Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Charring the bottom of fence posts, fact or fiction?

I've helped rebuild fence before, set new corners, we use hedge around here, bois d'arc for some of you others, or osage orange. The 70+ year old posts you'd pull out of the ground were just as solid as the new ones we replaced. It sure isn't fun running a chainsaw through a bunch of them though.