Thread: paddock fencing repairs

Originally Posted by JDNSW

I'm reminded one of my relatives had an accident about a year ago - he had picked up a sick ewe and put it on the front carrier of his four wheeler. Before he could remount it the struggling sheep hooked a foot in the throttle cable and opened the throttle. He was unable to catch it on foot. It went through two fences, including his boundary fence before hitting a gully and overturning. I don't remember the condition of the sheep, but the four wheeler went through the fences with no issues! A fair bit of energy involved, even if only doing perhaps 10-20kph.

Probably wouldn't have happened if the ewe was wearing a helmet and safety boots!

Originally Posted by edddo

Thanks for the replies - I will get started getting a few things. We move in in a month.
It is a small property of 24 acres - about 2.5km of fencing, all tree lined with mature gums.

24 acres .... Get a tractor .... I wouldn't dream of getting anything else. I have about 5acres. For years I smashed mowers and struggled. Then a couple of years ago cracked the ****s after I broke the mower again... and went and bought a tractor ( my wife was most impressed ). Especially when I killed its engine in about 2months ............. Anyway, I chucked a rebuild kti through it (tractor parts are CHEAP compared to ride-on mowers). You want a carry all ... I now cut the lawn with a 2.25meter finishing flail. At the moment I'm throwing up a leanto on the shed. The post hole digger made short work of the post holes (smashing there way through the root systems of the trees that used to be with inches of where the holes are). The linkage crane is lifting up the purlins to carry the roof ....





It gets used for bloody EVERYTHING .... There appears to be nothing around the yard that having access to a tractor doesn't make 1000times simpler.

I've pulled fences, levelled the driveway, ripped the ground to grade in nice big V drains, slashed, mowed, dug post holes, carried **** around, lifted **** .... The tasks they help you with appear to be infinate. The cheap bit is the tractor (about $2000).... You need to find a neighbour selling up and get all his implements.

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

24 acres .... Get a tractor .... I wouldn't dream of getting anything else. I have about 5acres. For years I smashed mowers and struggled. Then a couple of years ago cracked the ****s after I broke the mower again... and went and bought a tractor ( my wife was most impressed ). Especially when I killed its engine in about 2months ............. Anyway, I chucked a rebuild kti through it (tractor parts are CHEAP compared to ride-on mowers). You want a carry all ... I now cut the lawn with a 2.25meter finishing flail. At the moment I'm throwing up a leanto on the shed. The post hole digger made short work of the post holes (smashing there way through the root systems of the trees that used to be with inches of where the holes are). The linkage crane is lifting up the purlins to carry the roof ....





It gets used for bloody EVERYTHING .... There appears to be nothing around the yard that having access to a tractor doesn't make 1000times simpler.

I've pulled fences, levelled the driveway, ripped the ground to grade in nice big V drains, slashed, mowed, dug post holes, carried **** around, lifted **** .... The tasks they help you with appear to be infinate. The cheap bit is the tractor (about $2000).... You need to find a neighbour selling up and get all his implements.

seeya,
Shane L.

Well I'm off to cry in the corner.... I spent bloody ages measuring and double checking those holes above were in the right spot. The 3rd upright in a row was a good purlin width away from the hole. In frustration I checked all the measurements .... and they were fine ??? So I measured the new purlins. Bloody 20cm shorter than I was told ... When I went upto the local local metal place they only had 7.6's ... so I said "I'll be cutting the ends of them and throwing them away.... do you have anything shorter".... They could order in 6.2's .... so I ordered in them. Only I just measured them and there 6.0s .......................... I looked at the receipt .... 6.0 Its going to be a hell of a job digging all the holes out closer by at least 20cm (down through the roots ).

Either they (or I) mixed up the lengths with the top hat baton that I also ordered in ( as they are 6.2's). I HATE digging bloody holes!

seeya,
Shane L.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

Well I'm off to cry in the corner.... I spent bloody ages measuring and double checking those holes above were in the right spot. The 3rd upright in a row was a good purlin width away from the hole. In frustration I checked all the measurements .... and they were fine ??? So I measured the new purlins. Bloody 20cm shorter than I was told ... When I went upto the local local metal place they only had 7.6's ... so I said "I'll be cutting the ends of them and throwing them away.... do you have anything shorter".... They could order in 6.2's .... so I ordered in them. Only I just measured them and there 6.0s .......................... I looked at the receipt .... 6.0 Its going to be a hell of a job digging all the holes out closer by at least 20cm (down through the roots ).

Either they (or I) mixed up the lengths with the top hat baton that I also ordered in ( as they are 6.2's). I HATE digging bloody holes!

seeya,
Shane L.

Good thing you've got a tractor to dig them with

Further to my comments above - I took a couple of pictures today. In the first one, you can see where the roos have dug under the fence and are squeezing under. It also shows one of the tie downs I mentioned above.

The second picture shows where one of our wombats has dug its entrance right under the fence, so that it can exit either side of it. And you can see by all the tail prints, just how popular it is with the roos.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Further to my comments above - I took a couple of pictures today. In the first one, you can see where the roos have dug under the fence and are squeezing under. It also shows one of the tie downs I mentioned above.

The second picture shows where one of our wombats has dug its entrance right under the fence, so that it can exit either side of it. And you can see by all the tail prints, just how popular it is with the roos.

Can you lend me some roo's for a day or two ?? Bet the bastards couldn't dig my ground .... Wow its dry where you are! That almost looks like erosion that huge hole. I can't see how you can repair it. Anything you dump in the hole won't be compacted enough that it isn't dug straight back out.

Originally Posted by donh54

Good thing you've got a tractor to dig them with

Ever tried to drill a hole next to an existing hole with your hand drill. Imagine doing the same thing with a post hole digger. It's just going to skate straight over to the existing hole I've just spent an hour out there trying to enlarge one hole ( it took 3minutes tops for the post hole digger to smash its way down).