can be achieved by the
double-diffusion process.
Posts are steeped in one
solution for several hours
and then placed in a second
solution. The chemicals
react in the wood to form a
non-water soluble salt that
will not be washed out
readily. A typical double
diffusion treatment is to soak
wood in a 12 per cent copper
sulphate solution for one day
followed by one day in a 20
per cent sodium chromate
solution. Metal drums should
be lined with six to eight mil
polyethylene film to prevent
corrosion by the Copper
sulphate. These chemicals
are available from industrial
and agricultural chemical
supply companies. Each of
the afore mentioned
chemicals will cost ap
proximately $5O per hundred
pounds.
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