Jay C. White Cloud wrote:Hi,
As others have shared, you really don't have to debark...it just extends life of the post with each step as I shared them, and some post will start to grow if bark is left on them...
Some seem to have really green thumbs, like some of the Elders I have been privileged to work with...if they looked hard at something it seemed to sprout roots and leaves...
With the correct tools, debarking a post is less than 20 minutes, and if you do a lot of them, during the correct time of the years haves, even faster.
As for finishes...there are many!
"Salt oil" is just that warmed oil with salt melted into it. I would suggest experimenting. I use a mix of pine rosin, beeswax, tung oil and flax oil with a citrus oil thinner. Again...there are thousands of recipes....
Remember, again, each step adds life. If you go all out with debark to charr to oiling...100 years is nothing...I seen it even on pine posts...
Good Luck,
j
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Jay C. White Cloud wrote:
Remember, again, each step adds life. If you go all out with debark to charr to oiling...100 years is nothing...I seen it even on pine posts...
Danielle Venegas wrote:You really have me thinking I should just plant my locust where I want the posts to be and nail the fencing to live posts. hmmmmm Would be ever so much easier on me! Rather prettier too.
Am I on the right path with using a drawknife and/or billhook for debarking?
Jay C. White Cloud wrote:
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Charr the base of the post that will be below grade plus 200 mm minimum or you can charr the entire post.
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j
When's the best time to plant a tree? About 20 years ago. When's the next best time? Today!
Tim Wells wrote:I cut my posts (other coppice species) and leave them laying for the sheep to debark them.
Lorenzo Costa wrote:here there'es this thing about using freshly cut wood, they say it rots first if you don't let it season some time
How do you char the posts, Jay?
Anyone, particularly Jay C. Whitecloud, able to say whether with black locust it matters how much heartwood the post has?
Is it only the heartwood in black locust that is rot resistant?
I am filling the bottom and sides of the post hole with crushed gravel (1-4" size), so will rot really be much of a problem for posts that won't be in full contact with soil, but rather mostly rock?
I need to fix old wooden ladders where a lot of rungs have cracked. Would black locust be a good choice to turn new rungs from?
When's the best time to plant a tree? About 20 years ago. When's the next best time? Today!
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