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Filtering by: Subject Wood -- Surfaces -- Preservation Creator Garham, Robert D. Decade 1970-1979

Service life of treated and untreated fence posts: 1971 progress report on the post farm

Creator:

Miller, Donald J., Garham, Robert D., and Oregon State University. Forest Research Laboratory

Abstract:

Eight series of untreated posts (including 5 series of steel), 22 series of nonpressure-treated posts, and 13 series of pressure-treated posts remain in test. Series in which all posts have failed now number 36 for untreated and 29 for nonpressure-treated. Causes of failures since 1949 were: fungi, 75 percent of...

Resource Type:

Technical Report

Full Text:

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