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Fixing Fence 2021!
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- čas přidán 1. 04. 2021
- Travis and I decide to spend some time in Neature checking fences! After the derecho last year, lots of trees fell on the fences.
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Ryan, I want to thank you and your family for allowing snowmobile trails to pass through your property. Wisconsin has one of the best snowmobile trail systems in the United States and without property owners like yourselves working with local snowmobile clubs this system would not exist. As the Vice President of our County Snowmobile Alliance in Winnebago County I understand what a privilege this is.
You and Travis make a damn good team.
agree
Yep
COUNTED 8 SO COOL
It's entertaining watching farmers fence. If they could see me they would say how entertaining it is watching ranchers farm.
Some day you or Travis might want to keep an eye-out for a small bulldozer. A D4 or D5 would push those tree lines back and clear trails along the fence lines....plus any regrading and hedgerow removal.
nice seeing brothers help each other get that jcb and bobcat over there got faith in yall
Lol travis climbing over the snowmobile ramp was pretty funny
Happy Easter! Enjoy the nice weather!
Looks like fixing fence is a never ending story😉 great video again👍
You guys started out good but the wash really got me. I know you were tired. Lololo. When I ran cattle on the forest we had 35 miles of fence. We were in an association and the was 1600 head run up there. I ran 220 and my portion was about 6 miles. We had what they called let down fence. Because it was in the mountains and when the cattle came off the first of October we had to go let the fence down. We had every quarter mile braces. To let it down we would have small wood dancers on every steel post. We would loop the bottom permanently wire from the wood to the steel post. The top we would staple a loop of wire on to the wood dancer then we would staple and wire the barb wire to the wood post. So in the spring we would have our horses carry fencing equipment and walk along the fence and pick the dancers up and hung them it the steel post. Then we had what looks like a gate stick or dancer and tighten it with the fence stretchers. It would mostly tighten the quarter mile of fence. There were two reasons we let it back down. Wild life and snow. Some years there would be ten feet of snow. On some of the steep slopes many times the snow would slide and take the fence half way down the mountain. And there were times that the fence was okay but the snow would shift sheering off the steel post leaving a six inch stub. And talk about trees on the fence. We didn’t have chain saws. Some of the more wealthy cattlemen had them. We only had axes. The very worse was replacing the braces posts. We would have a pick axe and shovel. I hate fencing
Taking the fence down was much easier. Just rude along on a horse and pick the loops off and the fence goes down
Don't need the JCB, you need someone on an excavator to come in there and clear out all the crap 20 feet to each side of the fence line. Then install a good fence and keep it trimmed back.
@@johnhaas2523 True, but having a nice clean fence line where it's easy to inspect and find issues is worth the cost.
Fixing fence is a never ending job!! Clearing all that brush will make for a more profitable pasture !!
Can't wait for the brush destroying video
You mentioned how you used to be able to go right up that fenceline above the creek, now it's all grown up in trees... VERY TRUE. That's the bad thing about trees and brush-- you either take control of them, or they take over your land, just that simple! The more trees and brush you have, the more trees and brush you GET, because of birds and rodents, mostly, and other wildlife to a lesser degree, which carry and bury seeds and nuts and stuff for their food, in the case of rodents and squirrels and stuff, and birds eat seeds and then land on a tree branch or fence wire and when they take off they automatically poop to make themselves lighter, which deposits the seed directly in the fenceline complete with it's own package of fertilizer. We saw the same thing happening on our farms. Shiner was crossfenced 9 ways to Sunday by the previous owner back in the 50's-- his hobby was building fence whether it made any sense to have one there or NOT... most of those fences were falling down 10 years ago and really served no purpose, they certainly wouldn't hold cattle anymore and we had no need of them-- but they were getting overgrown with trees up to 3 feet in diameter and some areas were 100 yards long or more of solid overgrown brush you couldn't even SEE the fence through! We started noticing more and more huisache, mesquite, toothache trees (camphor trees), bois d'arc trees, greenbrier, and hackberry trees (all pretty much trash trees, just good for spreading and ruining grazing land) encroaching more and more into the pastures and popping up in various areas far from the fences. So we started spraying Remedy/diesel mix in a 1:4 ratio (25% Remedy 75% diesel) and just a squirt or two will kill a sapling up to 3 feet tall; but we killed trees 25-30 feet tall with 3 foot trunks by just spraying the bottom foot or two of the trunk all the way around (which is the most critical part, because trees are "radially symmetrical" meaning the roots feed the branches directly above them through the trunk on that side of the tree, hence you have to spray the entire trunk all the way around or it will only kill the side of the tree you spray. It's harder to do in overgrown areas but where we COULDN'T get to the trees, we'd just spray ALL the brush and brambles with Remedy diesel and come back later in the year... a few quick swipes with a skid steer or loader bucket will wipe out all the dry standing crap allowing you to get in to spray the trees. It worked great. The first year we could only spray about 80 acres before the boss pulled the plug-- we'd spent $1000 for about 10 gallons of Remedy, but each year after that we were spending less and less and taking out more and more of the brush and trees... Now my brother and I hop on the golf cart with the 14 gallon electric sprayer on back loaded with Remedy diesel, and a hand sprayer filled with a mix of water, PastureGard, surfactant, and dye and we hit prickly pear cactus as well, we take about a 30-40 foot swath, he watches for trees and brush from the front of the cart all the way out to the left, I watch from the front of the cart all the way out to the right, and we just criss-cross the farm back and forth like that spraying anything we see. This past spring we used about a gallon of Remedy on BOTH farms (240 acres) and maybe a quart of PastureGard... we've virtually ELIMINATED prickly pear, huisache, mesquite, bois d'arc, and other impinging brush and trees, and really opened up the place for more grass and better grazing.
