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Pittsburg, Kansas | My dad cut hedge posts with a crosscut saw and split them into line posts with sledge and wedges. Found one of his old wedges where a hedge (Osage orange) row used to be recently. He hired a neighbor to help him run the two man crosscut for a dollar a day. The neighbor brought a quart of canned plums to work each day for lunch, because that is what they had. This was winter time work after the farming season was over. He did this for many years later with a chain saw when they became available. I can still remember the stacks of line posts propped up out by the road where he sold them and my oldest brother cutting into his foot with an ax finishing up a split post after the wedges and sledge did the main work. Had to cut the toe out of a shoe for him to wear till it healed. Didn't even go to a doctor.
We live in different times now.
John
Edited by John Burns 1/13/2018 19:36
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1920s
