never seen anything used but hedge or steel. lots of semi loads come from just east an north of me

Hedgeapple is easy to grow. I wonder what kind of money could be made on an acre just planted in it for posts?

Keith

Plenty of places to cut it for free now

Good quality osage bow staves are selling for 150 to 200. Need to be relatively straight, relatively knot free, 4 inches across the back and 6ish feet long. Not many osage trees make good quality staves.

And hedge will make a wood stove hum.
I sell hedge posts. Cut when I get an order.
Triple dip on the deal. Guvment program pays me to do timber stand improvement. This includes removing hedge from my oak/hickory timber. Sell the posts and cut the tops for firewood.
Ya wanna mix the hedge with other wood when you load the stove lol.

They used to use hedge for posts here but not many still using wood for fences. Still find some in old fences and they are solid as a rock.

If you can find a hedge post in the right type of ground it is worth good money to wood workers
They call it green hedge, sucked up some kind of minerals from the ground and is a very nice green color

The few black locusts we have here I pull and add to the burn pile. only ones I have seen wouldn't even make a good stay in a fence, real small

My brother cracked the wood box in a new Ashley stove by burning dry hedge by itself.

Hedge grows in my area, but it's not common. I have no hedgeapple trees on my farm. I want to plant some for bow staves. How long from seed to stave?

Keith

Alot of people have got away from cattle raising cause it's too much work. Now they're dozing out hedge rows to farm it. Lotsa good posts and firewood going to waste there but what do ya do.....

an old farmer once told me a locust post will last ten years longer than forever.