Cutting Trees For Fence Posts

You can never have enough fence posts on hand.

Cutting trees for fence posts.

They create hazards. 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. Douglas fir is commonly used in the pacific northwest. Both tree species are strong straight trees that provide quality fence posts.

Harvest your own fence posts. You can save alot of money b. 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. Tree limbs hang over property boundaries and obstruct views.

Tree trimming regulations in california are generally the same across the state but city and county specific rules exist regarding when a tree borders a neighboring property and what the legal ramifications are of cutting or trimming protected trees. Around here osage orange is known as hedge hedge apple and bodark but rarely osage orange and virtually never by its binomial maclura pomifera. In the southeastern and gulf coastal regions of the united states yellow pine is the wood of choice. California easement rights for trees.

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. The backwoodsman s institute presents. Tree growth does not follow survey lines. Trees don t honor boundary lines.

In this video scott is cutting fence posts on his property. May not cut down or damage tree on neighbor s land. The tree was once widely planted to create wind breaks living fences and to provide farmers and ranchers with sufficient fenceposts to keep their.