Baymule’s Fence

[Baymule]

Bennett and his brother have a bulldozer man coming………maybe sorta kinda halfway for the last two weeks. That’s redneck for, “he’ll be here when he gets here. Suits me just fine. I want to get the T-posts out of the front fence row, then have Mr. Bulldozer obliterate the fence row.

So I sauntered up to the front on my 23 HP tractor, if a tractor saunters….. I cut clips off the posts I could get to. I chained on the front end bucket, chained the post and raised the bucket. It stopped. I lowered the bucket and raised it fast. It stopped. I tried several more times. Uhhhh…….. Nope. Not happening.

Undaunted I tried several more T-posts. Nope. Bennett came by saw the problem and went home for his tractor. Oh yeah! It yanked them right up. I did the grunt work, he flexed his fingers on the controls. The brush, briars and trees got so thick we couldn’t get to the posts. Plus the week before he bent the front cylinders and they were spurting hydraulic oil, so we quit.

Today Bennett and Peggy came over. He chainsawed the brush and I crawled through the briars to cut the clips on the posts. His chainsaw quit on him. This fence is whupping us! Got some more posts to cut the clips off of, when we can saw our way to them. He wants the barbed wire, it’s in good shape. I’m real happy for him to have it, because he’s willing to pull the T- posts out so he can pull the wire.

 

[SageHill]

With all that thick brush who needs a fence! (joking) You have neighbors that are a treasure!

 

[Baymule]

With all that thick brush who needs a fence! (joking) You have neighbors that are a treasure!

I am Blessed with good neighbors.

 

[Baymule]

Bulldozer man will be here next week!!!!!!

 

[Ridgetop]

 

[Baymule]

Bulldozer man will be here next week!!!!!!

Next week didn’t happen. It’s now 2 weeks later and he’ll be here tomorrow. Bennett’s tractor is still in the hospital, waiting on parts. It won’t get well until after the first of the year.

Chase came today and we pulled T-posts. We used my chain and a handy T-post puller plate. Chain link goes in the slot. Other end of chain is wrapped and hooked around the bucket. Drop the triangle shaped hole over the T-Post, flat side where it will catch on the nubs and tractor pulls it out.

In places where the brush was really thick, Chase drove into the brush. I climbed into the bucket, climbed out of the bucket, chained the T-post, climbed in the bucket and back out of the bucket. Backed up for clearance and Chase pulled out the post. I slipped the plate off the post, tossed post up by the tree line. On some of the posts, I held the end of the chain while he drove to the next post. The rest, I tossed chain in the bucket and got out of the way.

We pulled 44 T-posts today. Bennett and I pulled 16 before he had to quit. So 60 T-posts have been saved. Had to leave a half dozen, tree roots had grown into the posts. Not even Chase’s 85 HP tractor could pull them out, it raised his back wheels off the ground!

These are 6 1/2 foot T-posts, currently $6 each. That’s $360, not a bad days work. I loaded them in the bucket of my little tractor, with my sidekick Carson, we took them and put them up.

Also coming tomorrow is the lime spreader. I’m only doing my front field, about 8 acres. Bennett and Peggy are doing the 40 acre field on my north side and the 16 acres on my south side.

It’s been a productive day!

 

[Ridgetop]

Lot of $$ saved on those T-posts!

 

[Mini Horses]

GREAT save!!! Ahhh, pounding them back in will make the pulling seem easy those taller ones take extra care.

My DS pounded in 4 yesterday and managed to hit his head with the pounder . Yeah, not enough practice -- but, he did manage to break the skin, a pretty good crack.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

he did manage to break the skin, a pretty good crack.

Ouch!

 

[Baymule]

GREAT save!!! Ahhh, pounding them back in will make the pulling seem easy those taller ones take extra care.

My DS pounded in 4 yesterday and managed to hit his head with the pounder . Yeah, not enough practice -- but, he did manage to break the skin, a pretty good crack.

I have 2 drivers, a store bought that I rarely use and a homemade one. The homemade one is heavy, real heavy. We bought a trailer load of used posts one time from a man that owned a fence company and he offered us that T-post driver. It’s so heavy, to me at least, that when I take it off the driven T-post, I pull it up in one swift motion and fling it so it falls to the ground. Trying to hang onto it would only get me klonked in the head.