[AT] 100 year old stumps are nasty

[Spencer Yost]

I can take a picture of a red cedar post that absolutely has been in place
for 65 years or more.   Looks pretty rough and probably won't make it
another 10 years, but who can complain with 75 years of service??  My
neighbor vouched, as I pulled one of the last ones remaining, that a few
years after he and his family moved into the place in the late 1920s they
created a small holding pen for animals and the posts I was pulling were
red cedar logs for that pen.   He wasn't sure how long it was after they
moved in, he left home for WWII in 1943 and he said it was a good long
while before then.

As good as red cedar is for posts, most folks in this area(myself included)
go a short drive to the mountains and buy black locust posts.

Spencer Yost
Owner, ATIS
Plow the Net!
http://www.atis.net

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On 10/14/2004 at 9:33 AM John Cullom wrote:

>My late grandfather always used those red cedar trunks for fence posts.
>He 
>died back in 1987, & most of the posts he set from long before are still 
>there. The trees were rather plentiful too, as it seemed the birds would 
>pick the berries, then deposit the seeds whilst sitting on the barbed wire

>fences. Eventually there'd be a whole line of cedar trees from which to 
>choose. He even used one each year for a Christmas tree.
>John
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Rob Gray" <Robgray at epix.net>
>> True cedars don't grow where I'm from but we get the big juniper tree
>they 
>> call the eastern red "cedar". The stumps on those things remain in the 
>> ground un-rotted for many years. There is one that I remember my dad 
>> cutting down about 25 years ago and the stump is still relatively intact

>> in the ground...
>
>
>John Cullom
>Westminster, Md. 
>
>
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