We really struggled with this last fence pull. Stretching fence around corners never works well.
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- We had several problems stretching our longest run of pasture fence. It doesn't look the best, but it will work.
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I liked the "18 fence of feet" you added. lol
I concur. (I was going to make the same remark). lol
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Hey Evan, on those short pieces between the strainer and the corner - use a claw hammer to pull the 6’ run of wire tight before you tie it off. That will keep the main run from relaxing as much when you let the comealongs loose.
Short runs are harder to build than quarter-mile stretches using full rolls of barbed wire. I guess they don’t recommend pulling more than about 1/8 mile of the hog/goat/cattle woven fence that you call field fence. We never pulled around a corner if we could help it, and if we had to, then it was a really substantial post, tamped exceedingly well, and we pulled to it, stapled about 3x, and then pulled the next one. If you don’t have 8-10” hedge posts for those, some kind of tension brace on the outside or compression brace on the inside would be needed to keep the post from responding to the asymmetric forces on it.
In the slack sections, pull the fence against itself from both sides to tighten it up. Then use wire to bind the two ends together.
Maybe a viewer with a metal detector that they don't need or use would be a nice gift. I think the metal will keep coming.
Like the fence Evan and Rebecca but that nail was a real panne for you .God Bless you two .
Miss Rebekah ... I am so sorry that nail caught you! I know that hurt! When I was a kid, I had a throwing dart stick into my instep ... it was buried in the dirt and I was barefooted. My dad sat me down and poured turpentine on it ... burned like fire for about ten minutes and then I never felt it again. Sorry for your pain. You are TOO SWEET to be hurt! LOVE your shirt! Mr. Evan, your fencing is fine ... it accomplishes your immediate goal and that's what counts.
Looks good. You and your wife are hard workers.
A chisel drag harrow! What a surprise! I grew up on a farm that started in the early 1900,s lots of junk and stuff from previous owners, and yes I have had my share of puncher wounds through my feet , my mother was an old time degreed nurse I still dislike the smell of bleach mixed with Epson’s salts and hot water she made me soak my foot in! It never got infected?
We had one fence across the back of the home quarter that was sheep fence my Dad had lots of tricks he used to park the tractor and use it to as an anchor and make it in braced sections .
You did the best you could and that is all that matters. Good job.
When we used to run fences and had to go around a corner we used a stay on the inside and it took all the weight of the fence as it is your relying on the post on its own to take the weight , we also used properly twice the size posts , hope Rebecca’s foot is ok those nails sure hurt , all the best from Australia 🇦🇺
Fence of feet.I say the same type of things.I have some dyslexia.good video,Nice little homestead.
I'm sure the fence will hold the steers in for years if needed.
Rebecca love your T-shirt!!!!!
Jesus loves you and I’m trying; I love that. Rebekah, I hope the foot heals up quick. Great videos; I’ve especially enjoyed the fencing segments.
I’m glad I stepped on it instead of a cow. That’s a real farmer.
Great job Evan and sorry Rebecca got hurt.
You might consider running a metal detector along your new fence line, could save you a flat tire, gimpy foot on you or your beef- something for to consider. After you grub out the old fence line maybe you can move new fence over to old line for a straight pull, your call. Good video watch. Noticed you are cat quick catching stretcher wedges in the air when knocking them out. Have a good one.
Good fencing job son, don't let anyone tell you different
May be a day late and a dollar short but something like Steel-Flex Puncture Resistant Insoles might be worth looking into before you tackle the old fence line.
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Good idea for future reference though.
18 fence of feet 😂. I had a chuckle I mixed words all the time. Love your channel. Keep up the great work sir 👍
18 fence of feet lol . That got me laughing. Thanks for another great video
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I have skipped over other subscriber channel videos because of tedious work being done, BUT I really enjoy your channel that you always seem to make your work on the farm VERY interesting.
Plastering dry wall? lol
@@dickwright2134 yeah it does get boring and since I did it for years it is so so so boring anyways.
On wood posts which have no braces slip a stove pipe over the post to help the wire slide.
Rebecca! Oh girl be careful. 😳 ouch!!
Be well. ❤️ The fencing looks good.
