I know it's done now but if you tap the post with a hammer it helps settle the concrete down and around the post. Also blackening the ends of the posts over a fire helps with a natural protection against bugs wanting to eat them. Fencing across rough land is a really tough job and you've done an excellent job. Again no need for a gym membership, shoulders and arms workout done.
The pine needles are acidic too so they will be affecting the roots of the oak. You could rake them up and make a separate acidic compost for your acid loving plants, like blueberries
Agreed. It may sound illogical but when working alone having somebody to help means you can get three times the amount done compared to doing it by yourself. Wish I'd have had a brother!
Great job!! I like that you left the post long so you can add barbed wire on top. If you have problems with deer jumping the fence you can all ways go back and lash ,with wire ,full length post along side your existing post and add additional fencing even higher. I'd use a wire attachment system that uses screws so you aren't banging against the post. and loosening the base. Good Job guys!!
Thanks so much! I guess it's always easier to cut less first than too much :D We don't get any deer here to be honest, well in this little part near our house as there is so much land with fencing and it;s surrounded by road :) Yeah that's a good point, should try and find those wire attachments :)
Hi Mark and Alex. Mike here from the States. Question: have you been able to monetize your channel yet? I've been sharing your videos because you two need a new tractor by spring. Wishing you the best. The berms, swales and planting have been really tremendous
Thanks so much for your support Mike, your comments and support are appreciated massively! We have monetized the channel, as it's still small scale it's not much in advert revenue (i try to not put too many adverts in the videos) so perhaps i'll need to try and get some more collaboration with brands. I hope to save up for a tractor :) Thanks - i'm excited to see how they work out in the future :)
Some advice I've seen when the ground is hard was to pour some water into the hole and let it soak in before digging deeper. I don't have that problem, my soil is very sandy and it's a rare to find any stone.
Our fencing is 1.2m high and all the wild dear just hop over as if it wasn't there. I was baffled trying to find where they were getting in until I surprised one and it took off over the fence in one stride.
One helluva good job guys! Fencing is bloody hard work to get right, and to get the result you two achieved over that terrain is testament to hard work and effort - and no doubt your vocabulary improved also! Are you also going to protect the new plantings with some form of bio-degradable tubing for the initial years or so? Might be prudent, just a thought.
Thanks so much Dave :) Yeah it was hard work, glad it was only 120meters, not sure more would have been so fun haha. it's a good point and question, i think we are not going to do that but we thought about it!
120m is a fair effort. No harm in leaving those post longer, you never know if you ll need it one day. Thought about bracing the ends with 45° post and the parts where it changes direction??
Yeah not bad for a couple of days work! Better to leave a bit longer just incase! Yeah we did think about bracing but as the changes weren't too harsh we didn't do it. I hope i don't regret it ;)
As an experiment try gravel stone only and compact. How robust is the fence: cows, sheep, goats, pigs, boars, deer try to crash thru? Same for falling debris. How will it fare against the elements (rain, wind)? Some of those posts look narrow for the run length. Used to seeing 4 - 6 in in dia or sq. Time will tell. Agree that at a later time, using the brush cutter, clear a wider path along the fence line. Great that you were cutting down the pine trees to give the oaks better chance to grow. Some fences have tensioners or turnbuckles at critical points to take up the slack. Others have a fence to vehicle (ATV, tractor) puller attachment. The vehicle stretches the fence taut. Then the fence gets secured to the posts. Your spacing makes that difficult to do. Alternate mechanical method. Rachet around a secure anchor point to pull the fence taut. Maybe concrete every 5th thicker post (6 in dia.) and spaced 15 to 25 ft apart. Attach fence clamp device, ratchet and stretch to required tension.
Thanks Roland, will give that a go in the future. We don't get any animals here to be honest only the local sheep, well in this little part near our house as there is so much land with fencing and it;s surrounded by road :) We are trying to walk a new path every day and hope that creates a path Tensioners could have worked well. Becuase of the space we were working with i couldn't get the pick up trust to a position to tighten the fence due to the trees
yeah not bad for your first attempt and hopefully you'll get a couple of years out of it before needing to revisit . next time put proper strainer posts in its well worth the effort
i never use concrete on fence lines, only at gates if necessary, the treated posts will hold the field fence just fine without concrete. saves labor and money
The second trip with the buckets, that's when you must've really felt it. You guys really got loads done though, all hard work. Looking great and very necessary to protect all the other efforts you've put in to your planting.👍
When I put posts in (& washing lines etc) I always make concreted holes square/rectangular to make them more secure from movement & staple fencing on with a staple gun. You're doing a great job but please don't use barbed wire, if an animal tries jumping & gets it wrong they'll do terrible damage getting stuck on the wire, animal rescues hate the stuff for the injuries it causes.
