Thursday, December 11, 2008

Osage Orange



With the addition of 4 donkeys - SiereveMaria, MaryAngelina, MaryDorian, and Joselito; I needed to arrange for a fence around my garden. My desire for something that would fit in with the nature I have and not obstruct my view led me to the old time osage orange fence posts that have been used in the midwest for the past hundred years. The wood is extremely hard and *if properly installed* will last for - well - a long long time - even though it has a weathered - rotted look - it is deceiving - impervious to decay, difficult to cut and to work with - now difficult to find - I with difficulty found someone who would install such a fence - Now such a person might have reasons for taking on a job no one else wanted - say they were - well - too fat to really work at a regular job or a free spirit with an old time idea of farm beauty -

The necessary tools would be a tamper, a posthole digger, a bail of rusted cattle wire,oasge orange posts,and wire.

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