Nice.
Cedar posts are very rot resistant.
I concur!Old farmers used to say a Black Locust post will outlast three postholes...
Being unable to get on a tractor for another 5 months and the downed tree had her willing to give it a go. Didn’t expect that she would mow but she was on a roll and who am I to stop her. I can push a broom so I swept out the tractor parking spots in the barn to stay busy. April can’t come soon enough.Nice.
My Laundry Fairy said she will only operate equipment in an AC cab, so I probably need to get another cab tractor, but probably 20hp smaller than the M70 I sold earlier this year. She has yet to jump in the SVL 75-2 that I bought her for last years wedding anniversary present.
The red heart wood is, but not so much for the white part. Cedar makes absolutely gorgeous lumber or project wood, but the white wood doesn't hold up in direct soil contact. I've stuck a few posts in the ground myself (the hard way with 6' long post hole diggers), and if there was more than 2 inches of sap wood, we let it lay until the sapwood rotted off and THEN used it for a post. We usually bought 3" creosote posts for any new fencing (4-strand barb wire), and back then, the creosote was oozing out of the posts when ya loaded them at the Farmer's Coop. I've my share of chemical burns from them. Not any more. Now there's barely enough green dye sprayed on 'em to begin to call 'em pressure treated. Creosote has gone the way of the dodo bird. Anything that works won't stick around long. It's called planned obsolescence. If something lasts forever, repeat business drops off.
Thanks, as you can see in the video, the cows have nothing else to eat. I'm so ready to get out of this drought.
For sure! We had the opposite problem here with too much rain and humidity. A lot of barley ended up getting mowed down.The potato harvest has started and I'm hearing some fields have rot issues.
Between her and my son, I just may need to go out and get a new one just for meYou really think you are gonna get em back now
I was told that when I built a grape arbor many years ago. They lasted about 10 years. I had an awesome vine system by then but an ice storm brought the whole abor down. Almost every post was rotted pencil thin.
If it works, it works. I (should have built) bought a 25g sprayer 6 years ago from JD. Fancy color matching..yadda, yadda. Not cheap. I used it twice for weed control. It worked, but I found myself using my backpack/pump sprayer more, because overall it was faster.
Probably down to the heart wood as I ws saying. Old growth cedar will last longer, but usually requires some splitting to use it for rails or posts. I stuck my share of cedar in the ground for fence repairs, knowing full well if we didn’t replace the fence within 5-6 years, I’d be repeating the repair. My stepdad told me I needed something to do anyway. I disagreed. The only saving grace was that it was pretty easy to dig post holes where I grew up. Not so much where I live now. I’ve split 3 sets of digger blades in this clay.
Not quite sure why you think it isn’t pretty. Looks a lot better than anything I have (which is nothing).
