Spring is not a time to be sitting around. If the sun is shining, you better be out ranching. The first project on this year's dock is rebuilding the east side fence line.
This quarter mile stretch needs some help. We got through last year, but it is definitely our weak link. Our plan is to reuse the posts and wire that we can, and rebuild it from the ground up.
First step was unclipping the wire. That was a chore in itself.
The posts were far enough away, that over the years, they wound extra wire in the middle around the top wire to keep things from sagging. We cleaned all the wire up as we went along. Paralleling the fence is the water line up to the corner that the pivot misses.
The mid-section gate was out of commission.
The north corner was junked up and, over the years, a lot of blow-dirt has piled up.
Once the fence was unclipped, Dad came in with his 4010 and pulled all 70 posts.
The wood posts, Grandpa set in concrete. We turned around and pulled them up with the 3-point lift arms. Worked.
Once the posts were out of the way, we moved all the wire into the pasture. The plan is to pound the new posts and just bring the wire back in.
Some of it was pretty buried. But I'm committed to reusing it!
Then we disconnected the water line and rolled it into the field.
Once it was all clear, I grabbed the dozer to level out the line. Just give me an excuse to fire up the 450!
My hope was to just even everything out. There was a dead furrow from plowing over the years on one end.
And blow-dirt on the other end.
While we were at it, we cleaned up the north corner were the brace posts will go.
Should work.
The line is ready, as far as I'm concerned. Now we just have to set our brace posts, pound in 100 steal posts, and stretch our wire back up. That'll take some time. And, while we are at it, we want to do some pipeline work too. Hopefully, she'll be back up by the time the cows are calved out and ready to come home. Ranching forward.
