pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
Are you using telegraph poles for strainers? Looks smart. Hope the creosote post last.
All things Dairy
- Thread starter Cows 'n grass
- Start date
Just look at the quality of @Happy hillbily ’s photos @Beef farmer and hang your head in shame. You can even see the dog has a brown ear
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
No sheep yet, been pacing up and down the fence line all morning ???
Happy hillbily
Member
- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
No gate is hung on a concrete post the other side
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
Yes telegraph posts, @tepapa coats the cut ends with creosote, I'm undecided whether to cap the strainers with some plastic or tin, some posts I've put in are rotting from the top, inside out.
??? The posts last me out ?
- Location
- Northern Ireland
We hang gates off electric pole cuttings. Grand job. Heroes just concrete touch gate posts and crack them at the ground anyway.
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Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Love the fencing, glad im not the only dairy who dosnt just rely on one strand of electric! we have put just over 3000m up this spring, crash barrier, and red wood stakes, with gates all hung, and post and railing i added up invoices other night tad over £8m.
- Location
- South Molton
£8 million....be some nice fencing for that ?
Martyn
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- Location
- South west
Happy hillbily
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- Location
- Uwchaled, North Wales
I'm only putting the barbed at the bottom and two barbed at the top to stop next doors Welsh mountain ewes jumping and squeezeing under the fence, if the fence was only to keep my stock in, one run of netting would probably be enough ! ?
But seriously, don't think there's much point skimping on the materials, cost the same to put a sh1t fence up, as a good one, and bar any catastrophe these ones should outlast me. . There's a lot more to do, but it will be little and often I think.
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Creosote posts will do 50 years no bother, hell we’ve even got tanalised posts here, when it included arsenic , that are 1970s vintage and still good.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
I don't see many docks! ?
They will be there somewhere dont worry!
pine_guy
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- Location
- North Cumbria
I’m 40 and fences put in on a grant when I was maybe 8/9 I’m guessing, are just starting to rot off. Tanalised
Farmer1001
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I have the pleasure of seeing your cattle from time to time as I pass through, always admire them. Just wondered where the “leat” part of the prefix comes from? If you don’t mind me asking?
dinderleat
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- Location
- Wells
Thanks we don’t try to hold the traffic up too much. The little river that runs along the road in the village.
I love the names of places as I drive around.
Marsh Brook and Valleys End are next door to each other at the bottom of a massive valley with a stream next to it. Very wet.
Muddiford Lane - the soil up there isn't for the faint hearted.
Reminds me of some of our field names. Dont grow spuds in Stone Field!
Marsh Brook and Valleys End are next door to each other at the bottom of a massive valley with a stream next to it. Very wet.
Muddiford Lane - the soil up there isn't for the faint hearted.
Reminds me of some of our field names. Dont grow spuds in Stone Field!
There's a beef farm couple of villages away call Cow sh1t canyon by most of the locals and a can't remember it's proper name ?
- Location
- somerset
we have a copy of a farm map 1725, most of the fields still have the same names ! Archeologists showed us the tythe maps, from even earlier, slightly different, but basically the same, the life moves on, but land stays put.