I just know that one day we will be watching a video of the two of you reworking that gate. If I was a betting man, I would wager that the gate will be level by the time you run your steers into that pasture. ;-)
Great job 👍, I would redo the gate like you said you should have, raise the pins hinges and add some stone underneath and maybe even up the ground on the inner side to let the gate travel both ways to make that double way lock 🔒 usable. You did an excellent job with the stock panel no one could have done a better job with it.
Hey Evan. Put a brick under the upper side of the gate and a cinder block under the lower side to hold your gate. Fine tune it after and the attach your hinges. Then grade the lower side
You and your wife are perfectionist your fence looks absolutely fantastic you see things we don't see of all the firm's I go and watch is best-looking ever
Another project complete, good looking pasture. I like your idea of adding rock/gravel to that one gate to make it level/more level, I think it would look much better.
Thanks for more fencing lessons Evan and Rebecca, looks great. Downhill slopes are tough to install gates in without lots of ground work. It looks alright. Stay safe and keep up the fun, Fred.
Miss Rebekah has got her "fence" down! Wow. Nice to have such a good helper. Building fences is tough. Don't be too hard on yourselves! And not to be too punny ... But we all know how stretched for time you are! 🙂
Get job Evan looks good will and will hold the animals in. As great to have a good helper working along side you. Helps the day go by faster and adds productivity, and last always someone to talk with and see something that you may overlook.
Great job...on the first gate would recommend that it opens "in" and hits the post as a stop. That way if they push against it (and they will) the gate is hitting the post.
Good job on the fence. We used two 2x4's and bolted three bolts and sandwiched the wire in-between, I have not used the wedge woven wire stretchers before. It's hard to hang a gate on uneven ground, I've hung dozens of gates and I still issues with uneven post for gate openings. I enjoyed watching, thanks for sharing, have a nice day.
Great video! You gave me some good ideas for the fences I need to build this winter. Not getting any livestock on our new 45 acre farm until spring so I am giving myself some time to plan and build in the cooler months.
Awesome job you two! Evan, you are your own worst critic! I’ve never seen such nice detail on anything you do! Keep up the great work y’all! Enjoying it!!
JudithB Looks great to me!! We had our 20 acres divided in quarters, with the barn lot in the middle and loading pen. It was easy to move the cows from pasture to pasture by clapping hands and calling them. We cut hay on east and west pasture, south pasture had the pond and n. pasture was a rocky mess so not much grass. After cutting hay, we let the cows in to clean the edges and any left over, then close it back up, and open the other hay field to be cleaned, then close up to grow next crop of hay. In winter, we opened one hay field at a time to graze and take pressure off south field. Worked well, and the cows had to go under bug thing passing thru the barn yard too.
Tires me out watching Rebecca and Evan work so hard, But this farm is shaping up quickly and this is my favorite TH-cam channel. Evan, one day when you have time, would you please discuss your cameras and the editing software you use? Thanks.
Very nice looking fence. You were making me nervous when you were trying to unjam the come-a-long. I was sitting here watching and kept saying, "Watch your fingers, those things hurt like crazy if they get you." (voice of experience)
Sggest you swing the first gate into the pasture. that way no tree cutting, cattle push against so, the strong post is great as gate stop. and gate can free swing into pasture, so road is not bloacked.
i always strip out barbs on the ends of my wires saves the fingers later, when we built our corral we put in lots of gates some on rings that pivot around a pipe post able to go about 200 deg or so helps lots in working cattle or other animals the loading alley has 3 gates in 15 ft or so, 8ft across one right at where the trailer sets to crowd into the trailer with loaded lots of cattle by myself with the setup.
Greetings from Australia...good job on those fences mate! I prefer to use galvanised steel strainer posts with bolt on braces for gate fittings - makes adjustments SO much easier. That said, those timber posts do look good! Seems you folk in the US use timber posts a lot more than we do here in Oz...on new fences, steel is about all you see over here. Really enjoy your vids...
