I’ve managed to acquire a bunch of random telephone poles looking for a new purpose.
Couple of thoughts I’ve had, redoing the garden, making a new coop and also toying with the idea of a bunker. Anyone do good things with old Telephone Poles?
I also thought about building some more fence, but i am not sure I want to split them into smaller posts.
How many is a bunch?
I’d use them for fence posts, but I’d mix them with the metal kind. The strongest wooden ones in the corners, then wooden ones next to the corners and at the gate. Then, 2-3 metal posts, a wooden one, 2-3 more metal ones, all along the sides. Don’t split them either. Leave them round.
The wooden posts I bought for fencing my corn patch are about the diameter of telephone poles.
You don’t split them for fence, you cut them to length (8’ or so). They make excellent corner posts, same as old railroad ties.
We had an old phone pole we cut into chunks and made kindling out of.
BEST. KINDLING. EVER.
my husband got quite a few telephone polls from his now defunct job...he cut them, split them, soaked them in used motor oil and sold them as fence posts..