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You have to drill slowly and often retract the bit to clean it. I still break one once in a while. But 1/8 drill bits are pretty cheap.

Use the twisted wire stays? All they do is space the wires. I've used them on wire gates, they look nice until they get bent.

Drill stem is what I use. No wood in my fences.

I put in a lot of Black locust posts and just got a new supply. Had some of the bigger ones squared up.

Now your grandkids will have to replace them in 50 years.

If you can't drill, just wrap around with barbless wire.. easy enough

When I bought the place in '88 there was a crosstie used as a post at the entrance gate. It has a 1944 date nail in it. Was cut during WW2 but is still solid and in place. On my really wet ground (it's Louisiana) I've had metal posts rust into at the ground. We built an interior fence in 1988 with Osmose treat posts and most of them are still good.

Jealous!

I was up on the family farm just the other day, and the 4-strand wire fences (2 plain, 2 barbed) I helped my father and grandfather put in forty or so years ago are still all sound. Ironbark posts IIRC, from trees which we cut and split in the local forest, all given a good dose of creosote around the base before the earth was rammed in. All the digging, drilling for wires, and mortising for the props on the corner posts was done by hand too.

Was thinking that. Figured looping the barbed would cost too much...

Western Kansas used limestone posts because no wood was available. 100 year old posts.

That’s awesome. Old Beretta?

Beautiful picture and doing what needs to be done regardless of what's available super cool.

Juniper used here. Mostly set up with 3-4 T posts between each juniper post. Juniper used at gates and corners.

BLM fence that borders our property is getting wonky now. Folks I've talked too say it was here when they moved into the area in the 70's, so 40 years +??

Getting to the point where it will need fixing soon. Neighbor's cows don't push through it though.



Had my firewood friend deliver me a bunch of logs I intend to cut into posts for the new garden. I figure they'll be there long after I'm no longer here.

Geno

Cheesy,

that's one of the top fence post pics I've seen on this here 'fire.

Geno

Unmarked German 16 gauge from 1919. The German gun nuts on some other forums said it was likely a Sauer action finished elsewhere.

Out there in “post rock country” (really called that) those fences go on for miles. Many still standing today. The amount if work to mage those posts is mind blowing to me.

Iowa strong.

I don't know how effective it is, a old farmer friend of mine drills a hold in the top of his fence posts and fills it up with diesel fuel once a year. He says it keeps the bugs out and stops them from rotting. I haven't seen him change out any due to rot, just trees or cattle.

I've never bought a new steel post, hundreds of used ones.