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LazyWP

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We have been working towards replacing our poorest fences. We try to do anywhere from a half a mile to a full mile every year. Well this year, the poorest fence happens to be along the highway, so most of the neighbors have been asking why I tore out that fence. I wasn't thinking clear enough when they started asking about it, or I would have messed with them some, about turning it all into to farm ground. Anyway, since Wednesday, I have been working at getting this mile of posts put back in the ground. Got the corners set Wednesday afternoon.

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Our south boarder is the National Forest. As you can tell, they have to have all the trees up against the highway, so you at least think of a forest.
I finally got some help today.

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Lisa has been busy with brand inspecting, but made the fatal remark she would help today. Only have 65 more to set, and they will be DONE.

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Looking back towards the north and towards the river, and NO, there isn't any forest ground that way.
 
Looking good. Been rebuilding a little myself but nothing as large as that. Love that red heeler in that pic also!
 
Lazy WP.......you deserve a new brand or moniker if you are setting those posts by hand! :lol: :wink:
Two men with a decent pounder on good ground here can build a mile of new four strand in an easy day & still have time for checking cows & choring.......we can rent a Heavy Hitter pounder for $100 a day....tow it with a truck for building or patching......money well invested!
 
Great looking fence and it looks like nice country to build fence in. I really can't imagine being able to just tear down an old fence and start building a new one. In these parts if the fence is old.... you can hardly find it for the flora and fauna growing up through it and around it. The trees grow right around the wire so it looks like the wire was threaded through the trunk of the tree. It can take a guy a week to clear out a mile of fence so you can work with it. There are times I envy you folks with the open ground.

A fence line:
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Really, there's a fence in there if you look:
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Wire grown into tree:
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I cheated and rented a digger to go on the skidsteer. Back in the old days, before I got LAZY, I would dig them by hand, and at that time, I could dig and set a half mile a day. I find it hard to believe that there were lots of places that the ground was dry, towards the bottom of the hole.
I got the posts at Lancaster Supply, where Soap gets his twine cutter. Cost me $4.79/post.
After I get this new fence done, I am starting on the rest of the fence, and yes, I have some fence that I hope I never have to change. It isn't quite as over grown as Silver's, but close.
The Red Heeler is just over 2. She used to work really well, until I sent her into a pond after a bull, and he tried to drown her. She wasn't quite 1 then, so now she is a bit timid, but we are getting there. :lol:
 
The last two farms my son has bought have come with fences that are up to 150' wide - - this takes up a lot of ground.

Go in with an excavator first followed with a grapple bucket on a skid steer then a dozer to smooth everything out.

We have stopped for the year as it is almost planting time but next winter we will finish the last fence.

We also hire ourselves out to others in the area. I need to start taking before and after pictres. One 80 acre piece he bought from his father in law was down to 40 acres tillable due to the small fields and wide fences - - we will plant about 76 acres this year there. I just don't understand why people will own ground ( or rent ) and not take care of it.

When we go in we offer free firewood and have many takers - - - makes less for us to burn. We get a few trees that can be sold for logs but mostly hedge apple, hackberry and cotton wood that noone wants. The hedge and hackberry are great fire wood along with the odd maple or cherry.

We are also putting in about 20,000' of tile each year and the yields are showing it!

Cattle for us are kept on the ground we can't row crop so we only have about 60 cows between us but I really enjoy them. Even if his father in law has convinced him he needs shorthorn bulls. He sure sells some interesting looking calves out of the angus cows. My smokeys sure look bland in comparison.
 
My fences are all overgrown and grown up like that also. I'm not fortunate enough to have the equipment that you stated above nor is some of it in an area such equipment could be used (too steep and soft). I have been clearing mine with a chainsaw and a weedeater with a brush blade, slow go but coming along. Digging postholes by hand is for the birds though I might add!!!
 
If you have a need for it I have never seen good construction equipment as cheap as it is right now.

Many contractors that have been in business for several decades can't keep work and are just getting out of the business. I'm going to southern Indiana the first of the week to look at a Kamatsu D41P6 that the man owes $14,000 on and if I pay it off I can have it. The books say it is worth about $40,000 but he has bee trying to sell for about a year with no takers and he feels it is better for his credit to just let someone pay it off than to defaut as he can't find work for it.

He has two excavators and many other items I will look at as well. This is a man who has worked at Rolls Royce in Indianapolis afternoon shift and excavated mornings and weekends for 30 years - - not someone with no ambition! His intent was to build his excavating business to fall back on if the factory job ever died. We are killing off the hard working people who made this economy. This is the type of man who Obama wants to raise taxes on as he makes to much money and we need to take it away from him and give it to the people who refuse to work.

I hate the economy is in this bad a shape.
 
George said:
If you have a need for it I have never seen good construction equipment as cheap as it is right now.

Many contractors that have been in business for several decades can't keep work and are just getting out of the business. I'm going to southern Indiana the first of the week to look at a Kamatsu D41P6 that the man owes $14,000 on and if I pay it off I can have it. The books say it is worth about $40,000 but he has bee trying to sell for about a year with no takers and he feels it is better for his credit to just let someone pay it off than to defaut as he can't find work for it.

He has two excavators and many other items I will look at as well. This is a man who has worked at Rolls Royce in Indianapolis afternoon shift and excavated mornings and weekends for 30 years - - not someone with no ambition! His intent was to build his excavating business to fall back on if the factory job ever died. We are killing off the hard working people who made this economy. This is the type of man who Obama wants to raise taxes on as he makes to much money and we need to take it away from him and give it to the people who refuse to work.

I hate the economy is in this bad a shape.
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U.S. govt almost shut down----and to hear them talk about it, you'd think that was a bad thing!
 
Silver said:
Great looking fence and it looks like nice country to build fence in. I really can't imagine being able to just tear down an old fence and start building a new one. In these parts if the fence is old.... you can hardly find it for the flora and fauna growing up through it and around it. The trees grow right around the wire so it looks like the wire was threaded through the trunk of the tree. It can take a guy a week to clear out a mile of fence so you can work with it. There are times I envy you folks with the open ground.

A fence line:
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Really, there's a fence in there if you look:
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Wire grown into tree:
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I know what you mean. Country with no trees would be nice until winter. :wink:
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
Hate to tell you this but I think the seventh post down in the second picture is out of line. :?









Maybe you should reset it. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Ya know, you were right!! After I took the picture, looking back to the north, Lisa said the 7th post is way outa kilter. Its fixed now!! :P
 
LazyWP said:
Big Muddy rancher said:
Hate to tell you this but I think the seventh post down in the second picture is out of line. :?









Maybe you should reset it. :wink: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Ya know, you were right!! After I took the picture, looking back to the north, Lisa said the 7th post is way outa kilter. Its fixed now!! :P
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That's good cause you wouldn't want the guys at the coffee shop talking about it every morning. :lol: :lol:
 
I sure hope one of these days I get to meet some of you wise crackers in person, and I hope you are all just as comical, as you are on here. :D :)
 

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