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grandpa Love

grandpa Love

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Our oldest son and I pounded in 250 t- posts on Thursday. Then my wife and our youngest 2 boys came with me yesterday and we put up 13 rolls of wire. Grandma drove the tractor I stapled the wire to post. And the 3 son's put the wire ties on. Gotta go put 1 strand of barb wire on top tomorrow.Also a picture of the auger we use to set wood post. We will enjoy a day of rest today! Central AL is hot and humid this time of year! I love it my crew not so much!!
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That's an amazing amount of fence to install in a day,but you have good help.Ever thought about one of those electric or air T post drivers? Kinda pricey but if had to put that many
T posts in I'd have to have one.
 
I?ve never seen a auger like that. I have a pto auger, 12 inch. I?ve never set a post that big, I figure a bigger hole let?s me be a little less accurate in position. I have set t posts with my loader, I mark the depth I am looking fo in chalk. But I?ve bent a couple of posts also. I have pretty hilly ground, so I have to post pretty close most of the time, just to get the fence to follow the ground slope. On flat sections I go 12 feet or so. I see other folks going farther, mostly livestock guys who add a electric wire to it. I like your wire unroller? I have to just kick it on the ground. I?ve got a friend that built a fence with 12 ft T posts! They sell them here because it?s hard to have a garden or orchard without some pretty extreme fencing, the deer pressure is real high. I was at a orchard, a commercial outfit, they had these huge fences, the owner told me that without those fences, it would be ? uneconomic ? to operate.
 
We are going to order a gas powered t post driver. Land owner has already got us on the books for more fence!
 
Later today we will post a link to a YouTube video of the unroller, stretcher in action! Great investment. Gotta get video on YouTube.
 
I?m a little confused on your corner and backup posts. At the gate you have two braces, one angled and one straight, around the corner the same thing, except the angled brace is reversed. Also i dont see a heavy wire from base of corner post to top of backup post. Maybe its just not clear in the picture. Not being critical at all, i?ve only built barbed wire fences,maybe woven wire construction is different,possibly not as much pull on the corner post. I wish I had all your help.
 
Sure wish we had flat land to string wire on. On our hills most times you can't even get a tractor to the area where you want to put the fence. Sometimes even a dozer won't help. That fence sure looks nice.
 
That's our thoughts. No hydraulics on the old ford. And don't want to haul an air compressor around. Hopefully we will have an update this week.
 
No heavy wire on brace posts. Always use it on barb wire but not woven wire. Don't know why ,it's just how we always do it. Never had an issue and the stretcher pulls that wire tight!! Of course this property owner had us conrete the wood post.
 
Those Ground Hog machines are very nicely made for the type of hole digging you are doing. I worked with a much older design many years ago. Almost makes it toooo easy to dig holes. Nothing like looking down a nice straight line of fence when you are done. Buy the way...some drug stores and grocery stores have this in the vitamin supplement department. The bottle is called Essential Electrolytes. Not very expensive and basically is Gatorade in a tablet. They work nicely for me. Also use a little Potassium Glutinate. Stops mussel cramps. A Salt tablet now and then helps also. I know in the summer when I had been working out side. Have an ear of corn. Smear on the butter and sprinkle on enough salt that things crunch. Can't even taste the salt. That is when you know how low you were.!
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I was gonna say the same thing!Great family picture!!!!You,,,are a king Grandpa!!! It is so nice to see a family together like you all do,,its like living a dream!!!!
 
one thing I know for sure grandpa with my limited experience around fencing in that heat and humidity you guys earn every dime your paid. another very nice job, you guys do excellent work.
 
My area is like that too,I've gone to cattle panels to fence mostly can walk the panels in on steep and rocky ground.Hard enough to drive a steel post no way to dig a hole lot of the time.
 
I spent the summer of 1970 installing chain link fence ..... small residential jobs all the way up to big commercial stuff. It was a tough job but I was in pretty good shape when things wrapped up come September, especiallyl my hand grip power from using those fencing pliers and everything else. The owner of the outfit (small company) made his own gas powered post hole auger on wheels, I wish I had a photo, all cobbed together in his garage. It had a small car rear end unit (driven by the gas engine) driving the auger and I think the rear end (which was modified in some ways) rode up and down on a set of vertical rails. He was a real inventor type of guy, could figure out something mechanical to make any job easier ..... notice I said easier and not easy !!!
 
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