Thread: Ag Fencing

Matt, Vern... thank you... from the heart of my bottom,

Andrew, thanks for this also! Actually most of the ground that the strainers will be in will be soft due to the earthworks etc so I'll have to brace them up properly.

Having fenced the odd few kilometres, I've followed this thread with interest. One thing that has been glaringly obvious, is that Inc has been notabley quiet, but I bet he's been taking notes.
When do you want to start Inc?

Originally Posted by LandyAndy

Hey Dave
Have you actually done any fencing with a spining jenny???
I tell you a bearing isnt required.
Andrew

I havent no, but I've made a couple of the jennys the first one came back as "spins to easily" but after crunching the nuts up tight it didnt come back again.

when your relos are cheap skates you have to use what you have on hand from the scrap heap.

cut a rover rear axle housing in half, weld that to the deck of the slasher. center up and weld a plough shiled to the back of a rim then cut a hole in the shiled to allow the rim to be mounted. gas axe the lip off of the front of the rim and weld a long bolt to the drive flange to allow a second plough shield to be bolted down onto the rim. 30 minnutes worth of work (then 20 more to tighten up the bearings and pack in grease that passes as road tar) and youve got a jenny

Mount the rim on the axle drop the wire on then bolt down the second ploughshield.

instead of using one of the spinners we just use a pole bcoz we normally fence on hills and the spinners put wire strait in the dirt and they can tip so something like a shovel wood probly be good btw where are you fencing at

also how old are you just wondering because i assumed you were in school and so am i

Originally Posted by schmierer LR at singleton

also how old are you just wondering because i assumed you were in school and so am i

If you are talking about Slunnie, then I am pretty sure he is still "in" school, but he is one of those people in the school that someone like you would have to call "Sir" or "Mr"

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Having fenced the odd few kilometres, I've followed this thread with interest. One thing that has been glaringly obvious, is that Inc has been notabley quiet, but I bet he's been taking notes.
When do you want to start Inc?

funny you should mention me....... i have been watching with interest bigtime....

i had 170m of 5 wire fencing knocked down the other week when we were felling ironbarks

hopefully this week they are putting the street poles and my ironbark property poll where they need to be so i bought a dozen or so rachet tensioners to get the fence wires back up in a hurry..

winter sounds like a good time to get serious :P

I dont like to waste money and I like good exercise so I dont hire anything
or buy any new fangled labour saving doo-dads if I can do it with what
I have.
To be working out in a paddock on a nice day is great and I dont consider
it to be a chore.

I dig all holes with a crowbar and a narrow bladed long handled hole
shovel and cut my posts with an axe.
Not sure if comrade bligh will let me do that for much longer tho !!!

Read this morning that the comrades are theatening to put Agriculture back on the list if their ets proposal isn't passed by the other dickheads
and the senate.