Wife wants to extend the veggie garden (yummy!) so we will need about a dozen fence posts. I started working on cutting some 8' posts from the straightest 5-6" black locust logs we have. I have one more tree dead standing out in the woods. I'd much rather put locust in the garden rather than chemically treated posts from the big box. Win-win situation.
Sassafras also works well. Not as good as locust though. That stuff is tough and lasts a long, long time. For posts, it also help to cut the tops at an angle; keeps the water from sitting on top and will make posts last longer.
I've also been finding it too useful for firewood lately. I stack my logs on top of poles like that, and I've been milling slightly larger pieces into skids for my firewood pallets.
Very nice Shawn Curry . I only wish I had that much black locust. All I have is a handful of 4-6 inch logs. Straight parts will become fence posts since we actually need them and the rest will become firewood.
