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Post by woodeye on Oct 10, 2022 11:41:00 GMT -6
Today is day #1 of a new project for me, a garden enclosure for protection of my crops for 2023, dubbed The Iron Curtain©®. Rather than explain exactly how I propose to build the thing, (since I really don't know for sure yet) I will let the pictures represent proof that it is indeed in the pre-construction phase as of this writing. Two loads have been hauled and unloaded this morning, 2 more loads are planned for later today. I have no idea how many more loads there will be.
Load #1, (8) 20' joints of top rail, rolls, partial rolls of chain link fence fabric. (3) Small Gates.
Load #2, More rolls, more partial rolls of chain link fence fabric.
Load #3, More rolls of chain link fence fabric.
Load #4, More rolls of chain link fence fabric.
Have at least 2 more loads of fence fabric to haul. Have more top rail to haul. I may be able to finish the material hauling tomorrow.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Oct 10, 2022 15:55:22 GMT -6
That looks like some good material for building an Iron Curtain, woodeye. Good job getting started. It’s nice that you have the tractor to help you move those materials around.
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Post by woodeye on Oct 10, 2022 16:57:44 GMT -6
That looks like some good material for building an Iron Curtain, woodeye . Good job getting started. It’s nice that you have the tractor to help you move those materials around. Thank You, chrysanthemum. Chain link fence fabric is not fun to get loaded, but luckily it unloads real easy. Untangling it will be quite an ordeal, but each load is spaced out from the others, so at least it will be a lot of smaller untangling jobs, not one huge one.
It is used material, but poor gardeners have poor ways. I would not even think about starting on this project without the Kubota, it will be used extensively on all phases of the Iron Curtain...
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 10, 2022 17:22:53 GMT -6
All the critters are going to be marching in protest with their little signs!
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Post by woodeye on Oct 10, 2022 17:48:30 GMT -6
Probably so hmoosek.
I'll probably get arrested for cruelty to wild animals because I starved 'em to death...
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 10, 2022 18:08:56 GMT -6
Hahaha!
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Post by woodeye on Oct 11, 2022 11:13:17 GMT -6
Got the pre-construction hauling done today. Found a nice nest of bigger top rail to use for the vertical t-post extensions. Have hauled 240 feet of top rail, plus numerous rolls and partial rolls of fence fabric. More hauling will need to be done later, but will wait on hauling large gates, rolls of wire, more top rail, etc. This is the photo of load #5, the next photos (when available) will be construction pictures...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 11, 2022 11:50:29 GMT -6
What an awesome project, Woodeye!
I can see how a fella'd derive a whole lot of pleasure and satisfaction out of that.
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 11, 2022 12:18:28 GMT -6
When you finish, drive on down here, I’ll put you to work! Hahahaa.
Seriously, that’s going to be nice!
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Post by woodeye on Oct 11, 2022 12:25:41 GMT -6
Thanks, heavyhitterokra, it's going to be one of those projects that I wish I had done 20 years ago because now I have to pace myself at it. However, it will be done, because an old man that wants okra, peas, sweet potatoes, corn, and tomatoes, can surprise ya' at how much he can do. It may look like something that Sanford and Son built, but that's okay too as long as it works. It will have galvanized fence fabric, green fence fabric, and black fence fabric. I can drill the vertical uprights before I stand them up and attach them to the t-posts, so that will simplify things. Most of the fence fabric is 6 foot, and for some reason I had in mind that it was 4 foot (until I started hauling it yesterday), but it will work. I plan to build the 2 long sides first, I'm not sure of the exact length yet, but they will be somewhere around 65 to 70 feet long. The ends will be at least 23 feet. I will figure out how to have the ends removeable for tilling purposes at the end of the season and before the start of the next season. It's a learning process all the way through, and even though I have built lots of chainlink fences back in the 70's, this is quite different than those were. I won't be able to stretch the fence fabric very tight, but it will work okay because I can install more posts and bracing anytime later on. By next April I will be telling the deer, C'MON MAN, GIVE IT YOUR BEST SHOT!
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Post by woodeye on Oct 11, 2022 12:32:38 GMT -6
When you finish, drive on down here, I’ll put you to work! Hahahaa. Seriously, that’s going to be nice! Thank You, hmoosek, we might have to work something out. But if it collapses into a pile of rubble, you might want to reconsider...
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Post by hmoosek on Oct 11, 2022 12:38:30 GMT -6
You know it’s funny. My wife tells everyone I over-engineer everything. I always figured if a 2x4 will work, let’s use a 2x12 with a couple of braces. Hahahahaaaaa.
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Post by june on Oct 11, 2022 12:44:55 GMT -6
HAHAHA....Let me know when you're going to work again...I'll make a big bowl of popcorn and come watch!
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Post by woodeye on Oct 11, 2022 12:48:16 GMT -6
That is exactly how my dad was, NOTHING he ever built fell apart or got blown away. If a bad storm was coming, you could get in his chicken house, it wasn't going anywhere...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Oct 11, 2022 16:06:33 GMT -6
Woodeye,
I think your 'Iron Curtain' will turn out just fine. I'm rootin' for ya!
I happened on to a situation about 15 years ago, where the school Superintendent was tired of softball games being held up by kids having to run all the way around the 150' foot long, 6' foot high chain link foul lines on their ballfield and wanted someone to remove the chain link fence for him. I took the job in exchange for keeping the materials that I tore out. It took a little bit of effort to remove the old posts that were poured in concrete, but it was worth it in the end.
I got enough chain link fence to build a hog pen that was 85' feet by 65' feet. The top rails on that old school foul line were made of used oilfield pipes that were 2-1/2" Inches in diameter. I cut those into 20' foot lengths with a torch and re-used them to make flag poles. We put one up at Moodys Store, one at Bill's house, and two at the cemetery, one on either side of the main gate. I traded the rest of them off.
To build my new hog pen, I used old telephone poles, old steel Tee-posts, or anything I could find to use as fence posts. Nothing on that fence looks like anything that is commonly used to build a chain link fence, but hey, it worked and the hogs didn't seem to mind too much at all what it looked like.
After feed prices got so high that a fella could no longer afford to raise hogs, I planted that pen full of elderberry bushes. I've never had a deer jump that fence anywhere except right over the gate. I solved that problem too, by lashing treated 2x2 boards to the gate itself, to make an extension for hanging a length of 2x4 wire, making the gate as tall as the surrounding fence.
Come to think of it, no hogs ever jumped that gate either.
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