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webb
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# Posted: 15 Aug 2010 11:46pm
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First off G'day.
I have recently bought land in Lucaston Tasmania,
I plan on building a small hut/cabin,
I have cut down tree's and cut them too size to use for my footings. I want to treat them with something... I have access too old engine or and old oil from a take away shop. I was wondering if any of these oils would be ok just to treat the posts I have cut that will be used for footings.
Cheers,
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 16 Aug 2010 01:20pm
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I believe of the two you want to use the engine oil. I think it is more rot resistant than old chips oil. Hopefully someone with more knowledge will chime in. I think it takes quite a bit to time to fully saturate the wood. What kind of soil do you have?
Pictures, pictures pictures!
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islandguy
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# Posted: 16 Aug 2010 05:18pm
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you could buy a wood preservative, but without pressure treating, it just isnt suitable for ground contact. Better to elevate the wood footings on either concrete footings or stone, if either is available.
If you do opt for wood footings and a preservative, pay special attention to end grain which can wick significant amounts of moisture into the wood. Some trees and some geographic locations are more suited to wood foundations. good luck.
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webb
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# Posted: 17 Aug 2010 12:55am
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Hey,
After a fair amount of reading I decided to go with a mix on engine oil and diesel, (they will be in concrete still) I found out that diesel and engine oil has been used for many years here (in australia) to treat the timber and much of it is still good today... so i went with that..
Pics dont have many.
Ill get some up soon.
Today I pulled the bark off and treated seven logs. took about two hours :)
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webb
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# Posted: 17 Aug 2010 01:09am
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So I got a few dodgy photo's off my phone. Some day ill get some good one's.
Here is a crap picture of my view.
here is the logs I have done so far.. half way :)
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dk1393
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# Posted: 17 Aug 2010 07:51am
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Nice veiw, Looking foward to more pictures
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Bearclaw
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# Posted: 18 Aug 2010 01:32pm
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I was able to brighten up your pic on my computer and see the detail.
Looks like an amazing location, hope you keep posting pictures of your progress.
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webb
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# Posted: 23 Aug 2010 04:28am
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Today I finished cutting and treating my footings. Glad its over. wont ever do that again! Lots of cutting timber and dragging through the bush!!
anyway i took some more pics with my crappy mobile phone. My block was 100% bush when i bought it I have made a clearing now. fairly big not big enough though. Needs to be bigger for fire safety.
How much do you guys clear around the cabin ? what do you think is enough ?
It looks so messy so depressing :(
all comments welcome :)
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toyota_mdt_tech
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# Posted: 3 Oct 2010 05:50pm
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Get a product called "Jasco", and a plastic fertilizer sprayer. As the Jasco into the pump up sprayer and do all the wood you need treated. Do it all at once, once the stuff dries in the sprayer, its no good. Sprayer in cheap plastic one is about $18. Jasco is $20 a gallon. Makes it rot proof.
http://www.epaintstore.com/jasco-00901-1-gallon-green-termin-8-wood_preservative.html
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fthurber
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# Posted: 11 Nov 2010 08:31pm
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G'Day
I wonder if you could place the footings on concrete blocks or flat rocks. Here in the Northeast US any wood that touches the ground no matter how well treated will eventually fail due to rot and pernicious termites that will burrow through the center of treated wood. The rule is to never lat wood touch the ground and have your piers as high as possible so that the cabin is elevate off the ground 1-2 feet.
I don't know about the weather in Tasmania but I seem to remember reading that it was wet and cool; here in my area our winters are like that and deadly to wood.
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