Cutting Trees For Fence Posts

Around here osage orange is known as hedge hedge apple and bodark but rarely osage orange and virtually never by its binomial maclura pomifera.

Cutting trees for fence posts.

They create hazards. Named for their color when newly cut whitewoods include fir spruce and pine. Permits are often required to cut down a tree. May not cut down or damage tree on neighbor s land.

Harvest your own fence posts. In this video scott is cutting fence posts on his property. Tree growth does not follow survey lines. 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.

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. 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. Trees don t honor boundary lines. In the southeastern and gulf coastal regions of the united states yellow pine is the wood of choice.

You can never have enough fence posts on hand. Tree limbs hang over property boundaries and obstruct views. The tree was once widely planted to create wind breaks living fences and to provide farmers and ranchers with sufficient fenceposts to keep their. The backwoodsman s institute presents.

Douglas fir is commonly used in the pacific northwest. California easement rights for trees. 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.