It Ain't Whitewashing...But Building Fence Is Still Fun...

[Snattlerake]

Just take that T post driver back to the store, and build a wooden jig. Then use the bucket and push the damn T posts into the ground. Poof, you're done! No need to hammer them with that thumb killer. I never had a bucket on a tractor. Our tractors were for field cultivation and baling. We sometimes used the three point to drive them in.

 

[PanhandleGlocker]

I don’t miss building fence… pounding T-Posts in hard caliche ground sucks. Then you try to use a tractor to do it and the T-Post just bends.

Im a big fan of welding pipe fence though.

 

[Snattlerake]

Back to fence building, I always had a great time with my dad building or repairing fence. We would try to do it on a Saturday so we could listen to the football games. When T posts came out, we thought we went to heaven. No more post holes with creosote posts and tamping, tamping, tamping.

I learned a lot about life during my time with dad those fence building days. Mostly that good fences made good neighbors.

 

[THAT Gurl]

It's gonna rain. Wait ... Your back will thank you.

 

[Letfreedomring]

Even funner (yes that's a word, trust me) was trying to get them back out without a hi-lift jack. Just using a shovel and the notorious rock it back and forth method... It's almost out, trust me!

 

[cowadle]

you put a good strain on that wire and the goats won't get through it. a good 13 wire 48 inch tall and six inch stay spaced high tensile field fence makes a great barrier to keep predators away from your kids. do you have a good set of strainer bars and chain strainers to pull it with?

 

[Chaparral]

You have a front end loader. Use the loader to push the post into the ground. One person on the ground to locate the post one on tractor to operate the FEL and relocate the tractor.

 

[Timmy59]

Horned goats live to get they're heads stuck in the fence wire. Ask yourself how often you'd like to free goats from the nice tight fence you just spent time and money on.

 

[Shinneryfarmer]

Goats love to do this!

Which causes this! Till suitable fence is built.

 

[cowadle]

2 inch spaced stays with 13 wire or 13/48/2 high tensile wire will keep them in and not catch a head.