About us
Four generations of hedge in Woodson County.
Smith Postyard LLC is a family-owned and operated business since 1989. We've drawn on decades of local experience to provide quality hedge posts.
Fence posts that can last a lifetime or two
“We feel the best advertisement is the word of mouth.”
With hard work and dedication to quality post and customer satisfaction, we have established valuable repetitive customers. Our goal is to satisfy our customers with quality products. This has helped to make us the leading hedge post supplier in the industry.
Our hedge postyard
One tree, many names.
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 people, Native Americans and settlers alike. Whatever it is called locally, it is the same distinctive tree.
Osage orange. Mock orange. Osage apple. Hedge. Hedge apple. Naranjo chino. Bois d’arc. Bodark. Bow wood.
About 4,000 fence posts from one mile of hedge.
Osage orange was planted in great numbers: first as a field hedge, before barbed wire became available; then as windbreaks and shelterbelts; and to hold soil and control erosion.
The single-row field hedge proved a valuable windbreak on the prairie. Hedges around every quarter-section were common, and they were a source of durable posts. Prairie farmers clearcut hedges on a 20 to 30 year cycle, getting about 4,000 fence posts per mile of single-row hedge.
Dense, heavy, tough and durable.
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.
Family owned and operated.
Jeff Smith 620-496-8956
Give us a call for price and availability.
We offer hedge fence and corner posts that fill nearly all your fencing needs.