Isn't this a great post?

Very fitting Rob. Old and weatherd just like you. And still standing the test of time! One hell of a post indeed!

Very Sturdy and Old School Post indeed!

RR23

My kinda post, durable and will probably outlast most of us who contribute here.

It's even leaning to the right!

I am a threadkiller. I don't know what it is, or whether to be proud of it or not. But....I would guess you would find my name as the end-post of more threads than any other webster.

Rob, here is my symbolic representation of my 2,893 thread-ending contributions:

Looks a little gray on top with a few scars here and there.

Yep, it's a good post.

No doubt your best post ever, Rob.

I thinkyour post is way out of date. You should have found somthing more current! Or maybe the post that sits along side the lifeguards stand on the beach. You know ,somthing like that would spark a good motivated discussion. Especially if it was a web cam post! hehehehe

Rob - I have got some bad news for you.

That is a picture of a telephone "pole."

Now, you might argue that it is a telephone pole being used as a post but at the end of the day it is a telephone pole. There is no such thing as a telephone post unfortunately. Sorry to break it to you but I thought you needed to know that it is not the greatest post ever Now, if you want to argue it is the greatest pole ever, then maybe you are on to something there

CD,
I'm willing to argue this one (What a surprise!). It may or may not be a great post but regardless of it's ancestry it is certainly a fencepost. I think you need to take a long hard look at your bias in this matter. What do you have against poles?

Next thing we'll hear is that "some of your best fences are poles".

Looks like he's wrapped a little too tight and been out in the sun too long to me.

...and the post also.

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Originally posted by CADad:
CD,
I'm willing to argue this one (What a surprise!). It may or may not be a great post but regardless of it's ancestry it is certainly a fencepost. I think you need to take a long hard look at your bias in this matter. What do you have against poles?

Next thing we'll hear is that "some of your best fences are poles".

I thought I might face some resistance on this one

How about this, since this is a baseball site, was the greatest "pole" ever Carl Yastremski?

you all are cracking me up!

How could we see that picture and not have "barbed" comments?

Yaz was one of my favorites growing up but one could say that the greatest (bean)pole was the splendid splinter.

Stan Musial was probably the greatest baseball player of polish descent.

Can not a telephone pole not be something different later on in it's life when it gets old? It's top may have rotted but it's body was still firm and after it was no longer able to be a post could it be a fire log?

Does someone that starts out as a pitcher than changes to an outfielder still be known as a pitcher. I think not.

Pole, post, or log, it will have a full life.

Rob,

Sorry, but I'm still trying to analyze rotational vs. linear in the photo you posted. The wooden apparatus appears that it might be slowly rotating, but the barbed wire barriers flatten out to linear position rather quickly.

Can you show any 30 fps video before I offer my opinion on this post?

Julie

What's that brown stuff at the bottom of the photos?

I think you have also opened the door for discussion whether wood or metal is a better fit for this post. I see other in there are using the metal. While yours is clearly a wooden relic. Personally I prefer metal for its durability and its easier to load. I would have to inspect this post for corking also.

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Originally posted by ClevelandDad:
How about this, since this is a baseball site, was the greatest "pole" ever Carl Yastremski?

So, I'm thinking...

CD couldn't get anyone to bite on the pole, so now he's seeing if he can get anyone to bite on the poll!

Normally, I would bite, but I could never bite on a poll about a pole in a post...

I feel like I am being "caned" here for my post that said the original "post" was not a "post" but rather a "pole." Please be mindful that reasonable minds can differ on sensitive topics like this Moreover, I am "stumped" at some of the anti-pole comments that have been posted Furthermore, the brown stuff at the bottom of the alleged "post" in question is creosote - a known ingredient in the manufacture and application of telephone poles. Obviously, this was a pole

How "wood" all of you feel if one of your "posts" were challenged like my pole-post has in this thread?

Could be creosote...probably Penta or CCA would be my guess. Don't see any green tint so my guess is creosote or Penta.

