Who says clearing old fence is a pain???

rockyridgefarm

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I have a fence along the road that is completely choked up with wild grape, mulberry, and sumac. Well, I HAD a fence along the road... There's about 100 feet of it in the pics.

The wire was so brittle that it broke when you touched it with the pliers to remove the clips. I saved what posts I could with a chain and loader (old posts are MUCH better than the new ones they make), and rolled the rest up with my skid loader and grapple. This grapple was bought from River Valley Machine in Dubuque Iowa. It's a rock bucket with double grapples and built very heavy. I chose it because he makes them extra deep - 44 inches, if I recall correctly.

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Clearing a fence row IS still painful work. Now ripping one out, as you did, IS a lot easier!
 
(quoted from post at 05:58:07 07/30/13) I have a fence along the road that is completely choked up with wild grape, mulberry, and sumac. Well, I HAD a fence along the road... There's about 100 feet of it in the pics.

The wire was so brittle that it broke when you touched it with the pliers to remove the clips. I saved what posts I could with a chain and loader (old posts are MUCH better than the new ones they make), and rolled the rest up with my skid loader and grapple. This grapple was bought from River Valley Machine in Dubuque Iowa. It's a rock bucket with double grapples and built very heavy. I chose it because he makes them extra deep - 44 inches, if I recall correctly.

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ou would not be smiling long if you had to do that with [b:89d217bb3b]11 miles[/b:89d217bb3b] of 50 yr old grown in fence like i had to do on my place when i first bought it :wink:
 
(quoted from post at 09:22:03 07/30/13) You would not be smiling long if you had to do that with [b:5b31f53a2d]11 miles[/b:5b31f53a2d] of 50 yr old grown in fence like i had to do on my place when i first bought it :wink:

I surely wouldn't be smiling at all if I didn't have my trusty skid steer.

I now have an 80" light material bucket, 66" bucket, 66" tooth bucket, telescoping boom, 72" mower, tree grabber, 72" rock bucket grapple, equipment hitch, bale spear/3 point adapter, and post hole digger. Growing up on a 60 cow dairy farm, we had a Bobcat 753 with one 60" bucket. Don't know how we survived...

My next want is a 96 inch light material bucket for snow on the driveway and a tree shear for trees too big for my mower.
 
(quoted from post at 10:17:37 07/30/13)
(quoted from post at 09:22:03 07/30/13) You would not be smiling long if you had to do that with [b:aebc990d9d]11 miles[/b:aebc990d9d] of 50 yr old grown in fence like i had to do on my place when i first bought it :wink:

I surely wouldn't be smiling at all if I didn't have my trusty skid steer.

[b:aebc990d9d]I now have an 80" light material bucket, 66" bucket, 66" tooth bucket, telescoping boom, 72" mower, tree grabber, 72" rock bucket grapple, equipment hitch, bale spear/3 point adapter[/b:aebc990d9d], and post hole digger. Growing up on a 60 cow dairy farm, we had a Bobcat 753 with one 60" bucket. Don't know how we survived...

[b:aebc990d9d]My next want is a 96 inch light material bucket for snow on the driveway and a tree shear for trees too big for my mower[/b:aebc990d9d].
eems like you are relying on only the skidsteer for all your work.whadda you do when that one breaks down?

I grew up on a dairy farm too, we had only hand tools and we survived just fine :wink:
 
Larry:

Another thumb? I think NOT.

A friend of mine was born with an extra thumb on his left hand, and he always considered it to be a big PIA . It was non-functional and kept getting in the way. His twin brother was born with normal hands.

Doc
 

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