Fence Repair

rusty6 · Oct 23, 2017

Last week's wild winds dropped a few dead trees on my fences so I spent some time this weekend repairing the damage. No way to get into the bush with the front end loader so I drove these posts the old fashioned way. Its a challenge with the extremely dry ground we have now but I got it down. You can see it and also get a look at one of the few surviving survey pegs from the 1880s here in this video.

Fence Repair

The Dukester · Oct 24, 2017

Used to have to do occasional fence building and repair back in the 1940's and 1950's when we pastured our milk cows in various fields on the farm. It's a pretty tedious job sometimes, I remember hand digging post holes and driving steel posts....you wore gloves or you got blisters. We strung a lot of barbed wire too, you had to be real careful with that stuff, but you always needed a strand or two above the wolven wire fencing when you were pasturing cattle and we used it a lot for temporary field dividing along with steel tee posts. Except for the Amish you don't see much fencing around here any more......Usually just corrals and cattle paddocks where there's any livestock or horses.

rusty6 · Oct 24, 2017

Only a quarter section to fence here but with a couple of cross fences and some through the bush it makes a bit of work. Front end loader works well to push the posts in ouot in the open but not in the bush. All barbed wire and some old rusty stuff. Its what I'm used to working with. We used to make our own pickets by bluestone treating poplar cut right on the farm. Now I buy the "ready made" treated pickets.

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