Tuckered out from a day of labor. Splitting fence posts from Locust trees is hard work! here's the tools required: two metal wedges, a maul, and a sturdy axe.
And the result: a big stack of 8 foot long fencepost ready to sink in the ground. We'll need about 120 line posts for straight lengths of fence and about 30 bigger Locust posts for gates and corners. When all's complete, there will be a fence nearly 4,000 feet long, six strands of electric wire circling 20 acres of grass, clover and pasture weeds. With such a fence, cows and sheep will happily forage, making milk and wool.
Today, Andy and I cut a 70 year old Red Oak in a dramatic WHOOSH! as it broke through the crown of an adjacent Sycamore. Andy will use some of the tree for wet-dry Oak wrung joinery and some will be stovewood and some for trunnels, or wooden pins to that pound into the joints on timber frame buildings.
After sucking down four pounds of warm milk, 50 pound Zoe feels pretty sleepy.
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