Fence corral panels

[Bearpau]

Howdy ya'll Im new to the forum, and new to sawing I pick up my new wm lt28 with a few nice additions on Tuesday.
I do have a question though I have a bunch of fence boards to cut for the farm what do you recomend treating the boards with to make them last?

[Magicman]

First, Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Bearpau.  Adding your location to your profile helps with answering questions.

I would recommend using White or Post Oak.  A "home remedy" might be OK but it also might be iffy.  Too much work and expense to do otherwise.  I will be sawing corral lumber next week from Red Oak but the corral will all be under a shed.  ;D

[Bearpau]

Thanks for the reply I updated my profile still trying to find my way around without bumping my head

[Chuck White]

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Bearpau!

[Haleiwa]

More important than treating the whole board is how they are fastened together. Nails will always eventually work loose, and water will collect in the gap between two boards.  Roof tar between two boards where they overlap and carriage bolts will keep a gate tight and square for a long time.

[Crossroads]

Welcome to the forum! Have fun with your new shiny orange toy 😉

[Bearpau]

Thanks for the help. I think we will trysome burnt oil and offroad diesel on the boards after we get them up. Of course they will be nailed from inside the pastures and not outside. On another note while I was tearing out the old stalls in the barn  where the mill is going, I had an idea to use the old 1x6 chewed up lumber. Im going to make some horse art wall hangings and stuff. The advertisement will be (Horse art carved by neurotic bored horses) I figure the city kids will buy it if its reclaimed. Heck most of them I have met are nuttier than a squirrel turd anyways. Lol thanks again for the advice.

[Magicman]

You never did say what species that you would be using.  ??

[scsmith42]

Used to be a guu on the FF that had a great home-based recipe for stain (Uncle Buck's stain as I recall). 

It used 25 gallons of used oil from a Diesel engine, 25 gallons of diesel fuel, and 5 gallons of non-fibrous roofing tar to make a 55 gallon batch.  I've used it with good results, but be advised that it will mark up your clothes for several months after application.

A professional grade treatment would be copper napthanate (CuNap).  You can buy it in concentrate online and thin it yourself before application.

[Bearpau]

I have a big pile of red and white oak and some pine

[Will_Johnson]

If you're building these fences for horses I'd strongly advise against using motor oil, diesel etc.

I have cut a lot of oak fence boards for horses. Typically we put them up green with widely flanged screws. (I don't have a picture but the head of the screws are close to an inch wide.)

Then let them season for a few months, after which we use Lexington Fence Coat Black paint on the fence.

The paint is available at Tractor Supply. It's oil based and lasts forever. We ran out one day, and the store was out, so we bought some black latex fence paint. It lasted less than a season. The ones I painted with the Fence Coat are still looking good going on three years.

[Bearpau]

I will try the fence coat idea it sounds like the best way to go so far. I was at tractor supply the other day and they had their 4500 lb winch on sale so I decided to replace my hand crank with an electric one. I made my template for the metal shop to fab for me. I will post a pic when its done. Has anybody tried to use one of those battery jumper boxes to power the winch? I thought it might be easier than using a car battery and you canplug it in and charge it up from the truck.

[Magicman]

I just finished sawing 2028 bf of White Oak for corral fencing this evening.  It will get no paint nor treatment.

[btulloh]

A jump box won't run a winch for very long.  You need a deep cycle battery.

[Bearpau]

Finally mounted my winch I tried to post pics but it wont let me however I did get them in my gallery



 

 

[LeeB]

If they are in your gallery, it will let you. Don't give up. 

[Magicman]

Finally mounted my winch I tried to post pics but it wont let me however I did get them in my gallery

Actually there is something a bit "haywire".  Bearpau could "copy and paste" the url but the posting statement isn't there.  ??

[Jeff]

Yes it is. Remember, you are looking at his gallery not yours. Its in a different spot for you.

I just went back and looked again. no problem adding the photos.

[Magicman]

That makes sense, but everything does when you do it correctly.  :

Bearpau, review this:  Updated Photo Posting Tutorial in Technical Support Topics 

[Bearpau]

Thanks for the help. I kept getting an error message while trying to posts pics not right format but they did appear thanks for the help. 
Now back to making dust and compteplating the worlds problem, and the answer for it.

[thecfarm]

This picture is great!!

http://forestryforum.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=256942