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- Owaka, New Zealand
They lift the wire up at a preset time to allow the stock to move, you can set them to keep the wire up or put it down later.
"Improving Our Lot" - Planned Holistic Grazing, for starters..
- Thread starter Kiwi Pete
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Thanks, are they expensive?
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
Not if you value time
that's the main reason for laziness, shifting mobs "takes time"at the rate I pay myself, each one is about 2 hours worth, so cheap as chips
exmoor dave
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- exmoor, uk
Yeap great for patching holes in fences that will last a few more years before a full change
When I first came back home, we had alot of fences that dad was up to 3 or 4 layers of patching works
he is the fence patching king! But at 80yrs old now, in his young days wire net was treated like a golden farm asset due to the expense!
A decade or so ago we took some winter keep and part of the deal was that we patched holes in the perimeter fence, I occasionally go past that block and our patches are still there but the fences either side are long rotted away
Only ow it should be, tis allwright for Pete and his mates down yonder to talk, milk and honey, milk and honey, e don't no what tis to struggle and make doYeap great for patching holes in fences that will last a few more years before a full change
When I first came back home, we had alot of fences that dad was up to 3 or 4 layers of patching works
But at 80yrs old now, in his young days wire net was treated like a golden farm asset due to the expense!
A decade or so ago we took some winter keep and part of the deal was that we patched holes in the perimeter fence, I occasionally go past that block and our patches are still there but the fences either side are long rotted away
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
anyone would think the buggers invented it to yer um talk
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
I bet we didn't invent fecking barb wire though 
Only one more bit to coil up and add to the heap of "Dennis' treasures" and one more row of concrete posts.
The end is in sight (for this side of the ranch anyway)
Hopefully the end is in sight for these 96 big steers as well as we're running out of fences to hold them in.
Plenty of grub though, this is our monitor cell that we kinda stuffed up in winter when it tipped down
if we destock shortly then we can eek out to that 100- day round I want to be on, which will let us run a lot more over winter than before
and that will pay for converting the other bit of the ranch, roughly as much infrastructure going in over there but ½ the area - the paddocks will be ½ the size as well.
Only one more bit to coil up and add to the heap of "Dennis' treasures" and one more row of concrete posts. The end is in sight (for this side of the ranch anyway)
Hopefully the end is in sight for these 96 big steers as well as we're running out of fences to hold them in.
Plenty of grub though, this is our monitor cell that we kinda stuffed up in winter when it tipped down
if we destock shortly then we can eek out to that 100- day round I want to be on, which will let us run a lot more over winter than before
and that will pay for converting the other bit of the ranch, roughly as much infrastructure going in over there but ½ the area - the paddocks will be ½ the size as well.
Did you ever see the western about the man who hated barbed wire ?I bet we didn't invent fecking barb wire though
The end is in sight (for this side of the ranch anyway)
Hopefully the end is in sight for these 96 big steers as well as we're running out of fences to hold them in.
Plenty of grub though, this is our monitor cell that we kinda stuffed up in winter when it tipped downView attachment 942063
if we destock shortly then we can eek out to that 100- day round I want to be on, which will let us run a lot more over winter than before
and that will pay for converting the other bit of the ranch, roughly as much infrastructure going in over there but ½ the area - the paddocks will be ½ the size as well.
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- somerset
old chap who used to work for us, long gone, always swore barbed wire was invented by a lady, and she should have it pulled slowly up and down, between her legs, that was a censored version. Not sure how well we would cope without though.
Fenwick
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- Bretagne France
Not if you value time
at the rate I pay myself, each one is about 2 hours worth, so cheap as chips
you could bé a politician with an answer liké that!
308 dollars US. plus a sh!t load of postage and assurance.
- Location
- Owaka, New Zealand
That was a good one, I never really got into westerns much but I know the one you mean
"rude to point" at the target
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- Owaka, New Zealand
No cheap labour-saving device is expensive if you put a value on your own time, what's an evening with children and fishing-rods "worth"?you could bé a politician with an answer liké that!
308 dollars US. plus a sh!t load of postage and assurance.
I still like to move the livestock, and they like me doing it.... but we all need time out to do the stuff that really matters.
I think we both paid about the same figure, interestingly they are cheaper than the Batt-latch gate opener and a lot better suited to operating techno, gateways are exactly what we want to do away with.
Gateways
Big troughs
tracks
repetitive "work"
everything needs to be able to 'flex'
Fenwick
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- Bretagne France
Couldn't agréé more!
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Can't remember what it was called but I think Kirk Douglas was the star. "I don't like wire and I don't like people that use it!"
Love a good western
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- Glen Clova, Angus, DD8 4RD
Do you harrow your winter fields? I have had my sheep plus 4 horses on one large field for the winter. Sheep have the run of the whole lot. Horses are behind 1 strand of poly wire to stop them getting on the wettest bits. It's now pretty bare but the grass is really starting to come through. I have been feeding adlib haylage in wheeled feeders that I have moved regularly so poaching is bad on the whole but there are a few areas that are quite rutted (thanks horses). The animals will come off the field at the end of March ish and then it will be rested for as long as it needs. Last year I chain harrowed all of my fields in spring. Towards the end of the summer I sold some ewes and I can still see slight marks in the ground where the 4x4 and trailer drove across the field, even though I don't recall the ground being soft when they came. I am now wondering if I should not harrow at all, to avoid compaction (it would be a chain harrow behind my 4x4). I am thinking of just creating cells and moving the sheep around the rutted areas, when the weather is right, just to pat everything down level again. What do you think? It's old permanent pasture. We don't really need this field in the summer but will probably rotate animals on and off it to stop the grass getting too long and then it will be winter grazing again from around the start of November. Thanks all.
No I can't remember what it was called, didn't he come off his horse and get tangled up in some or something lie that, haven't seen it for years, very often watch a western if there is one on, better than most of the rubbishCan't remember what it was called but I think Kirk Douglas was the star. "I don't like wire and I don't like people that use it!"
Love a good western
Woolless
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- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Yes, he had scars on his chest, I think. Shirt pulled open for dramatic effect! Must try and find it.
JohnGalway
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- Connemara, Ireland