Mon, 26 May 2003

Fencing, fencing

More fencing today - set about twenty feet on the east side of the paddock. This had long needed done, the only fence that was there when we started were some rotten old boards and a couple of strands of barbed wire that weren't attached to anything. Really strange stuff - all this was backed by two wooden gates (!) that had been tied to the fence posts with baling wire! Real secure...

Even though it was a short run, it took us longer (about 7 hours) than yesterdays run of nearly 100 feet. We had to dig out some mis-set tee posts, and wrap to the barn side by lag bolting a 2x4 to the corner post of the barn. Of course, that had to be done higher than the fence, because the main support post for the barn has some serious dry rot problems! Yow! This meant that we had to find a long brace to serve against the bolted "post" so we could use the strecher.

It was a real pain in the ass, but it looks alot better, and we'll be able to set a water tank so that the stock can get to it from the paddock or the pasture. It's also close enough to the barn to be able to run a heater to it this winter, should that be necessary.

Needless to say we're both beat. So it's early to be for me this evening.

/Home | 0 writebacks | permanent link

comment...

 
Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.
 
 Name:
 URL:(optional)
 Title: (optional)
 Comments:  
Save my Name and URL/Email for next time