Would have to put this well trained nose to it ( Dad was in the lumber treating business all my life) and I worked at the treatment plants in HS and college. Love the smell of creosote but hated cleaning the treating cylinders.

Actually, they are called both posts and poles depending what part of the country you're in. Everybodys right. Fence pole or fence post was used....sorry, these are not telephone poles even though the treatment method is nearly similar.

Gotta admit, heck of a post to get this many replies.

Gotta agree, this is turning out to be a very good post Rob. Great? I don't know.

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Originally posted by CADad:
Gotta agree, this is turning out to be a very good post Rob. Great? I don't know.

I think S Abrahms strengthend my arguments. My argument was these were merely telphone poles that had been cut-up and used in another application. As S Abrams points out, some places actually call these things fence poles. If that is the case, Rob Kremer's "post" was not that good (ambiguous) as it was actually about a pole! Now I will knock on "wood" that no more stones are hurled in my direction

I think the diameter might differentiate between a post and a pole

CD,
That POST better watch out.

TR is on the right track, but it isn't the diameter but the ratio between diameter and length. A pole is long and slender. IMO, the picture shows a post that may have been cut from a pole.

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Originally posted by TRhit:
I think the diameter might differentiate between a post and a pole

Good point TR. Estimating the diameter of the wooden structure in Rob Kremer's "post", would you guess that diameter to be closer to a telephone pole (my assertion) or to a thin post that you might see in a suburban, fenced-in back yard?

The evidence is mounting for a pole:

1) It looks like a telephone pole
2) It appears to have the diameter of a telephone pole
3) Creosote that is used on telephone poles appears to be present
4) Some people actually call these things fence poles

I used to have more respect for Rob Kremer and surprised he did not do more homework on this "post" of his

quote:

Originally posted by CADad:
IMO, the picture shows a post that may have been cut from a pole.

CADad - I think you are starting to understand my point. I know that you are an engineer so I'll use an electrical analogy. If you have a length of wire, and you cut a shorter piece from said length, what do you call that short piece? You still call it a wire eh? Here, a smaller piece is cut from a pole and the smaller piece is still a pole. I am sure we are all in agreement now

I am starting to feel bad for calling Rob out this way, but at the same time I feel bad I have to defend myself on what appears to be an open and shut case

we need woody the lumber man to step in here

I'm pretty positive this post primarily poses a predicament of possible plausable picky petty pokes pursuing the peramater of poisionous post haste posts pokes. Ya Think?

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Originally posted by azallan:
I'm pretty positive this post primarily poses a predicament of possible plausable picky petty pokes pursuing the peramater of poisionous post haste posts pokes. Ya Think?

I see where you are going with that argument but I don't think we are talking about pickle peppers here.

I agree with TR - this is a perfect thread for the woodman and where is he? The woodman went to college in Rob Kremer's state and for Forestry Science for crying out loud. I wonder if he were "polled" what he "wood" say about Rob's alleged "post."

Of course! The pickled peppers. I should have thought of that!

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"greatest pole ever"

Well, at least in recent memory...









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why are we getting ethnic?

This a wood question

My post is bigger than your post.

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Originally posted by gotwood4sale:
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"greatest pole ever"

Well, at least in recent memory...









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What about him woodrow:

No opinion on the original "post" or have you already concluded it was a "pole" woodman?

Babe,
That's a rather puny post if you ask me.

CD,
You've twisted my post to your own ends. I won't put up with the way you are shredding toothpicks from a powerful post and using them to pick your way to an unsupported conclusion. That's it I'm leaving again for good rather than following some pied piper...OK, I'm back. Next thing you know all that will be left of Rob's post is a slender pole. Oh well, maybe it'll make a good fishing pole.

BTW, please don't bring up wire. I hate cables. See y'all later, have to go off to a meeting about cables. Don't let these any of these posts about poles get out of hand while I'm away.

quote:

Originally posted by CADad:
Babe,
That's a rather puny post if you ask me.

Sorry, I have post partum depression and had to discontinue my pole dancing lessons.

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Of course...Pope John Paul II. Certainly a great pole!

Pole.