Hey mate, hubby and I enjoyed your video! When you spoke of the auger we looked at each other and laughed because we remembered when using an auger hitting some rocks hubby went flying and the inside of my arms got a hidding and some brusing - learnt my lesson. 😂
Hey mate, just something you may not know. A lot of the new petrol powered augers come with a clutch mechanism. Brilliant design that stops them tearing your arms off (or being whacked in the face) if you hit a rock. Bit more expensive but worth the money to save dislocated shoulders or missing teeth.
@@RobsAquaponics no we don’t use a mesh strainer when we do ringlock we use a combo of gripples and the Hayes wire strainers on each individual horizontal strand 👍
Hi. Good fencing vlog. Yep- fencing is a very expensive exercise. We've completed lots of fencing trials and decided Weston dropper electric fences with spiralfast wire joiners is best for internal paddocks. Just have to make sure animals new to your farm have been trained to electric fences. Great for minimizing ferals- 'roos eating your native grass, & especially pigs & foxes decimating lambing/kidding rates. I don't have experience with feral dogs but others have said electrics all stop them too. Add. We're still trialling boundary fence options to exclude deer, pigs, foxes,cats and most of the 'roos.
We're very lucky to have pneumatic star post drivers and strainer post augers lol, the guy I used to work with on farm built a shitload of fences all by hand without any power tools. Try building a 2km fence through pure rock using a metal post driver dolly and crowbar for the strainers in 45 degrees , no skin left on his hands at all lol Also, if you're just a small hobby farmer instead of buying brand new expensive fence posts a lot of larger farmers have boatloads of fairly decent old posts lying around that you could buy for a discount, personally I've used them in fences before and work just as well. Look for waratah and cyclone posts. Make sure to get the straight ones! Also, while things like wire strainers and star post pullers could be expensive, they literally last forever lol, I've worked with a pair over 40 years old and they're identical to the ones 6 months old lol Great vid!
@@ruppy4103 cheers for that mate! Yeah the right gear lasts a long time. We’ve actually got a guy locally that charges farmers to remove old fencing then he uses a star picket straightening machine to straighten the pickets then resells at 75% of the cost of new. Not a bad business model 😂
Love the simplicity of the end assembly. There must be at least 8m of pipe in those end assemblies plus all the bits n pieces that must be a bargain at less than $10/m for galv pipe
Cheers mate, we did break down the assembly and cost of components in detail in another vid but yeah pretty economical if you have welding skills and the ability to order a few laser cut brackets 👍
Awesome video our nearest towns are small 12 mins and large X 2 just over half an hour each ... So yes I hear you it will be painful when we forget something hahah
Get in touch with me mate. I imported a 20 foot shipping container with 10.5 tonne of fencing material in it. I fence by the Kilometer not by the meter. Cost all up landed on my farm ? $A17.5k. Cost to buy the wire in Australia ? Around about $A80k. I want to buy Australian, but at over a $A60k saving i will import every time. And skip the gripples and fence joiners. Waste of money Learn how to tie off and join wire. Easy for me to say, i am a 7th generation Cattleman.
@@cheryesido364 good question! Because the wire strand is cheaper, lighter and easier. Ringlock is good if you’re running sheep but that’s not our plan for these paddocks. Just cows so the 5-strand electrified is fine 👍
Very informative, but if the handheld picket driver does not get you into the rocky ground, what is your backup? I have been looking for my place, and I can only seem to find pneumatic drills, which seem to cost a kidney.
@@howdyshaun6139 if the petrol post driver doesn’t get the picket in we keto moving along the line of the fence until we find a spot it’ll go in. We’ve some spots where we’ll have to drill and boot a picket/post to granite.
I love how you give costs, it’s really helpful, even for those of us still looking for a property 👍👍
So glad you find it useful. We just want to give what we wished we could’ve watched when we were looking for honest info
Hey mate, hubby and I enjoyed your video! When you spoke of the auger we looked at each other and laughed because we remembered when using an auger hitting some rocks hubby went flying and the inside of my arms got a hidding and some brusing - learnt my lesson. 😂
@@staffylover1950 oh yeah happens to the best of us!!
Hey mate, just something you may not know. A lot of the new petrol powered augers come with a clutch mechanism. Brilliant design that stops them tearing your arms off (or being whacked in the face) if you hit a rock. Bit more expensive but worth the money to save dislocated shoulders or missing teeth.
@@crazydaverocks great tip cheers mate 👍
Keep up the good work! Hope your well on recovery journey to back to normal.
