"Vandy Terre" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:30:50 -0700 (PDT), Heathcliff
wrote:

You recommend osage, and someone else recommended black locust for the
posts. Sounds good, but - are these woods available commercially? --
H

As a rule, probably not. A small locally owned lumber mill might cut
these
types of wood. Most of the time it is a case of grow your own or find
someone
willing to sell said tree for you to cut from their property.

Osage is typically used as a living fence so would probably be difficult to
find as lumber except close to where it grows. But locust lumber is used
for all kinds of products so fencing is relatively easy to find, check
fencing companies in your local yellow pages, ask at a local lumber yard,
search on line. The primary thing however is to ascertain if it will be
worth the expence for installing a fence that will very likely out live the
property owner or the period one lives there. I would suspect that locust
fencing is not going to come cheaply so it would behoove one to consider
carefully.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...6/ai_65774772/

http://www.locustfence.com/