Cutting Trees For Fence Posts

Cut up trees as fence posts post by greybeard sun apr 07 2013 2 49 pm oak or elm would not last long in my area due to the insect population and the dampness.

Cutting trees for fence posts.

Tree limbs hang over property boundaries and obstruct views. California easement rights for trees. Tree growth does not follow survey lines. They create hazards.

Trees don t honor boundary lines. In this video scott is cutting fence posts on his property. The tree was once widely planted to create wind breaks living fences and to provide farmers and ranchers with sufficient fenceposts to keep their. In the southeastern and gulf coastal regions of the united states yellow pine is the wood of choice.

Douglas fir is commonly used in the pacific northwest. Around here osage orange is known as hedge hedge apple and bodark but rarely osage orange and virtually never by its binomial maclura pomifera. Both tree species are strong straight trees that provide quality fence posts. May not cut down or damage tree on neighbor s land.

Permits are often required to cut down a tree. You can save alot of money b. Any fence or fence like structure unnecessarily exceeding 10 feet in height maliciously erected or maintained to annoy owner or occupant of adjoining property is a private nuisance. You can never have enough fence posts on hand.

In a time when landowners generally bulldoze their property burn the trees and then buy fence posts john still clears his land with a hand axe and carefully saves the long straight pines for. Tree trimming regulations in california are generally the same across the state but city and county specific rules exist regarding when a tree borders a neighboring property and what the legal ramifications are of cutting or trimming protected trees. The backwoodsman s institute presents.