Cattle panels

JasoninMN · #21 05/24/12, 05:24 PM

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Originally Posted by TnAndy

DO NOT USE LANDSCAPING TIMBERS FOR ANYTHING. They aren't pressure treated, just dipped. Use them for fence posts, and they will rot off in a couple-three years.

Listen to this advise.

luvrulz · #22 05/24/12, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by MO_cows

We built our 50 X 100 corral with landscape timbers originally for the same reason, they were cheap. We even painted the ends that went into the ground with leftover paint to help them last longer. They lasted a few years before we had to start replacing them. And, some of them warped to where the fence leaned in or out. If it warped the wrong way it pulled the staples out. They are meant to be used horizontal, not vertical.

So it does save a buck now but makes more work and expense later.

very very true. save the money now or spend it later...? hmmmm...we should've done all t posts -

Backfourty,MI. · #23 05/24/12, 09:59 PM

We have some wood posts & some T posts. We use the big fence staples on the wood posts & for the T posts we get a spool of the wire used for running electric strands around the fence & we use that to tie the T posts to the cattle panels.

Depending on what livestock your putting inside the cattle panels I think the wood posts give you a stronger fence but then you do have to replace the posts when they rot & more digging.

pancho · #24 05/25/12, 08:33 AM

Don't know where people are getting their landscape timbers.
I recently dug up some landscape timbers I uses as a base for a raised bed. That was 17 years ago. The timbers were in good enough shape to reuse.

shdybrady · #25 05/25/12, 02:30 PM

alright well seems like landscaping timbers arent the way to go. But let me ask one more question about them, just to remove all temptation (especially since they are on sale for .97 right now lol)I know an old school trick is to soak the fence post in used motor oil. Then let it sun dry so it wont excrete into the soil. Do you think this would be effective?

FreeRanger · #26 05/25/12, 03:34 PM

Soil conditions could be why pancho has timbers that last a long time.

And no I don't think the method of soaking timbers is a good one. How do you plan to do that with 8' timbers?

Let us say the timbers are only 6 feet. Do you have a tank that can hold "a" six foot timber? How about more than one timber at a time? How much waste oil to you have sitting around? Just doesn't seem feasible.

shdybrady · #27 05/25/12, 03:38 PM

You wouldnt have to soak the whole timber. You would just have to soak the first 2 foot or what ever you plan on putting in the ground. So you soak a whole batch full at a time in one container standing straight up. For access to oil I have it in good with a mechanic shop that will give me all the used oil I need.

For the record I am not fighting ya'll on this. Ya'll have pretty much convinced me t post are the way to go. I just want to further this conversation for future people who are looking at this and indulge in every possiblity

frankva · #28 05/25/12, 04:04 PM

If you are going to soak the end I would lean toward something like Cuprinol, the good kind has been taken off the market. But they have substitutes. I have done it. Takes time, space, and kills a bucket.

If you only do one a #10 can works.

Those 17 year old pieces of wood were treated differently.