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A steel fence post, also called (depending on design or country) a T-post, a Y-post, or variants on star post, is a type of fence post or picket. They are made of steel and are sometimes manufactured using durable rail steel. They can be used to support various types of wire or wire mesh. The end view of the post creates an obvious T, Y or other shape. The posts are driven into the ground with a manual or pneumatic post pounder. All along the post, along the spine, there are studs or nubs that prevent the barbed wire or mesh from sliding up or down the post. They are generally designated as 1.01, 1.25 or 1.33, referring to the weight in pounds per lineal foot. They are commonly painted with a white tip on top, white improves the visibility of the fence line.

While T-Posts are more common in the United States, Y-posts are more common in Australia and New Zealand where they are sometimes called "Waratahs", after the company which registered a patent for them in 1926.[1] In New Zealand Waratahs are often used for trail blazing.

In areas (such as the British Isles) where treated timber is relatively inexpensive, wooden fence-posts are used and steel ones are unusual for agricultural purposes. In the British Isles steel posts are however often used for fencing into solid rock. In this case a hole is drilled into the rock, and the post is fixed using cement or epoxy. In Australia these are normally called a star picket and sizing is by length, normally one notch on the top and holes down the length. They appear to be covered in a tarlike substance.

A post is a main vertical or leaning support in a structure similar to a column or pillar but the term post generally refers to a timber but may be metal or stone.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7] A stud in wooden or metal building construction is similar but lighter duty than a post and a strut may be similar to a stud or act as a brace. In the U.K. a strut may be very similar to a post but not carry a beam.[8] In wood construction posts normally land on a sill, but in rare types of buildings the post may continue through to the foundation called an interrupted sill or into the ground called earthfast, post in ground, or posthole construction. A post is also a fundamental element in a fence. The terms "jack" and "cripple" are used with shortened studs and rafters but not posts, except in the specialized vocabulary of shoring.

Timber framing is a general term for building with wooden posts and beams. The term post is the namesake of other general names for timber framing such as post-and-beam, post-and-girt construction and more specific types of timber framing such as Post and lintel, post-frame, post in ground, and ridge-post construction. In roof construction such as king post, queen post, crown post framing. A round post is often called a pole or mast depending on its diameter thus pole building framing, or a mast church.

Post and strut names in traditional timber framing[edit]
Wall~: A general term for a post in a wall.
Principal~ A primary support. Principal is a general term meaning a "major" member often distinguished from "common" or "minor" members.[9]
Angle~ A historical name for a corner post.
Intermediate~ A post in an exterior wall not at a corner.
Chimney~ An intermediate post receiving its name from being near a chimney.
Interior~ A general term for posts not in an exterior wall.
Arcade~ A post located between an aisle and nave.[10]
Aisle~ same as arcade post.[11]
Corner~ Any post at the corner of a building.
Story~ A post only one story tall as in "storeyed construction"[12] also known as platform framing.
Prick~ 1) Same as story post, a one story post for extra support at a particular location; 2) In a roof truss a side post.[13]
Ridge~ A post extending from the ground or foundation to the ridge beam.
Samson~ similar to a prick post or puncheon.
Puncheon: 1) A short, stout post may be identical to a prick post; 2) Puncheon may also mean a split log or heavy slab of timber with the face smoothed, used for flooring or construction.
Dragon~ (rare) A corner post supporting a dragon beam in jetty framing.
Gunstock~, jowled~, flared~, teasel~ (rare). A flared post, larger at the top than the bottom, most commonly found in the side walls but could be any location. Rarely a post may have an "integral bracket"[14] which is a mid-post flair to carry a lower timber. The portion of a flared post extending upward at the top is called the upstand[15] and one of the top tenons is called a teazle (teasel) tenon.
Jetty~ A post supporting a jetty
Door~: A post framing a doorway.
Blade: A specific name for the post-like timber in cruck framing.
Cruck stud: The upright stud or post forming a wall, mounted on a cruck blade and held by a cruck spur.

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Pile, piling: A post driven or set into the ground such as in earthfast, post in ground, or "posthole construction".[16]
Stave: 1) Small, narrow pieces of wood used in a variety of ways;[17] 2) Upright planks carrying a wall.;[18] 3) Posts carrying a wall.[19]

Post and strut names in roof framing[edit]
King~ 1) (U.S.) A single, central post in a roof truss in tension between the rafters (top chords) and a tie beam (bottom chord), or 2) (U.S.) A short of the tie beam only supporting the rafters via struts. 3) (U.K.) A king post specifically carries a ridge beam otherwise is called a king strut. "King post" was formerly used to describe a crown post in the U. K., but no longer.[20]
King pendant: A central, upright timber in a truss projecting below the lowest beam, "normally used with scissor beams".[21]
Queen~ 1) A pair of vertical posts in a roof system that are part of a truss, with a straining beam between and in tension holding up a tie beam or; 2) Two posts in a roof system not acting as a truss in the engineering sense and here in compression.[22] Also called a queen strut.
Queen strut: 1)(U.K.) A queen post which does not carry a plate.;[23] 2)(U.S.) A queen post not part of a truss in the engineering sense and in compression (a more modern definition than 2)in Queen Post above).[24]
Lateral Queen~ a pair of braced posts between a tie beam and collar beam.
Prince~, A strut associated with a king post truss.
princess~ A strut associated with a queen strut but shorter.[25]
Crown~: A post on a tie beam or collar beam carrying a crown plate.[26]
Crown strut: A piece similar to a crown post but not carrying a plate.[27]
Ashlar~ or ashlar piece: Short post from a tie beam to a rafter near a masonry wall.[28]
Purlin~ A post supporting a purlin plate, may be plumb or leaning (canted).
Hammer~: An upright in a hammer beam truss supported on the hammer beam in a hammerbeam roof.[29]
Ridge~: A historic type of post and lintel framing, the ridge post carrying a supporting ridge beam. See Ständerhaus#Firstständerhaus

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Wiley Hardeman Post (November 22, 1898 – August 15, 1935) was a famed American aviator during the interwar period, the first pilot to fly solo around the world. Also known for his work in high-altitude flying, Post helped develop one of the first pressure suits and discovered the jet stream. On August 15, 1935, Post and American humorist Will Rogers were killed when Post's aircraft crashed on takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.

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