@@lorraine1452 doing really well thanks 💪
Very timely Vid. Cheers folks.
Do you use a mesh strainer? Sorry if you've already shown it. Been a bit lax keeping up with RUclips.
@@RobsAquaponics glad it might be of help!
@@RobsAquaponics no we don’t use a mesh strainer when we do ringlock we use a combo of gripples and the Hayes wire strainers on each individual horizontal strand 👍
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead Thanks folks. 👍👍
Hi. Good fencing vlog. Yep- fencing is a very expensive exercise. We've completed lots of fencing trials and decided Weston dropper electric fences with spiralfast wire joiners is best for internal paddocks. Just have to make sure animals new to your farm have been trained to electric fences. Great for minimizing ferals- 'roos eating your native grass, & especially pigs & foxes decimating lambing/kidding rates. I don't have experience with feral dogs but others have said electrics all stop them too.
Add. We're still trialling boundary fence options to exclude deer, pigs, foxes,cats and most of the 'roos.
@@lorraine1452 good to know! Thanks for that 👍
Thanks for the costing.Just planning a major fencing project.
@@coevicman3685 no worries mate
Keep thinking of extras! We also use electric fence lights for monitoring as our energizers are portable- not mains- so no app monitoring setup- yet.
We're very lucky to have pneumatic star post drivers and strainer post augers lol, the guy I used to work with on farm built a shitload of fences all by hand without any power tools. Try building a 2km fence through pure rock using a metal post driver dolly and crowbar for the strainers in 45 degrees , no skin left on his hands at all lol
Also, if you're just a small hobby farmer instead of buying brand new expensive fence posts a lot of larger farmers have boatloads of fairly decent old posts lying around that you could buy for a discount, personally I've used them in fences before and work just as well. Look for waratah and cyclone posts. Make sure to get the straight ones!
Also, while things like wire strainers and star post pullers could be expensive, they literally last forever lol, I've worked with a pair over 40 years old and they're identical to the ones 6 months old lol
Great vid!
@@ruppy4103 cheers for that mate! Yeah the right gear lasts a long time. We’ve actually got a guy locally that charges farmers to remove old fencing then he uses a star picket straightening machine to straighten the pickets then resells at 75% of the cost of new. Not a bad business model 😂
Bkackwood LLC great source of information
Love the simplicity of the end assembly. There must be at least 8m of pipe in those end assemblies plus all the bits n pieces that must be a bargain at less than $10/m for galv pipe
Cheers mate, we did break down the assembly and cost of components in detail in another vid but yeah pretty economical if you have welding skills and the ability to order a few laser cut brackets 👍
Fencing can be pretty expensive but getting the best stuff you can afford definitely pays off.
And you don’t appreciate it until years later when you’re still using the same good quality tool… or throwing out another cheap one!
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead absolutely.
Great video legend 🤙
Cheers you two 👍👍
Awesome video our nearest towns are small 12 mins and large X 2 just over half an hour each ... So yes I hear you it will be painful when we forget something hahah
@@GunnaonedayHomestead Thankyou! Gotta be prepared 💪
Get in touch with me mate. I imported a 20 foot shipping container with 10.5 tonne of fencing material in it.
I fence by the Kilometer not by the meter.
Cost all up landed on my farm ?
$A17.5k.
Cost to buy the wire in Australia ?
Around about $A80k.
I want to buy Australian, but at over a $A60k saving i will import every time.
And skip the gripples and fence joiners. Waste of money
Learn how to tie off and join wire.
Easy for me to say, i am a 7th generation Cattleman.
Cheers for your thoughts mate 👍
Ozzyfarmer, where can I import a container of fencing supplies?
Gallagher sell weston droppers @$6 (over east).
How come you didn't use ringlock?
@@cheryesido364 good question! Because the wire strand is cheaper, lighter and easier. Ringlock is good if you’re running sheep but that’s not our plan for these paddocks. Just cows so the 5-strand electrified is fine 👍
Very informative, but if the handheld picket driver does not get you into the rocky ground, what is your backup? I have been looking for my place, and I can only seem to find pneumatic drills, which seem to cost a kidney.
@@howdyshaun6139 if the petrol post driver doesn’t get the picket in we keto moving along the line of the fence until we find a spot it’ll go in. We’ve some spots where we’ll have to drill and boot a picket/post to granite.
@@ROCKPILEOffgridHomestead sweet. Makes sense. Locally I’ve seen people with Ute mounted air drills and it makes me sad inside contemplating that 😆