Hill fencing with Kinghitter Part 1
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- čas přidán 24. 07. 2024
- Starting on a steep hill fence, This is the easy stuff.
My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
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To add to a comment Andrew made below, The farm I had in the north of the Manawatu where Alistair grew up was all fenced with concrete posts when we bought it in 1974. This was steep hills. Strainers that were 8 feet long and 8 inches square, I worked out they weighed at least 200 kgs. The places they were put were nuts. Also intermediate posts 6 ft long and 4 inches square would have been 50kgs, about 4 meters apart. All done by hand digging holes and running 6 Number 8 wires and 2 barbed wires, and then stapling 5 wooden battens between the posts.
We soon went away from this and used the early tanalised posts with 10x 12.5 gauge wires and no battens. Still a huge job, and I take my hat off to those fencers back in the day who did this work.. The farm was first fenced from the 1890s with timber cut off the farm and when they rotted away had to go concrete as nothing else available at the time.
But I actually loved fencing, still do, as if you did a good yob you were always proud of the job you did.
Great job and well done and absolutely another spectacular beautiful shooting filming footage compilation documentary countryside content video .. thanks again and have a wonderful blessing weekend ..
You have a great weekend as well. Was good you turned into the live last weekend. Thanks 👍
My parents had a sheep station in outback Western Australia and dad wouldn’t entertain the thought of a jack hammer so we had the luxury of chipping post holes out of break away country with a crow bar….needless to say there were never any volunteers rushing to go fencing.
Yea thats hard yakka, I only do that if i really have to.
A bit different to how we fence the dairy farm on marine clay. We've got a Kinghitter sideshift and it is awesome. But very basic 2 wire electric fences and we use 2.7 mtr strainers so no need for stays.
Love seeing real fencing though and I'm in awe of some of the old fencing I've seen on steep hill country.
Some of the places where they had concrete posts back up in the North Island were crazy, tough back then for sure.
Alright Alistair when I have to dig posts in I find it helps to bar hole in the bottom of the dug hole and give the post a couple of taps with the mallet keeps it a bit firmer while filling and ramming around the post.
I do that sometimes, generally in softer ground tho.
Looking good 👍
Well done hard work
Love a good fencing video
Thanks mate. Plenty to come
Nice bit of kit.
Bloody beautiful view mate.
It sure is.
taranaki gate haha haven't heard that for years
Nice job mate.
Thanks 👍
That's some hard country, thank God for post rammers
That's for sure.
Hi I like your video
Definitely different from all the young farmers shows that I have watched, 😊😊😊.very technical a mate, 😊😊.
I know the technical stuff is not for everyone but it shows you can't be a dummy 🤬
@kiwifarmernz exactly how progrees moves especially all those levers, I drove a crane truck for working with commercial tyre's in the forestry and farm, and it revolutionary the task, especially the huge 2 tonne tyre's, then a new one arrived with twice the levers ha ha ha, 😂. Always a pleasure watching you and family,
We call it Beer o’clock
Might do that now. Cheers
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That’s a good piece of kit for hill country,have you split many posts with it?
Yea it really nice. Not many split posts. I usually stop banging when they start to flex and not go in.
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Whats the hunting like?
Not too bad.
Maybe..........u could earn MUCH more money, if u forest that hilly party up........and get the money with emission trading!
Yes you would but it comes with risk. We are planting some harder country into trees , this is some of the better hill country.