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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Cecil, you’re right about the potential for bending a lift arm. I did think about it, but went ahead anyway. Lifting it up and out of there on my own was more than I felt like doing, after already having dug way down along one side without reaching the bottom of the post, but I knew it had to be loose enough to come up without a fight. Of course I’d have cursed my stupidity loud and long if I’d ended up bending an arm anyway…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Osage is indeed outstanding material for fence posts. This one realistically would need to be replaced if it had to do honest corner-post duty again, with a heavy gate hinged off of it, because it’s about halfway rotted through inside right above the ground line. Can’t complain for being 60+, or however old it is. And I like its character enough to want to keep it, and even halfway rotted it should be plenty strong enough to just stand there with a few fence boards attached to one side.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>I used decking lumber (actual 1” thick) for the fence boards, and attached them with torx-head screws with a handheld electric drill. Funny thing about the osage, I noticed the screws would go in fairly smoothly…but any time at all later, even a few minutes, there’s no moving them. No tightening them up that last little bit, no backing them out, shaft will snap before it’ll turn.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>And Dean VP, yep, it’s darn nice having that tractor. ;)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Dean Vinson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Saint Paris OH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='color:windowtext'> AT [mailto:at-bounces@lists.antique-tractor.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Cecil Bearden<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 12, 2020 11:07 AM<br><b>To:</b> at@lists.antique-tractor.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AT] Having the right tools for the job<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Just my thoughts.... I use a frame I made to move trailers that has a drawbar between the lift arms and the top link to keep it straight to pull posts. One lift arm can get bent. Not wanting to start a long discussion, just my $0.02. That osage orange, Known as BoisD'arc or Boardark, or Bodark here in OK, makes a great corner post. It is as hard as granite when driving staples in. Just tie the wire around it. now with the cordless drills, screws work great to anchor the wire, but the posts are rough enough that the wire is not going to slip....<br>Cecil<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 10/12/2020 8:11 AM, Dean Vinson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal>Good tractor day. The “antique fence,” as we call it, is an overgrown flowerbed around a few old fenceposts, the remnants of what long ago had been the intersection of a couple of different fields. I decided I’d remove the old rotten fenceboards, straighten up the posts, clear out the woody shrubs that have grown up, then put up new fenceboards. Nice little fall cleanup project, so I threw some tools in the trailer and fired up the Super M.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Got the old boards off easily enough, but straightening up the big old corner post was another deal. Some quality time with the spade, spud bar, and post hole digger got me about 30” down along one side, but I still couldn’t straighten it up or pull it out by hand. Too big, too deep. Time for some hydraulic assistance, courtesy of the JD 620. Turns out the folks who set that post maybe 60 years ago wanted it to last: Nice old osage orange log, set 42” in the ground. I’ll dig out the hole a little more then re-set the post back to plumb.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Couple other posts need to be replaced completely, and I’ve got some new osage orange logs standing by. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Dean Vinson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Saint Paris OH<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></body></html>