Re: Cantelever Kayak Rack?

Most pressure treated wood comes  with at least a 25 year guarantee.
Personally I've got so much faith in it I live in a house with a
pressure treated foundation.

>Per Drew Dalgleish:
>>How about keeping the rack you have and laying concrete patio stones
>>under it so there's no grass to cut? 
>
>Insufficient space for one.
>
>
>>Or just plant a couple 4 x 4
>>pressure treated posts directly in the ground and build off them.
>
>That sounds like the least-complicated approach.   
>
>What's your take on the pressure-treated posts' live expectancy
>rot-wise?    The kick in the head would come if they rotted just
>enough to get weak enough and a wind squall blew the whole thing
>over.   One of the boats will be a surf ski (i.e. not all that
>robust when dropped from waist height....)
>
>My son-in-law-the-farmer just informed me that posts made out of
>locust will never rot - period.
>
>So maybe wood posts are the way to go here....
>-- 
>PeteCresswell