I've built a lot of fence and gates over the last 60 years and used a lot of hedge aka osage orange. I chuckled out loud when I saw you pull that cordless drill and big forstner bit because I could predict exactly what would happen.
I still have black locust posts around Grandpa's house and pasture he hauled from a sawmill up in Virginia when I was a child of 7 years old,I am 59 and was gifted Grandpa's house in Alabama 😎 the post faired well over the years and seems Petrified now.... Awesome video...
had fun today too. needed to take my bull to the auction. He didn't care to go. I have a gate across the middle of my barn acting as the end of a stable or box stall. he tried to jump it, landed on it and his weight pretty much bent it in half. looks like I will be in the market for a new gate. Good news is we did get him loaded and made it to the sale. so.. he will end up buying the gate he broke.
Why not unbend it using a winch or a portable power.. we do it all the time whenever a bovine gets too excited and damages a panel or gate... Beats replacing one again and again and again every week or three..cheaper too..
@@Wil_Liam1 good idea. I just used the hi-lift because it was effective and handy. Tractor is near the barn where the gate was. It didn't do a bad job and is still usable. But, I can see how a winch will finish the job nicely and be more targeted as to where the bends are. Thanks.
Great video!!!! Yeah... Hedge/Osage Orange... If you are using it for a corner post or gate.... Drill when it's green. I have a friend that lives on a 130 year old family farm. His corner post is 130 years old and shows no sign of rot.
Well, there's yer problem, Jeff! You allowed the magical blue smoke which makes things work to escape from the drill motor. What was that, Osage Orange (Bodark)? Well seasoned and dry, that's for certain. Proper gates are a wonderful thing. Nice work.
Here in this part of Texas it is called Bois de arc. It is tough as all get out! Jeff if you can get you a fairly good green log of that and mill it before it dries you will like what got ! It is some beautiful wood.
The best firewood you'll find in the lower 48. Got tons of it on our farm here in S C PA. Never ever rots. Hard to find trees big enough to get lumber out of, but if you can get it, you can almost name your price. Makes absolutely beautiful flooring
For future reference, a cowboy gate is far less trouble and expense. You did show the original full length, so i will assume it was twisted barbed wire with a few sticks between the strands locked-in with the twists. So, the big change with the original would be a single loop on the ground over a depression of a couple of inches. The other key is a 2 to 3 foot stick with a piece of barbwire twisted on about 4 to 6 inches from one end. The length of the other end of wire is adjusted so the short end of the stick reaches just past the barbwire gate, then wrapped tight to the fence post. Put the gate into the bottom loop, then pull the gate up and hook it with the short end. Push the long end around tensioning the gate and lower the long end behind the gate. Quick and easy to open and close.
Now ya know why Locust posts are still in the ground on farms and Ranches that was put in the ground over 100 years ago! Locust Trees was abundant in the USA until a bug was brought in from another country with imports and nearly wiped out the locust trees in America. But there’s one thing about it if you could build a ranch with all locust poles your great grandchildren could farm the same land and never have to replace a post, some fence and wire but not the fence post. Locust trees once cut into poles for fence and they dry out they get extremely hard, rot resistant and termite resistant. The termites try what you was with the drill and say the hell with it we’re breaking our teeth let’s move on to some softer wood!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Hey Jeff, This video has to be one of your funniest. I never heard you joke around so much. Anyway, have a Happy Thanksgiving and your family and friends. Wish I could be there for dinner. Love your channel and videos. Take care and be safe.
I live in Oklahoma, there is rock 5 inches below the top surface. YOu need dynomite just to plant as bush, Post hole augers, sheer bolts, cn you say multiple sheer bolts. So, I can commiserate witcha. I out in hog and horse wire and barbed wire and t posts, but every 10 or so feet and all gates, telephone poles or 8 inch posts. So, we are in a special club. preciate chall.
Had that problem with the 1930 pine fatwood beams under my house that my dad built decades ago. That drill bit would not drill that wood either. Found a flat spade bit and chewed right through that old wood.
Genie, then a 120v hammer drill corded. Drill pilot smaller, then work up on it. It sucks and the older it is the harder that damn stuff is. If you can't get the tools a post replacement is the way to go, well if you can get the old one out. Had to do about 12 of them 10 years ago, learned the hard way and the stuff was over 50 years old perhaps over 100.
those old iron wood post you have to do a pilot hole (1/2 size) first and use a metal cutting bit. Some of those post are probably 50 years in the ground
I really was 😂at your expense I can relate ,I did the same thing on my uncle's property but it was a hour drive back to the shop and broke 2 bits 😅so mine cost more but I had a 6ft timber rattler trv to bite my dog
My grandfather used burdock and ironwood to build fence. It is okay when it is green but after it dries try getting a staple in it. I dealt with it my whole young life.
Reminds me of the time I cut a chunk off a tree and it flipped vertical and took out my fairly new 40ft fiberglass ladder. Bent the rung like a battering ram and cracked the fiberglass. Nice:)
Great video, no problem, take it slow and keep smiling 😀... This is exactly how most my jobs go but you learn that it makes for good memories. Thanks for the share and have a Happy TanksGiven
Unbeknownst to Jeffe that electricians bit is for soft white pine or yellow pine only, and not for hardwoods nor ironwoods,hence its stalling and not boring past the initial 3/4"... However using a sharp wood boring spade bit,or a steel drilling bit will get the job done,especially if one uses a bit,or spade extension bar to make the full drill or bore... 😉
you got new gates, put in some new fence posts. It does make it easier and more sense. If you'd like to pop down to Queensland Australia I'll show you how..
That sorta reminds me of Saskatchewan Canaduh where an old gf lived,and there is like millions of square miles of wide open country like that and some pretty cool Canadians to boot ,eh..
Good thing about Osage Orange(Bois D'Arc) it lasts forever. Best use good wire and staples, because after it is seasoned you can't drive a 10 penny nail in with a 3 pound hammer.
Ummm,I think one side is over lapping the other,I think there supposed to be end to end lol, well I think that's your fince 😅 because I would have been very upset if I would have see that lol 😆 😉 hood job. 😉 😮
murphy's law was against you trying to do that gate job, the only way to do it better was heavy equipment to dig deeper holes for concrete or steel posts . good job, whos farm was it for?
