Dear Timber Godess,

The significance of your post cannot be allowed to pass without comment and note. If your claimed service age for this post is true then this must be one of the longest ground contact timber decay tests on record.

Can I appeal to you to photograph this piece please and do a thorough post mortem on same i.e. check same for timber conversion marks, try and identify original place in tree and size of tree from which it was converted, average growth ring patterns, species (WRC ?)and note the ground conditions e.g. clay, sand, gravel plus annual rainfall and temperatures.

Please let us know more about this post.

Regards

Ken Hume