Fencing

A little late on this since the trees are already in the ground but I'm sure you would still enjoy seeing what we have been doing. We is a term used very loosely around these parts.

The perimeter of the property is cleared.

The plan was to fence the entire property in so The Farmer wouldn’t have to move any fence. Unfortunately the weather was so bad (snow and rain), making the ground too wet to work on. Giving him only a few days to get the fence up before the trees needed to go in the ground. So he did have to put up a temporary fence along the east fence line.

Fencing begins with putting in wood posts every 100-150 feet and then metal posts every 20-25 feet. And a "H brace" is put every 300 feet or so.

Then the fence is put up. The Farmer made the fence unroller from an old weight lifting frame. Frugal farming! The fence gets stretched periodically while going up. Also, after he passes every wood post with the fence C goes by and puts on clips, securing the fence to the post.

The fence goes on the outside to make it stronger against the game trying to get in. Let’s be clear the fence is for deer and elk. If a bear wants to get in, it will get in, and likely destroy an entire tree. We get deer, elk, bear and other sorts of critters around here. The herds of deer and elk vary but there are times in the field across the street will we see about forty elk. They are big big animals.

Any-who back to fencing, when The Farmer runs out of a roll of fence and has to start another one they have to be connected. At first C was thinking of just winding these together by hand, which would take him an hour to do the connecting. Or he could buy these thing-a-ma-jigs and be done in five minutes.

In my mind time is money too, as it seems worth the extra dollars to save almost an hour of time. The Farmer will still be adding a wire a foot above the fence to make it that much taller. Deer and elk can jump surprisingly high. Not that I have seen it or anything, that's just the word on the street....errr..forest...field...country...whatever.

Well there you go folks if you ever need to put up a game fence now you know how.