Yall have the perfect tools right in front of you... with the gator and quads yall could spray a TON of brush and trees even in hard to get to areas, doesn't take long. Best to do it when everything is greened out, which would probably be after planting. You can even do it when you're rained out of the field, so long as the tree trunks and brush are dry, it'll work, even if the ground is muddy. Give it most of a year, come back this time next year and all that stuff will be DEAD, dry, and "loosened up" enough that those skid steers of yalls will just knock that stuff right over-- push it right out into piles, pick up trees with the bucket and grapple, bale spears, etc. and pile it up into burn piles. We did all ours with one 5610 Ford with a front end loader. Use that brush cutter attachment to clear brush back and pulverize it. When you made this video was a great time of year to do it because it hadn't leafed out yet so you could pulverize paths through it and around trees so it would be MUCH easier to spray later... Give the stuff time to work and the dead trees time to dry down then come push it out at your leisure...
Later! OL J R :)
Rocket wanted his day in the Sun.
Clear the trees next to your fences and make a road to do easier inspections.
That fence fixing is always ongoing.
Nice Gator. I believe those are made in Wisconsin.
Relaxing to watch but loads of work for you all. Thanks for the video!
Great Vlog Ryan, wonderful video and weather to do farm maintenance, thanks for sharing
Good luck on the brush work and pasture recovery weather.
You need a bunch of rock in that washout area !
maybe a corrugated pipe covered with rocks to control erosion and direction flow of water.
That was good size deer herd. Do you talk to the neighbour about the trees interfering with the fence?
We have miles of electrical fence and it works great put up inside of bad fences. Just last week we put up electric fence around a feed bunk area. It works and goes up fast.
Hey Ryan!! Hey Travis!! Gotta be spring when you guys are fixing fence!! Have a happy Easter 🐣!!
2 days at your place and two days at your brothers lot of work take care of Ryan have a good day God bless🙏 I hope your family is doing well🌞
Clearing fence for you looks similar to clearing hiking trails for me. The fun is when those uprooted trees rip out the trail - have to repair it. Looking forward to when you go in with the forestry head and clear some brush - that'll open up those fence lines.
Brush hog is a great idea, reclaim / make more with what you have. Adding acres without moving the fence. Also make brush piles of all those downed trees, limbs and burn on a rainy day! On one of the other channels he is always clearing and burning brush. It appears the cleaning & burning is quite the attraction? Just some thoughts. No matter, I like what you are doing.
The farm I grew up on maintained the fence line by brush hog 2-3 times a year. They would just follow the fence line and cut everything so most of the vines and trees trying to grow would be cut. It was nice in the winter because it did leave a nice snowmobile trail along the fence line to other fields. :-)
Looking forward to seeing u destroy some over grown brush hope u and the family have a good Easter
For those snowmobile/ATV crossings to work with the UTV they need a flat section at the top, probably 3-4 feet or so.
Love these time of the year wen you passe a good time doing fences .lots sun too
Hey Ryan that brings back unpleasant memories of maintaining fence when I used to farm 😂. Take care and stay safe hope you guys have a great Easter Weekend.👍
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good video
Great video
Cool 😎
Steaks! Now I'm hungry. Lol come west my good sir, no tree worries in North Dakota and the deer jump over most of the time.
Good way to keep busy
Ryan you could spend sometime chopping scrub and making a big improvement
Damn, nice herd of deer with CWD going on.
I'm glad to see you don't have snow up to your knees!
Can't wait for brush cutting with the JCB!!!
