Preservation of Fencing Posts
A cm temporary, s-iys “ Nandewai " in the Pa toralists’ Review, speaks highly of the virtues of sal as a p;eserv.idve of fencing posts —that part of then! in the ground. Perhaps it is ; I have never seen it tried. Charring I know is good, if done properly. But it’s rather a tedious business. A friend, whose timber is all narrowleafed box, was much troubled by the rapidity with which his fencing posts rotted away below the ground line, becoming in a year or two mere skeletons. Finally ho hit upon a plan that has answered admirably. He had a sort of tank barrow and furnace combined, constructed. The tank held coal tar, always kept hot, and as the fencer finished his hole and caught up a post, he dipped the butt in the tank, gave it a twist or two in the tar, and then dropped it in its place. Twelve years some of these posts have been up, and they are sound and hard as the day they were split. Of late I have heard of many complaints about brigalow posts rotting just below ground. If the same plan as I have just noted were pursued, I think it would be found effectual. Coal tar is very cheap, and any handy man will make the barrow, which must be as light as possible for ease of wheeling along the line of fence.
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Opunake Times, Volume V, Issue 194, 14 July 1896, Page 3
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