Week-end Stuff

[Recondo 101]

I am having "fun" this week-end, reinstalling the 80 feet of five strand high tensile strength steel wire fence, with strengthener/separators, and the 3-4" wood field fence poles with Manuel post hole digger. Not exactly a picnic in the park. The clay is now fairly dry and fairly hard. I took that section of fence down for the timber cutters to get in and out.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

I am having "fun" this week-end, reinstalling the 80 feet of five strand high tensile strength steel wire fence, with strengthener/separators, and the 3-4" wood field fence poles with Manuel post hole digger. Not exactly a picnic in the park. The clay is now fairly dry and fairly hard. I took that section of fence down for the timber cutters to get in and out.

Yep the joy of land ownership. Who needs a gym membership? I only have 20ac and seems to be a 7/365 project, I can't imagine what having 100ac would be like, wouldn't mind finding out though!

 

[Recondo 101]

Yep we have enough free exercise machines to go around, no lessons or long term membership required, shovels, post hole diggers, sledge hammers, maddox, sling blades, axes, cross cut saws, hammers, fencing tools, etc, easy to learn, bring your own pleasant music. Something by the Sons of The Pioneers, goes well with fencing.

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Yep we have enough free exercise machines to go around, no lessons or long term membership required, shovels, post hole diggers, sledge hammers, maddox, sling blades, axes, cross cut saws, hammers, fencing tools, etc, easy to learn, bring your own pleasant music. Something by the Sons of The Pioneers, goes well with fencing.

Yep, I need to put up a big fence. Gonna rent the pto PhD.

 

[Recondo 101]

I have a 9" and a 12" bit for my three point hitch auger that hangs in my barn on a welded 4" box steel frame. The 9" I use for the 4" field posts and the 12" bit for gate and corner posts, that are all set in concrete. I watched a new neighbor trying to drive wood posts into this road bed clay, interesting exercise in futility. Some folks just do not get that dirt ain't just the same dirt everywhere.

Our dirt here is 16 ft deep highly compatible road bed clay, that makes great bricks, but when it gets dried out it will not take a disc or plow without a crawler tractor and you can forget drilling it or driving a fence post into it. Guy next to us has sandy clay base, which is much easier to deal with.

Then when the clay here gets wet it turns into a slick soup that sticks to everything. But you can not drive on it if the treads on tires get full, it gets just like grease.

Reason everything you put into this clay must be braced off. All my fence corners are 6" and gate posts are 8" and are set in two 80 lb bags of concrete, then braced off with posts that are also set in concrete and double X wire attached using 60# HD galvanized nail as shear connectors. That style of construction lasts a while, but repairs are made more tedious. I do not use steel T posts, except for temporary repairs.