Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I plan on putting up woven wire around the central paddock and use netting for some other areas until I figure out how I want to do the layout. I have some really steep contours all around our outside edge so I'm trying to avoid creating more work than I already have. It gets complicated because I own property on both sides of a railroad where the tracks run under our driveway. I have talked to a couple of fencing folks but they think the best way is to just do perimeter fence and leave it at that (which I'm not going to do.

 

[Baymule]

How many acres do you have? We have 8 acres. I thought about the goat/sheep wire but went with the more expensive horse non climb wire. If I had a lot of acreage I might have thought different.

 

[Baymule]

How many acres do you have? We have 8 acres. I thought about the goat/sheep wire but went with the more expensive horse non climb wire. If I had a lot of acreage I might have thought different.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have just under 20 acres but the hills at our place make for some innovative thinking

All around the south side of our pasture I have to cut uphill in reverse because of the contour. I call that hill Pucker Hill. We are putting up no climb on one side that adjoins with a neighbor who is going to be getting horses. That section will house our dairy goats so that works good.

I've talked to several farmers here that raise sheep and they do a lot with high tensile.

 

[Baymule]

We only have one problem area to fence. It is a gully that is a wet weather stream. We have what I call seeps, not enough flow to call them springs, they put out a pretty good flow when we get a lot of rain. The gully is steep and the outside property line crosses it. The solution I came up with is to use bags of cement. I will stack up bags of cement, stab them with rebar, place some pipe pieces for drain holes and run the fence over them.

 

[Latestarter]

That's a pretty brilliant idea Bay! Very ingenious! Maybe you can back dig a bit and make a small stock pond for the animals?

 

[Mike CHS]

I never would have thought of using bags of cement but I will have to keep that cement bridge idea in mind.

 

[Baymule]

I have made a lot of water gaps, all of them doomed to fail. I don't know where this brain fart came from but I think I had a stroke of genius. I can't dig it out much or back the water up too far as it would back up over the gas pipeline. I will take pictures of it when I carry out my diabolical plan.

 

[Mike CHS]

I would like to see some pictures. I have an idea what you are doing but can't quite see the details.

 

[Baymule]

I would like to see some pictures. I have an idea what you are doing but can't quite see the details.

It might be a little while before I get started on that particular project. My husband is having knee replacement surgery tomorrow. We will be busy for awhile going to rehab therapy and getting him back on his feet and kicking again. But I promise I will do a detailed picture spread when we get back on fence building.