kyrsyan
Has No Life - Lives on TB
The price of wood has gone through the roof here. And even if it hadn't, fence posts aren't available, they have become a rarity in the local stores. So I'm looking at alternatives. I need a fence for the front and side yard. Mainly decorative but to create a visual barrier line. And I will be putting hog panels on the backside of it for some containment.
Around here there will soon start to be posts telling people that they can come take bamboo for free from various places. A lot of these places have some that is up to 6" in diameter.
My thought was to get some of, both of large and smaller sizes and make a crossbar fence. The ones with posts every 5 or 6 feet and 3 horizontal rails. I know that the top of the posts should be cut at the solid part so that water doesn't pool and rot it. I know that you can gently sand them and then burn them or use fungicide/stain on them to protect them. My concern is the in the ground part. That is where most of the rot problems are for most fences and I'd expect the possibility that it would be somewhat worse for bamboo. And, also, I don't want to accidentally start my own bamboo farm along the property lines. Would dipping the below ground parts in roofing tar or something similar help protect them? Is there anything else that would? And other protection ideas? Because of the locations, and the material, these will not be concreted in.
And the notches for the horizontal bars... I'm going to cut those as close to the same size as the horizontal bars as possible. Should I coat the inside with fungicide/stain/tar to help protect it from intruding rainfall over time?
Once all of that is up, coated/painted metal "hog" fencing will go up on the inside. That's mainly so that if my son joins me in the yard he will be discouraged from climbing through the horizontal bars. I would and probably could do bamboo picket fence style but that would block sunlight to the garden beds.
No, I can't do post and wire fencing. The town might be small but it is a town and there would be a ruckus with farm fencing as a yard fence. The bamboo is my compromise. I'd do a version from pallets (and it'd look nice) but again, wood fence posts are a rarity. Another thought I had was to sink the metal posts and then put the larger bamboo over the top of them. But then I'd have to drill out the center down the entire length and that would require a 4 ft drill bit. And it would create a wonderful home for the ants that I'm trying to get rid of. I'll do it if that's the only practical solution but I'd rather avoid it if not.
Advice?
Around here there will soon start to be posts telling people that they can come take bamboo for free from various places. A lot of these places have some that is up to 6" in diameter.
My thought was to get some of, both of large and smaller sizes and make a crossbar fence. The ones with posts every 5 or 6 feet and 3 horizontal rails. I know that the top of the posts should be cut at the solid part so that water doesn't pool and rot it. I know that you can gently sand them and then burn them or use fungicide/stain on them to protect them. My concern is the in the ground part. That is where most of the rot problems are for most fences and I'd expect the possibility that it would be somewhat worse for bamboo. And, also, I don't want to accidentally start my own bamboo farm along the property lines. Would dipping the below ground parts in roofing tar or something similar help protect them? Is there anything else that would? And other protection ideas? Because of the locations, and the material, these will not be concreted in.
And the notches for the horizontal bars... I'm going to cut those as close to the same size as the horizontal bars as possible. Should I coat the inside with fungicide/stain/tar to help protect it from intruding rainfall over time?
Once all of that is up, coated/painted metal "hog" fencing will go up on the inside. That's mainly so that if my son joins me in the yard he will be discouraged from climbing through the horizontal bars. I would and probably could do bamboo picket fence style but that would block sunlight to the garden beds.
No, I can't do post and wire fencing. The town might be small but it is a town and there would be a ruckus with farm fencing as a yard fence. The bamboo is my compromise. I'd do a version from pallets (and it'd look nice) but again, wood fence posts are a rarity. Another thought I had was to sink the metal posts and then put the larger bamboo over the top of them. But then I'd have to drill out the center down the entire length and that would require a 4 ft drill bit. And it would create a wonderful home for the ants that I'm trying to get rid of. I'll do it if that's the only practical solution but I'd rather avoid it if not.
Advice?
