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A hot wire on 6-inch standoffs towards the inside would take care of that in a hurry...
Aaron Z
Building fences... I cheated.
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Aaron Z
bunyip
Elite Member
Not when they are rugged, and they know it too!!!!
oosik
Epic Contributor
The ONLY wood on my mile and a half fence line - the two, big, gooey, stinky railroad ties used for my gate. I was able to hand dig the holes. Borrowed the neighbors manual squeeze dig thingey and got the holes to bedrock at five feet. Half a foot of screened gravel at the bottom. Chain those gooey things to the bucket and get them in the hole. That was 37+ years ago - those two are still there and on a hot summer day, stinky & gooey.
The remainder of the fence line - 650+ T-133 steel posts. Home made pounder - heavy metal pipe with blob welded on the top. Locate the exact spot for the new T-post, load the pounder, raise to full height - four or five whacks - its home. Move on..........
It took me a year and a half of every evening in the summer & all day almost every weekend to complete the fence. There are a few spots on the fence line where no vehicle, of any type could reach. One very steep narrow valley and one section coming out a huge valley.
I do the required annual maintenance on the fence and it still stands - straight, true and proud. All this thinking about that fence job IS making my shoulders ache. Thank the Lord - I was only 40 years old at the time.
Were I to do it now - it would be a whole lot easier. Half a dozen signs - "Open Range Land". Strategically placed around the property. Barbed wire fence around just the house and out buildings.
The remainder of the fence line - 650+ T-133 steel posts. Home made pounder - heavy metal pipe with blob welded on the top. Locate the exact spot for the new T-post, load the pounder, raise to full height - four or five whacks - its home. Move on..........
It took me a year and a half of every evening in the summer & all day almost every weekend to complete the fence. There are a few spots on the fence line where no vehicle, of any type could reach. One very steep narrow valley and one section coming out a huge valley.
I do the required annual maintenance on the fence and it still stands - straight, true and proud. All this thinking about that fence job IS making my shoulders ache. Thank the Lord - I was only 40 years old at the time.
Were I to do it now - it would be a whole lot easier. Half a dozen signs - "Open Range Land". Strategically placed around the property. Barbed wire fence around just the house and out buildings.
goeduck
Super Star Member
My grandfather was a big man. Legend has it that he would stand on a hay wagon and pound cedar fence posts in with a maul.
buckeyefarmer
Epic Contributor
Thats how we put most of ours in. Make a starter hole with a digging iron, sharpen the post with chainsaw, drive by hand with a maul.
quicksandfarmer
Elite Member
I've read that's the way they were traditionally done in New England. I haven't been able to find out the specifics -- what size post, and what kind of maul.
oosik
Epic Contributor
I get this STRANGE feeling. If I were to move Ea of the Mississippi and put a barbed wire fence around my property - I'd be the odd man out. Around this neck of the woods - a post and plank fence is a real true oddity. Too expensive, labor intensive and too much annual maintenance.
Besides - a well constructed, four or five strand barbed wire fence does exactly what I want. Keep all the cattle where they should be.
Besides - a well constructed, four or five strand barbed wire fence does exactly what I want. Keep all the cattle where they should be.
Birdhunter1
Veteran Member
You wuldn't be the odd man out, I could go show you a couple hundred miles of barbed wire fences, new and old.
ededic
Gold Member
My father has one of those 3pt post drivers he purchased after all his sons (post pounders) left the farm. He wants to sell it but not sure what it’s worth.
goeduck
Super Star Member
Cedar was so plentiful around here in the 1800s that some of my family pictures show a solid fence of post after post after post right up next to each other. Around the bull pens and duck ponds mostly. Probably so the bulls could not see the cows and so the cows did not reach through the rails to get the grass around the duck ponds. Other fields were grazed both sides so they only had rail fences. Some of the electric fence wire I dig up around the place is a very large gauge. They probably ran 120V down it and needed the large gauge to get a sting at the far end.
500? Ah...that's nothing! Just kidding. 500 is a lot! LOL
I've been fencing and building vineyards on our property. Like you, I decided I need the right tools. Bought this pounder a few years ago. Finished all my posts and sold it for $600 more than I paid for it.
I've been fencing and building vineyards on our property. Like you, I decided I need the right tools. Bought this pounder a few years ago. Finished all my posts and sold it for $600 more than I paid for it.
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flashpuppy
Silver Member
Well, I am definitely gaining on it. Pulled 700’ of 6 strand high tensile this morning. Got about 250’ of board fence done yesterday. I went and did some board fence at the end of driveway. Wanted it to look nice when you pull in.
Also got a picture of the missus driving the M7040 and pulling out some old fence posts!
Sorry for having to link to the pics. My internet is just too slow here to get them to upload directly.
Fencing progress! - Album on Imgur
Also got a picture of the missus driving the M7040 and pulling out some old fence posts!
Sorry for having to link to the pics. My internet is just too slow here to get them to upload directly.
Fencing progress! - Album on Imgur
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