Thanks - that's a great tip! Probably would have taken us so much longer though - the auger drill made it easier work than digging square holes :) Ok thanks - we don't actually get any animals here apart from the local sheep!
@@rootsdownhomestead I think I'd still have used the auger drill to make the initial hole just maybe chopped one or two of the edges of each hole a bit with a spade, axe, anything really to take away the roundness. Dogs leap over fences, so do sheep, goats, foxes etc - barbed wire is still horrible stuff. It's more useful for keeping people out as they can see & understand what they're looking at whereas animals only find out when they get stuck on it. They don't look at it & say to themselves that's nasty looking fencing I don't think I'll try to get over it. Looking forward to the next video.
There's something universal about a man bragging to a woman about the length & rigidity of his fence... ruclips.net/video/VJ8gpk0mRA0/видео.htmlsi=EpGCPHeag_rPpET-&t=1838 😉🤣 Seriously, that's quite an accomplishment, and it does not look like it's anybody's very first fence. Major kudos due you there. In re Gigi The Poo Artist, I know cats can generally get through any aperture larger than the shorter dimension of their face. Maybe this works for dogs as well?
That looks like a job well done, good on you two! Won't stop the elephants though 😉 and little doggo's! That little chainsaw is a right crafty piece of kit, nice!!! Cheers Bert
Love seeing your Progress. Fortunately with your brother help,you look so much alike I distinguish between you both, by your Tee Shirts. Is he on holiday with you? Very good job done seeing the Terrain you work on the expression on dogs face priceless !LOL. Thank you Mark going to be a busy year.
GREATJOB ….for novices…i usually use thick wire top and bottom, if the fence is higher, also middle which i tension with a ratchety thing to tension it, then just wire the fence onto it instead of tensioning 120m, put i suppose its the same thing, well done.
Digging a hole in the ground and setting a fence post in concrete is like drilling a big hole in a piece of wood and securing a nail by filling the hole around it with glue. You can do it, but just hammering the post into undisturbed soil will give a better result. If your post breaks when you're hammering it in, you need a better quality post. Those posts do look very thin for a timber post in a country that doesn't have yellow ironbark all over the landscape. Incidentally, that post hole digger looks like the twin of the one my dad wrecked his back with. He was digging a hole in stony ground when the digger hit a stone, and since the blade couldn't turn around any further, the handles started turning instead. He couldn't drive for about 12 months after that and it never properly recovered - backs are like that.
Good point although I did mention in the video that we need to drill through the slate rock layer to get to dirt we could drive the posts in to, it was the only way We have about 20cm of soil on that very top part so not enough to hold wooden posts. The rock layer just blunts the ends Yeah I don’t think they’re the best to use but we are making do with it :) hope to get a tractor attachment in the future for that 😊
I think you have done well. I can't tell from the video, but the tops of the posts ought to be slanted so that rain runs off and doesn't work down into the posts easily to begin the rotting process. The only other thing I would suggest is to remove all trees really close to the fence (you judge the distance) because as they grow, the trunks will push your fence out. Don't want your good work going to waste. I only spotted a couple anyway. As I said, good work. Best wishes.
Thank you :) Good tip, didn't think of that. Everything dries up quite quickly here and don't really see anyone else doing it so many it's ok haha. Yeah we should take out the trees in danger of growing in to the fence :)
Where is the Kubota tractor? Good work here. Are these posts from trees on your own land or did you buy them in? And I always wonder how wooden posts don't rot at the bottom i.e. the part in the soil? And is this fencing for potential livestock or just as a border marking?
It's broken :( unfortunately :( Posts are from the shop, they are heavily treated but at a very dry point of the land so i hope they don't rot too easily! It's purely for keeping out the neigbours animals from eating our new trees!
Always use steel posts ( German style 🤔) , you only have to drill them in the ground ( no concrete & rotting from wooden poles & way faster & later easy to remove ) .
We set up a tension with 2 planks with bolt and nut through at 2 points. Attach that to your wire and strap to mini digger / tow bar and create your tension. Fencing is always hard work!
