Aged
My grandfather put this fencepost up on the family farm in 1915. I took this photo in 2013.
The wire isn’t that old.
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My grandfather put this fencepost up on the family farm in 1915. I took this photo in 2013.
The wire isn’t that old.
In my neck of the woods, fence posts don’t last over a century, but venturing into the western part of Texas reveals cedar posts that last a long time in the dry conditions. I’m thinking some were placed when barbed wire fences caused some strong arguments.
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I wonder what species of wood it is. I grew up in Appalachian Ohio and the only thing we had that would last was locust. Miserable stuff to cut and debark with vicious thorns and hard, rough bark. So hard when dry that you’d bend staples (steeples) if you didn’t hit them square. But they lasted for years on end, especially in dry ground. I know when I was a teen in the early 70’s there were posts from the early 20th century still solid and holding wire on the back of our farm. A woven wire fence with 2 strands of barbed wire that I built in 1975 is still in pretty good shape today. A blight of some sort hit the locust about that time in that area and I don’t know if it got better or if they all died off. Few build fences like that anymore, too much work and certainly too expensive. It’s all T posts and electric fence now.
Chestnut was one used in WVA. Blight on that tree currently though. In Kansas we have the rock hard Osage Orange.
a.k.a. Bois d’Arc or “wood of the bow” for its utility in making bows for archery, hunting, etc.
“bois” – Boise: First named upon exclamation of Benjamin Bonneville in 1833 as “les bois” after arriving at the point (Bonneville Point) overlooking the tree-lined now Boise River valley. A welcome sight along the Oregon Trail after crossing 50 miles of dusty, sandy, waterless sage-covered desert from the Three Island Crossing of the Snake River at what is now Glenns Ferry. From this point, the trail followed accessible water into Oregon (the Snake not being easily accessible here). The original trail through Boise city – since straightened – is named Overland Road.
This post lived maybe 10-15 miles off Lake Huron in Ontario. I suspect the wood is sugar maple. A subdivision lives on the site now.
[OK. I did a “nonce error” fix that didn’t work. I’m getting one as I post this (from outside, not Admin]
I did a refresh and the nonce went away
OT, again: Today’s been hotter’n promised. 108° Frankenstein. It’ll be unseasonably hot again on Saturday and then returning to the hot-but-expected numbers after that.
The heat has been unperceptable for me though. The lovely Mrs azlib will have my hide if I don’t finish our taxes, so I’ve been locked in the office, nose to the grindstone.
I looked at that pik and instinctively reached for air conditioner remote.