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Emery Davis wrote:

Around here the farmers use chestnut or acacia for fence posts, because
it doesn't rot (well OK, it rots slowly and bugs don't like it). I know
this is widely practised in some places, e.g:

http://www.dorsetfencingsupplies.co....t_fencing.html

We initially used chestnut poles, as used in hop gardens, and
they lasted only 3-4 years before rotting through. I am not sure
why they were so much less durable here than in Kent, but suspect
that real hop gardens used pressure treated poles, and not dipped
ones.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.