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Has anyone had any experience with Postsaver sleeves? They appear to be a UK company and the product seems to be some kind of plastic sleeve impregnated with tar that you heat onto the pole/post in lieu of other treatment methods.

As I have a lot of fence to put up to build the horse paddocks and keep their pasture separate from the cows, I was looking to mill my own posts from our timber but I am struggling to find an available and effective treatment method. Not keen on the diesel/motor oil combo, and we don't have any of the black locust and other woods I have seen recommended for fence posts.

Anyone familiar with the Postsaver sleeves or hear anything about them one way or the other?

Mac

Took me a while to find it, but here is an old thread with some info about them.
https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php/topic,72305.msg1090726.html#msg1090726

Thanks. I'm guessing if these things worked particularly well there would be a lot more chatter about them.

Personally I would think you would be money and time ahead to just purchase some treated fence posts. Just don't cut them. I read somewhere awhile back on a manufactures page that the treating only goes in a couple inches and if you trim, sharpen or cut then you expose untreated wood.

Might be okay on the top and put tar or something on it but the bottom would act as a wick. Something I do and it may not help but when I service car, truck or equipment is to pour all the oil out of the old filter and then set on a fence post. What oil seeps out slowly seeps into the top of the post. Granted I only get a few a year but every little bit helps.

I recall reading about farmers/ranchers treating their own stakes decades ago with a copper type mineral. I think the slang name was bluestone and it referred to copper sulphate. I believe it is water soluble and that they kept a barrel of dissolved material to soak stakes/posts in for later use.