Chainsaws and those who use them

[Tubby’s Canteen]

What do you cut for posts? Around here it’s hard to find a post that isn’t hedge, unless someone had a pile of old telephone poles or railroad ties.
Hedge doesn’t grow nearly that strait, but I don’t think there is a more rot proof wood.

A week in a cut off barrel full of diesel and used oil does wonders for longevity as long as you don’t tell environmentalists.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

I guess my next question is what do you normally cut for logs? Here we have no soft wood to speak of. We cut mostly walnut and white, black, and red oak.
A soak in used oil sure does help any wood last better. Hedge doesn’t need it however, all you have to do to hedge post to prepare it is cut it to length. They will last more than fifty years.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I guess my next question is what do you normally cut for logs? Here we have no soft wood to speak of. We cut mostly walnut and white, black, and red oak.
A soak in used oil sure does help any wood last better. Hedge doesn’t need it however, all you have to do to hedge post to prepare it is cut it to length. They will last more than fifty years.

For a basic load of logs spruce , pine hemlock or hardwoods wood be a specialty load and be sold by the board foot. Spruce is by the ton.

 

[CM McKenzie]

What do fence posts run you there? I get 3$ a piece for them here 6’6” not peeled and 5$ peeled.View attachment 679800View attachment 679801

They are getting pricey. 6”x8’ treated posts are $23 each. Pre Covid they were $11.

 

[.300RUM]

They are getting pricey. 6”x8’ treated posts are $23 each. Pre Covid they were $11.

Same here in NC, all fencing supplies are gold. We have a few patches of Locust trees that we will select cut for posts, once dry, better have some oil to dip ya nails in before hammering them in...

 

[CM McKenzie]

Same here in NC, all fencing supplies are gold. We have a few patches of Locust trees that we will select cut for posts, once dry, better have some oil to dip ya nails in before hammering them in...

I wish we had an option like that around here. All that we have are pine poles.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I’m sitting on a fortune worth of posts if it were logistically possible to get them to you gentleman. I’ve got to argue to get 3.00$ for them here. I won’t sell them for less than that I’ll split them out in kindling and sell bundles of that first.

 

[Ravensview]

We use a lot of cedar here, not sure what current price is to buy, last time I got some I think that they were around 5.00 a post, If I need any I can just take the saw and atv and cut some from the back forty.

 

[Basscat19]

Stihl 044 a saw by which all others are measured. Does anyone out there know of someone willing to part with one?

 

[GuttormG]

They are getting pricey. 6”x8’ treated posts are $23 each. Pre Covid they were $11.

6" in diameter?

What are you guys fencing in? Elephants?

 

[Wyatt Smith]

Stihl 044 a saw by which all others are measured. Does anyone out there know of someone willing to part with one?

I hate 044s. Give me an 046 any day.

 

[CM McKenzie]

6" in diameter?

What are you guys fencing in? Elephants?

I mostly use those on corner braces, H braces, my livestock working corrals. I use 6 1/2 foot 1.33 steel T posts for all of my line posts. I could get away with less but ideally the next time it needs done; I will be dead and it will be my kids problem.

 

[Tubby’s Canteen]

I mostly use those on corner braces, H braces, my livestock working corrals. I use 6 1/2 foot 1.33 steel T posts for all of my line posts. I could get away with less but ideally the next time it needs done; I will be dead and it will be my kids problem.

@CM McKenzie for the win in fencing plans , only thing worse then fencing is fencing a fence you’ve already fenced. We’re lucky to get 3 years out of a post here with the wet climate so I’ve fenced the same fences 5-6 times

 

[Wyatt Smith]

6" in diameter?

What are you guys fencing in? Elephants?

It’s hard to get a gate post too big. I like 10 or 12”
@Tubby’s Canteen I wish I could send you some hedge posts. They just don’t rot.