Cutting Trees For Fence Posts

The tree was once widely planted to create wind breaks living fences and to provide farmers and ranchers with sufficient fenceposts to keep their.

Cutting trees for fence posts.

Named for their color when newly cut whitewoods include fir spruce and pine. Harvest your own fence posts. Any fence or fence like structure unnecessarily exceeding 10 feet in height maliciously erected or maintained to annoy owner or occupant of adjoining property is a private nuisance. May not cut down or damage tree on neighbor s land.

You can never have enough fence posts on hand. Both tree species are strong straight trees that provide quality fence posts. Tree growth does not follow survey lines. Trees don t honor boundary lines.

Douglas fir is commonly used in the pacific northwest. Around here osage orange is known as hedge hedge apple and bodark but rarely osage orange and virtually never by its binomial maclura pomifera. You can save alot of money b. In a time when landowners generally bulldoze their property burn the trees and then buy fence posts john still clears his land with a hand axe and carefully saves the long straight pines for.

Permits are often required to cut down a tree. California easement rights for trees. The backwoodsman s institute presents. In this video scott is cutting fence posts on his property.

They create hazards. Tree limbs hang over property boundaries and obstruct views. Cut up trees as fence posts post by greybeard sun apr 07 2013 2 49 pm oak or elm would not last long in my area due to the insect population and the dampness.