Greg details electric fence maintenance and perimeter fence building.
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- Greg details electric fence maintenance and perimeter fence building. Winter is a great time to go around your farm and cut back the unwanted trees and brush that are encroaching on your fence. With all the leaves gone, the brush is much lighter to stack. Make sure you treat the stumps so that the trees do not grow back. For more grazing info check out my new book " How To Think Like A Grazier" on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net/books/
I'm glad you put me on to this fence system with timeless post. I've been clearing and building fence all winter and it's a 1000 times easier than barbed or hog wire especially when I'm doing it alone.
Great to hear!
Just like your grown-in fiberglass tree posts, that tree is wrapped all around that Model T underground.
With its roots on the gas pedal, right to the floor, it's living out the dream of all trees. A road trip.
At least the Ents' dream.
DAVID is another goldmine…. RAN all the way to the truck & back….not even outta breathe; his ENERGY & PASSION to learn is amazing. He’s another intern that should be making $100k running a million dollar livestock operation SOON. love the channel 👍💵
David has both passion and energy along with being a fine young person. We are blessed to have him working with us on our farms.
We’ve been building habitat brush piles since the 70’s.
Hard to believe it’s been that long age. Still doing that.
I remember reading that when you are learning how to do things that repeating the steps aloud and writing them down reinforces that information in your brain. Seeing and not doing often doesn’t work for me I need to build muscle memory . To understand the steps especially when working on a computer program I write all the steps down while someone is demonstrating how it works and use the list until my brain I has developed enough muscles memory with repetition to automatically move my mouse to the proper place on the screen . I taught my self to crochet with a book after failing to learn when a coworker tried to teach me by her example on how to do it. Also Don’t tell me three things to do give me a list because I suffer from door syndrome by the time I walk through two doorways I have forgotten what I need to do. I have learned so much over the years of watching your channel the repetition is working 🤔😃😉🤜🤛😘💞🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖🖖👍👍👍👍👍🤞🌟🤞🙋🏼♀️
9 inches snow ❄️ in North Central Arkansas. Temps 30 not terribly bad. Sheep , cattle, and lgd dogs taking it pretty good. Hay.
That's a great fence!
I'm doing winter cleaning too....best time when the leaves are off and the brush is dry.
I like to use the wire fasteners that you split for the wire & push it through the hole on the post
First! I was waiting for your video to pop up like a kid in a candy store. Just can’t get enough of them. Thanks again for all your videos! I can’t wait to start on my new fence but waiting for some awesome corner posts (hint hint😬) from a fantastic farmer. I want to be ready when the warmer weather appears. I know you are busy. We will be driving through Missouri sometime in February and might have to stop by and say hi but depends on how busy you are and how soon we need to be home too. I wouldn’t be picking up post though. Our vehicle probably be filled up with other stuff. It looked like the boys had fun in the snow yesterday that Jan put on your Facebook page.
Excellent video - Thanks!
As far as blood blisters go, I was told
Good judgment comes from experience.
And experience comes from bad judgment.
You got winter yesterday! Thanks for the tensioning advice. I think I have to loosen a few strands on my fence. Have a great day
Heller from Wisconsin here!
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@@Gatorgolfusa not too many Hellers out there. Are you Dutch German as well?
@@georgeheller2281 my dad was from Iowa and farmed with his dad when they moved to Wisconsin in the early 30's but dad quit farming after he got drafted!
@@Gatorgolfusa my grandfather and great grandfather were civil engineers from Minneapolis. My dad became a logger, and I am a concrete guy
My dad was a great one for parking old machinery in pastures. There it would sit, for 20-30 years!
Good Morning Greg, You did a video a while back with Ben and Isaac and in a small piece of that video you discussed the tools the boys were using to clean the fence row. You showed how they were cleaning the fence row, too, if my memory serves me correctly.
