CPES new cedar lumber?

[Donn]

I went out this morning and dropped $200 on some WRC planks and 4x4's for a new compost bin. The finished structure will be sitting on 2x pressure treated shoes.

Should I bother CPES'ing the ends of the lumber? Just the post bottoms? All of it? The unit will remain unfinished for at least a year, after which I may seal it with something.

[Venchka]

Good grief. I've got a 20+ year old WRC cedar in the Swamp and it's naked and it's still here. Good boat lumber in a compost bin? :eek: :confused:

How about a gallon for Flood's Clear Wood Finish? Cheap and fast.

Wayne
In the Swamp. :D

[Bob Smalser]

Waste of money.

If there's any white sapwood, tho, you might apply some copper napthanate to the sap and adjacent heartwood.

[paladin]

use osage orange and don't put nuthin' onnitt...posts in a corral and stockade fences my grandpappy put down when I wuz a pre=teen are still solid and didn't get no presarves ....

[Donn]

Copper napthenate is the stuff in Cuprinol, right? Clear Cuprinol was what I was thinking about using after the wood silvers up a bit. A few of the boards have a thin bit of sapwood on the edge.

[Bob Smalser]

Correct.