If you make fence crossing he sure to make a flat top large enough for ATV before you start down the other side, just eliminate the peak you will have to cross
Yep had to do that last week caues are tractor engin blew and the jd were borrowing has dulls on it and wouldn't fit threwe the gate great vid man
Travis Should of giving it a running start on the ramp Dukes of hazard style👍🏾... Have a good Easter weekend!
Have you thought about renting a forestry muncher, put on the front of the jcb and clear the fence line. Would cut up some of the trees that are down and in the way.
you need a forestry brush grinder
8 Deer
I like watching your videos and the other farmers also. Now some questions,doesn't your neighbor help with the fence in any way? Is it always common to see the deer like that on your and your neighbors property like that? If so,do you ever go there hunting them? Should be some fairly decent game meat to eat if eating the grass there. I definitely DON'T miss the fence repairing at all. It never failed,the cows or horses were always stretching it out because they thought the feed on the other side was greener.
Looks like it's time for the JCB to put some work in and follow them fence lines with the bush hog
Nah he’ll talk about doing it and then do it once for a couple of hours and say “that’s good enough for now”
I counted about 5 bushels per acre loss many deer.
Ryan and Mr. ROCKET, have you consider "turnstiles" for the deer. Similar to the snowmoble ramps or a narrow passage too small for cattle. Might make a great FFA project, or Merit Badge task.
There are adjusters on the springs of the gator to set ride height, you might look at them to see if you could set it higher and maybe make it over those snowmobile ramps.
You should put some rocks in that wash out in the fence that way it soil will build up in the rocks.
Have a Happy Easter too
A giant excavator with a thumb for who knows how long would help maybe ? Although it looks to be very rough terrain. Always love the fencing videos, but I'm sure you guys are not liking this one ?
to bad you don't have some concrete rubble you could dump in that wash out , would help slow down some of that erosion .
Investing in a timberjack would make turning those logs a lot easier, one of you couldve moved them log easy. Love the channel!
15:20 Well Ryan at least you know that's one place the deer won't be jumping over any time soon lol. Glad to hear it went well, didn't seem like you guys had any major disasters to attend to this year (at least not at this pasture). Loved the time-lapses with the sound behind it as well. Good stuff! Thanks for the update!
You could try some of those gates that open when you drive over them!
Happy Easter.
Good video I guarantee that if the neighbors trees protruded on to my land I would be cutting it and throwing it on to there land
AKA KREE YEAH IN WAITING FOR THE JCB ALSO WITH BRUSH MOWER TO GET THERE AND CLEAN UP THINGS BLESSINGS
Really cool area especially with the deer...
Corn is up 1" here in East Central Georgia. Hope the frost and 28 degree temp didn't damage it.
Might be a good spot to d somw shed hunting !
put sheet metal across those low water crossing
Good luck with the brush “ Get er Done “
Tough luck with all the trees on the fences. As Travis always says better to fix it before all the grass and trees start growing up
Good job Men, Happy Easter Ryan , Hannah, Rocket and the Family:):)
I counted 8 deere could be 10
muy buenos videos saludos desde México San Luis Potosi
Ryan you could build both sides up a few inches where the wheels are and then the gator would clear. Just 3 feet from the top
Do you have wild hogs there ??
Have you talked to your neighbor about taking the trees out?? In all likelihood he won't object if they just grew up in the fence-- it's probably keeping him from working up as close to the fence as he'd like anyway... you could pull the fence up, clear the tree line, and put the fence back up standing straight without the terrible lean. You could spray the fenceline with Remedy and diesel using the basal bark treatment to kill the trees, then you can push them out easily even with just a skid steer, and put it all into burn piles. You can clear a lot of fence and a lot of pasture that way... leave some strategically located patches of trees here and there for cattle to loaf under to rest, knock the rest out to open the ground up more for grazing. Killing the trees with Remedy and diesel by spraying the bottom foot or so of the tree all the way around will allow them to dry down and when you knock them over with the skid steer most of the soil and root mass will stay in place to rot away, so you're not tearing up the slopes or ground like you would dozing out living trees, plus it's a very cheap way to clear brush and unwanted trees to reclaim your pasture ground. With yall growing your cattle herd you're gonna need as much grazing as you can get, and that's a good way to reclaim the usefulness of overgrown ground and increase its forage production and profitability many fold. Plus, trees and fences just don't mix.