We have a lot of fence row to clean and are struggling with the project. Is there any chance you recall which video you did that showed the fence cleaning (I’ve looked several times and can’t find it) or maybe doing another that would focus on fence line cleaning. I’d think there are probably lots of viewers who would benefit from a good video on this topic. Thank you.
Our trees do not grow back. We paint the basal area of the stump right after we cut it with Crossbow. We tried spraying many years ago, trees always came back to life. If you paint the stump within 3 hours of cutting the tree, that kills it.
Our leased landowners don’t want dead trees or multi-flora rose bushes left scattered around the farm or in fence rows. It looks bad to have dead trees dotting the landscape.
@@jimmyjohnson7041 where do you get it from?
@@jimmyjohnson7041 looks like it gets everything!! Thanks Jimmy for sharing.
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Greg n jan teach by asking questions. Love it
My son's pet peeve is dumps on farms.
You turned the power off-I could tell-because when David grabbed it without gloves, he didn't jump and howl.
"We wanted it really bad." That says a ton!
When I was in Clemson in the early 1990s, my agmech lab instructor showed us all a fencepost made from recycled diapers. I have never seen them again, have you?
Now that's a fence that can keep some crap in
I’m using the gripples for my new high tensile fence , I probably have it too tight , but I only did straight line pulls and will do jumpers in the corners. We will see how it holds up
Can you explain "jumpers"?
Thanks.
@@rosalieroku3818 a wire that connects two hot wires going opposite directions on a corner post
This topic has brought to mind that big project you did out west, do you have any updates on what’s happening out there?
Nope, it is out of my control. Nothing is going on that I am aware of.
Thanks for the reply Greg, have a great day
Your channel is a huge wealth of information. Thank you for taking the time to share your experience. I'm looking into rotational grazing about 4-5 sheep on 7 acres in east Texas. What diameter is best for fiberglass posts 1 inch seems the best, what about 3/8 or 1/2 inch?
I would use 1”, much more durable
Thanks for another great video, I always appreciate learning from them. I'm about to fence my first 80 acres with timeless. Curious what spacing you use on your timeless perimeter post. All the folks selling them seem to want to sell you more than needed.
20-30 foot. On hilly terrain, 20 feet, on flat ground 30 feet.
how far can you run those fiberglass posts before you need another wood/metal post to tension to?
Getting ready to fence in another farm. I am going to use field fence (woven wire) on most of the perimeter with an electric offset on the inside. Any ideas of better insulators than the standard 6 inch offset plastic junkers? Id like to use high tensile electric but it goes beside a house. Once before I had an electric hi tensile fence beside a house and a kid ran his lawnmower into it and got tangled up in it. From now on I feel like woven wire next to residences are the best way to avoid that kind of thing.
Use 4-foot Timeless Fence posts for your offset hot wire. Works like a champ and no issues with those cheap ineffective plastic insulator standoffs.
Is there a place where you detail brand names you prefer? Specifically:
Perimeter posts (timeless from what I see)
Pasture/moveable posts step in style
High tensile wire
Polyrope/braid
Energizer
Reel
Tensioners (Daisy, mentioned here)
Any any other aspects of electric fencing you have a preferred brand on
Greg, do you have any opinion on the Gripple wire joiner/tensioners?
Not a fan of them on long distance tensioning. I have had them fail and the wire came out and is laying on the ground. For short distance tensioning they are okay. I love our Daisy Tensioners from Timeless Fence.
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Greg, I’m new to your channel. You do not have any problems with predators? You have two lines of high tensile wire but not sheep/goat no-climb fencing. Just curious how you deter coyotes and such?
We have four livestock guardian dogs that take their job very seriously.
Would aluminum wire work as good? Tim in northern TN
Aluminum wire is very conductive, but it also breaks easier than Hi-tensile steel wire. It is also more expensive to purchase.
@@jimmyjohnson7041 correct...I was asking about using aluminum wire to attach the electric wire to the post.
I bet that aircraft wire would be great but probably pricey
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