What is the best price available for a fence post 8 foot above ground

[Midniteoyl]

The trick is finding treated 2x4's or 2x6's with a .40 rating. Good luck on that!!!! :thumbsup:

Eddie

Gotta go to a lumber yard, not a box store..

 

[kubota4me]

Exactly! :laughing: I put that in for the group who says to put an electrical wire at the top and bottom. If you HAVE to HAVE an electrical wire, you might as well make it easy on yourself and inexpensive. Maybe it will keep giraffes out of your garden. Now, if you run a wire and then lace foil down through your deer netting with a little PB on it, you might get some takers. At least the wire at the top would be away from weeds and grass. I bought a fence charger and it's still in the box. I've never needed it with the netting.

Electric wire at the top is to keep raccoon from climbing over, not the deer. Fence height is needed for the deer.

 

[Circle W]

I want to construct a deer fence around my garden 8 foot high. So that means approximately 30-36 inches underground making the fence posts 10.5 to 11 feet in length. What is the cheapest price in either galvanized chain link post or wooden that you are aware of?

Being a deer farmer and having just bought 10 ft t-posts last saturday I can tell you they should run about $9-$10 a piece. However you do not need to set them as close together if you aren't putting much strain on them. When we build fence, we set our t-posts 25' apart.

 

[dmccarty]

The trick is finding treated 2x4's or 2x6's with a .40 rating. Good luck on that!!!! :thumbsup:

Eddie

Why use ACQ for a deer fence? Is that not an agricultural application? CCA for ag use is still available I believe? ACQ is supposedly harder on fastening devices. Would it not work on the fence wire?

When I need a load of PT wood, I buy from a family PT company that has been in business for decades. Kinda surprised they are still in business as the town/city has grown around them. Figured the subdivision people would get scared of the operation.

They do not have ground contact .40 PT 2x material but their posts, 4x4, 4x6, 6x6, etc and round poles are ground contact rated. Pretty sure they will treat material to what ever rating you want but it will be a special order, not something they have in stock. I have seen some structures here built out of 2x material, usually 2x6 and maybe some 2x8s, used as posts. Morton built one of the buildings and it has to be 20ish years old at this point. They buried the laminated 2x6 post into the ground and then poured a slab. The wood looked just fine so they must have used .40 PT. The nice thing about using the laminated 2x posts was that they left the middle 2x wood shorter than the other two 2x's. This left a nice gap to hold the rafters. Nice little detail.

When CCA was "banned" the company switched over to ACQ. They might be able to do CCA as a special order but everything I have seen is now ACQ. ACQ will rot metal faster than CCA so you need to use stainless steel or heavily galvanized fasteners for ACQ. While CCA is still allowed, I have not seen it for sale anywhere.

We built our house just as CCA left the market and we had to use ACQ for the sill plates. I really wish we had been able to use CCA and not this metal rotting ACQ crap. We used the rated fasteners but I don't trust the ACQ.

Later,
Dan

 

[MNBobcat]

The box stores like Menards, Home Depot and Lowes can't get the CCA treated posts. But I just bought 4" by 12 foot posts treated at .40 and with CCA from a local company that supplies fence posts. Everything they do is CCA.

Don't skimp on the posts. Buy quality and only do the job once. If the posts don't last 25 - 30 years then I wouldn't even consider them.

I used a story board at 8 foot 4 inches to gauge the depth of my posts. Putting up 8 foot wire I wanted to make sure my posts were at least 8 feet out of the ground.

 

[bcp]

Unless you have arms that can reach your ankles without bending, you will need extensions on your T-post driver.

Here are some:

0324-2340-MTDC: Manual Post Drivers for 8- to 10-Foot-Long Metal Posts

Bruce

 

[joshuabardwell]

The won't jump over if they can't see the other side.

That... is not consistent with my experience. My dad had a six foot privacy fence that the local sheep jumped all the time. They could barely clear it, and sometimes weren't too graceful about it, but they jumped it.

 

[creekbend]

Unless you have arms that can reach your ankles without bending, you will need extensions on your T-post driver.

Here are some:

0324-2340-MTDC: Manual Post Drivers for 8- to 10-Foot-Long Metal Posts

Bruce

Thanks for providing the Link.