Are Metposts any good for round timber posts?
r.l...@tesco.net
Just to hold up a short lenght of decorative screening. Poles are
about 4 or 5 inch diameter.
Metposts just look quick and ideal - if they'll hold round poles!!
Malcolm Race
wrote:
Wickes do a similar thing, without the brand name but, IIRC, cheaper
Malcolm
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Ed Sirett
1) Extremely difficuly to get the post driven in plumb _and_ orientated (but
that's not a problem if you are using round posts.
2) Even the long metposts tend to lean over after a relatively short while.
However, given that you want to try using them I'd use 3" met posts and
simply square off the round posts.
HTH
Ed Sirett
Property Maintainer - North London.
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cormaic
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>Are Metposts any good for round timber posts?
Form a sentence from the following words.....
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leo
Why not square off the bottom 6 inches of the poles? 5 minutes with an
axe.
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Tony Williams
cormaic <cor...@NOSPAMTODAYTHANKStmac.clara.net> wrote:
> 'Twas Wed, 06 Sep 2000 19:25:18 GMT, when r.l...@tesco.net enriched
> all our lives with these words:
> >Are Metposts any good for round timber posts?
> Form a sentence from the following words.....
> Plague Avoid Like The. ;~)
Butbutbut..... Don't they have something like a
Design Council Award? I mean, come on now, if
they have a DCA....... :-)
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Jon Beaumont
<%steve%@malloc.co.uk> writes
>So maybe this isn't of much interest to you. BTW, I used metposts
>because I wanted to bolt the posts onto a concrete platform. I didn't
>have the option of doing the sensibel thing which is... Dig post holes,
>and use Post Fix to fix the poles upright. It's quick, easy and cheaper
>than Metposts. Simply dig the hole slightly larger than the post. Get an
>accomplice to hold the post upright, dump in a bag of Post Fix, then
>water it gently and leave it for a few minutes to set.
>
>I think it's Post Fix, it may be Post Set... available from Wickes,
>works well.
>
I'd agree, Metpost are more trouble than they're worth. Post fix (or
whatever its called) is much easier, cheaper and works better in my
experience.
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leo
<din...@codesmiths.com> writes
>
>>Why not square off the bottom 6 inches of the poles?
>
>the way through. Taking the sides off is going to encourage early
>rot.
Dip bare wood in creosote - works for me
>>5 minutes with an axe.
>
>Maybe 5 minutes with a properly sharpened side axe, in the hands of
>someone who can use an axe. One of B&Q's finest blunt woodchoppers
>though, and you're just making firewood.
I'm assuming a reasonable axe or hatchet, properly sharpened. I've
trimmed and pointed several hundred posts with a hatchet and it's not
difficult.
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leo
Malcolm Race
>
> Metposts are OK (IMHE), provided you use the long ones (not the
> "repair" version) and you have a soil that doesn't shrink when dry.
>
>
I used some on clay under 100 yr old oak trees and they were still where
I put them 7 yrs later
Malcolm
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Simon Avery
Hello leo
>> Even though they're pressure treated, round posts aren't
>> rotproof all the way through. Taking the sides off is
>> going to encourage early rot.
l> Dip bare wood in creosote - works for me
It won't penetrate more than a mm or so unless it's soaked, or
preferably soaked and heated.
That was the pre-tanalising trick, soak a pole in a tub of tar or oil
and heat it for 48 or so hours.
l> I'm assuming a reasonable axe or hatchet, properly
l> sharpened. I've trimmed and pointed several hundred posts
l> with a hatchet and it's not difficult.
Cutting to a square is trickier though. I've pointed 2,000 round fence
posts in a day using a PTO sawbench, which has got to be one of the
most boring jobs around.
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