I have two Osage Orange posts in my yard. One holds my street numbers on it.
They are two of four large stakes (4-5 foot) that used to hold down the wooden windmill on my great grandparents farm in Iowa. Still solid as concrete they are at least 130 years old.
One still has a bolt and some iron strapping on it where it attached to the leg of the windmill.
It made good bows too, hence Bodarc wood.
It was easier to plant O.Orange trees to use as your fence posts than to quarry a bunch of limestone fenceposts out of the ground. I can look out my front door and see a line of trees that marked someones quarter section from before the suburban sprawl flowed over this county.