You are such an inspiration hard working as usual,dealing with this labour intensive task is not only back breaking is a real chalenge ,well done pleasing results.
Thanks for the tip! To be honest, they didn't have enough thick posts, so we just had to make the others up with those thin ones (we hope it lasts!) although they were only 2euro a post
Que excelente trabalho que o Mike e seu irmao fizeram para o Mike é fantástico a fazer as coisas obviamente que seu irmao ajudou muito. Desculpe perguntar o Mike e seu irmao sao gémeos e que sao tao parecidos ainda bem que teve esta ajuda senao seria muito mais dificil. Muito obrigado por nos mostrar tudo gosto muito. Um bom ano de 2024 e cá fico à espera para a semana por mais vidios. God bless you 🙏🏼 THANK YOU VERY MUCH 👍👍👍👍
When I build a fence, each end assembly consists of two posts of 100mmnb galvanised steel pipe - I started out using 50mmnb but they were bending under the strain of the wire. 100mmnb do the job. The two posts are each 2.16 metres long (cut three posts from a 6.5m length of pipe), hammered into undisturbed soil and placed 3.25 metres apart, with a top rail of 40mmnb pipe butted against the tops of each post and secured with a bracket, and then a diagonal stay wire wrapped twice from the top of the stay post to the bottom of the end post and back. In soft soil they need a bottom rail as well, so that the bottom of the post can't be dragged through the soil while the top of the post is braced in place. It's a good idea to hammer a length of rebar into the ground before you start driving your posts because we have quartz and ironstone intrusions in our otherwise nice soft mudstone and either of them can spoil your day. The rebar doesn't disturb the soil enough to affect how well the post will hold. The plan is, you drive the two end posts of your new fence into the ground, then you put one length of wire between them along the ground and strain it tight, making sure it's sitting straight and isn't snagged sideways by vegetation or whatever. Then you install the other post and the rails and diagonal stay wires of your two end assemblies, then you install all the posts along the fence - we use galvanised star posts. They don't break like cheap timber. Then you hang the rest of the wire on it and pull it up tight, and then you clip the wires to the stars with little clips that hold the wire at the right height but let it slide so if a cow runs into it she'll bounce off like a trampoline instead of breaking the wire. If it's going to be an electric fence you use plastic insulated clips, and otherwise you use little pre-folded bits of wire. Make sure you tie the wires back to the stay post at each end assembly, otherwise under strain the stay post can bend over sideways and then it's not bracing the end post properly. At the end of the day you've got a good fence, and the only thing that can really mess with it is fire. High tensile fence wire goes soft and slumps at about 600 degrees C, and the galvanising burns off it so it's going to rust out in the next storm anyway. You need to keep vegetation away from your fence, but with an electric fence you'd be doing that anyway or it will start its own fire.
Great job, it looks far better than my first attempt. The end and corners were the most difficult to get right, there are many different ways that do work. For what you need it looks great, very neat and straight for the sloping ground.👍
Thanks so much :) I ended up working too hard, making myself ill and having a week in bed. Should have rested before i got burntout and had a party instead!
I know it's done now but if you tap the post with a hammer it helps settle the concrete down and around the post. Also blackening the ends of the posts over a fire helps with a natural protection against bugs wanting to eat them. Fencing across rough land is a really tough job and you've done an excellent job. Again no need for a gym membership, shoulders and arms workout done.
Thanks so much for the tip, i'll definately do that next time.
It was a tough job - no gym memberships needed in the countryside ;)
The pine needles are acidic too so they will be affecting the roots of the oak. You could rake them up and make a separate acidic compost for your acid loving plants, like blueberries
Thanks for the information there! Good point, especially as we want to plant lots of blueberries, so could be a good strategy to feed them :)
Spot on. T
Love the little chainsaw, looks very handy to carry around for the smaller clearing jobs. Impressive.👍
Great little investment! Are you going to enter the competition on instagram? :)
You and your brother did a great job on the fencing. I have seen novices do it before with nowhere near as good a job so don't put yourself down 😊
Agreed. It may sound illogical but when working alone having somebody to help means you can get three times the amount done compared to doing it by yourself. Wish I'd have had a brother!
Thanks so much :) We tried and did alright, i think! :)
Great point there! Never underestimate the power of another pair of hands :)
Great job!! I like that you left the post long so you can add barbed wire on top. If you have problems with deer jumping the fence you can all ways go back and lash ,with wire ,full length post along side your existing post and add additional fencing even higher. I'd use a wire attachment system that uses screws so you aren't banging against the post. and loosening the base. Good Job guys!!
