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- The Smith Family
- Jeff, Marla, Dalton, and Aubrey
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- Smith Postyard is a family owned and operated
business. Our Family has been involved in the hedge post business for 3
generations along with farming, cattle and oil production in Woodson County Kansas. When
we started in 1989, we acquired our first customers by going door to door, and attending
livestock auctions to market our post. With hard work and dedication to quality post and
customer satisfaction, we have established valuable repetitive customers. We feel the best
advertisement is the word of mouth. Therefore, our goal is to satisfy our customers with
quality products. This has helped to make us the leading hedge post supplier in the
business. The year 2000 has brought on expansion for our business. We are now able to
provide Pressure Treated Creosote,
CCA Post, Poles, and Plastic
Recycled Post and 16 Ft. Pine
Lodge Poles.
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- Our Hedge Postyard.
Osage orange is a unique tree with a remarkable history. No
other tree in central North America has had such a long and close relationship with humans
- both Native Americans and settlers. Whether it is known locally as Osage orange, mock
orange, Osage apple, hedge, hedge apple, naranjo chino, bois d'arc, bodark or bow wood, it
is the same distinctive tree
The wood of the Osage-orange is golden yellow or bright orange when first cut, but turns
brown on exposure. The wood is extremely hard, heavy, tough, and durable. It also shrinks
or swells very little compared to the wood of other trees. The wood is used for fence
posts, insulator pins, treenails, furniture, and archery bows. In fact, many archers
consider the wood of the Osage-orange to be the world's finest wood for bows.
- Osage-orange has been planted in great numbers, first as a
field hedge, before barbed wire became available, secondly as a windbreak and component of
shelterbelts, and thirdly to stabilize soils and control erosion.
The single-row field hedge proved to be a valuable windbreak on the prairie; evidence of
this was the raised ground level under 15-year-old hedges, caused by accumulation of
windborne soil material. Hedges around every quarter-section were common, especially in
areas of deep sand. These hedges were a source of durable posts. Prairie farmers
customarily clearcut hedges on a 20 to 30 year cycle, obtaining about 4,000 fence posts
per mile of single-row hedge.-
- Hedge Tree
- Hedge Row
- Our truck loaded with hedge posts and ready for delivery.
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