FENCE IN, FENCE OUT

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July/August 1975
By Jim Fairfield 
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In practice-if you intend to process several hundred posts, 10 or so at a time per 55-gallon drum I doubt that you'll want to boil them unless you have help to watch the fire. We've used two barrels at once and just soaked the ends of the supports in the chemical. It's a slow process but could be speeded up if you have a lot of drums around.

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Another common wood treatment penta preservative is considerably more expensive. U.S. Plywood's Wood life (which contains 4.2 percent pentachlorophenol in solution) costs $4.95 a gallon retail and $2.00 a gallon in bulk, and you'll need around 20 gallons for 1,000 board feet of wood. The manufacturers recommend that well seasoned and peeled posts be soaked in the product for 48 hours.

NOTE: This is Part I of a two-part article. The second section-which describes how to plan and build a fence-will appear in MOTHER NO. 35.

SAWMILL BY PRODUCRS

Ed and Ralph Stroop operate a sawmill on their daddy's place a mile below ours. they're as busyas they want to be, rough-cutting timber to order... and theyalso make a lot of good fenceposts out of oddpieces of lumber. If you live near such a small business, you might buy yourself into a bargain. Sawmill by products, in general, are an inexpensive resource for the homesteader. We'veused pickup loads of sawdust and bark chips for mulch on certain areas of our garden and flowerbeds. Slabwood is god fuel, and usually cheaper by far than any other firewood. There's one seriuos drawback, however: Those outer slices of trees are pretty much bark, which contains more natural creosote thamis good for a chimmy

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