Erecting post & rail fencing

WIZZO · Jul 16, 2015

The daughter of a local dairy farmer has established a successful race horse training centre. First job here was a new drainage ditch.
The first post knocked in and electric fence wire strained out as the marking-out line for straightness.

The steel pointed bar is swung into place to punch the pilot hole into the ground.

The steel pilot hole punch is swung out of use, and the knocker in place for driving in the wooden posts.

2 Stroke drill to bore holes for gate hinges

Using the front 3 point to cart some posts & rails, tops of the vertical posts will be trimmed off level later with a chain saw

Spook · Jul 16, 2015

Never seen a post pounder or pointed posts here. I have always used a 3 point auger, and set gate posts in cement. Your way looks to be
faster!

Janicholson · Jul 16, 2015

Nice technology. What are the posts made from? Treated? Expected life is important. Also, what effort will be made to seed the ditch banks? Jim

Bruce from Can. · Jul 16, 2015

Looks real nice. We have post pounders here too ,but most farmers use a auger. The cost of a pounder just
puts them in the price range of the pro fence builder.

JayinNY · Jul 16, 2015

Looks good, one large racehorse farm I worked on had a post
pounder, but we had 4 rail fencing, and double
fences for the stallion paddocks. Looks like you put
the rails on the right side, the side toward the
horses, otherwise on the other side of the post they
rub against them and can knock them off.

Loantaka · Jul 16, 2015

JayInNY, any chance that horse farm in your photo is on Eaton Corners Road in the Town of Duanesburg, not far from Burtonville? I have friends that live across the road from that view, or one very similar!

JayinNY · Jul 16, 2015

Yes it is, good eye, it was Highcliff Farm but it closed up and had been sold. Pretty nice place I liked working there.

JayinNY · Jul 16, 2015

I may even know your friends, if u mean they live across the road from the farm. Are you from NY?

Loantaka · Jul 17, 2015

Yes I am from NY, raised in the Town of Duanesburg. Now I work in NJ but go back to our farm in the Town of Wright in Schoharie County many weekends. Kind of like Larry@Stinescorner does going to his place in PA. Get to pay taxes on two place but enjoy them both in different ways. My friends are Pat, Patty and Kevin on Eaton Corners Road. Some other nice fences/farms in the area are West Wind Farm and Princetown Farm. Hope you found some other place to work. When Highcliff was being built they wanted my Dad to wire the place. He turned it down as it was too big for him to do as he worked alone.

JayinNY · Jul 17, 2015

That's neat, I also live here and I know Pat W very well, she work for the town with my mother. I did mow Highcliff farm, I still mow west wind and I did mow for Gary at princetown a few times befor his death last year. Small world.

Mark - IN. · Jul 17, 2015

I used an auger and railroad ties. That being said, University of Georgia has or had a video on line at its website that did it exactly as you did, to a Tee, the preferred method. Good job.

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