I'm looking at a 1900-vintage description of a couple of tracts of land that call for some monuments that should be fun to find. The Mulberry Posts will most likely be long gone, I'd think, but the iron markers ought to still be there if undisturbed. The calls for Cog Wheels and Axles sound like mill parts of some sort, but the "trundle Iron Cog Wheel" is a new one on me:
Mulberry Post & Section of an Iron Cog Wheel
Mulberry Post & Iron Axle set in the ground
Mulberry Post & trundle Iron Cog Wheel
Mulberry Post & Iron set in the ground
Interesting. Would like to see pics when you find them. Around these parts in that era they typically only called for a stake if anything at all.
The Google tells me that Red Mulberry wood is considered to be exceptionally rot resistant. There may actually be remains of the mulberry posts left, which would really be neat to find.
Mulberry trees can live a long time and may sprout from cuttings. Perhaps you should look for a tree at the corner?
Daniel Ralph, post: 415641, member: 8817 wrote: Mulberry trees can live a long time and may sprout from cuttings. Perhaps you should look for a tree at the corner?
I'll keep my eyes open, but I'll be looking for a fence post-sized thing that probably was cut and dried, chosen specifically for rot resistance. Bois d'arc posts aren't uncommon in that area, also.
Bois d'arc/hedge/osage orange is extremely rot resistant. I have a line of stumps along the side of one pasture that are all less than one foot in diameter. According to my father, the trees were turned into stumps in the 1940's. Some are only three or four inches in diameter, the same as they were 70+ years ago.
Holy Cow, post: 415669, member: 50 wrote: Bois d'arc/hedge/osage orange is extremely rot resistant. I have a line of stumps along the side of one pasture that are all less than one foot in diameter. According to my father, the trees were turned into stumps in the 1940's. Some are only three or four inches in diameter, the same as they were 70+ years ago.
My test for old Bois d'arc posts is just taking a knife and trying to shave wood off of them. Even a century later, they are damn hard to cut (and show the typical reddish-colored wood of the species after a bit of scraping).
Trundle cog wheel would be a small gear wheel.
Locally we have monuments that are flat wheel plates.