Fencing: Part 2
We left off the last fencing post after setting all of our main posts, brace posts, horizontals, and tying them all tight with twitch wire, then setting all of the t-posts in between. The last 3 days have been a learning experience stringing 4 strands of barb wire, 5 in the very back along the tree line, over 2,400 foot of fence lines, and 400 foot of woven wire fence around Jaimes garden area to make sure smaller varmints can’t get at our harvests.
I had worked with barb wire one prior time, as a youngster, and I do not remember that event as much as I thought I had, obviously. I now have about 50-100 new cuts, scratches, and abrasions to add to my growing collection. This was definately a learning experience all the way around. By the time I had it all done, of course, I was running wire just fine, and with few scratches or difficulties. But at first, it was definately a chore to be reckoned with. Next time, I will be far more prepared, of that I can assure you all.
Running Jaimes woven wire fence around her garden went pretty much as I expected it to. we rolled it all out, twined the ends ahead of time, used a 4 foot steel bar and a come-along to stretch the fence. As we used all wood posts for this fence, fastening went pretty routinely using staples. We ended up with a solid looking fence that is tight enough to last for years.
I should be able to post some pictures to the gallery and attach them to this post later this weekend of the end results of our newest labor.
