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Setting Locust Fence Corner Posts and Mortising Rails
In my last post on building a locust fence, I showed you how the locust was harvested and split in to rails up the mountain. Today, we’re going to set the posts in the barn yard, mortise some posts (cut holes in them where the rails go) and then fit the first rails.
Splitting a Locust Log: From Windfall Tree to Fence Posts
Today’s post was going to be about setting the first locust posts in the pasture I’m building for our mules and horse….until I ran out of posts. So, back up the mountain I went in pursuit of locust. I found such a beauty, and was taken by how much life it contained, that I wanted to show you some photos of how a log become posts.
