Suggested Standard For Concrete Fencing Posts

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 12, Issue 2, 28 November 1947, Page 4

Suggested Standard For Concrete Fencing Posts

Both users and suppliers will be interested in a draft .standard specification for concrete farm fencing posts, which is at present being circulated for comment by the N.Z. Standards Institute, with the object of establishing requirements acceptable to all affected interests. The draft-specification deals with intermediate posts, straining posts, angle posts and struts in two classes, light and heavy duty. In each case the materials used are defined and minimum requirements established for dimensions, amount of reinforcements, construction and finish, supplemented by the necessary methods of test. . .

This is the alternative to the uneconomic practice of making posts to a multiplicity of individual specifications, each varying in relation to the factors referred to above, thereby greatly increasing the cost and making it virtually impossible to maintain stocks from which orders could be readily supplied. The standard specification will have the further advantage of providing farmers with an adequate and suitable specification to which they can work when making their own concrete posts. The specification will of course be of equal value and advantage to Government Departments, local authorities, propertyowners, and to all people who have occasion to use this type of post for fencing purposes.

This specification is being circulated in draft form to all interested parties who are invited to review and submit comments on the draft, before the specification is issued.