09/04/26: Not only the splitting continues, but so does the chopping. Over the last two days I removed the sapwood and bark with an axe of a single larch log, yielding another 5 colums in 2,6-3m for a new fence . I'll probably leave all the columns as they are round and blunt on both sides, since only 1 or 2 would be thick enough to be cut into two pieces. The thickest column (the bottom one, yes it is only one piece) is badly bent, so I'll probably leave it whole and use it as a special corner column. Even if there are only five columns, it still takes some work to get them into this shape.
Luckily this time the sapwood of this log was already pretty rotten, so I saved myself a few calories and some additional hours of chopping.

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Frosty Fence
Job, Ambert, Auvergne, France

During my last morning walk in Auvergne.

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Mossiverse. #microcosm #fencepost

While the lime for the oven is resting for a long time, I am not. The chopping, dividing, and charring of larch logs for more fence posts continues. Most of the work is already done, but I still have to finish it within the next few days. I need to handsplit some more larchwood, as I need an additional thirty vertical spelts. Very laborious, but paying off over time. It requires a high degree of manual labor and physical strength. The new fence is almost 100% larch heartwood and almost entirely handmade. The fence posts are 2.7 to 2.9 meters long ideal for steep terrain. My motto for keeping them long: You can always cut them down, but adding pieces is more difficult. :)

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Three generations of fence posts. #fencepost

And finally, looking north-east from the hills above Hollingworth Reservoir through a weathered post-hole in a gritstone fence post. The stone frames a distant pastoral view of patchwork green fields, winding stone walls, scattered farm buildings, and rolling moorland hills under a partly cloudy sky.
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The old and the new...

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Alt text - a wooden post surrounded by barbed wire, with wheat fields rolling behind, and a communication mast in the distance