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Putting up fence, September 9, 2010

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Putting up some continuous fence in our corrals. The Kosmo Kid is pretty handy with a pair of diggers.
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It is very dry in our neck of the woods, and the digging isn't too easy.
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Continuous fence panels 20 feet long on the flatbed trailer
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Peach is wearing a cap because the wind howled all day.
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The dog tuckered out a few posts back.
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Trying to earn my keep
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Playing the eyeballing game for real
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This fence had to be replaced because last spring a terrible wind overturned a 50' x 12' portable calving shed which wrecked the existing fence.
Hopefully these efforts will withstand the test of time.
 
leanin' H said:
Looks like it ought'a work just dandy if you can keep the shed from steamrollin' it! :D Did Sparky build the panels?
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No, they were purchased from Plus One Manufacturing at Valentine, Nebraska. These panels are six bar 48 inches high and 20 feet long. They are a hundred dollars per panel, or $95 each if you buy forty or more.
 
so at the 10ft mark what side of the flat iron are you supposed to set your post... the left or the right?


i would love to have sand like that to dig in.... not to easy :wink:
 
Hereford76 said:
so at the 10ft mark what side of the flat iron are you supposed to set your post... the left or the right?
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The flat iron in the middle is centered on the center post. There are three holes drilled in the angle iron on each end, and three holes in the flat iron in the middle. We are using 3/8' lag bolts that are three and a half inches long for each hole. There are nine bolts total holding up each panel.
 
To bad you couldn't have rented a Wheatheart post auger for the front end of that loader tractor. It would have dug all those holes in minutes. :D

Fence looks good. What size pipe is that?
 
oh i was just joking. the panels i bought didn't have holes in the flat iron in the center and i was fresh out of sharp bits. the panels i bought came with mounting clips that fit on over the pipe and lagged on so i just offset the center post by about an inch and used them. sure makes nice fence/corral material... plus when i go broke i can take them down and sell them
 
there is way to many hand diggers around there for me. :wink:
one thing about the continous fence, once the post are set, the rest goes up pretty fast.

i like the way you build fence, Soap. staight and all the post are the same height...i like :D
 
Looks good. If your ground was as hard as it is around here you would still be digging holes doing it with hand diggers. I intend to replace my plank fences with continuous fence. It goes up fast, is longer lasting and looks good.
 
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Back at it again
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This time my crew outvoted me, and we had to rig up our Hydra-Bed digger. It works pretty well, but not as good as digging by hand
if there is plenty of moisture in the ground, at least with normal conditions here in the Sandhills. The continuous fence panels are made
from 1.25" 14 guage tubing. As far as painting them goes, this might be a good time to buy some FFA kids at their annual slave auction. :wink:
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Sundown tonight.
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The old lone tree
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The old lone windmill
 
If Sparky could make you a bracket to attach that digger to your loader and run it off the grapple fork control it would be a little more handy for digging around the corral but that sure would be handy for setting some corners in remote pastures. :D

The fence sure looks good. I don't think Sparky could hardly buy the material for what you paid for the panels. :?
 
Big Muddy rancher said:
If Sparky could make you a bracket to attach that digger to your loader and run it off the grapple fork control it would be a little more handy for digging around the corral but that sure would be handy for setting some corners in remote pastures. :D

The fence sure looks good. I don't think Sparky could hardly buy the material for what you paid for the panels. :?
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Sparky doesn't like assembly line welding and manufacturing. He likes variety, and a new and exciting breakdown each day that someone brings in suits him to a tee. He also likes to be an inventor. This goes back to his early childhood. One time we were riding around in the pickup listening to the radio, and an ad came on promoting an "inventor's kit." I told little Sparky that he should send for one, because surely there would be pliers, a screwdiver, and other useful inventor's tools included in such a wonderful deal. He called the 800 number to get the inventor's kit headed his direction. Imagine his chagrin to find only paperwork and forms to fill out to get inventions patented. It gave me a good laugh, but then I am pretty easily entertained. :-)
 
Soapweed,around here we dont call what you built "fence" around here that's a pen,it sure looks good looks like easy diggin too,you wont dont that around here.
good luck
 

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