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Eddy G
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2020 11:17am - Edited by: Eddy G
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Hey, just wondering if anyone’s ever used Logs or trees as posts or pilings to build a shed?
I’m guessing it could be done but wrought out in time...
I don’t have any cedar or wrought resistant trees on site that I know of...Mostly pine and hemlock some maple beech and birch
I could just carry in some posts but thought if it worked It would save me a trip to the Home Depot and a few bucks
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ICC
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2020 11:48am - Edited by: ICC
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Almost all woods will rot out when touching the ground. And it does not take long. I don't even store firewood on the ground for any length of time.
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SE Ohio
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:07pm
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Some woods do better than others in ground. Locust and hawthorn come to mind, the latter having been used for my house’s fence posts back when it was a farm, 40 years +? Posts look farm-made, May have been soaked in something.
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2020 02:41pm
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Spray it down with Jasco wood preserve or you can buy it in a can. Growing up as a kid, dad put in a fence with true 4X4 post and he soaked the end on creosote then wrapped the post with a creosote soaked rags, well over 20 years, we moved, still standing.
I tried to buy some creosote a while back, no can do.
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Brettny
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# Posted: 20 Apr 2020 07:53pm
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All that may work for fence posts but I doubt they have held the weight of a shed/building.
Usually I'm all about real foundations but not on a shed. Just put concrete blocks on the ground and use thick wood PT runners.
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Eddy G
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# Posted: 21 Apr 2020 03:34pm
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Quoting: Brettny Usually I'm all about real foundations but not on a shed. Just put concrete blocks on the ground and use thick wood PT runners.
Yeah, I think that's the way I'll go...I was able to pull some rough sawn true 2 x 8's out of an old mill being torn down...I'm pretty sure they where used as flooring and was told the mill was originally a wagon and buggy factory...
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