Richard, by the time they hollowed out at the top, they were getting funky at the ground too.
I've cut and set a lot of locust posts. When I was a kid, the farmer I worked for had a nice grove of locust trees, and when it was too wet for field work, we'd cut and haul posts. He would store or cure them inside in an old ear corn crib, standing on end, until we needed to use them. And then there was a nice grove about a mile up the road from here. The land owner was gonna doze it all down, and he let all the neighbors come in and cut everything usable before he cleared it. We cut and hauled many truck loads out of there - kind of a community project.
I don't have real good luck with regular store bought wood posts either, but then I haven't bought any since they had the old penta treated posts. I use cut-off utility poles for corner posts now, and steel for line posts. High tensile wire.
I live in Southern Illinois, about 70 miles north of Cairo. High humidity, but no higher than my neighbors, ha. My old neighbor used to rib me about his locust posts lasting longer than mine, and they all rode home in the same truck.
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