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when to cut locust for posts

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plumboy

10-29-2006 09:34:07




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Going to cut some of my locusts around here to try and help with fencing costs. Is the fall when you cut them and should I let them dry before I stick them in the ground and for how long? Thanks.




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Leland

10-29-2006 22:37:31




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 09:34:07  
Just keep toradon around and just brush some on each end and they will never sprout and you can plant then green this way .



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kyplowboy

10-29-2006 17:36:16




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 09:34:07  
I use black locust for post and this is just what I do. Cut them late fall or winter. Do not know about lasting longer just know I do not last at it in August. I stack them up where the sun can hit them and let them dry. Late next summer I can peel the bark off like paper. Getting the bark off and drying helps keep bugs out. Bugs make holes that let in water that rots post. Also keeps from them from sprouting. If you have shoots on top you have roots low. When it dies the roots rot and leave holes in the posts and you have water geting into the wood. I know year old locust is a pain to drive nails into but they will last for years and years. As for the nails, I have found that a cordless drill is my new best friend when fencing. When puting up insulators, I love drywall screws. If driving staples or nails, get a handfull of cheap lil bitty bits and make starter holes. Hope this helps. This is the way grandad always put up post and I do not have a truck stout enough to pull over some he sat when he was young. (Had a guy tear up a hopper bottom pretty good when he did not swing out far enough around a post that he set in the 40's, just can't find good help these days :) )

Dave

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plumboy

10-30-2006 14:55:42




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to kyplowboy, 10-29-2006 17:36:16  
Hey dave what part of ky you in? I'm in lewis co, but from lex.

Everyone else thanks for the replies.



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kyplowboy78

10-30-2006 18:27:09




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-30-2006 14:55:42  
I live in webster county. Bout half way between Henderson and Madisonville in Western Ky. Good luck. Good locust thickets are getting thin round here. They ain't pretty on the 10 acre ranchets and enough money in cattle now people pay to have locust dozed and burned then pay for creosote post or used RR ties. Don't get it myself.

Take care and nice to meet you.

Dave



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barnrat

10-29-2006 12:16:01




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 09:34:07  
early spring



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John N Mi

10-29-2006 11:57:23




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 09:34:07  
While a kid growing up in Kansas we used locust for fence posts. Dad always put them top down as he said that way they would not sprout. I don't know if this is true but I don't remember any sprouting. They do make good post.
John



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RM in Va.

10-29-2006 10:59:51




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 09:34:07  
Years ago I put some in the ground that were cut in Feb. Had a wet spring and just about all of them sprouted and had 2 ft. long limbs by late May. They did die by the end of summer. Post held up just fine but looked like trees growing for several months.



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Dachshund

10-29-2006 10:04:11




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 09:34:07  
Kinda curious on this one, too! Never have used a Locust for a post (Hedge (Osage Orange) around here). Are you talking Black Locust? The ones with the nasty thorns?



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2x4

10-29-2006 13:45:37




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to Dachshund, 10-29-2006 10:04:11  
black locust has small thorns. Honey locust has the really nasty bayonets.



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Dachshund

10-29-2006 14:40:01




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to 2x4, 10-29-2006 13:45:37  
Ok, thanks!



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mjbrown

10-29-2006 10:12:09




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to Dachshund, 10-29-2006 10:04:11  
I think you can cut 'em &stick 'em. I don't see the point of drying them before putting them in the ground where they will get wet unless they will sprout. It will be easier to drive staples or nails in them when green.
Posts are usually black locust. Honey locust have the thorns. Black locust is excellent fire wood and if big enough makes attractive boards.
Osage orange makes even better posts than BL.

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plumboy

10-29-2006 10:54:00




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to mjbrown, 10-29-2006 10:12:09  
Yea these are black locust with the small thorns. I have cut the honey locust with the huge thorns all over, they might be tuff wood but they aint worth the trouble.Sure the squirrels would love me to get rid of them tho.

You always here cut when the saps down. That should be this time of year shouldnt it.



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mjbrown

10-29-2006 12:00:35




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to plumboy, 10-29-2006 10:54:00  
Cut when the temperature is down!



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504-1

10-29-2006 14:18:10




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to mjbrown, 10-29-2006 12:00:35  
I need to ask one more question,do they need to be de-barked? I have some in the barn that have not been de-barked that are getting bad (70 year old barn) but I was told then should been stripped. I can belive they would sprout,if I don`t mow the yard every week I have them growing every where,(pushed out a fence row to build the house)



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KEH

10-29-2006 17:10:29




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 Re: when to cut locust for posts in reply to 504-1, 10-29-2006 14:18:10  
I have never debarked them. They seem to last ok. I did have some sawed into 4 x 4s for appearances sake once. Some of them were taken down by a vehicle that left the road. Drat.

KEH



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