With unusually cool weather, the season started about a month early. Cleaning out an old fence row to put a new one in later this winter.
Are you saving out the good straight stuff for fence posts & those are the left overs ? I don’t really care for cutting Osage when the sap/milk is still running. It’s a sticky mess if you aren’t careful & requires a good scrubbing of the saws. But a fella has to get after it when you have time.
I do save for posts, but have more than I need most likely. I have considered selling some to our local post yard, but decided to wait until I have a better handle on my own needs. These were all very twisted trees. No posts in there.
I can relate to that. I have a pile that needs worked up. What are posts selling for down there ? Second & third growth seems to produce more posts than first growth. There is always more firewood than fence posts.
Around here it varies with temps but generally about late February/early March - late October/early November. Usually November- mid February is peak time to cut Osage, less milk sap, no bugs & less green under growth.
Probably 95%-98% green, even if it is dozed out in late summer it will still be milking in the spring if it’s got the root ball on it. I very seldom find any downed or dead unless it’s old fence posts.
This is a price sheet from a local yard. I have not sold to them, but FYI. I have to redo a bunch of corners and put in some new internal fencing, so I won’t sell any until I get myself supplied.
Only 8’, 9’ & 10’ sold around here that I am aware occasionally a 7’ may be put in but not very often. Generally here : $15 for 8’ lines $25-$50 for 10’ corners & 9’ braces
These guys are reselling, so they have to have room for their cut. I’m sure one could do better selling directly to a builder, but most full time builders are driving steel everywhere we used to use hedge. I suppose it’s a better price than firewood.
I know a lady on here that would love to turn that. MotherChucker74. It's my wife Tanya Becher. We are in Ohio and I'm not sure how we could get this.