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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Locust post don’t plant them green
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I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine
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Best I see here are eastern red cedar.
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o "May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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probably because depending on where you live locust trees grow like weeds and people cut their own Locust posts.
The more I get to know people, the better I like dogs, life is short, eat dessert first.
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probably because depending on where you live locust trees grow like weeds and people cut their own Locust posts. Yep. I've never seen a locust fence post for sale around here. All the fencing businesses doing high tensile farm fence use the round treated posts and a tractor mounted driver. So, that's what's predominantly for sale as far as wood posts. Folks that do their own generally cut their own locust posts.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children may live in peace. ~~ Thomas Paine
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Hedge or black locust. Used black locust on corner posts because hard to find a "big" hedge in our neck of the woods. I am 66 and there are still some line posts that I put in when I was 10 or 11 on the farm.
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The farmers around me prefer cedar posts. Over the last several years I see more and more cattle farmers buying up large quantities of old rail road ties from the rail road company. Then pushing them into the ground with an excavator for cattle fences. Good longevity with the old rail road ties.
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Virtually everything used here is pressure treated lodgepole pine. Not spectacular but good for at least thirty years. The last half mile of fence I built was last year, I was 74. Thirty years should do the trick. GD
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1. Locust 2. Eastern Red Cedar
In this neck of the woods anyway.
Old bridge over the creek was made of Locust. I bet that bridge is at least 75 years old.
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Here.......we use Cedar or Juniper BLM will issue permits for certain areas to 'cut your own' Or...buy 'em.....big heavy fresh corner posts 12" at the bottom will last 100 yrs TSC or Cal Ranch & other farm stores sell 'em too https://classifieds.ksl.com/listing/74250615
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Kansas is full of hundred+ yr old fences hung from Osage posts. Holy crap they are heavy and hard, heavier when fresh and harder when cured. First experience with them cost me lunch. Guy who let me hunt bet me lunch at his wife's diner that I couldn't drive a 1-1/2" staple into them. All full of myself cause I work construction I said hell yeah im hungry and proceeded to flatten about 20 staple without getting a single one to sink in. After a trip to town and lunch he pulled out a bag of 3/4" staples for the afternoon's work of pounding them in.
He found that funny
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I keep a supply of short staples just for old cedar (Juniper) posts. Sometimes just wire the barbed wire on the top where the post is narrower.
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Dad (ole_270 here) turned 71 a few weeks ago. Here's the firewood he cut for me, from the remnant tops from cutting hedge posts laying on the ground, SE Kansas area. This was before Christmas and he'd cut 300+ posts in the previous few weeks. Probably over 400 now that the weather has warmed up a bit. Hedge is about all anybody uses for wood posts around here, everything else will rot out.
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