The new chicken soup?

So its Cedar Oil, but utilising the miracle properties of marketing spin, no I mean nano technology.

Our Cedarshield "Petri-Wood" is an all natural miracle in Nano Technology which provides you with a one time life time application for the TOTAL protection and preservation of timber

DANGER, DANGER WIL ROBERTSON!

<hooks flailing wildly>

Seriously thou it seems to be excessive and over the top marketing of something people have known about for years, and that is even stated on the website

Our First Nation people would rub their bodies with cedar needles to prevent mosquitoes and other biting bugs from feasting on them

So in conclusion - excessive marketing claims and blatant false advertising (with the nano technology buzzword used for what's effectively natural extracted cedar wood oil) but the product likely does what it claims it does (repel pests). It will even kill them if you drown them in the cedar oil, but then again so will canola oil and I have plenty of that handy, and I can cook with it too (beat that Cedar oil).

I was aware of the insect repellent of cedar (dog bedding), but I didn't know about the other claims being made. I always believed Thompson water seal was the latest and greatest for wood preservation until I read the claims about cedar oil. At the prices quoted for the stuff, it will be a long time before I try it.

.....so will canola oil and I have plenty of that handy, and I can cook with it too.....

Is that the pests which are killed............What do they taste like?????

I wonder if there is any Cedar oil made in China?

That would probably kill everything!!!...........including humans.

The real question is:To be an ESSO Bee, or an Exxon bee.Is it nobler to fly into an Exxon station, and become an Exxon bee, or to fly into an Esso station and become an Esso Bee?

The Drab.

As I said:-

"To be or not to be..........THAT IS THE QUESTION (only for emphasis)

Esso Bee..........that is what I am, a SOB

Merely a joke, my dear lad..a joke I say!A play on homonyms.Not trying to put the axe to the acts, if I may be allowed to think aloud; as a bard, I was barred,I could not bear to bare my sole or my soul, they are so worn I must warn you that I am a bore,a Boer,a boor, no better than a boar.But that's ok, the booze eases the pain of the boo's.

....conscience does make cowards of us all..The Bard

EZStreet

Don't worry..........I took as such.

I must say the English language is sooooo clear to all that may rede, read it, or here, hear it, or hear, here it read, red.............bugga!

I didn't realize this topic was already covered in "preserving freshly cut lumber permanently".

I have always known that a cedar post would outlast three holes.........

I installed a cedar post fence 30+ years ago, and it is still solid.The problem with cedar posts, is eventually, the outer wood rots away, leaving the solid purple heart wood.Some farmers would simply reverse the post in the hole, putting the good side back into the soil, and going another few years that way.

Knowing this weakness, I dipped the soil end, about 2 feet, of the posts into molten roof tar, forming a protective layer for the below ground section.

No rotting so far.

EZStreet

Yea, it depends on the hole.I once bought a well from a guy, real cheap, but I had to move it myself.I hooked a big John Deere to it and drug it home.It worked ok for a while but eventually went dry, must not have gotten all the tap root or something.Anyway, I eventually pulled it back up, let it dry out, and used it for firewood for 3 years.

( first liar does not have a chance)

EZStreet

I once connected two cedar posts across a crick with a line and a baited hook. A big old catfish got hold of it and zipped up about a mile of crick, but the holes held.