Good job Evan and Rebecca, sure sorry that you stepped on that nail Rebecca but sure glad you took the proper steps in having the injury taken care of right away. Hopefully you all will get the rest of the old fence line cleaned up without anymore injuries. The fence looks great and I bet if you ask the steers what they think I doubt that you hear any complaints. The fence looks great. Thanks for sharing with us. Fred.
Love the eighteen fence of Feet! After a very long day of fencing you are allowed to make any comment you want to! Love watching you two working. It makes me exhausted watching. Keep it up cause I need the exercise.
This fence looks great!
Well done! 😊👍🏻
Can’t wait for the hay videos to see how the haybine and round baler work out for you
Spoiler alert. Haybine did good, round baler was a fail.
Oh geez hope it wasn’t anything too horrible on the baler have to wait for the video
I was able to fix the round baler in time And was able to use it.
Use a monkey chain pull here in the UK. You can attach at any point and literally we pull the whole wire around the pole, staple off and release. Many ways of doing the same job. Gripples normally used just for extending or joining straights. Looks good so far.
I know that's frustrating and painful. Heck Evan I guess you need a metal detector with all that junk they left. I hate that about Rebekah stepping on that nail I know that hurts I've been there. Great job on the fence as usual!😉
Man the grapple has paid for itself many times over.
Did you say 'Fence of feet Evan' instead of 'Feet of fence' I'm still laughing. Sounded just like me. A great job though. 🤣😂👍
I really need to get one of those grapple buckets for my tractor. You guys did a great job with the fence! I could use your help here on our farm haha
Rebecca you’re a true animal lover, finding that rusty ole nail so some innocent little cow wouldn’t find it. 😃
Evan, good temporary solution to a trashy situation! The fence looks fine, if someone complains just hand them your fencing tools! 🤠
God bless 🙏🏼🇺🇸
Hi Evan! Great job on the fence. Sorry to hear about the rusty nail incident Rebecca had! I want to mention that the yellow flowering plant looks like it might be Tansy/ragweed. This is toxic to all livestock. It can be pulled, bagged and discarded - don’t burn it. Tansy has a 2 year life cycle and flowers in the second year. I struggle with it my fields constantly. Your videos don’t give a good close-up view of the plant so I can’t be sure. Please look into it to confirm. You will want to get it out of there before it goes to seed as Tansy is invasive and, if left untreated, will also get into your hayfields. I should add…please wear gloves and long sleeves if/when pulling by hand. Tansy is caustic and can really irritate the skin.
Oh good, we get to see the new equipment shoot a bale of hay out the back! 😀
Your work is always so meticulous (part of having the mindset of an artist, I believe), that I'm sure it hurts to leave the fence temporarily "wavy". The steers won't mind - all they will see is that luscious grass.
Looks really nice Evan and Rachel! It's alot of work. But it feels good when it all done!
I remember us going to flail a neighbours hedge and finding some drag harrows propped in the hedge. The neighbours response was " I wondered where they had got to" I also remember a friend getting a thorn though the sole of his rubber boot. The thorn broke off and it left his boot nailed to his foot. That was a painful removal. Hope Rebecca recovers soon and no problems
Nice work on the fence, good to hear you have a plan for that bump out where all the garbage is. I think you will be happy with that 2ndback section once you get the garbage cleaned up and you straighten it out.
You made a lot of sense with the temp section of the fence keeping the cattle from getting hurt. I would have made both ends permanent and the center section could be restrung when the junk was cleared out but that would mean more wood fence posts and cross braces. I think it would make little difference in the end other than the cost of the wooden posts. Sorry Rebekah was hurt, she sounds like a patient determined farmer, all in a day's work. My family farmed in the Cowden, Lakewood area. I helped in the summers with everything you are doing for your farm. Lots of hard work and the best reward is knowing you did the job right.
Looks good well done both of you. I put anchor posts in early 70s that are still there today. Have a great day.
Rebecca, your shirt is spot on. Love it. Everything is looking so good.
It looks good! It is only Temporary! Great job! So glad Rebekah is ok!
