Fences

[BrokenolMarine]

We got rid of the last of the large livestock last year right after Milk Fever took Tina's milk cow down after she had her calf. We kept the chickens for the eggs and the guineas to control bugs and snakes, and as alarms. Noisy buggers.

Tina loves to keep the place neat, and this means weedeating. So, I suggested removing a few of the fence lines, less to weedeat. We would, of course, keep the fencing along the road, the north and west property lines to mark the boundries. I suggested some cross fences could go. Better views for us, less weedeating.

Today I removed the clips from the barbed wire in several sessions. I broke the job up so had plenty of breaks. Tomorrow we'll roll the wire, and using the tractor, pull the T-Posts. The wire is old, and we'll toss. The posts we'll store, you never know. With the fence gone, it's a pass with the mower from now on.

[BrokenolMarine]

Yeah, yeah, pics when we are done.

[Hatchdog]

Since you and Miss Tina have been around the block a few times you are probably aware of this post puller tool. But for others, here is a pic. I’ve used mine many times (and my son borrows it often) and it’s wonderful. Like you, I have removed much of the barbed wire cross fencing from our place up north. My wife’s uncle had several horses when he lived there and had cross fencing everywhere. We were concerned that the dogs might cut themselves on the barbs so got rid of as much as we could.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/produ ... ost-puller

[BrokenolMarine]

Those are nice, we use the bucket on the tractor. Loop a chain around the t-post, then come across the top of the chain and pull down. Lift up on the bucket, post pulls right out. Flick the loop off, on to the next post. Hydraulics does the heavy work.

We set posts the same way, place the post with the post driver on top, bucket comes down and boom, post drives slowly in to the depth you want. On to the next post. Post driver gives the tractor bucket a wider target.

[Mags]

Those are nice, we use the bucket on the tractor. Loop a chain around the t-post, then come across the top of the chain and pull down. Lift up on the bucket, post pulls right out. Flick the loop off, on to the next post. Hydraulics does the heavy work.

We set posts the same way, place the post with the post driver on top, bucket comes down and boom, post drives slowly in to the depth you want. On to the next post. Post driver gives the tractor bucket a wider target.

Same methods used here.