Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living Fence posts, John Irwin

There are scattered groves of black locust trees here, and a lot of people use them for posts. I have plenty of honey locusts, the ones with thorns, and I'd gladly trade for black locusts. I do have a bunch of cedar, and that's what I use. The more red in them, the longer they last. It's said that the best cedar posts come from the poorest soil.

I have bought some posts from LandOLakes wood preserving at Ten Strike, Mn.[img]https://landolakeswood.com/[/img]

I cut up a bunch of phone poles for posts today. Will use them to rebuild the shipping pens on the north place.

That should be a solid fence Don, how do you fasten the 2x6's, nails, lags,--?

It will be continuous pipe fence panels installed with clips and lags

Like this Don? I like a fence I can climb easy, and fast when I'm tight with cattle.

prezactly...

What do you have to pay for 20" Don?

I don't know what 20 inchers cost, but 20 foot, 5 rail, 4' high are $130. and 14 foot gates are $125. We had a fence guy build a little set of pens on the south place, and an alley and sorting pen at the home place outta them. He used drill pipe for driven line posts and 5 inch pipe posts in concrete for the corners and gate posts. they turned out nice.... I'll do the north place with the extra panels and gates we bought.

the south pens





you can see the pile of old wood from the dilapidated wood corrals I tore out this last winter to the right thru the gate.... I'll burn the pile next winter when we get some snow cover.

a quick 10 second vid of the guys driving the pipe line posts. it'll load at midnite...

That sure looks rugged Don. We need lime rock or something on the ground here in Iowa, it'd be deep mud in Iowa.