Why did wooden palisades never rot in Russia?

Hello to everyone interested in construction! Remember, in history books and in films, an ancient Russian city is always depicted surrounded by a tall palisade made of wood.

If today you suddenly decide to fence your plot with a tree, then this is not only a pretty penny for you, but also such a fence will last no more than 4-5 years. Then the tree will dry out or rot.

How did the pillars stand in Russia for years, and the fence did not collapse?

I shot a short video in which I told all the details of the processing process:

The video will start after the advertisement!

For those who want to dive into details, below the photo, I told the process in even more detail.

The thing is that the pillars were installed according to a cunning technique.
I divide the whole method into three steps.

I'll start with the fun part:

• First, the pillars were not installed anyhow, but with the butt upward ↑.

The butt is the lower part of the trunk that is as close to the root as possible. Every tree has the ability to "pull" moisture from the roots up to the leaves (transpiration). And this property is preserved

even when the tree has already been cut.

Accordingly, if you put the pole with its butt in the ground, it will suck moisture from the soil and rot.

If you put the pillars upside down, they will stand 15-17 years longer.

We figured out that the pillar needs to be placed with the butt up. But it would also be good to protect the lower part from the effects of moisture contained in the soil.

• Second trick - To protect the pillars in Russia, the bottom of the trunk was burned at the stake so that the fire "took the tree" only 4-5 mm, exactly the thickness of the little finger. Coal prevents moisture from sucking in.
• Thirdly, after firing, the lower part was additionally impregnated with calcined vegetable oil, which was on the farm: sunflower or linseed oil. In the south, cotton was also used, but less often.

The pillar treated in this way stood for decades, and neither precipitation nor groundwater could take it. These are the forgotten folk tricks.

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