It's never hard work when there is a beautiful woman present who laughs along with you

Paige, love hearing your laughs and giggles!

I still have black locust posts around Grandpa's house and pasture he hauled from a sawmill up in Virginia when I was a child of 7 years old,I am 59 and was gifted Grandpa's house in Alabama 😎 the post faired well over the years and seems Petrified now.... Awesome video...

I've built a lot of fence and gates over the last 60 years and used a lot of hedge aka osage orange. I chuckled out loud when I saw you pull that cordless drill and big forstner bit because I could predict exactly what would happen.

Well, there's yer problem, Jeff! You allowed the magical blue smoke which makes things work to escape from the drill motor. What was that, Osage Orange (Bodark)? Well seasoned and dry, that's for certain. Proper gates are a wonderful thing. Nice work.

Great video!!!! Yeah... Hedge/Osage Orange... If you are using it for a corner post or gate.... Drill when it's green. I have a friend that lives on a 130 year old family farm. His corner post is 130 years old and shows no sign of rot.

Jeff, Happy Thanksgiving to you and Hanna! Remember, your subscribers "Appreciate Y'all".

That looks like some really hard wood. Jeff hope you and your family have a happy thanksgiving

Old Hedge posts are a pain to drill . I have done that with a hand brace and bit . Looks like a job well done . Have a safe hunting season !

had fun today too. needed to take my bull to the auction. He didn't care to go. I have a gate across the middle of my barn acting as the end of a stable or box stall. he tried to jump it, landed on it and his weight pretty much bent it in half. looks like I will be in the market for a new gate. Good news is we did get him loaded and made it to the sale. so.. he will end up buying the gate he broke.

No good deed goes unpunished is just too true. Super gate design though.

Now ya know why Locust posts are still in the ground on farms and Ranches that was put in the ground over 100 years ago! Locust Trees was abundant in the USA until a bug was brought in from another country with imports and nearly wiped out the locust trees in America. But there’s one thing about it if you could build a ranch with all locust poles your great grandchildren could farm the same land and never have to replace a post, some fence and wire but not the fence post. Locust trees once cut into poles for fence and they dry out they get extremely hard, rot resistant and termite resistant. The termites try what you was with the drill and say the hell with it we’re breaking our teeth let’s move on to some softer wood!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You go Jeff 😮. Hard work and clean living is you!!!

The best firewood you'll find in the lower 48. Got tons of it on our farm here in S C PA. Never ever rots. Hard to find trees big enough to get lumber out of, but if you can get it, you can almost name your price. Makes absolutely beautiful flooring

The price of everything these days it’s easy to spend a pile of money. Great video. Your my hero pullin that 😂

For future reference, a cowboy gate is far less trouble and expense. You did show the original full length, so i will assume it was twisted barbed wire with a few sticks between the strands locked-in with the twists. So, the big change with the original would be a single loop on the ground over a depression of a couple of inches. The other key is a 2 to 3 foot stick with a piece of barbwire twisted on about 4 to 6 inches from one end. The length of the other end of wire is adjusted so the short end of the stick reaches just past the barbwire gate, then wrapped tight to the fence post. Put the gate into the bottom loop, then pull the gate up and hook it with the short end. Push the long end around tensioning the gate and lower the long end behind the gate. Quick and easy to open and close.

Putting Together A Crew Hope all is well! And You are A Hell of a Dad

Great job 👍lot of fun to watch 😅 !!!

Hey Ole Boy I'm awatchin ever video still so we can keep ya in drills and drill bits and fence gates and what have ye!! 😂👍

Tough work 💪💪 but you got it done!!!

Outstanding. Shoulda bought a generator and called it an even 750K Lol. Loved the video and the giggles 😂

I have done the same thing. We had to use metal drill bit. Heck of a post!

Hilarious, good humor about it all. Hope you get to enjoy a tasty beverage and get yer feet up.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you and crew. Loved the video. Keep hunting. ❤

Those fence post are as hard as Chinese arithmetic 🤣

Hey Jeff, This video has to be one of your funniest. I never heard you joke around so much. Anyway, have a Happy Thanksgiving and your family and friends. Wish I could be there for dinner. Love your channel and videos. Take care and be safe.

Love this one Jeff

Hope you are recovering well and taking care of yourself Jeff. Only saw videos on others KZfaq channels. Love and prayers young man!!

Awesome video Jeff and Paige !

We have Locust on Cape Cod that is just like that. It burns up drills something fierce. I enjoy your content! All the best!

That mud cured Osage is some hard stuff... but it makes some awesome turkey calls etc...

LOL!! That wood is petrified.

You’re a good man Jeff. God Bless 🙏🏼

Great Gate! Good Job!

Had that problem with the 1930 pine fatwood beams under my house that my dad built decades ago. That drill bit would not drill that wood either. Found a flat spade bit and chewed right through that old wood.

Hand a length of chain off the end of the gate to drag the ground. This helps keep it from blowing shut when you are trying to drive through

Welcome to Kansas fence repair 101. Hedge tree posts, rocks and all this during a 100 year drought. Nothing worse than a smoking drill…LOL

Good Job Jeff ..