Also in Aust. we find it quicker and cheaper to strain past the strain post and nail staples fully in which holds strain and then release strainer and tie off mesh
In Australia we run a plain wire for alignment and then as a top strand to hold mesh fence wire easy to clip and help strain up
love watching your videos from the uk
JudithB Being flexible with farm work is the name of the game, and its hay season. Getting it cut, dried and baled is critical.
We use to use a fence stretcher for Barb wire would have pulled that wire tight great save on the fence too! Great video great job to 💯✌️so glad more videos too
When we Sag wire in Powerline work. What ever you get the sag you want your take two more clicks. Then when you back off the hoist you should lose two. Bringing it to where you wanted it.
Hi Evan the best way to get a fence tight is strain in the middle that is with netting or wires hope this helps
Great job you are the man with a plan. I truly hope your wife's foot heals fast I know what that is like
Sorry to say, those angle posts, will keep leaning over, always put a stay post, and block, in the ground, try tying, netting off at each end post, strain up from middle of each run , to help netting come round angle post, use rammer pipe handle in front of post , when netting tight, lift up and staple top wire, and pull down in dips, drive staple on angle , to hold down in dips, come back along fence line, stapling dips, then finish straining fence, either tie off, or use gripples, or crimps.
Nice job. Lots of hard work
Hope you are all right made my rearend pucker seeing that nail
A couple of metal detector fanatics would love an invite to your place!
Good work! Perfect is the enemy of good enough. 😊
You could cut the top and bottom loose closest to the barn then put your fence stretcher on then cut the rest loose. Then tighten the weavy section.
It is amazing what you find when you clean up an old property. Wow a piece of equipment just left in the field and then the field grew up around and over it. Your fencing looks nice. A great video. I hope your wife heals quickly from her injury.
......lookin' good. nice work, stay well
If it’s bugging you go to the loose end and tighten it from that end before you take the fence of the post and refasten it to the post.
Old school drags they work great it's a 2 way drag
Y'all certainly got a lot done. I'm so sorry Rebecca got the nail through her foot. That had to be so painful. The fence looks so nice, especially when you think most big fields have 2 or 3 strings of barbed wire and that's it. You will have a fence that lasts a lifetime probably. Thanks for sharing and y'all have a Blessed day.
One of the best and fastest ways I’ve fenced is to use tensioners (or “strainers”) in the middle of the run. Attach the fence to either end at the brace posts, then tighten the tensioners in the middle until the whole run is tight. Don’t have to mess with the come-alongs and bar tensioner and it’s easily tightened in the future should something run into it or a tree fall on it. Great work though and enjoyed watching!
where do you get the tensioners?
@@gardenman3 Your local farm or fence supply store should have them. Premier 1 also sells them online (XT1 Ratchet Strainer).
I just added links in the video description for the stuff I used in the video.
Hey Evan, you all have flat field rock / limestone in that part of the country, Use cattle panels to make a square and fill them with the rock.
Makes excellent corner or gate post.
Thank you
Good job
I hope your completing healed up Rebecca!
Hey Evan and Rebekah a lot of hard work looking good always look forward to and enjoy your videos very informative I don't know where you haul your scrap metal to I have hauled down to the new junk yard that just opened in West Union they are competitive on scrap prices but I call them to make sure they are open they had 4 days with their big scales were down new business growing pains getting all their ducks in a row the name of the place is H & S recycling they have a Facebook page with their number
The old farmer mentality screams at me, "don't you put that perfectly good harrow in the scrap pile!"
looking good
I think it's your property your feels you got to do what you want to do thank God you didn't use herbicides good for you
Love her shirt!!!!
Great video Evan and Rebekah sorry to hear about Rebekahs foot been there done that. Hot water and Epsom salt will fixer up. Next time you come across a scrap piece of 8" i.d. pipe about 6 ft long cut it in half long ways. You can use it to pull wire around corners. 👍🇺🇸
Hi, Evan just watched your video on your fencing project, would you have been better off putting a brace on each side of you corner posts, this may have helped with keeping your fencing tight . Jeep the video's coming as I live in the UK. Regards Jon.
Oh Evan! I'm the same way...😂 "Don't look, just don't look!"
