HOW TO SET A GATE 6 X 6 POST USING POST LEVELER

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Sthis is part of a similar video ive done just to condense the content down and you can see the process that has gone into planting a tree in the ground , or in this case a 6x6 fence post thats a gate post this is to repair the fallen gate on my house due to rotting post .
years and years of water ingress lead to the post rotting from the greound level down and leaving about 6inch of solid wood in the bottom which took about four hours to remove please cheack this link for that video '
• HOW to remove and repl...
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[@stephenlomas8555]

Now when you get posts like these from merchants they are usually wet through. So when the bitumen paint goes on your actually sealing the moisture in the post. Much better to actually burn the bottoms instead of using bitumen.

[@handyandyuk]

Can be painted on wet surfaces this paint .. also let the wood dry first anyway

[@adamstone4905]

How not to install a gate post. As said you have sealed the moisture in and post WILL rot from the inside out. At the least you should have left the bottom unpainted I give this post a maximum of 3 years before it’s gone. Before you try correcting me I’m a fencing contractor of 18 years.

[@sharpysparky5505]

@@adamstone4905it kind of worries me that everyone I see doing fence posts uses postcrete or similar, my concern is does the cement/ lime not attack the wood? I have watched numerous vids and see one from the USA and they used like an expanding foam in a bag? Whats your thoughts? Cos it got me thinking it may be the way forward??

[@foppo101]

@@adamstone4905 For a wooden post I have used the spikes.One side of the garden fence with spike post has been up about 25 years now.On our back fence we used concrete post which will never go.If you worried about you post keeping moisture drill a hole at an angle and fill it with creosote a then cap it off.This post will last just keep checking the bottum bit.

[@foppo101]

@@sharpysparky5505 My old fence on one side of the garden the builders used concrete at the base of the wood.Has been up for 42 years so don't worry.Ideal if you could get it hardwood for post but Iam sure you can't get it anymore in the UK .I might be wrong.

[@peterriddell5067]

If you seal the post any water that penitratrates has no where to escape so really you are shortening the life of the post

[@handyandyuk]

Matter of opinion really generally I don't bother. But I thought if I don't do it some idiot would comment that I'd not painted it 🤔

[@sicdoctor]

Bitumen paint is a waste of time, the post will still rot eventually. The post was also warped, so the type of level you used is not a true reading. Postcrete is also a waste of time. And a gate post for a farm gate shouldn't be set in level.

[@handyandyuk]

Omg you have got a opinion haven't you 🤣🤣🤣

[@sicdoctor]

@@handyandyuk more facts, rather than an opinion. Over 100 years to our name in the fencing trade, to a handyman on youtube. 😄

[@AntKardano]

ur a strange guy

[@handyandyuk]

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