Stock Fencing

Clayfarmer said:

This is taken from a corporate training bulletin on handling Emails effectively, its not meant to be funny but.....
To conquer the time suck, surge your productivity and make more room in your day.

Remember an Email from someone who has already spoken or written to you is almost always more important than from someone we don't know.

Email is the equivalent to an interminable game of Tetris — one that you can never truly win. Accept this, you’ll be better equipped to handle your inbox. You’ll never win, because as soon as you clear your inbox and get to sleep, you’ll wake up in the morning with a hundred more, You shouldn’t worry if you have thousands of emails, you’re not alone.

Email shall not be your first priority, ok, one of your priorities, but not your number one priority. An email is actually just another person’s to-do list that has been assigned to you. So, it should be an item on your list, but not at the top. Scan your emails in the morning to see what’s important, then close your inbox entirely to remove the distraction. Then, dedicate blocks of time to sort, delete and respond. Try containing your email-related prioties within those designated times: Multi-tasking will do you much more harm than good.

Not all emails are created equal.
While the note from your boss holds more weight than that newsletter, your brain will consider the two to be equally important. That can be taxing on your productivity and really stressful. To remedy, delete in bulk and bucket and label email based on its sender and subject. Schedule some time on your calendar to sort through all the nonsense — group them all together and click “delete.

And a little advice for those who happen to be the inbox-cluttering-culprit themselves: Know that it takes longer to process an email than it does to write one. Consider bolding key sentences and takeaways, which help clarify the task of the recipient. And when possible, keep it short, if you can fit an email message into a subject line, that is very helpful.

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david c said:

Have tried casting strainers in the past and they worked OK but due to worrying about them breaking they ended up quite big, about a foot square and so took a bit of working with to get plums in hole etc. Can't get any concrete sleepers here (which I think would be ideal) so have started using hard plastic piping about 8" diameter and wall thickness about 3/4 of inch and putting that in ho!e and filling with cement and rebar, a lot easier.

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Bury the Trash said:

Is there anyone on here who casts their own concrete strainers / struts...... or posts even? .....as a matter of interest.

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Ukjay said:

Hi Everyone,

I need to add some additional stock fencing in respect to moving forward with our plans to put some native sheep into one of our paddocks, whereby the various information I am reading is making my head spin.
Now I know there is more that one way to skin a cat so to speak, but surely the depth you sink a post into the ground should not differ much for sheep?

We are leaning towards using 100mm round posts we think (to give us some chance of getting abit of longevity out of the installation, but even that raises questions over quality of timber these days.

I contacted the company who was mentioned on here that supplies pressurised creosote posts - but received no answer back from the company, so are there any other companies who supply quality posts worth considering?

The fence will be utilising the existing stock fence which we will straighten up, then we are adding another fence behind this, then we will add some hawthorn hedging in between, so any advise would be greatly appreciated on how deep to sink the posts, and more importantly where to purchase the materials.

Thanks in advance.

Jay

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Bury the Trash said:

Brilliant .... and self insulating for possible electric use

Do you use a poker?......or not bother if mix is right........ and then push in a couple of rebar?

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Ukjay said:

This thread sure has diversified aint it. Stock fencing, Emails and Concrete Fencing.

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Ukjay said:

I know this thread has gone off piste so to speak, but the answer to your suggestion is Nope - as said previously.

I will not chase a business to hand them my money purely through the principle of being ignored via one of their advertised contact methods.
Additionally, I apologise if this is not what you wish to hear, and I am sorry if this does not suit your methods, but I work bl**dy hard for my money, therefore I am not prepared to chase a businessman / woman to buy their goods, simply because they cant be ar*ed to return correspondence to a potential customer!

Business is hard at the best of times, even more so now - whereby it must be great to be able to ignore customers, but times like these, every potential customer is one who is prepared to help keep you in business!

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david c said:

Thanks, never even considered the insulating properties. Have been hand digging holes as deep as poss then cutting a notch out of post with chainsaw, a bit like a slice of melon a and dropping it in. Get mate with pan mixer to fill up hole on outside of pipe first asnd pack cement in with 2x inch. Notch allows some of cement to run into pipe and get a grip of it then fill up pipe with pail (worst bit) and put in a couple of 6/7 foot bits of rebar or old angle. Have just been ramming with stick and seems OK, plus don't have a poker. Only real snag is a staple won't go all the wat in and grip wire just bends when hits cement so have to gripple everything, can cut out squares for stays by drilling a load of holes in the shape of a square and bashing out plastic with old chisel

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suffolksmallholder said:

I'd add some 'river washed sharp sand' to my ordinary aggregate & I'd use a poker too. I have used this method for big chimney lintels in the past but TBH I've never cast a fence post! I'd add some reobar too. I have no faith in todays so-called pressure treated posts as I have been replacing supposed 'quality' treated posts FIVE years after banging them into the ground! I'm replacing every post with creasoted items. The bonkers bit is I should have known better being involved in the raw material supply & treatment a while ago, grrrr.
http://www.batsfordtimber.co.uk/ A heads up for creasoted posts. I supplied blanks many years ago!

The biggest problem with creasoted products is that unless the actual treatment plant has its own delivery system most hauliers won't allow creasoted products on their wagons. I'm not surprised but don't forget this when ordering...
SS

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Greedy said:

Is this a recommendation for Batsford?
I am just trying a sample of the creosoted 75-100mm posts.

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Ukjay said:

Handle as in what way, for fencing you mean?

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David. said:

I had used Batsford for some years.
The last lot of creosote posts I bought came from Calders and Grandidge.
The next lot won't come from Batsford either.

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