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Baymule
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My road in front of the farm yesterday after the rain. Had a funeral visitation to go to yesterday afternoon, my little car sloshed through it. Most of the road is good, but not this part. LOL
Now more fence pictures!
This is a homemade gadget for rolling out barbed wire. It’s a tractor implement disc blade, wheels on it, pulled by a 4 wheeler.
This is the wire stretcher they used. Those pins are hammered down, holding the wire firmly. When Bennett, Peggy and I put up fence, they had a home made stretcher, two 2x4s bolted together with the wire between them. But the tighter it was pulled, the 2x4 stretcher slid down the wire bunching up the vertical wires, or stays, rendering a good length of that expensive wire useless. This marvelous wire stretcher did not slip or damage the wire.
Beside every H brace they drove in. 6 1/2 foot T-post. They used the heavy homemade T-post driver, then turned it upside down to use the flat top to finish pounding the post down to ground level. I asked why and was told to keep the H brace from moving. They wire wrapped it and secured it firmly.
This was the huge rotten tree on front fenceline , they cut the stump as low as possible without getting the chainsaw in the dirt (dirt dulls the chain and damages it) then they cut a groove through the stump for the wire. The stump will eventually rot away and I’ll fill it in with dirt.
This is the H brace I built months ago, when there was still forest behind it. I watched the men inspect it, decide to use it and they reinforced it. On every cross bar on every H brace they pounded four 6” long galvanized ring shank nails on each end. Galvanized, they explained, holds up a long time. Regular nails are corroded by the chemicals in the posts.
From the H brace to the corner where the fence goes to the right to make that L shape.
I had them put a 16’ gate in the corner. That’s so I can go out on my tractor and maintain a fire lane on the other side of the fence. The ground takes a dip so I filled the gap with pieces of pine from the clearcut. It passed Anatolian inspection. I will get dirt to fill that in and probably lay a hog or cow panel under the gate to deter digging in or out.
This is the corner where the fence turns right. It goes to the dividing line between me and Peggy and Bennett.
Hope y’all enjoyed the fence pictures! I’m loving my new fence!
Now more fence pictures!
This is a homemade gadget for rolling out barbed wire. It’s a tractor implement disc blade, wheels on it, pulled by a 4 wheeler.
This is the wire stretcher they used. Those pins are hammered down, holding the wire firmly. When Bennett, Peggy and I put up fence, they had a home made stretcher, two 2x4s bolted together with the wire between them. But the tighter it was pulled, the 2x4 stretcher slid down the wire bunching up the vertical wires, or stays, rendering a good length of that expensive wire useless. This marvelous wire stretcher did not slip or damage the wire.
Beside every H brace they drove in. 6 1/2 foot T-post. They used the heavy homemade T-post driver, then turned it upside down to use the flat top to finish pounding the post down to ground level. I asked why and was told to keep the H brace from moving. They wire wrapped it and secured it firmly.
This was the huge rotten tree on front fenceline , they cut the stump as low as possible without getting the chainsaw in the dirt (dirt dulls the chain and damages it) then they cut a groove through the stump for the wire. The stump will eventually rot away and I’ll fill it in with dirt.
This is the H brace I built months ago, when there was still forest behind it. I watched the men inspect it, decide to use it and they reinforced it. On every cross bar on every H brace they pounded four 6” long galvanized ring shank nails on each end. Galvanized, they explained, holds up a long time. Regular nails are corroded by the chemicals in the posts.
From the H brace to the corner where the fence goes to the right to make that L shape.
I had them put a 16’ gate in the corner. That’s so I can go out on my tractor and maintain a fire lane on the other side of the fence. The ground takes a dip so I filled the gap with pieces of pine from the clearcut. It passed Anatolian inspection. I will get dirt to fill that in and probably lay a hog or cow panel under the gate to deter digging in or out.
This is the corner where the fence turns right. It goes to the dividing line between me and Peggy and Bennett.
Hope y’all enjoyed the fence pictures! I’m loving my new fence!
