The Official Farming Thread...

[Mastermind]

Yep.

 

[ajschainsaws]

That is some funny looking Hedge
Here is Hedge in the USA


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It will look different This next growing season it’s all we can do when there so overgrown
And the conservationists want the old traditional ways
I got some more photos of some better hedges we done before the wire goes up

 

[Only the Tony]

It will look different This next growing season it’s all we can do when there so overgrown
And the conservationists want the old traditional ways
I got some more photos of some better hedges we done before the wire goes up

Different types of hedge. This is what @Bill G is referring to, a type of tree in the US. Hedge apple(osage orange). Hard with excellent rot resistance often used to make fence posts. You are talking about the type of enclosure building style used in fencing.

 

[Bill G]

That above is Hedge. The posts will sell for $10-$30 each with good ones probably going higher

 

[ajschainsaws]

Not if....when....... that powershift tranny goes out it will go to China on the scrap barge

Yeah I hear what your saying

Those old Case's were good in their day but they guys that built and worked on them are sadly dead or well retired. The powershifts were a weak link. I had a cousin who had (2) 4490's and one that had (1). Back in the mid 1980's "picking toe-maters" it was great day when we had (3) 4490's all working in the same field. Damn those were money making years

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Different types of hedge. This is what @Bill G is referring to, a type of tree in the US. Hedge apple(osage orange). Hard with excellent rot resistance often used to make fence posts. You are talking about the type of enclosure building style used in fencing.

Sorry @Bill G I get it now We always call the boundary banks , hedges

 

[JimBear]

That above is Hedge. The posts will sell for $10-$30 each with good ones probably going higher

Here, $15 lines, $25-$30 for 2nds & $35 for corners.

Lines 8’
Seonds 9’-10’
Corners 10’

 

[Bill G]

Yeah I hear what your saying



Sorry @Bill G I get it now We always call the boundary banks , hedges

There is nothing to be sorry about. We all use some different terms. I used to talk on the phone to some guys down in Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes it was tough understanding what each of us were saying but we managed. I remember when a couple guys wanted to try to build a couple custom longbows (weapon) He said he had researched it and Osage Orange was the best wood. He wanted to use my shop to work on it in. Well now at that time I had never heard of Osage Orange. They came walking in one day with a couple sticks of Hedge and I gave them a puzzled look as I was expecting some exotic wood. No one around here calls it Osage Orange but they do in other places. It is the same wood with two different names.

Do not even get folks started with the Pop versus Soda debate in my area

 

[Bill G]

Here, $15 lines, $25-$30 for 2nds & $35 for corners.

Lines 8’
Seonds 9’-10’
Corners 10’

What part of Iowa are you in?

 

[JimBear]

What part of Iowa are you in?

SW IA

 

[ajschainsaws]

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Different types of hedge. This is what @Bill G is referring to, a type of tree in the US. Hedge apple(osage orange). Hard with excellent rot resistance often used to make fence posts. You are talking about the type of enclosure building style used in fencing.

That’s the stuff we could do with over here Douglas fir and larch posts don’t last no time in our wet clay

 

[ajschainsaws]

There is nothing to be sorry about. We all use some different terms. I used to talk on the phone to some guys down in Australia and New Zealand. Sometimes it was tough understanding what each of us were saying but we managed. I remember when a couple guys wanted to try to build a couple custom longbows (weapon) He said he had researched it and Osage Orange was the best wood. He wanted to use my shop to work on it in. Well now at that time I had never heard of Osage Orange. They came walking in one day with a couple sticks of Hedge and I gave them a puzzled look as I was expecting some exotic wood. No one around here calls it Osage Orange but they do in other places. It is the same wood with two different names.

Do not even get folks started with the Pop versus Soda debate in my area

I had some years ago for making wedges and it was hard as hell I’ve got one small tree here growing
Hopefully it will grow on and make a decent tree

 

[ajschainsaws]

Here, $15 lines, $25-$30 for 2nds & $35 for corners.

