Since coming home to Goodwife Farm, Ed Earl and Luanne have been renting this quaint little duplex with a small yard.....this is usually the home of the chickens on the left side, and the buck goats on the right side. The building you glimpse on the left side is the hay barn, the building on the right side is the goat/horse barn.
Friday night we went to TSC and got this big load of supplies, except for the roll of fencing, we already had that in the garage.
The Man is a pro at digging post holes......we only had three to dig, so between the two of us, we got them dug in no time. There was no frost left in the ground.....
Now we are bracing the corner posts......
And here we are unrolling the fence in preparation for stretching......
We tend to have more help than we need......Tommy is looking for his hammer I guess....
Wrapping the wire tightly around the post. You wrap it 'round the post, then you steeple it real good so when you stretch it, it won't come loose.....
Now we are hookin' up the stretcher to the chain and the truck. You can do this with two 2x4's screwed together with the fence sandwiched in between, but this stretcher makes things lots faster and easier.....
Now we've got the east side stretched and clipped to the posts. We steepled it to this post well on both sides, then continued down the north side and put a gate in. I forgot to get a picture of this.........whoops!
Over there on the south side we share a fence with Good Time Charlie. He's an ancient old man who owns a very old house and barn over there. He doesn't live there, he lives about 1/2 mile away in town, but he takes excellent care of this old place that shares our fence line. We didn't want to risk Ed Earl and Luanne tunnelling to freedom and running amok on Charlie's lovely land, so we put a hot wire along the bottom up there. We will eventually put hot wire around the bottom edge all the way 'round.
Tune in tomorrow to read about the building of Ed Earl and Luanne's house...........
God Bless..................
Very nice & roomy... gonna be some happy pigs :)
ReplyDeleteWe are moving our pig pen this spring. Do you feel like a trip to Oregon to help? Looks great!
ReplyDeleteWow you had to build their house too... you did it all from scratch then didn't you?
ReplyDeleteWhooo boy! I love that field fencing. Heavy galvanized and wound, not welded. Looong useful lifetime. Large holes at the top and graduates down to smaller ones at the bottom to keep the little critters in and the hungry critters out. I paid $167 for a 330 foot long roll. I don't have critters, but I have cucs and beans that I can pick from either side. One of a gardeners best friends I think. I'm planning on buying another roll this year. No more strings and twine for me! Whew!
ReplyDeletegreat work baby! especially the hot wire!
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Lookin' good! The Hubs and I just did this for our goat pen - for some reason, The MIL didn't like sharing her trees with them. . . :/ The FIL told me that loooong ago, men working for the county could stretch those fences so tight that they only had fence posts every 1/4 mile! And they were so taught that you could climb over them halfway between and the fence wouldn't budge. Our's isn't that tight, but it'll do.
ReplyDeleteGreat Job!!!
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