We’ve been doing more ‘unfencing’. Oh, I do have a ‘thing’ for taking stuff down! The pictures are hard pressed to really tell the story, but this old fence is, as we used to say in the Real Estate business (usually referring to a bad roof) “is at the end of its useful life”. The fence line was a meandering trail, crooked and leaning in many places.
…. held up with a farmer’s special ‘go to’ supplies…metal fence stakes and ‘blue chain’ (baling twine).
Most of the posts were quite rotten and once the ‘blue chain’ was removed pushed over quite easily and yes, that is sort of my favorite part.
The rails pulled off easily as well, so it was a productive and rewarding day for My Loving Spouse and I, with surprisingly few injuries. At the end of the day, only two smashed toes and one giant splinter. We were even able to begin putting up the new fence. The posts are recycled railroad ties and most of the rails will be salvaged from the old fence. We did run into one little problem though, those railroad ties are really, really heavy…and I mean heavy. By the time we were putting in the third post, we’d fashioned some carrier straps to assist us with the lifting, but I think when we start on the rest of the fence we’ll need more help in the form of strong young men, so we’ll probably be ‘inviting’ Number Four Son over to play. Just at the time the rails were going on Number Two Son came home with a couple of friends (girls). One of which said, “Power tools!!! Can I help? I love this stuff” and they proceeded to help finish off the day’s work. Uhmmm, yes, she can come back!
We have a long way to go, before this job is done. This fence was so obviously in need of removal and in the center of the farm, that it is an improvement to just have it started…and so we are pretty happy with it.
Isn’t baler twine great stuff! A bumper (fender to you guys) was held on my Vauxhall for many years by a bit of baler twine. Great to see the progress, we are saving hard and looking forward to a visit – at the rate we are saving we guess the visit should just about co-incide with you guys having done all the heavy stuff!
We look forward to it, I imagine your brother will have a bit of fun ‘work’ for you with Whoa Nelly.
Hi Ellen, You, Your Loving Spouse and family are amazing. I cannot believe how much you have gotten done in such a short period of time. Do you remember, when we were out on caravan together several years ago, me, talking about my desire to get my garage organized? Well, the only thing that has changed is that there is more stuff packed into the garage and a bigger mess!!! How do you get your crew motivated? If there is a secret , you could make millions of dollars…
The problem is that you don’t have enough garages. I keep the garage tidy, but Pat’s workshop is a nightmare (in my opinion) but we don’t realy share that space so I don’t have to motivate him.
Thanks friend!
Glad injuries were minimal!