Lines 8’
Seonds 9’-10’
Corners 10’

Good prices Jim I bet it makes strong fences

 

[ajschainsaws]

Not if....when....... that powershift tranny goes out it will go to China on the scrap barge

Yeah I’ve heard some horror stories about the power shift he said he had some trouble
A while ago with hydraulics wouldn’t lift when you where using the powershift
Turns out it will a oil flow problem on a block attached too the power shift transmission
And he had steering sensors playing up which was a headache
And the linkages for the power shift where pretty worn

 

[Only the Tony]

I had some years ago for making wedges and it was hard as hell I’ve got one small tree here growing
Hopefully it will grow on and make a decent tree

They grow like weeds around here. Cows will eat the fruit at times and other than squirrels, I don't know of anything else that eats them. Getting ready to start spot spraying again to clean up some of the thorny plants.

 

[Bill G]

SW IA

I am in Illinois looking out my window at Iowa. I am 2 hours south of Wisconsin and 2 hours north of Missouri.

Many times they sell Hedge posts on the weekly sale at the Keosauqua Iowa sale barn but I just checked the results and none were listed. Keosauqua is in Southeast Iowa.

Keosauqua Sales Co. Inc

 

[JimBear]

Good prices Jim I bet it makes strong fences

Most of the time the posts will outlast the wire.Lots of fences here with posts that are 40 - 50 years old or more.

I usually try cut the old posts for firewood if the fences are taken out.

 

[JimBear]

I am in Illinois looking out my window at Iowa. I am 2 hours south of Wisconsin and 2 hours north of Missouri.

Many times they sell Hedge posts on the weekly sale at the Keosauqua Iowa sale barn but I just checked the results and none were listed. Keosauqua is in Southeast Iowa.

Keosauqua Sales Co. Inc

I think it’s usually the Amish cutting & selling those.
The Kalona sale barn used to have them when I would go thru & it was usually the Amish taking them in.

 

[Bill G]

That’s the stuff we could do with over here Douglas fir and larch posts don’t last no time in our wet clay

Hedge basically does not rot out. Good Locust is not far behind. Not that many years ago we still had some Locust posts that were cut in the 1960's and never put in. They were still hard as a rock but Hedge is much better. This is an old Hedge post that I know has been in the ground at least 50 years. Of course the fence is crap (non existent) Now with that being said trying to drive a staple in a hedge is a no win situation.

 

[JimBear]

Hedge basically does not rot out. Good Locust is not far behind. Not that many years ago we still had some Locust posts that were cut in the 1960's and never put in. They were still hard as a rock but Hedge is much better. This is an old Hedge post that I know has been in the ground at least 50 years. Of course the fence is crap (non existent) Now with that being said trying to drive a staple in a hedge is a no win situation.

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Good stove wood there, about like throwing some coal in.

 

[Bill G]

I think it’s usually the Amish cutting & selling those.
The Kalona sale barn used to have them when I would go thru & it was usually the Amish taking them in.

There are definitely some Amish selling them at Keosauqua and Kalona. I used to go to Kalona quite often as it is not far away. I see Dwight Duwa has decided to have a equipment consignment auction again this year. He is west of Kalona just west of Wellman. He quit having them in 2017. They were something to see. They would start at 8AM with a couple auctioneers. By 9AM they had 5 auctioneers going. There was one on tools and small items. Two on farm equipment and two on livestock equipment. They went all day and all night. The spring sales were known to go as late as 3AM. They sat up portable lighting. They also pulled a portable light tower behind a tractor as they sold equipment. I used to leave home to go out at about 2AM or so. I would get a good parking spot and take a snooze in the truck till sun up. It was a very, very long day. Most years I was worn out and I left by 8PM but in March 2017 my son and I did not even go out until about 7PM. That was a mud bath. The last time I went was September 2017 and I believe that was his final sale.