Thanks so much! I guess it's always easier to cut less first than too much :D
We don't get any deer here to be honest, well in this little part near our house as there is so much land with fencing and it;s surrounded by road :)
Yeah that's a good point, should try and find those wire attachments :)
You know, given the current world situation, maybe avoid a picture that looks like you are holding a m1ssile... 🤔😉
@user-sp1fn2le5e 😂
Lol
Haha, that was my first thought, what's Mark doing with a rocket launcher in his hands!!
LOL, I’m from Transylvania and would like them any day as my neighbors.
I guess being a homestead channel, there no danger of a fencepost being mistaken for a missile🤣
Hi Mark and Alex. Mike here from the States. Question: have you been able to monetize your channel yet? I've been sharing your videos because you two need a new tractor by spring. Wishing you the best. The berms, swales and planting have been really tremendous
You sound a really nice man encouraging the young men Wise Kind advice .
Thanks so much for your support Mike, your comments and support are appreciated massively!
We have monetized the channel, as it's still small scale it's not much in advert revenue (i try to not put too many adverts in the videos) so perhaps i'll need to try and get some more collaboration with brands. I hope to save up for a tractor :)
Thanks - i'm excited to see how they work out in the future :)
Mike is a lovely guy and always writes a nice comment :)
Some advice I've seen when the ground is hard was to pour some water into the hole and let it soak in before digging deeper. I don't have that problem, my soil is very sandy and it's a rare to find any stone.
Yeah i do that with planting trees but for the fencing we didn't have the time to let it drain before filling the holes in!
Our fencing is 1.2m high and all the wild dear just hop over as if it wasn't there. I was baffled trying to find where they were getting in until I surprised one and it took off over the fence in one stride.
No deer here, all the lands around are fenced. This is for sheep only :)
One helluva good job guys! Fencing is bloody hard work to get right, and to get the result you two achieved over that terrain is testament to hard work and effort - and no doubt your vocabulary improved also! Are you also going to protect the new plantings with some form of bio-degradable tubing for the initial years or so? Might be prudent, just a thought.
Thanks so much Dave :) Yeah it was hard work, glad it was only 120meters, not sure more would have been so fun haha.
it's a good point and question, i think we are not going to do that but we thought about it!
120m is a fair effort. No harm in leaving those post longer, you never know if you ll need it one day. Thought about bracing the ends with 45° post and the parts where it changes direction??
Yeah not bad for a couple of days work!
Better to leave a bit longer just incase!
Yeah we did think about bracing but as the changes weren't too harsh we didn't do it. I hope i don't regret it ;)
As an experiment try gravel stone only and compact. How robust is the fence: cows, sheep, goats, pigs, boars, deer try to crash thru? Same for falling debris. How will it fare against the elements (rain, wind)? Some of those posts look narrow for the run length. Used to seeing 4 - 6 in in dia or sq. Time will tell. Agree that at a later time, using the brush cutter, clear a wider path along the fence line. Great that you were cutting down the pine trees to give the oaks better chance to grow.
Some fences have tensioners or turnbuckles at critical points to take up the slack. Others have a fence to vehicle (ATV, tractor) puller attachment. The vehicle stretches the fence taut. Then the fence gets secured to the posts. Your spacing makes that difficult to do. Alternate mechanical method. Rachet around a secure anchor point to pull the fence taut. Maybe concrete every 5th thicker post (6 in dia.) and spaced 15 to 25 ft apart. Attach fence clamp device, ratchet and stretch to required tension.
Thanks Roland, will give that a go in the future. We don't get any animals here to be honest only the local sheep, well in this little part near our house as there is so much land with fencing and it;s surrounded by road :)
We are trying to walk a new path every day and hope that creates a path
Tensioners could have worked well. Becuase of the space we were working with i couldn't get the pick up trust to a position to tighten the fence due to the trees
put small rocks in the hole around the post then back fill with concrete or sand/soil, keeps post tight :)
Great tip :)
yeah not bad for your first attempt and hopefully you'll get a couple of years out of it before needing to revisit . next time put proper strainer posts in its well worth the effort
Thanks so much :) hope it lasts more than a few years before i need to do anything, we shall see :)
i never use concrete on fence lines, only at gates if necessary, the treated posts will hold the field fence just fine without concrete. saves labor and money
Ah, interesting! I got told by a fencing guy he uses concrete on all of them!
