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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 421340" data-attributes="member: 389"><p>One thing a lot of the old ranchers used them for was fence posts.  Trying to pound a fence staple into some of those old gnarly fence posts was a near impossibility unless there was a crack you could wedge a staple into.  I can't imagine there are still a lot of them in use, but back in the 70s and 80s...we had them on our pasture fences in spades.  Given the type of barbed wire used, they were probably original from the early 1900s up to around 1940.  </p><p></p><p>I wouldn't expect to get 40-70 years of service out of today's green treated fence posts (maybe I'm wrong) but those old ash branches were dang durable.  I think a lot of them were treated by letting them soak in used motor oil for a year, or so.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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