Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I found out today that if an animal touches one of the hot wires and you have your hand on that animal, it hurts you as bad as if you touched the wire yourself. I already knew that but wasn't paying attention to where the rams butt was.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

....sorry, ........I have done that myself

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Oops! I once got shocked by watering a plant next to the fence. I got careless where the water stream was and it traveled up that stream of water and got my thumb which was on the end of the hose.

Now I know why they always tell little farm boys to ...ahem... be careful if they relieve themselves near an electric fence.

 

[Bruce]

What's the count now Mike? I'm up to 3 as of this week.

 

[Mike CHS]

This is the first time I've gotten hit in awhile but I've lost track of how many times there have been.

 

[Baymule]

That's funny. So.....petting Max is a shocking experience?

 

[greybeard]

Oops! I once got shocked by watering a plant next to the fence. I got careless where the water stream was and it traveled up that stream of water and got my thumb which was on the end of the hose.

Now I know why they always tell little farm boys to ...ahem... be careful if they relieve themselves near an electric fence.

Proving once again, that no matter how much pressure or flow is involved, electrons always travel faster than the flow of liquid coming from a hose...or from anywhere else.

There was once, a myth that if you were touching or holding someone else's hand, and touched the hot wire of a fence, that only the last person in line would be shocked...especially if the person touching the fence was completely insulated from the ground.... don't try it.

 

[Mike CHS]

I have a pile of cut tree branches piled about 10' high and 20' around. I had been piling in smaller stacks so I could burn but our contractor brought his cherry picker back yesterday and parked it about 5' from the brush piles. I doubt he would care to have a charred machine when he shows up tomorrow so I used the tractor and pushed all the piles together. It has been too windy to safely burn considering no more rain than we have had in the last few weeks. He said they should get started early and get it knocked out.

I spent today on my perimeter access lanes reclaiming area where the trees are stretching out over the lane. I would just pull the side-by-side under the branches, climb up on the dump bed and drop the branches. It was fairly slow going but I got most of one side completely cut back and the brush hauled. I don't try for that 'tidy' look but I keep them cut back so when I mow, I'm not becoming tick bait running the mower under the tree branches. I'll have my new helper come over this next week for a day and we can knock out the longer side.

 

[Mike CHS]

They are just about to finish up the long south side and the next picture I take will be of the finished mods. I still have a lot of work to do because they had to cut into off the hill next to the poles. And I need to have a load of gravel brought in to smooth it off and put the handling chute back together. This time I will lay a small concrete pad for our weight scale to sit on. We got weight readings all over the place trying to use plywood over the gravel. I still need to dig a couple of holes on the west end but I'm not sure how I want to do that so it will have to wait. The building/area under roof now is just under 72'X48'.

 

[Mike CHS]

They finished up the shop roofs except for some trim on the corners where they tried to reuse some of the original and it didn't match and they just got back awhile ago to finish that up. Teresa and I have most of the working area smoothed out and will finish putting the fence panels back in place. While we are waiting on them to finish I threw some chicken on the grill.