We wiped out all the overgrown brush and trees that had overtaken most of our cross-fences on the Shiner farm years ago with the Remedy and diesel treatment and then pushed out the dead trees about a year later with just a 70 horse Ford 5610 with a front end loader. It would have cost us probably $15,000 to hire it all done with dozers and still would have had to go back and repair the holes from root balls that would have been pulled up. Now we just do a yearly pass over the pasture with a golf cart and a 14 gallon electric sprayer from TSC, which we paid about $100 bucks for, and we only spray maybe a gallon of Remedy to knock out any emerging brush on 240 acres of pasture land, and spray the fences. Any brush getting too close to the fence, I just reach through and shoot it when it's small-- haven't had any complaints yet LOL:) Makes it to where you can actually access the fence to make any repairs, and it cuts fence repairs down to maybe 2-3 minor repairs per year, almost nothing! Work smarter not harder kinda thing.
Later! OL J R :)
great video rya lot of fence work to do i see and cutting too the side by side sits too low for it to able to cross that little bridge plus not to mention thats alot of brush di you guys burn the brush how do you despose it thumbs up and shared
I don't miss fencing one little bit LOL
Yeah but there is something great abput exploring your own property.
@@rustyrelicsfarm2406 yep I hear you there, I still explore my property but I don't have to fix fence 👍
Sorry if I held you up the other day. Great video as always.
Deer are hard on fences.
At the 7:51 minute mark in this video you start talking about fencing around a big tree that has nocked your fence down. go get a piece of equipment what ever will fit your location and roll that stump out of the way. If the tree came from your side cut the log up. I'm not trying to run your farm, just sharing the voice of personal experience. time spent now saves time chasing cows and fixing the fence again later.
I courted 10 dear
Spray that fence line with crossbow. Doesn’t seem right the neighbors brush can ruin your fence. Don’t go crazy, just enough to keep it off the fence
With all the old fencing you have and a multitude of patch jobs, at what point would it be best to take out the old and put in brand new? I know it would be a huge job.
NO sense in putting up new fence in a thicket like that... trees, limbs, and brush would simply destroy it in short order, and it'd be no better than what they have now. Trees and fences just don't mix. Better to clear the crap out and clear it back enough that any falling trees don't wipe the fence out if they blow down or lose limbs. Plus once you clear back it makes it easy to maintain the fences and you get more grass growing, plus it provides paths for the movement of livestock and wildlife, and makes it easier to check and maintain fence and check on the livestock. Plus enables you to start penetrating into the existing brush and trees to open up more ground for grass to grow instead of trash trees and brush, while still leaving some trees where needed for erosion control on steep ground and cover for wildlife. Make the land more profitable and in better shape. Later! OL J R :)
Must be time to get some fertilizer on the grass fields Ryan?
I know where I'm going hunting this year. lol
Do you have much problem with giraffes on your farm?
8 deer they will be eating corn and beans in no time
Fencing in that brush has to be difficult
Send a certified letter to your neighbors that where they are supposed to be taking care of the fence and can't that you will start and cuttingup any unwanted brush and that they could be getting a bill for your time and service or better yet get a bill for demolition of there grove that they don't take care of. Happy Easter to you and your family. We have had 50's and 60's this week and 70's today and into next week as it looks like spring is here but we are still in severe drought conditions for our county here in Nw Iowa even after having 2 snow storms in the last 2 weeks.
dog's are the best. try to rescue another this weekend.
Ryan, Since your Neighbor's tree's are over growing to your side of the fence, Do you have the right to cut those limbs back that over hang to your side ? I know here in Marion Co. FL. We do have that right and I use it to trim back branches on my side.
would hiring one of the tree mulchers on a jcb with a chap cost a huge amount to hire to clear everything once and then do the rest yourself
Doing it with Remedy and diesel over a period of several years would be more cost effective, and very easy to do. OL J R :)
Copper nails driven in those trees in the fence will help clear them out.
That's an old wives tale, but even if it did work, now you have even more dead trees ready to fall on their fence, maybe ?
1. Get gator ready
2. Sharpen chain saw
3. Load fencing material
4. Load doggies 🐕 woof.
When you were at that spot there is a widow maker in a tree. Check the video.
Hi
How does one typically deal with neighbor's trees? Seems like the kind of thing that would come up from time to time
Typically you’ll clear the brush and fallen logs into respective fields. Having a good relationship with your neighbor helps.
@@bionic80 So is it okay to clear the fence on the neighbors side or do you need to have permission?
@@someperson7, I'd tear them trees out, this fence repair is killing and costing them too much.
@@augustreil that's definitely the obvious thing to do. I was just thinking of how to go about it while keeping harmony with neighbors. Living in peace is worth a hundred fences
@@someperson7, You Sir, are 100% correct. Thanks for smacking some sense into me. Angry neighbors are the worst.
Wouldnt using your drone to fly around checking fences be quicker and easier than driving around?
Are those John's Deer?
do you have a. 9r Joh der
Deer usually go over a fence like these did?