The Fencing Picture Thread

[egbert]

Our sawmill produced quarter sawn larch posts pre the days of treatment.
It was hard work as each round was manually handled.
You could expect 30+ years life from them.
They were a good market for early plantation thinning.

The Risborough Lab tested treated timber for longevity and one of the quickest rotting timber is sycamore. This rose to the top of the longevity list after treatment!
I have some garden furniture that is made from sycamore and that was treated when a flat-pack and this has stood in both my gardens for 40 years to date

The minute the chemical composition was reduced to just food colouring ‘treatment’ became a waste of time in both senses.

Personally I use creosoted round 4”-5” 6’ posts and 7”-8” 8’ strainers from Mcveigh Parker.
My old Parmiter bashes in the posts nicely but I have to drill a 6” pilot hole for the strainers then bash them.
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I experimented a bit when tantalising fl was worth something.

Sycamore i found didn't last as long as you'd like- and is as weak as widdle.
Beech took treatment well, and is strong....still no good for ground contact though.
(I was working in a building today with beech cladding 30 years plus old)

Oak sapwood treats very well, NB sapwood is as strong as heartwood, but only as long as it's fresh.
I was working on raised decking made of just such material, been in situ for mebbe 20 years.

 

[ARW]

I’ve got a standard Quickfencer and a 4ft Quickfencer which you can tie off with and reel out with at either side and can do 2x barb same time as net

 

[ARW]

I would like to try a solonet, I like the look of the excavator arm wire unrolled/puller, but our 5 tonner isn’t heavy enough for big pulls off the arm

 

[Oscar]

Sound like we've all bloody got one

Solo Trac and Net here as well , brilliant kit !

 

[Fendt516profi]

Don’t worry I’ve got a bog standard quickfencer

I've got a fast fencer as couldn't afford a quick one

 

[Big_Alan]

Solotrak and net here too. Would be lost without it now. Made a huge difference to us and struggle to see anything about as good and effective.

 

[Oscar]

Bit premature and a blatant plug , but I am fast heading for finishing my HLS scheme fencing and gates so if anybody is intrested or knows someone else maybe, but I will be selling my machine this summer ( 2022 Solotrac c/w solonet ), purely because the farm will now be fully fenced and I don t forsee me doing fencing as a sideline going forward .
Any questions etc then just ask .

 

[S J H]

We will have to start a solo owners club !! Quiet a few solo trak owners on here too.

You boys are worse than Bryce owners

 

[ARW]

You boys are worse than Bryce owners

Be careful round them lads, they will spit at your mere excuse of a post knocker and exclaim there Bryce knocks in 300ft poles into the earths core anywhere in the world without slew

 

[Macsky]

Bit premature and a blatant plug , but I am fast heading for finishing my HLS scheme fencing and gates so if anybody is intrested or knows someone else maybe, but I will be selling my machine this summer ( 2022 Solotrac c/w solonet ), purely because the farm will now be fully fenced and I don t forsee me doing fencing as a sideline going forward .
Any questions etc then just ask .

How much did you have to do when it justified a solotrac?

 

[Tubbylew]

Be careful round them lads, they will spit at your mere excuse of a post knocker and exclaim there Bryce knocks in 300ft poles into the earths core anywhere in the world without slew

Never understood how they manage under trees

 

[Fendt516profi]

Bit premature and a blatant plug , but I am fast heading for finishing my HLS scheme fencing and gates so if anybody is intrested or knows someone else maybe, but I will be selling my machine this summer ( 2022 Solotrac c/w solonet ), purely because the farm will now be fully fenced and I don t forsee me doing fencing as a sideline going forward .
Any questions etc then just ask .

How much ££££ and what does it weigh

 

[tepapa]

How much ££££ and what does it weigh

At a guess (depends on the option) but it'll sit about 4.5 tons. Low loader or lorry job to move.

There is a towable solo in the pipe line but it wouldn't match the ability of the larger solotrak.

 

[Tubbylew]

Bit premature and a blatant plug , but I am fast heading for finishing my HLS scheme fencing and gates so if anybody is intrested or knows someone else maybe, but I will be selling my machine this summer ( 2022 Solotrac c/w solonet ), purely because the farm will now be fully fenced and I don t forsee me doing fencing as a sideline going forward .
Any questions etc then just ask .

That'll get snapped up no bother. I missed out on couple of used ones before I ordered mine.

 

[Tubbylew]

At a guess (depends on the option) but it'll sit about 4.5 tons. Low loader or lorry job to move.

There is a towable solo in the pipe line but it wouldn't match the ability of the larger solotrak.

Truth be told, it doesn't matter what knocker you have, they're all too heavy to tow leagally with a truck imho, just the few hand tools still needed weighs a surprising amount when you add it all up.

 

[tepapa]

Truth be told, it doesn't matter what knocker you have, they're all too heavy to tow leagally with a truck imho, just the few hand tools still needed weighs a surprising amount when you add it all up.

Yep, most if not all towable's are on the limit for weight

 

[Christoph1945]

My father and brother were fencing down this hedgeline and found an old cast iron trough on the line, dcided to pick it up and take it home for my mum as a raised flower bed (It's over 100 years old and a nice example of old craftsmanship). Reversed back and sunk into a wet spot that wasnt at all visible, they had been up and down the line twice no problem and this was something else.

Took a 15 ton machine and various broken ropes and chains to extract it.
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Quite an oops moment then?

 

[Fendt516profi]

My father and brother were fencing down this hedgeline and found an old cast iron trough on the line, dcided to pick it up and take it home for my mum as a raised flower bed (It's over 100 years old and a nice example of old craftsmanship). Reversed back and sunk into a wet spot that wasnt at all visible, they had been up and down the line twice no problem and this was something else.

Took a 15 ton machine and various broken ropes and chains to extract it.
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Now see if they'd had a slew on it they could of slewed knocker round put hydraulic foot down on mast lifted back end of tractor up a boomed side shift out. But no they had a Bryce so were stuck

 

[Willie adie]

Be careful round them lads, they will spit at your mere excuse of a post knocker and exclaim there Bryce knocks in 300ft poles into the earths core anywhere in the world without slew

Aye and when you ask how you knock in a post that is directly behind or to the left rear of the tractor, they will reply," why would you want or need to do that anyway" and in a tone that suggests you are a f**king idiot

 

[Oscar]

How much did you have to do when it justified a solotrac?

I am a one man operation and no self employed guys available so knew it was just down to me . Gone into HLS , full arable reversion on 320 acs . Fencing , FG2 - 26000 m plus another 1250 m which needed doing but did not get put into HLS ( mistake on my part ), 54 gates plus another 8 I am replacing posts ( 128 gate posts total) , 76 tree cages ( 4 x 10ft posts per cage)
Machine arrived end November 2022 and as of this evening , I have about 4500 m left of FG2 plus 28 gateposts .Every thing else is done , single handed !
Got lambing from 03.01.24 so should finish in Febuary but have two shed refits and two handling yards to do in spring around my contract spraying so probably May before machine is available .
There is no way without this machine ( or an alternative ) could I have done the work by myself both from a physical , practical point of view but also getting on the ground over the winter. I have made a bit of a mess even with the tracks on certain fields but a tractor would have been impossible . I did no fencing from mid May 23 too mid September 23 but have been 5/6 days wk last winter and since October 23 to present .
I am very happy with my decision and choice , yes expensive and maybe extreme but the job is done in 16 months ( nearly !!!)
Remember , I only had two years to get HLS capital works completed as per rules .