Concrte pollutes so much...
Ps yes the portuguese do love their concrete. It’s a joke in France actually
The second trip with the buckets, that's when you must've really felt it. You guys really got loads done though, all hard work. Looking great and very necessary to protect all the other efforts you've put in to your planting.👍
Yeah it was much heavier than i thought, such dense material!
Ficou ótima a cerca, pode se orgulhar do trabalho.
Muito obrigado :)
I’m glad you checked the Park’s regulation on fences. Brillant
One day a trail camera would be great !
When I put posts in (& washing lines etc) I always make concreted holes square/rectangular to make them more secure from movement & staple fencing on with a staple gun.
You're doing a great job but please don't use barbed wire, if an animal tries jumping & gets it wrong they'll do terrible damage getting stuck on the wire, animal rescues hate the stuff for the injuries it causes.
Thanks - that's a great tip! Probably would have taken us so much longer though - the auger drill made it easier work than digging square holes :)
Ok thanks - we don't actually get any animals here apart from the local sheep!
@@rootsdownhomestead I think I'd still have used the auger drill to make the initial hole just maybe chopped one or two of the edges of each hole a bit with a spade, axe, anything really to take away the roundness.
Dogs leap over fences, so do sheep, goats, foxes etc - barbed wire is still horrible stuff. It's more useful for keeping people out as they can see & understand what they're looking at whereas animals only find out when they get stuck on it. They don't look at it & say to themselves that's nasty looking fencing I don't think I'll try to get over it.
Looking forward to the next video.
There's something universal about a man bragging to a woman about the length & rigidity of his fence... ruclips.net/video/VJ8gpk0mRA0/видео.htmlsi=EpGCPHeag_rPpET-&t=1838 😉🤣
Seriously, that's quite an accomplishment, and it does not look like it's anybody's very first fence. Major kudos due you there.
In re Gigi The Poo Artist, I know cats can generally get through any aperture larger than the shorter dimension of their face. Maybe this works for dogs as well?
Hahaha that made me laugh!
Thank you, very kind. It was hard work but good to do.
Ah really? perhaps!
That looks like a job well done, good on you two! Won't stop the elephants though 😉 and little doggo's! That little chainsaw is a right crafty piece of kit, nice!!! Cheers Bert
Thanks so much :) haha yes it won't stop elephants! :)
Chainsaw is great, have you entered our instagram competition ?
Seriously, I totally forgot about that one, I will in a mo! Thanks!@@rootsdownhomestead
Love seeing your Progress. Fortunately with your brother help,you look so much alike I distinguish between you both, by your Tee Shirts. Is he on holiday with you? Very good job done seeing the Terrain you work on the expression on dogs face priceless !LOL. Thank you Mark going to be a busy year.
Thanks so much :)
Haha yes we look very similar! he was staying with us for a little bit
2024 is going to be a very busy one :)
GREATJOB ….for novices…i usually use thick wire top and bottom, if the fence is higher, also middle which i tension with a ratchety thing to tension it, then just wire the fence onto it instead of tensioning 120m, put i suppose its the same thing, well done.
Thanks so much :) Novices we are indeed. it works alright, i should tension it though so thanks for the tips :)
Digging a hole in the ground and setting a fence post in concrete is like drilling a big hole in a piece of wood and securing a nail by filling the hole around it with glue.
You can do it, but just hammering the post into undisturbed soil will give a better result.
If your post breaks when you're hammering it in, you need a better quality post. Those posts do look very thin for a timber post in a country that doesn't have yellow ironbark all over the landscape.
Incidentally, that post hole digger looks like the twin of the one my dad wrecked his back with. He was digging a hole in stony ground when the digger hit a stone, and since the blade couldn't turn around any further, the handles started turning instead. He couldn't drive for about 12 months after that and it never properly recovered - backs are like that.
Good point although I did mention in the video that we need to drill through the slate rock layer to get to dirt we could drive the posts in to, it was the only way
We have about 20cm of soil on that very top part so not enough to hold wooden posts. The rock layer just blunts the ends
Yeah I don’t think they’re the best to use but we are making do with it :) hope to get a tractor attachment in the future for that 😊
I think you have done well. I can't tell from the video, but the tops of the posts ought to be slanted so that rain runs off and doesn't work down into the posts easily to begin the rotting process. The only other thing I would suggest is to remove all trees really close to the fence (you judge the distance) because as they grow, the trunks will push your fence out. Don't want your good work going to waste. I only spotted a couple anyway. As I said, good work. Best wishes.
