Show LONG LIFE OF FENCE POSTS osage orange leads with thirty years cement will last forty eight years the average life of 0 fence ports from the following kinds of woods Is osage orange 30 years locust 23 t red cedar 20 2012 mulberry 17 catalpa 1512 15 burr oak 15 13 1 3 chestnuts chestnut 14 white cedar 14 13 1 3 walnut 11 1 white oak 1112 11 pine 1114 11 tamarack 10 cac ty ry 10 13 1 3 heir hetI lock ock 9 0 sassafras 89 elm 8 ash aj 8 red oak 7 1 ga the number of years that a fence post will last should be considered in the price pi lee paid for it oftentimes tor for a few cc cents n ts additional dit ional a much longer lived post can be secured making it much cheaper in the long run it if the bark Is left on a fence post it will rot much faster than it if it Is removed it Is estimated that the average life of a cement post is 48 years and 0 of a steel post 30 0 0 years |