Cutting Trees For Fence Posts

Permits are often required to cut down a tree.

Cutting trees for fence posts. Named for their color when newly cut whitewoods include fir spruce and pine. In the southeastern and gulf coastal regions of the united states yellow pine is the wood of choice. The backwoodsman s institute presents. The tree was once widely planted to create wind breaks living fences and to provide farmers and ranchers with sufficient fenceposts to keep their.

You can save alot of money b. You can never have enough fence posts on hand. Trees don t honor boundary lines. Harvest your own fence posts.

May not cut down or damage tree on neighbor s land. Cut the fence post tops to the desired height with a reciprocating saw cutting at a slight angle so water runs off the tops instead of pooling up and absorbing into the wood. 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. In this video scott is cutting fence posts on his property.

Around here osage orange is known as hedge hedge apple and bodark but rarely osage orange and virtually never by its binomial maclura pomifera. Both tree species are strong straight trees that provide quality fence posts. California easement rights for trees. Tree limbs hang over property boundaries and obstruct views.

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. They create hazards. Douglas fir is commonly used in the pacific northwest.