I've learned that sometimes, it's just good enough. We should aim for perfection, but when we miss, the hope is we'll get close to hitting the mark, which is better than aiming for mediocrity and nailing it.😏😂
"18 Fence of Feet"😊😄
Prayers for your foot to heal! And Love the T-shirt... I'm tryin to Love as much as Jesus too...but ya know...😉
You have to do what needs to be done and move on and the fence looks good.
Next use a 6 or 8 inch pvc pipe on the post that the wire goes around it will help the fence slide aeound
I was wondering if you could slide something in between the fence and the post until its tight then slide it out. Maybe a PVC pipe cut in half the long way.
Hope your foot feels better Rebecca.
Good video good content 👌
Your fence looks good, could you have not pulled the fence from the other end to take the wave out? The good thing is it is a temporary fence. Good job.
I agree John. Evan just needs to untie the other end, put the strecter on, pull it tight, and retie it.
Tetanus shots hurt more the second day because you have went all night without moving your arm. It would probably be a good idea if you got one as well too, Evan. The shots last 10 years now.
Rebecca is a Nurse, so will know what to do.
Howdy from Oz, I tie off the short piece of fence and then tension the whole run with the gripples. Don’t need the come along then. Fences look good your way anyhow so….well played you. Fencing is no fun at the best of times.
Rebecca, I feel your pain and hope for the best for you, When I was 10 years old growing up in Kansas I stepped on a 2x4 in tall grass with a nail that went through my shoe all the way through my foot and was sticking out about 2 inches. I pulled it out my self and was afraid to tell my Mother so I just limped and suffered. I have a small scar on the bottom of my foot and a nickel size scar on the top of my foot. take good care.
You should have put a temporary pull post behind each post were the fence line make a sharp turn then tighten that section of fence.
Can we get a drone shot of the z in the fence line? Be cool to see from the sky. I haven’t finished the video yet so it may already be in the cut
Just a question or maybe its a suggestion not sure..when you stretch the fence, can you attach your come-alongs to your tractor that's past the last post and then attach the fence to the post with fence staples? That will only allow the fence to slide pack to where the staple intersects with the vertical wire until you can strip out the horizontals? maybe strip out a few horizontals as a time?
How does cold weather affect the fence with expansion and contraction? I set up horizontal wire to suppoort Pole beans. It worked great all summer and when winter came, every wire broke. A solution woukld have been to put a short spring at the attachment point/
i hope rebeccas foot is ok i stepped on a rusty nail and like to got lock jaw even after a tetnuis shot
We used the tractor for our anker .
I have done that to. But the fence doesn't stay as tight. This is the way I prefer.
Cut the fence on both sides before the bump out and stretch the two straight areas independently
After that, go back and just do the bump out as its own section since it’s going to be temporary anyway
Once you take out the bump out trim as needed for essentially the third section to patch in and you should be able to keep it all nice and straight and pulled tight without affecting the two longer straight sections
Tat's a lot of work.
Thanks for the video, nice job. Where did you purchase those "t-clips," pull cinch wire fasteners, see minute 4:57 on the video. I've searched and searched on line and can't find them. They look very efficient and strong. Thanks.
Evan I really enjoy watching ur channel.
Have you heard of “Timeless Fence?” It’s high tensile wire that is much safer than barbed wire
Arrrh!! Rusty nail in the foot,nasty, but how would wearing a sock help?
Hiya Evan, aren’t you worried about being poked in the eye by a flying clip, U nail (those nails that holds the fence to the wooed post) and also the fence wire especially when are stripping & cutting the said fence wire. It looks terribly dangerous for your eyes when you’re fencing, nailing, wood splitting, cutting & nailing wood or mettle, you get the idea. I would hate for you to hurt yourself when it’s easily preventable. Love your channel ! Take care!
Sorry about your foot, Rebecca. Prayers for quick healing. I love your shirt. Where did you buy that?
Could you have pulled the fence tight and attached it to the wood posts with staples where it made the turn, then move on to the next section?
It may wave a little but I'll bet it keeps the animals in. It looks good and it's on the back side.
Sorry you got hurt. Have you watched “The Hoof GP?” Be careful cleaning up that junk that none ends up where the cows will step on it! Enjoy your channel and all the animals and improvements.
Rebekah watches hoof gp.