My Lima gunshow season is over till October so it's time to get some improvements done around here. My contract work came to a end on of all days -my birthday- now how cruel is that? So got plenty of time on my hands.
I'll move my cattle down to the bottom summer pasture in about 2 weeks when my hay supply runs out. I did a frost seeding of red clover in Feb 2016 and got a 100% coverage. Of course the cattle eat it down to 1" when I moved them up to the winter lot in Dec. Now it's 8-10" tall.
This year I plan on splitting the pasture into 2 lots so I can do a controlled grazing.
Was going to Rural King today to get the T-post and wood corner post. But I sorta remembered when the last pipe line went though my farm couple years ago I had them pill the fence post up as it was a 2 yr old fence from the 1st pipe line going through.
To my good luck I found over 20 T-post with 6 insulators on each post and 6-8'-6" wood posts.
Plus a almost full roll of high tension wire.
That's like $200 of as new material. Now only need to get some wire claps and some gate insulators.
I build all western style gates out of wire and use insulators on both ends then use a jumper wire to electric it. It's rather funny as none of the farmers here have ever seen this type of wire built gates and always put up store bought metal gates.
Since we got over 5" of rain last week the ground is nice and soft so pounding the T-post will be easy. Plus need to dig 3 holes 24" deep for the wood corner post.
I'll post some pictures as I go on.
I forgot to mention when putting up my high tension electric cattle fence. I turn every other T-post the other way. Over 20 yrs ago when putting new high tension fence up I had all post turned the same way. But 2 times deer got into the fence and tore down over 100 yds of fence.
Now when deer hit the fence I only have to repair the plastic insulators on 1 or 2 post.
But since turning every other post the other way never had any fence tore down. Did have 2 T-posts broke off at the ground level when deer hit it full blast.Never have found a dead deer though.
I put my boundry line fence post 15' and string 6 wires. I electric wire #2-3-4-5 and ground #1-6.
This inner fence I plan to only use 4 wires and can install the 5th wire if need to.
I'll move my cattle down to the bottom summer pasture in about 2 weeks when my hay supply runs out. I did a frost seeding of red clover in Feb 2016 and got a 100% coverage. Of course the cattle eat it down to 1" when I moved them up to the winter lot in Dec. Now it's 8-10" tall.
This year I plan on splitting the pasture into 2 lots so I can do a controlled grazing.
Was going to Rural King today to get the T-post and wood corner post. But I sorta remembered when the last pipe line went though my farm couple years ago I had them pill the fence post up as it was a 2 yr old fence from the 1st pipe line going through.
To my good luck I found over 20 T-post with 6 insulators on each post and 6-8'-6" wood posts.
Plus a almost full roll of high tension wire.
That's like $200 of as new material. Now only need to get some wire claps and some gate insulators.
I build all western style gates out of wire and use insulators on both ends then use a jumper wire to electric it. It's rather funny as none of the farmers here have ever seen this type of wire built gates and always put up store bought metal gates.
Since we got over 5" of rain last week the ground is nice and soft so pounding the T-post will be easy. Plus need to dig 3 holes 24" deep for the wood corner post.
I'll post some pictures as I go on.
I forgot to mention when putting up my high tension electric cattle fence. I turn every other T-post the other way. Over 20 yrs ago when putting new high tension fence up I had all post turned the same way. But 2 times deer got into the fence and tore down over 100 yds of fence.
Now when deer hit the fence I only have to repair the plastic insulators on 1 or 2 post.
But since turning every other post the other way never had any fence tore down. Did have 2 T-posts broke off at the ground level when deer hit it full blast.Never have found a dead deer though.
I put my boundry line fence post 15' and string 6 wires. I electric wire #2-3-4-5 and ground #1-6.
This inner fence I plan to only use 4 wires and can install the 5th wire if need to.
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