Run the drill at slowest speed you can. Once the screw on end of the bit strips out it will not pull itself into the wood.

I live in Oklahoma, there is rock 5 inches below the top surface. YOu need dynomite just to plant as bush, Post hole augers, sheer bolts, cn you say multiple sheer bolts. So, I can commiserate witcha. I out in hog and horse wire and barbed wire and t posts, but every 10 or so feet and all gates, telephone poles or 8 inch posts. So, we are in a special club. preciate chall.

those old iron wood post you have to do a pilot hole (1/2 size) first and use a metal cutting bit. Some of those post are probably 50 years in the ground

Genie, then a 120v hammer drill corded. Drill pilot smaller, then work up on it. It sucks and the older it is the harder that damn stuff is. If you can't get the tools a post replacement is the way to go, well if you can get the old one out. Had to do about 12 of them 10 years ago, learned the hard way and the stuff was over 50 years old perhaps over 100.

Very educational, Thank You!!!!

Jeff you earned your stripes on that one... as my step father always said to me "you did a Yeoman's Job on it!" 😎🇺🇸

You r completely right Osage orange is harder than a nubs of hell they make great knife handles

My grandfather used burdock and ironwood to build fence. It is okay when it is green but after it dries try getting a staple in it. I dealt with it my whole young life.

I really was 😂at your expense I can relate ,I did the same thing on my uncle's property but it was a hour drive back to the shop and broke 2 bits 😅so mine cost more but I had a 6ft timber rattler trv to bite my dog

"That's nice you got there, who put it up for ya?" 😂😂😂

Two words. Hammer Drill.

That is my luck anything and everything always goes wrong on everything I do

Reminds me of the time I cut a chunk off a tree and it flipped vertical and took out my fairly new 40ft fiberglass ladder. Bent the rung like a battering ram and cracked the fiberglass. Nice:)

Unbeknownst to Jeffe that electricians bit is for soft white pine or yellow pine only, and not for hardwoods nor ironwoods,hence its stalling and not boring past the initial 3/4"... However using a sharp wood boring spade bit,or a steel drilling bit will get the job done,especially if one uses a bit,or spade extension bar to make the full drill or bore... 😉

Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy family time❤

I don't know Jeff but you would have used for different sizes Of. bit starting small and going to large. It may have worked easier God bless

Happy Thanksgiving Jeff, Be Safe.

you got new gates, put in some new fence posts. It does make it easier and more sense. If you'd like to pop down to Queensland Australia I'll show you how..

Crazy tuff, looked like the drill was in reverse! Lol

Awesome video

You did a great job on gate 65!!

Stay safe continuing prayers for you and your family 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Looks wonderful!

It's always the simple task that become nightmare's.

Great video, no problem, take it slow and keep smiling 😀... This is exactly how most my jobs go but you learn that it makes for good memories. Thanks for the share and have a Happy TanksGiven

That sorta reminds me of Saskatchewan Canaduh where an old gf lived,and there is like millions of square miles of wide open country like that and some pretty cool Canadians to boot ,eh..

Jeff, gettin done!

You are my people, when the world goes to shit, Oklahoma has ur back

osage orange..

Well at least that was a nice quick little project. Looks easy peezy.

Good video 👍🏻

Good thing about Osage Orange(Bois D'Arc) it lasts forever. Best use good wire and staples, because after it is seasoned you can't drive a 10 penny nail in with a 3 pound hammer.

$657,000 later...you wanted new tools anyway 🤔🤨😁

Osage orange is amazing stuff.😁👍

Most of my lag bolt hinges in hedge posts have lasted over 40 years.

I hear paige gigglen in the backround

Its called heagde apple in kentucky

Welcome to Kansas Doherty

Cattlemen of 37 years here. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Jeff. Well its the thought that counts I guess.

The color of that bodart would make some pretty lumber, if a bandsaw blade could get through it!!lol

That's why I don't use bore bits man lol only paddle bits even if I have to buy a 16 incher. At least you got'r done before dark.

Dont let cows out jeff

That drill bit probably cost more than everything else put together!

Hardcore fun time ❤❤❤

Osage and black locust lasts forever

murphy's law was against you trying to do that gate job, the only way to do it better was heavy equipment to dig deeper holes for concrete or steel posts . good job, whos farm was it for?

Been there Bro. It's rough sometimes 👊😁

You forgot the pick axe and the stick of dynamite. Lol or maybe a spud bar

Watched and liked, glad I could help 😎👍 That was some tough wood, curious about the species that burned up a Dewalt

Should got Hannah to help more

That wore me out just watching it

Need a millwakee drill 😂

Wedding bells ahead....

I have to ask a fundamental question, thank you in advance, tiger or tide fan.

Good job Paige! Oh ... and Jeff did pretty alright too! 🤣🤣🤣

That's some impressive wood wow

Hope you saved the "Indian bow"

Get a Milwaukee & diablo bit

That was a job one of them kind it'll give you a defeatist attitude but you didn't let it whoop you 🐝

Looks good

Hegde apple they put the fruit in the house to keep the spiders away

If this was anything like the projects i get into, You probably started out thinkin "This won"t take long". (A few hours later... Good job on it tho.