Preserving Wood & Wooden Fence Posts

CHEAP & EFFECTIVE Wood Preservative.In this video I will show you how wood that will lay on or be put into the ground like fence posts of all types can be preserved from rotting for over 100 years.This is the method we have used for generations in our family and it works.You can buy very expensive preservatives but this is cheap and works extremely well.Doing the workIt is messy so wear your serious work clothes and gloves!This works for softwoods and hardwoods alike. The best wood to use for your fence poles is cedar as it has its own natural preservative from rotting and adding this method to your cedar poles makes them nearly eternal.This is a very old and time tested method of preserving wood and I did not invent it but was taught it by my grandfather!!While reading in Mother Earth News I read an article of a guy who has fence posts have been in the ground more than 90 years.My grandfather used this method and I never saw him replace a pole because it was rotten.THE RECIPEThe recipe is a 50/50 solution of Diesel Fuel and Used Motor Oil.Paint it on in a couple of coats over a few days or soak the wood in it for a few days to weeks or months. The longer it soaks, the deeper it goes.If I'm preserving wood that will be exposed and visible and I don't want the BLACK carbon die from the used oil, I simply use NEW oil... I buy the cheapest farm single grade oil I can. I had a friend who gave me a couple hundred gallons of used cooking oil and that works well too.From my experience, I believe the high carbon content of used oil preserves wood better than new unused motor oil or cooking oil, but some times esthetics and 10-20 years of protection are more important than 100 years of protectionThis is a simple and environmentally friendly way of preserving wood and dealing with waste oil as you're not pouring motor oil into the soil, but it is soaking deep into the wood where it stays and protects the wooden post from insects, moisture, mold and rot when they're buried in the soil.TIP: Remember, if you use concrete (we almost never use concrete on stock fences), put some gravel in the bottom of the hole, put the pole in the hole on the gravel and then put concrete around the pole. The bottom of the pole must be exposed to the open gravel below so that moisture that soaks into the pole above can seep out of the bottom of the pole and not be cupped in and allow it to rot the pole.Thanks for watching... hope this helped you.Subscribe to my channel here https://www.youtube.com/c/CougarRidgeRanch?sub_confirmation=1To find out where I buy things visit our Websitehttps://CougarRidgeRanch.com/where-to-buy-it/My Social Links: facebook.com/CougarRidgeRanch facebook.com/BradWardle twitter.com/BWardleCWinstagram.com/CaptainWingnut As Always:This is what "I do", it's up to you to ALWAYS use your own research & more importantly...common sense.I welcome your comments & questions and I do my best to answer as many as I physically canIf you decide to post a comment, be nice & post an educated, intelligent commentIf YouTube doesn't, I may delete and mute/block any inappropriate, rude, mean, frivolous, un-intelligent (stupid) or irrelevant posts or posters