Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[CntryBoy777]

Glad ya made progress and we are in the same shape here. I went to the garden to dig a hole to bury the fish guts in and after the first 6-8" it was concrete. It will be a huge relief when ya can see the end of the project and happy for ya that your DS is willing to pitch in and help ole Dad out with that heavy labor.....

 

[Baymule]

Joe, what we used for brace wire is twisted like barb wire, but without the barbs. It comes on a roll like barb wire. I can't believe those ........I'm trying to think of a nice descriptive term to use, but I am failing......anyhoo, they sold you aluminum electric fence wire?

Look closely and you can see the twist brace wire.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That's the same stuff I used @Baymule ....
.....the whole spool was $60 at the CoOp in town.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

They keep the brace wire outside with the field fencing at our TSC as well.

Never take the word of a TSC employee unless you "know" the person you are asking. They usually don't have a clue, at least here at the NC stores.

So what did the family think of the goats and Mel? I love seeing the reactions when people see the lamanchas! At our last show I had over 20 people ask me why I cut the ears off the goats

 

[Baymule]

At our last show I had over 20 people ask me why I cut the ears off the goats

Because I got their ears pierced, they got infected and we had to amputate their ears. They sure did look good with those earrings, while it lasted.

They're not goats......they're Dobermans in disguise.

They are born with long floppy ears, but they step on them and trip a lot. So for safety's sake, their ears are cut off at the vet's office.

These goats are naturally deaf-those aren't ears.

Our dog chewed them off.

We went on vacation and they must have got hungry while we were gone. Their tails used to be a lot longer too.

 

[CntryBoy777]

 

[CntryBoy777]

They were born that way.....and we are showing them in the Handicapped catagory.

 

[greybeard]

Most of my corners, I used cable. Do it once, do it right, and don't worry about it for 40-50 years. No wood for 'twist sticks' here. It rots, bugs eat it, it breaks, and it won't twist the brace wire tight enough anyway. I use steel--usually 1/2 solid rods or bolts.

That diagonal brace wire ensures 1/2 the tension of all the wires is transmitted from the end (anchor) post to the second post. The diagonal brace wire has to hold all the tension of all the pressure that is coming from the anchor post--that's the one the wire(s) are attached to. Tree falls on the fence somewhere, the fence wires themselves should break before the corner fails. Fence wire itself may stretch or get loose from stock pressure but the brace wire should be the same and the end of your life as it was the day you built the corner. There's no reason to ever have to go back and twist the brace wire some more. I build them today, the same way I did when I started in 1965. I've never had to retighten one or replace but one corner and that's because a mature oak blew down right on the corner. Broke both cross ties off at the ground.

 

[greybeard]

Most of you have seen this one already.

Maybe/probably tomorrow, I'll be re-building a short fence my neighbor put in as a lead in to my cowpen, while I was recovering from heart surgery. He meant well, and the ground was hard as a hooker's heart at the time, but the fence is just junk.
I'll try to take some pics along the way.

 

[Bruce]

You are one funny lady @Baymule