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  • From: "Bill Shoemaker" <wshoemak AT inil.com>
  • To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Re: Tomato Stakes
  • Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 07:58:36 -0500

You'll find that the 5/4" decking has quite a few knots. When you rip it,
the knots will be weak points in the resulting stakes. Many of them will
fail. I tried it. Many of them will twist and warp as well because it's
never dried adequately.

Bill Shoemaker, Sr Research Specialist - Food Crops
University of Illinois - St Charles Horticulture Research Center
www.nres.uiuc.edu/faculty/directory/shoemaker_wh.html

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom at Limerock <limerock AT thirdplanet.net>
To: sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>; Market Farming
<market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 6:06 AM
Subject: [Market-farming] Re: Tomato Stakes


>I my quest for stakes longer than the 48's that are available, at a cheap
>price, I came up with this:
>
>Buy 5/4" x 5 1/2" x 10' decking boards and and rip them three times and
cut
>in half, leaving eight 5/4" x 5/4" x 5' stakes for $1.05 each.
>
>Anyone try this before? Any thoughts on how they might hold up? Isn't
that
>stuff usually still a bit wet from the preservatives? After drying, would
>it warp/twist?
>
>I like the idea of a longer, stout stake for about half the price of rebar
>and only about $.25 more than a 1" x 1" x 4'.
>
>Thanks for all your thoughts.
>
>Tom
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