I was out pulling some cedar trees in some crp today, as I was pulling some trees around a small patch of Honey Locust trees I saw what I thought was an old fence post. I started rooting around with the puller & found several more that were buried under soil anywhere from 6” -12”. We have farmed & hunted the place for 30 years & I didn’t know they were there. I will try to cut a couple in the near future to show how solid they still are. They range from 6’ - 14’ long & 3”- 8” in diameter, I didn’t count but am guessing at around 20 total.
Is it HL, BL or osage? Im always amazed at the condition of buried BL i find at roadside scores. From many years prior cutting.
Gonna smoke a couple chains making firewood out of those poles or put them back in the ground as fence posts for your grandkids to take out when they're all grown up?
Honey Locust would be all rotted away, it doesn’t seem to have the rot resistance Black Locust does. It all Osage.
They will not be going in the ground for fence posts. I will definitely be using some semi-chisel chain to cut it up. If I get ambitious I may use the pressure washer on them.
Crazy like here, we LITERALLY had mud storms last winter. Instead of rain or snow it was mud flying through the air. Mud blobs don't roll down the windows like rain or snow. End result is we have 2" - 4" new silt dirt on our property depending on the snow drifts and wind side of houes. Our burn barrel has over 4" new dirt around it, it's bananas! The snow drifts crushed most our cattle wire fencing and it's now covered in a couple inches of dirt. Maybe that happened a few times at your place over the decades?
These were on a sidehill, I suppose they must of been piled there in the early 80’s when they cut the Osage last time. So it’s possible that they were just silted over & overgrown.
