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Fencing Perks

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Was out fencing today and found a big patch of wild blueberries. pretty tasty stuff-they usually are done by now but we haven't got a frost. It might sound weird but I like to piddle around building fence-were redoing all our gates with five foot buffalo page wire-makes a pretty good gate and those rodeo critters don't try and jump it.
 
I used to dislike fixing or building fence, then (bingo) I realized that the more effort expended in either distraction, the less likely I'll have to tend to that stretch again. It's hard to install too good of a gate, generally a case of how much will fit the budget.
I know it froze here pretty hard night before last...
 
Never thought about perks to fencing until you mentioned it. There's something to be said for having a little solitude while getting ranch work done and still enjoying Mother Nature at the same time. That's one of those jobs where you notice little things you never noticed before. - wild flowers, critter trails, critter hair hanging from barbed wire, a call from a bird you can't identify and of course, all that poison ivy vine!
 
perks of fencing......really? :roll: :wink: to me the only perk of building new fence is having a new fence when you are done. i'm still trying to come up with a perk for fixing fence...............
 
About 100 yards down that line from the berry patch Ty and I jumped a sow bear with cubs-she sent them up a tree and started popping her teeth. Ty was about five so i told him to start walking back down the fence not looking back and I readied my fencing tool lol. We got out of her space and she was fine. Found everything from grouse nests to baby fawns out in the bush-I'd sure rather fence then sit in a tractor.
 
well i suppose you have a wider range of wildlife there than we do here. most of the time all you will see around here while fencing is a jackrabbit or a rattlesnake. as for sitting in a tractor , i would rather make hay than fence and would rather fence than farm.
 
Liveoak said:
Never thought about perks to fencing until you mentioned it. There's something to be said for having a little solitude while getting ranch work done and still enjoying Mother Nature at the same time. That's one of those jobs where you notice little things you never noticed before. - wild flowers, critter trails, critter hair hanging from barbed wire, a call from a bird you can't identify and of course, all that poison ivy vine!
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Not to mention all the other vines that dearly love to take over fences down here. :shock:
 
I love fencing.... I really enjoy walking the fence line... Would rather do that than drive. We are thinking about getting one of those hand held powered post-hole diggers.. Hubby's shoulders aren't good anymore and it takes me forever to dig a hole.. We do have a hydralic one that goes on the tractor, but sometimes it's just easier to dig em by hand than get the tractor...
 
$%#@&!#$%@!$%^ FENCING? :mad: Just kiddin'! I enjoy anything that gets me outside and around agriculture. We fix a lot of fence every spring damaged by snow. Nature always puts on a show as she wakes up from winter. Wildflowers, fawns, you name it. Plus the nicks and cuts from barbwire is simply delightful! :wink:
 
Leanin' H your a freakin' fencing machine-I've sen pics of your work-mine are all crooked and loose.A poor farmer lined up his plow with my fence and got all three cornered. He was bitching about it I just told him the cows haven't complained yet.
 

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