2024 cutting begins

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.

 

Looks like Osage. My favorite.

 

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.

 

What time of year is that? Mostly warm weather?

 

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.

 

I know you cut a lot of it Jim. What percentage of that is green vs dead/down?

 

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.

 

Bucket list wood for me

 

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.

 

This burl (?) was in this pile. Seems a shame to burn, not sure what to do with it however.

 

That is wild looking.

Maybe cut it out & find a wood turner to make a bowl out of it.

 

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

 

SBK1980

 

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.

 

Thank you T.Jeff Veal I'll tell the Mrs.

 

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.

 

It can be shipped, I shipped some hedge balls to Georgia & some Osage firewood to the east coast.

 

I will set it to the side and try to figure something out.