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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 11, 2023 14:49:22 GMT -6
I finally got all 80 of my fence posts driven and all 40 of my cattle panels hung. Now, I've got a fence all the way around my garden, 640' feet long, by 5' feet tall. Next, I'll hang the second tier of fencing and that will completely cover my 8' foot posts. Since 10" inches of those posts are underground, I'll only have a finished fence that's 7' foot 2"inches tall, but I think that ought to do the trick.
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Post by woodeye on Apr 11, 2023 15:35:15 GMT -6
I finally got all 80 of my fence posts driven and all 40 of my cattle panels hung. Now, I've got a fence all the way around my garden, 640' feet long, by 5' feet tall. Next, I'll hang the second tier of fencing and that will completely cover my 8' foot posts. Since 10" inches of those posts are underground, I'll only have a finished fence that's 7' foot 2"inches tall, but I think that ought to do the trick. That all sounds awesome, heavyhitterokra! I bet you are very happy to get that much of it done. Eighty posts! Mercy!😲👍
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 11, 2023 21:57:58 GMT -6
On my original fence, I had a post every 16 feet, but due to the tendency for cattle panels to grow into the ground, I raised these off the ground 8" inches, so that I can run a weed eater under them later. That caused me to have to drive a post every 8' feet because I was working alone and needed a center support for each panel.
I'm glad to have that much done, but my poor back is wishing someone else had got it done.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Apr 12, 2023 20:56:06 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra and woodeye , I thought of you both and your deer fences today when I was hiking with my homeschoolers at a nature center. Part of the area is open to the public, but part of it is closed as a nature preserve and research area. I don’t know if this fence is to keep animals in or to keep people out, but it sure looked intense. I had to take a picture for you two. Every other strand is barbed wire.
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Post by woodeye on Apr 12, 2023 21:35:07 GMT -6
Wow chrysanthemum, nice photo, that is quite a fence!😲
I can't speak for everybody, but if it's to keep people out, 25 strands usually inhibits my ability to breach a fence. But then again, so does 2 strands nowadays. Anyway, they were either very intent on keeping critters and/or people at bay, or they found barb wire on sale, not sure which...🤔
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 20, 2023 23:20:03 GMT -6
Wow, Chrysanthemum! What a fence! I haven't seen that many wires in one place since the County whacked our phone pedestal with their sideways, hydraulic brush hog.
Thanks, for sharing that. I don't feel quite so bad about how my garden fence turned out now. Sometimes, it feels like I'm planting seeds inside an internment camp. I hate looking at that fence, but there's no way of getting around it, if you want to garden with this many deer around, you've got to suck it up and go nuts with those huge amounts of wire.
My garden fence is made up of several dozen cattle panels all linked together, end to end, having eleven strands of 1/4" inch welded wire contained within their 5' foot common heights. Then, each cattle panel is topped by a 24' inch wide strip of chicken wire, fastened well top and bottom, then stretched tightly above each section of the cattle panel. The finished product is 7' feet, 2" inches tall, counting the narrow space beneath for the weed eater to have room to work along the bottom edge of the fence.
I was able to get 150" feet of it installed up to the 7'-2" mark today. Only 490' feet left to go and I'll be finished with that rascal.
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Post by FrostyTurnip on Apr 21, 2023 7:30:32 GMT -6
You could use some help!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 24, 2023 2:08:36 GMT -6
Thanks to Frosty Turnip and her hardworking crew, I've now got all but the last 180' feet of my deer fence done, which means that I'm a little over 3/4 of the way done.
Thanks, Frosty, for the help, it was very much appreciated! We had a great time!
And thanks, Woodeye, for the inspiration that helped me get started on this project.
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Post by woodeye on Apr 24, 2023 5:46:48 GMT -6
That is outstanding news, heavyhitterokra. I knew you had gotten extremely serious when you called in the FrostyTurnip crew! I'm so happy that you are getting the High Jump that close to completion, and I am 100% sure that it was all time well spent to build it. You'll get to enjoy lots more free time this year that otherwise would have been spent repairing any other kind of fence you might have had.👍😉
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Apr 24, 2023 17:01:10 GMT -6
I'll have so much more free time by not having to go check the garden in the middle of the night every night to see if any more deer are out there, because now I won't care about marauding deer anymore.
I've never been able to plant anything that far from the house before without chancing it being eaten by deer. That will be so weird in a good way.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Apr 24, 2023 17:58:33 GMT -6
Wow! Congratulations on making it that far. The end is in sight!
@frostyturnip, thanks for helping out with your crew. I’m glad you could do that.
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Aug 12, 2023 7:09:54 GMT -6
Sorry, folks, for having left you hanging for so long. I didn't realize I had not recorded this project's conclusion.As stated above, Frosty and her crew arrived at an opportune moment during the final, possibly, most important stage of construction; the placement of the last and highest part of the fence, the 24"-inch strip of chicken wire that runs just above the raised cattle panels. I chose chicken wire for that part because it was lightweight but effective and all that work was being done overhead. It would be much easier to handle a roll of chicken wire at shoulder height than to handle other, heavier fencing. The cattle panels provided the strength needed, the chicken wire was needed as a visual, hazing, barrier more than a physical one.I had worked on this project alone for so long that it had gotten to the point that I had lost my umph and had basically just put off the final act of finishing what I had started so many weeks prior. Frosty and her family gave me that much-needed 'Umph' and together, we knocked it out in no time at all. After they helped me out, all I had left to do was go around the 640' foot perimeter, tying the two sections of fence together where they met.Thank you, Frosty, Bill, Thor, and Lil' Miss! Your help was much-needed and very much appreciated. I am forever grateful. Blessings to you all. It was wonderful meeting such nice neighbors!Did I mention the fact that there has not been a single incursion of the deer fence since the fence was built? Not one single deer track in the whole garden! Having no deer tracks in the garden is a minor miracle! This is what my garden looked like in 2022, so many deer tracks that it looked like a rodeo grounds!This is what my okra looked like in 2022, so much browsing by the deer that I hardly had a crop! So, yea, the new deer fence is a huge deal. Thanks again, Frosty and crew!
Thank you, God, for helping me finish the deer fence!
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Post by woodeye on Aug 13, 2023 8:04:35 GMT -6
heavyhitterokra, your new garden enclosure looks great! I have now personally witnessed it's greatness and can further acknowledge the absence of deer tracks inside your vast garden space.
With zero deer pressure to deal with, grasshoppers have apparently moved up to enemy #1, but hopefully they will not be as bad next year. I have had grasshoppers move in and hurt my cowpeas this year, but nothing in comparison to the numbers I saw on your okra while I visited you.
It's awesome that team FrostyTurnip©® traveled to your homestead to help with the completion of the enclosure for the ages.
You have done an outstanding job on Operation High Jump! It will serve you well in the years to come, I'm certain of that. Good Going!
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Nov 29, 2023 9:59:47 GMT -6
Thank you Woodeye, for the inspiration you've provided to this project through the building of your Iron Curtain. That was a truly phenomenal feat that you pulled off over there in Deerland, Western Oklahoma.
A feat to beat all deer feet!
Not even Santa and his flying reindeer would attempt such a feat as to land a foot inside your Iron Curtain deer fence.
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