Fencing on STEEP HILLS! Day 2 Farm Fencing Competition!! 

Growing Pains not really

No

Third Gen fence builder here .Put them up hog tight and horse high then you got everything covered ; )

Not at all

Thanks Reef Club

Ur Very welcome

Thanks brotha...what a great time! Don't forget we'll get more technical in the next video!

Soon we'll have a farm day here! Where everyone can come play!

The farm I grew up on has been turned into a open field. When it was sold the new owner burned all the buildings down. It's sad to drive by now.

very true

Hey I'm a woman that has to argue with her husband when I need tools and equipment. I love running the farm at 65.

@@rosejafari8917 don't call them toys or he will never let you get an more. LOL

I have one here on the farm from ProTech now to use for a year or so

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Exactly! Much more versatile and far cheaper. Good call brother

what you see is the post vibrating because it's a 10 foot post driven nearly 5 feet into the ground...it's not shaking in the hole...it's tight as a banjo string in the hole....digging and tamping isn't as good because you're just mushing the loose dirt that you dug out...there is not loose dirt here brotha...these post are firmly planted in the ground

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Yeah, I suppose driven poles are ok. I was brought up with the holes mostly by hand in hard clay and tamping them in with a 1x1/2 board. Dad never settled for anything less than railroad cross ties and telephone poles he got from the REA for corner posts. Brought back one that was 3ft diameter one time !!!! Took 2 whole days to set that one !! Used our Ford 8n to stretch the woven, then a set of rope pullys specifically designed for barbed wire. (got a 4 inch scar on my left arm where the wire snapped at the other end and coiled back on me though. Could've been worse) Strung a lot of fence on those 60 acres back in '70, and they still stand today. Pretty cool videos though, Thanks !

Dug better than driven? Light grade material from China? BaHahahahahahahahah!

you hit the nail on the head

well...it's most certainly not the grand canyon brotha...but it is a hill and negotiating a hill takes skill. More details in tomorrow's vid

Every fencer in the video takes on steeper hills and rock. It's the life we live, and as tough as everyone wants it to be in their own backyard, it's the same the world around. Nobody's fencing off the nice flat clear land with no rock.

I’m sure they work on steeper and more demanding but you did describe it as steep! The whole comp was a bit staged seeing there will be huge numbers of people round the world ready to comment on the finished product! . Could you include judges comments and scoring . We need to see and assess for ourselves your competency. My personal quick assessment, as a contractor with 40yrs experience left me with a few uneasy feelings about the methods and standard of the work. However I might well be totally wrong as we couldn’t get close enough to the action to be accurate in commenting. Other countries run these competitions too, some cross world participation would be most interesting. After all some poor old farmer has to pay for what we do, cutting costs, saving time whilst having fun can only assist the agricultural economy. Still enjoyed the program look forward to more. Kiwi Pete.

@@peterpannell3908 So should we count you in for next year?

Sounds like a bit of John Wayne

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Not a bad guess, but no. It's Chuck Conners to Tommy Kirk in "Old Yeller". Here's a virtual cookie anyway. 🍪

So...some fence builders put post in "Square to the world" and some "plumb or level" depends on what the builder and or land owner wants. I personally prefer level or plumb with a level...not with the lay of the land. While driving down the highway pay attention to fences..you'll see all sorts!

On steep terrain, you lose post height on the angle. In other words, there is less post in the ground if it's level, and not perpendicular to the ground. A driven post is considerably stronger, and much faster than a dug in post.

Thanks Luke! Must be raining out ur way!

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Has been for a few days now. Me and Bart are cold and wet!

Rad!!

Not to get political on ya.....but I'm all for someone coming to this country to improve their lives and family. The system is corrupt and nearly impossible to navigate for these hard working people. Fix the system....build the wall or fence and let those who wanna contribute to society, come on and do it. Oh how soon we forget in this country that we're all immigrants unless we're Native Americans. Build the wall to keep out the corrupt and the drains on our society! Open the gates to others who want a better life in this land of opportunity......guess who's building our highways, houses and infrastructure in this country.....while an able bodied work force of unskilled labor is sitting at home milking unemployment checks and eating themselves into disability. Oops...there went my politics lol....what do you think Erik?

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We share the same opinion.

Some holes had to be pre drilled with an auger before driving the post due to rocks...but it's very unlikely that a post would break during driving

In hard rocky soil I'll break one on 10 wood post mostly the top blows out at a split... But pipe never breaks it just bends... You can drive pipe in places you would not think about augering...

Thanks Lukey Poo....and I managed to get a special little girl in both vids!

Yes...this year when I go to the fencing competition I'll do some detail on this

Steel is gonna out last the wood and might out last the wire!

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I'm not to sure about that. Wood post soaked in oil and diesel fuel, then a coat of fiber roof coating six inches above ground level... hundred years.... Or burnt wood in the ground... I've taken down alot of galvanized tube fencing that was maybe twenty years old and it was shot... Go to Vermont or upstate NY there are wooden fences that are over a hundred years old.... plus they look better

Still researching

Saturday 8:15am eastern ...we'll go over some of the bracing and wire

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Personal preference and experience

of course Fred...you do what works for you buddy

The even tension in undulating terrain problem has already been solved by Tornado Wire. Believe it or not, they have cracked the code to the magic formula for perfectly even line wire tension. Great idea though!

@@farmfencesolutionsllc that would be the little kinks along the fence?

Been thinking about it

Rhino is a cheap knock off of the REDI Driver. REDIBoss is the only way to go in a handheld gas powered driver.

@@farmfencesolutionsllc Thanks for the information, I've fixed a few of the Rgino ones and they're not bad but do have issues. They do work good but not sure how they compare to reliability, being around the same price.

Think of the tight wire like a bow and arrow...it's constantly pulling at the posts...take a moment to look at all the fencing on the side of the road as you drive...you'll see braces and corner posts heaved up out of the ground all over the place from poorly constructed fence

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Ah, ok, so the tension of the wire is putting so much pressure on the post itll pull it out yes? ok got it, thanks for explaining. :) tc Happy Farming

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Furthermore, I think Id prefer to have metal fencing as the wood would eventually rot I would think. I have had two privacy fences built on my little plot of ground and they BOTH did shoddy work, but I paid for it. The fences rotten and went out of alignment. Ive learned a valuable lesson, only NOW I cant have it rebuilt, no money lol lol

@@cathiwim when he brought that up, there was no mention of what you speak of. No frost heave, it was about putting the posts in at a slant due to the hillside. We were not discussing frozen ground here. tc

Darn right!

not an instructional video...but I do have plenty..and will have more this spring

Well dang buddy

Ur welcome Peter....thanks for being a great fan of the channel...I know you've been here for a long time buddy!

That is called a tension curve, and being high tensile steel, it will not relax over time. It helps the wire absorb thermal expansion/contraction, as well as impacts from animals, trees, and vehicles. Great question!

@@farmfencesolutionsllc That's a neat design- thanks for the response!

Boom! Luke got ya an answer! Awesome!

Thanks Luke!

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Anytime Ol' Son.

Glad ya enjoyed it Robert!

this is an educational seminar to help contractors learn from each other

check out day 3 of the fence build....we'll go over the braces in that video

Some of the best things are made in GB. I was made right here in the USA. LOL