Took 80 posts to a Knights of Columbus consignment sale. The best big 10' posts about 12" at the base brought 47.50 each. Ill be cutting more of them next year. Overall average was $21 each. 10% commission which I saw as very reasonable. Should have kept the black locust for firewood. $3, $2, $1 . Lesson learned
Black locust dont sell where osage orange is king.

Sounds good. Peeled?

Yeah all locust in my world.
There was an art to bark removal.

I know of a whole one Osage tree.
Big, in a yard, and likely invasive lol.

Nice action Mr. Benson!!

I've heard of the legendary (or is it near legendary?) aspects of Osage orange for fence posts. Farmers (well, at least farmers that still have some cattle) and ranchers here in SD use some sort of wood for corner posts-- this is where I nail skunks by a hind foot to skin out, none of those things come home to my wife's house lot whole, but I don't know what kind of (now usually treated) wood is used for those posts.

We have no native Osage orange or wild locusts of any species. There are residential street locust trees that have been planted in my metro but most not recently.

A person would think that Osage orange would acclimatize their way north, just like possums did but I guess not.

Is black locust as trashy as buck thorn, that crap woody plant has made its way here? We like "smooth" bark trees, with no spikes or "needles" sticking out of them from the trunks.

Different trees in the next state over but that’s not uncommon the scrub oaks south of us by 50 miles are not common in central SD the small towns can have about anything most trees are planted so they must of picked what they wanted to plant. The farms and ranch shelter belts were mostly ash, elm, cedar and Russian Olive.

The kind of trees you’re selling I wish we had them here but they are not here that I’ve ever come across.

I cut hedge post to order for local farmers.
$50 for corners
$35 for brace posts
$20 for lines.
Tops I cut for firewood.

Not peeled. Most is getting too big for posts and is dozed out and burned.
Black locusts have thorns when they are small but they disappear when the trees get bigger.
With the arrival of skid loaders now they set some hedge corner posts that will be there 400 yrs from now.