Thank you :)
Good tip, didn't think of that. Everything dries up quite quickly here and don't really see anyone else doing it so many it's ok haha.
Yeah we should take out the trees in danger of growing in to the fence :)
Where is the Kubota tractor?
Good work here. Are these posts from trees on your own land or did you buy them in? And I always wonder how wooden posts don't rot at the bottom i.e. the part in the soil? And is this fencing for potential livestock or just as a border marking?
It's broken :( unfortunately :(
Posts are from the shop, they are heavily treated but at a very dry point of the land so i hope they don't rot too easily!
It's purely for keeping out the neigbours animals from eating our new trees!
Great video! Just wondering if the concrete fully cured before you started putting the fence up? How long did that take to cure?
Thank you :) We left it for 2 days, it was very dry also so it seemed to dry well
Great job Mark, congratulations. Just don't forget to paint the edges with paint or oil to seal in moisture
Thanks so much :)
Always use steel posts ( German style 🤔) , you only have to drill them in the ground ( no concrete & rotting from wooden poles & way faster & later easy to remove ) .
Interesting! thanks for the tip!
We set up a tension with 2 planks with bolt and nut through at 2 points. Attach that to your wire and strap to mini digger / tow bar and create your tension. Fencing is always hard work!
Great tip :) yeah its hard work, not something i'd want to do a lot of to be honest haha
The auger looks like a great investment so far.
it is! Highly recommend one :)
Oh, is the brother building a house on the property?? A cabin for when he visits?
Good guess but no :)
Another great job done Marc and Brother,you give it a go, you are learning by doing…kind regard Ruth from NZ…..
Thanks so much Ruth :)
Love the chain saw I’ve been looking for something like this since I got my log burner ❤
It's a great little gadget, have you entered our instagram competition?
You are such an inspiration hard working as usual,dealing with this labour intensive task is not only back breaking is a real chalenge ,well done pleasing results.
Thanks so much :) really appreciate it!
Well done to you both looks a very professional fencing job 💪
Thanks so much :)
My kids cemented in some fence posts for me. However, even in my semiarid environment, the posts rotted off at ground level😢 good luck.
Great job with the fence, not an easy job.
Thanks so much :) It wasn't a job i'd want to do every day ;)
Kudos to you and your brother……a very hard job, well done
Thanks so much :)
Great job, your brother has been a great help to you 😊😊😊
Thanks so much :) He has indeed!
Could of left the post long and down the road aways Put Bob wire above panel wire
I think it is brilliant 👋👋⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks so much :)
Looks like you or your neighbor harvested some of the cork trees. This is looking really good!
Tough job kudos for all your hard work
Thanks so much :)
Where are you Mark? 3 months no show?
There is nothing more important than getting things done. If the fence will have any problems you will fix it in future. That was very good decision!
Thanks so much :) I think it will last a while - time will tell :)
Nice work lads👌👌👏👏
Thanks a lot 👍
WOW amazing work!
Thanks a lot! :)
Your brother is cute
thanks :)
hint from a bloke who has done a bit of fencing get rid of the tiny posts and use star pickets or steel pipe the timber ones wont last two years
Thanks for the tip! To be honest, they didn't have enough thick posts, so we just had to make the others up with those thin ones (we hope it lasts!) although they were only 2euro a post
Chestnut rough cuts work better than treated wood. But done is better than not and you can mend as you go, as all farmers have to do all the time
Nice work, always glad to see the care you put into protecting the local plants!
Thanks so much :)
Nice job.❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thank you :)
Great job!
Thanks so much :)
Great job!
Thanks so much :)
Good job🎉
Thanks so much :)
Que excelente trabalho que o Mike e seu irmao fizeram para o Mike é fantástico a fazer as coisas obviamente que seu irmao ajudou muito. Desculpe perguntar o Mike e seu irmao sao gémeos e que sao tao parecidos ainda bem que teve esta ajuda senao seria muito mais dificil. Muito obrigado por nos mostrar tudo gosto muito.
Um bom ano de 2024 e cá fico à espera para a semana por mais vidios.
