Ep. 58 - Barbed Wire Installation | How Easy? | Blackacre Ranch
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Today is the day to install the bekaert fencing Gaucho 4 point high tensile barbed wire in our small handling facility we are building. We are running 7 strands to a height about 6 feet to hold our Bison which are coming in less than a month. Barbed wire installation is fairly simple if you stay out of the barbed wire. First you double wrap it around one of the corner posts and anchor it with a double barbed staple. Wrap the tail around the wire. Run the wire to the other end and stretch the barbed wire with a come-along and a wire puller tool. Use the corner post to anchor the come-along to. Finally wrap the wire to the corner post and then staple the wire to wood posts or clip it to t-posts.
Here on Blackacre Ranch we are weekend ranchers living in the big city during the week and ranching on the partially off grid property on the weekend. We are a family with 6 kids. Our goals are to homestead the property, grow healthy food, and build good character along the way. We are new to homesteading and don't know much about it, but we are willing to share our struggles and journey as we learn how to homestead together. Think of this as homesteading for beginners where we are the beginners.
We found the cost of an urban farm too expensive and went rural to find enough acreage to do what we wanted. We wanted larger animals such as bison and highland cattle. We are game for other animals with one requirement, they have to be sufficient enough to be handled only once a week. We found an old camp property that was run down and are remodeling or fixing it up to be a working and profitable ranch.
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You have been busy since I was here last month. Most of our fence was done on our 40 acres in Idaho, so it was easy to finish up what we needed to. The owner below us has 120 acres and didn't want a fence between us either, so the goats, Miss Ivy dog and I have lots of room to roam--plus the 400+ acres out back. We are Blessed! We have 80 acres in eastern Oregon completely surrounded by Forest Service--we love that piece of property. However, fencing it with barbed wire has been a slow process since we live 7 hours from there and we have to cut trees out of the fence line as we go. We use a wood chipper to chop up the trees to mulch them back into the environment. We burned the first year we had the property, but the past few years we've had so many forest fires that we're trying not to add to the smoke pollution.
I can appreciate how slow it can go with trees in the way. Travel makes it difficult too. Looks like we are both busy with fence needs. Not sure that will ever change :)
Use a long nose pliers to hold staples as you hammer, saves the thumbs. Keep up the good work.
Great idea. Didn't think of that.
Your getting movement in the end posts, did you set them in concrete? If not, maybe something to think about especially if you have bison leaning against and scratching against the posts and fence wire.
When you are wrapping the post you should wrap it with a figure eight (8).
Good comment. I always appreciate comments from experienced people. Thanks.
those folks must sure love you and the mrs. or you're paying them mighty good one. everyone has been with you through hot/cold, wet/dry, new work/old work, etc. just for my curiosity, how does nathan figure in all this? he has sure been diligent. why the restriction on quantity from tractor supply? oh, i know; they are considered staples as in food, water, toilet paper, disinfectant spray, etc. i was just funnin................g
They have been pretty dedicated for sure. Nathan is my brother and is sure a diligent worker. He knows I have been up against deadlines to get it ready for the bison so he helps me a bunch. Couldn't do it without them.
Are you all considering putting a strand of electric? I have a friend who raised bison. They destroyed his barbed wire. One strand of electric nose high, problem solved. Just a thought. Good luck!
Right now we are just doing the barbed wire. I'll add a hot line if need be but for now the fences have been adequate.
those braces won't hold. and never pull from a corner post/brace in two directions. resulting force vector is half the angle, thereby lifting corner post in that direction. single dead man brace along force vector (as you often see) isn't sufficient. this is the most common fencing mistake i see. also, steeples in wood just sucks. they work their way out. good luck
Thanks Justin...not sure what you recommend doing different. Are you saying we should use two posts at the corners? Not seen any other methods for doing posts
Whatever you just said to justify not stapling some of the wire made no sense. Staple it to every post or it will bite you in the end.
We stapled each wire to each post the next day, just not that day