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View Poll Results: How much does a T-post cost within 10 miles (or closest)?
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2.50 or lower
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2.75
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3.00
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16.46% |
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3.25 or higher
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04/26/08, 08:43 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Posts: 3,567
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Price For T-Posts
What is the price for a 6 foot T-Post in your area?
I was surprised to find them under 3 dollars locally at the country store.
Rick
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04/26/08, 10:44 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
Location: Michigan
Posts: 821
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I grit my teeth and took it last summer at $3.00 each, saw an ad a month ago at 3.25, hate to think what they are at now. Everything seems to be becoming pretty precious, even a darn old fence post.
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04/26/08, 02:57 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Ohio
Posts: 19,350
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Don't know what 6 footers are going for but I just paid nearly $6 each for 8 foot posts.
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04/26/08, 03:15 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 3,192
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The price is so high - they must think they're made out of gasoline, or something.
That's EXACTLY why I scrounge for used, 40 year old posts....
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04/26/08, 08:47 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Beautiful Milton, New Hampshire
Posts: 3,092
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We found what we need to use around the property....shortly after we found out the large ones were going for over $7 a piece! 
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04/27/08, 09:46 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
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We have found quite a few here around the place. Looks like the local guy was telling the truth when he said he was only making 18 cents per post.
Rick
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04/27/08, 10:40 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: North Florida
Posts: 701
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right at $4.00 at TSC and lowes
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05/02/08, 08:17 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Amarillo, Texas
Posts: 208
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DH works at TSC and told me just the other day that the price had jumped on their t-posts. If you need them, get them now before the price jumps more. :-(
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05/02/08, 11:21 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Posts: 204
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I just paid $3.39 per post and that was the sale price at the TSC in Medina, Ohio.
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05/02/08, 11:36 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 4,230
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Priced at MFA yesterday--3.59
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05/02/08, 02:01 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Central WV
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Bought just a few a couple of weeks ago. Think I paid $3.69 for them, I know it was over $3.50. Just needed half a dozen or so to string electric around the garden and keep out the deer.
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05/02/08, 03:38 PM
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Join Date: May 2002
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There's a HUGE difference in quality of t-posts. There are thin easily bendable ones and cheap (heavy low-grade steel) ones from Mexico. The best ones right now (made in U.S.) are running about $3.50 each from the local wholesale fence supply.
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05/03/08, 12:19 AM
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Location: MO
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We put an add on craigslist or something not too long ago and we found a man with used posts that he is pulling up off his property. We are getting them for 1.50 a piece. Have to pick up another 150 of them on Monday.
Rachel
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05/03/08, 12:31 AM
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We have 2 types, lightweights and heavyweights. The heavies are $1 more than the lights. The lights are currently $2.98.
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05/03/08, 12:52 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveD(TX)
There's a HUGE difference in quality of t-posts. There are thin easily bendable ones and cheap (heavy low-grade steel) ones from Mexico. The best ones right now (made in U.S.) are running about $3.50 each from the local wholesale fence supply.
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I ran across about 50 t posts at a sale that were made of stamped steel. Weirdest things I've ever seen. I'm not sure how you'd drive them into anything but soft loam and a cow reaching under the wire to get at grass on the other side would probably bend the things.
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05/03/08, 12:56 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Quint
I ran across about 50 t posts at a sale that were made of stamped steel. Weirdest things I've ever seen. I'm not sure how you'd drive them into anything but soft loam and a cow reaching under the wire to get at grass on the other side would probably bend the things.
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I wonder if they were made to use with electric fencing wire?
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05/03/08, 02:57 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Hawaii
Posts: 2,854
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Can't get any T posts within ten miles. Maybe within thirty miles, though.
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05/03/08, 03:28 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Missouri (MIZZ U RAH)Ozarks
Posts: 1,465
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Just bought 30 today $ 3.09 Each from MFA. The woman at the counter said they would be going up a lot after they sold what they had.
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05/03/08, 06:35 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
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$8.95 each - volume discount available either
I checked and they weren't gold plated (that's sarcasm in case anybody wonders...)
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05/03/08, 08:14 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: PA
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Why are they going up in price?
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