God bless you 🙏🏼
THANK YOU VERY MUCH 👍👍👍👍
Muito obrigado, aprecio sempre os vossos comentários.
Eu e o meu irmão não somos gémeos, mas perguntam-nos sempre :)
Tenham um ótimo dia!
Very good guys,impressive work!!!
Take care!! 🇬🇷 🇬🇷
Thanks so much :)
If you have deer coming onto your property, you may be surprised how high they can jump… other homesteading RUclipsrs have gone to ~7 ft🥴🤔
No deer here, all the lands around are fenced. This is for sheep only :)
When I build a fence, each end assembly consists of two posts of 100mmnb galvanised steel pipe - I started out using 50mmnb but they were bending under the strain of the wire. 100mmnb do the job. The two posts are each 2.16 metres long (cut three posts from a 6.5m length of pipe), hammered into undisturbed soil and placed 3.25 metres apart, with a top rail of 40mmnb pipe butted against the tops of each post and secured with a bracket, and then a diagonal stay wire wrapped twice from the top of the stay post to the bottom of the end post and back.
In soft soil they need a bottom rail as well, so that the bottom of the post can't be dragged through the soil while the top of the post is braced in place. It's a good idea to hammer a length of rebar into the ground before you start driving your posts because we have quartz and ironstone intrusions in our otherwise nice soft mudstone and either of them can spoil your day. The rebar doesn't disturb the soil enough to affect how well the post will hold.
The plan is, you drive the two end posts of your new fence into the ground, then you put one length of wire between them along the ground and strain it tight, making sure it's sitting straight and isn't snagged sideways by vegetation or whatever. Then you install the other post and the rails and diagonal stay wires of your two end assemblies, then you install all the posts along the fence - we use galvanised star posts. They don't break like cheap timber.
Then you hang the rest of the wire on it and pull it up tight, and then you clip the wires to the stars with little clips that hold the wire at the right height but let it slide so if a cow runs into it she'll bounce off like a trampoline instead of breaking the wire. If it's going to be an electric fence you use plastic insulated clips, and otherwise you use little pre-folded bits of wire. Make sure you tie the wires back to the stay post at each end assembly, otherwise under strain the stay post can bend over sideways and then it's not bracing the end post properly.
At the end of the day you've got a good fence, and the only thing that can really mess with it is fire. High tensile fence wire goes soft and slumps at about 600 degrees C, and the galvanising burns off it so it's going to rust out in the next storm anyway. You need to keep vegetation away from your fence, but with an electric fence you'd be doing that anyway or it will start its own fire.
Thanks for the tips :)
I hope i don't need to do any more fences but i'm saving this comment incase i need to :)
Fab job 😁 ...😂you make me larf!
Haha thank you :)
You and your brother (twins?) did an excellent job on your not wonky fence. I had to laugh when Kaia got right through in the end.
We aren't, although we get asked all the time! :)
Thanks so much :)
Hah yes had to laugh, shes small and should have known she'd get through it!
Great job, it looks far better than my first attempt. The end and corners were the most difficult to get right, there are many different ways that do work. For what you need it looks great, very neat and straight for the sloping ground.👍
Yeah it was very difficult, i would have struggled without my brother to be hoenst! Aslong as it stands the test of time :)
My goodness yourself and your brother are like peas in a,pod. So good to have family helping ❤
Haha yes we get it a lot :) lovely to have him help us on the farm!
Well done guys. Take 5 and have a nice party. Dam hard work
Thanks so much :) I ended up working too hard, making myself ill and having a week in bed. Should have rested before i got burntout and had a party instead!
great job bro, im jealous of your life......although i know its edited
Thank you! It's no easy life but a fulfilling one!
Good to clear your fence line for fire protection from your neighbor's side.
You got that right - two jobs in one :)
Fantastic. It looks pretty strong. Well done.
Thanks so much :)
Good job, that was hard work!
Thanks! It was indeed :)
I have a question; what was the practical reason for u to fence that side of ur land?
To stop his neighbours animals eating his newly planted trees
That's the only side of our land that isn't fenced by neighbouring properties - needed to keep the neighbouring sheep from eating our new trees :)
Exactly that :)
Great job can’t wait to see the finish results 😊
Having your brother to help makes the jobs go faster. The fence will be good to have. Do you burn all of the foliage you pulled?
Thank you :) Us too! :)
It does indeed :) the fence is doing it's job. We use the foliage as mulch :)
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