Gauntlet
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Been hunkered down 'til the holidays blow-over. Did manage to catch some nice crappie Thanksgiving day, and just as I got out of the shower, the neighbor called, she brought me a plate of Thansgiving food, so I didn't even have to cook 
Got all the privacy fence moved, and added another 40' to the length. Then tied the "compound" fence (around the bus/buildings) to the fence on the hill I just finished. This gives me my privacy back at the fire pit after Cap'n Underpants took down the entire acre of trees he had next door.
Now I'm going to fence the entire back perimeter with woven wire. So I've been clearing a path for that.
1st day I started, chainsaw took a dump, so I got out the axe and fell 4 - 8 to 10" trees. I didn't want to take the time to fool with working on a saw, and didn't want to spend the money for a new one, so I bought a $50 electric. LOL, it's surprisingly a tough little saw. It's a 14" WORX, and I got an extra chain since I pretty much bought saw and spare chain as "disposables", figuring I'd ruin both "grubbing" fence rows. I probably ruined a chain, but it was worth it.
If you look close you can see the other post in the center of pic. The tree down was smack on the property line. When I dropped it, it was full of termites, so I'm glad I took it down instead of working around it, I hate cutting trees, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Tree was 22-24" diameter, and you notice....no stump dug down and cut below ground level.
Gonna extend the corner of the wooden fence out to post, like I did the other side (1st pic)
Set 3 main posts a couple days ago, and today set a few brace posts and braces.
Wire will start from wood fence down to corner.
That tire (it's a big truck tire, so proportion probably makes it look closer) is on neighboring property, and it's (the tire) probably 100' from my property, so it's down in a ravine, so there's little chance anyone would ever use it, as it's low and wet when it rains. My property runs off onto it, as does all the surrounding properties.
Same corner, no brace wire on yet...started raining. The "clearing" you see in the distance was all trees until the good Cap'n had 'em dozed-over.
Once the fence is done, I actually have plans to "clean-up" all the debris (leaves/limbs), clean up the small trees, and have a little extra room to roam around in.
Going to take a break from fencing for a while. Still working-out, weighed-in at 199 today, was 225 in May
lol, lifting weights is less work than digging holes, cutting trees, and carting posts up/down muddy inclines.
I believe I may just have to go fishing next week
Got all the privacy fence moved, and added another 40' to the length. Then tied the "compound" fence (around the bus/buildings) to the fence on the hill I just finished. This gives me my privacy back at the fire pit after Cap'n Underpants took down the entire acre of trees he had next door.
Now I'm going to fence the entire back perimeter with woven wire. So I've been clearing a path for that.
1st day I started, chainsaw took a dump, so I got out the axe and fell 4 - 8 to 10" trees. I didn't want to take the time to fool with working on a saw, and didn't want to spend the money for a new one, so I bought a $50 electric. LOL, it's surprisingly a tough little saw. It's a 14" WORX, and I got an extra chain since I pretty much bought saw and spare chain as "disposables", figuring I'd ruin both "grubbing" fence rows. I probably ruined a chain, but it was worth it.
If you look close you can see the other post in the center of pic. The tree down was smack on the property line. When I dropped it, it was full of termites, so I'm glad I took it down instead of working around it, I hate cutting trees, but you gotta do what you gotta do.
Tree was 22-24" diameter, and you notice....no stump
dug down and cut below ground level.
Gonna extend the corner of the wooden fence out to post, like I did the other side (1st pic)
Set 3 main posts a couple days ago, and today set a few brace posts and braces.
Wire will start from wood fence down to corner.
That tire (it's a big truck tire, so proportion probably makes it look closer) is on neighboring property, and it's (the tire) probably 100' from my property, so it's down in a ravine, so there's little chance anyone would ever use it, as it's low and wet when it rains. My property runs off onto it, as does all the surrounding properties.
Same corner, no brace wire on yet...started raining. The "clearing" you see in the distance was all trees until the good Cap'n had 'em dozed-over.
Once the fence is done, I actually have plans to "clean-up" all the debris (leaves/limbs), clean up the small trees, and have a little extra room to roam around in.
Going to take a break from fencing for a while. Still working-out, weighed-in at 199 today, was 225 in May
lol, lifting weights is less work than digging holes, cutting trees, and carting posts up/down muddy inclines.I believe I may just have to go fishing next week
(and a lot of work !)
