The FREE Wood Preservative That Makes Fences Last 100 YEARS

🔗 Save $6,000 A Year with My Complete Amish Home-Saving Method I teach: https://eliasyoder.com You build a fence, a deck, or set a row of posts — good honest wood — and you are proud of it. Then a few short years go by and it is going gray and soft, the posts rotting away at the ground line, the whole thing failing and needing torn out and built again. Most folks figure that is just the way of it, that outdoor wood rots and you replace it every few years or pay dear for treated lumber or plastic boards. But the old farmers knew better. With a few simple old methods, costing little or nothing, you can make your outdoor wood last not five years, not ten, but fifty, a hundred years and more — a lifetime and your children's lifetime. The old barns and fences standing sound after a century are the proof. In this video I show you how they did it. I am Elias, and I keep up this Lancaster County place with my own hands, the way my people always have, and out here a fence or a barn must last. Now I will tell you plainly: some folks will tell you to soak your posts in used motor oil and diesel fuel, and I will NOT tell you to do that — it is a poison you do not want soaking into the ground where your garden grows and your well draws, and in many places it is against the law besides. The old farmers had cleaner ways, better ways, that did not foul their own land — and those are the ways I give you here. In this video: ✔️ The one true enemy of outdoor wood — understand this and every method makes plain sense ✔️ ROOF it — the overlooked trick of capping a fence or post so the rain sheds off, and why the cut ends (the end grain) rot first and worst ✔️ Shed the water away from the post base — the spot where nearly every fence post rots through ✔️ CHAR it — the genuine ancient way to preserve wood with nothing but fire, and why a blackened post resists rot and bugs for decades ✔️ Choose the right wood — cedar, black locust, Osage orange, the old rot-resistant fence woods, and why the heartwood outlasts the sapwood ✔️ Keep wood up off the wet and give it air — why trapped damp rots and dry airy wood lasts near forever ✔️ The honest natural finishes — boiled linseed oil and pine tar instead of the poison oils (with the real safety warning about linseed-oil rags) ✔️ The plain reason these cheap old ways got forgotten while you were sold the dear treated lumber and costly stains Do these things and your fence or deck will stand sound long after the store-bought one has rotted away — for almost nothing, the way the old barns still stand. Do you have an old fence, barn, or deck on your place that has lasted far beyond its years — and do you know how the old builders treated it? Tell me in the comments below. And tell me your county and your climate, because the wet rainy places rot wood far faster than the dry, and I like to map it by where you all write from. I read every one. Next time, I will show you the full old way of charring wood to preserve it, step by step — how to blacken your posts and boards with fire to that rot-proof, water-shedding, handsome black finish that lasts a hundred years, the genuine ancient method that costs you nothing but a flame. The old people built fences and barns and homes meant to outlast them, to be handed down sound to children and grandchildren, and they made plain wood stand a century against the weather with nothing but their knowing — a roof board, a charred post, the right wood, a brush of linseed oil. There is a deep wisdom in building a thing to last generations rather than to be torn out and replaced. The people who built this country with their hands knew that, and we are only just starting to remember it. #WoodPreservation #Fence #Homestead #Woodworking #ShouSugiBan #DIY #OldWays #FencePosts #SelfReliance #Homesteading #Deck #Charring #NaturalFinish #EliasYoder