We have really poor availability of steel posts. We can get timber posts just about anywhere. Steel posts are also much more expensive than wood. Last time I checked they were almost 10 times the price. one 4" sch 40 post 10' long is about 400 usd
Regarding that gate, on Welsh hill farms such as the one that I grew up on, what we do is hang the gate so that it is level and either put a large log underneath the gap (to stop lambs from crawling under) or for a more practical solution is to make a triangular attachment for the bottom of the gate that fills the gap and moves with the gate. Adding dirt underneath means that you create a ridge, making going in and out with a tractor more difficult. Conversely, you could dig the other side, so that if your field also acts as a hay field (for example), you have a flat surface for going in and out, meaning that wide implements do not lean to one side and hit the gate post at the top when going in and out. As you have it, you are putting too much strain on the gate attachment points as well as the post.
When you have the correct steel post at height . Put the post pounder back on , rap some paper around at the height of where the top of post inside the post pounder is spray paint the top of the pounder , this will give you the height of the post without lifting it on an off to measure !
this seemed to take longer than the big pasture! But then I think you mostly did it evenings and days off, when you took vacation time to build the other fence. At last it's done!
Two things I do different you might try. I cut h braces with a chainsaw. And pins I use a short piece of rebar cut on a chop saw. Thoes pins are expensive here
I sure hope the price of gripples, has come down. When they first came out, they tried selling them to the mines. Needless to say they where not a big seller. Cable clamps and a Klein Chicago grip to tension, for hanging messenger wire.
Don't beat yourself up just take your tractor and take a bucket off of the high-end or two and then put it down at the low in make it big enough so you can swing the gate both ways
What are the name of those clips you used to tie your fence ends together? Went to my fence supplier and he never heard of them. They would make life so much easier.
Cable pullers are a loathsome invention. And cable jamming between sheave and cheeks is a hassle. Replace that "axle" pin/cotter with a bolt and Nylock nut to adjust clearance between sheave and cheek. Might prevent future jams. Good job on the fence (but I don't think I could "live with" that one gate either...)
Easier way to drive in steel post in it you measure how far up in that driver that it goes and put a mark there they all you don’t have to lift it off every time makes it easier.
Question: is there a reason you don't hang the gates first and then finish the rest of the fence? It seems like the gates have the least wiggle room for error, so I am wondering if there is something that stops you from doing them first because I have never built this kind of fence and am about to.
I use 7 foot t-post on my woven wire fence installation. It is tall enough to put a barb wire above the woven wire fence. or a high tensil wire. So the total fence height could be 54 to 56 inches tall. So I have about 2 feet in the ground. A 6.5 foot T-post would probably work fine, if you wanted to save a few dollars.
Well, I think you're gettin to be a legitimate farmer !! Why? Ya just never give up, find away, Ya just keep "Plowing" away. Get that job done..move on to the next project!!
You build the nicest fences I've ever seen for livestock and farmland and such. Very impressive.
I’m glad you mentioned the bit about not using the tractor. I’m sitting here thinking I’d use a tractor too but you saved me some grief. Thank you 🙏🏼
I just know that one day we will be watching a video of the two of you reworking that gate. If I was a betting man, I would wager that the gate will be level by the time you run your steers into that pasture. ;-)
Just grade out the high side of your gates, cut and reweld to shorten the gate so it will swing both ways. As usual you guys did a great job
Very nice job the two of you. You provided more room for your animals to roam, awesome. Happy Father’s Day 👨 Evan!!!
Great job 👍, I would redo the gate like you said you should have, raise the pins hinges and add some stone underneath and maybe even up the ground on the inner side to let the gate travel both ways to make that double way lock 🔒 usable. You did an excellent job with the stock panel no one could have done a better job with it.
Nice job 👍 The two of you make a great team. Happy father's day
Hey Evan. Put a brick under the upper side of the gate and a cinder block under the lower side to hold your gate. Fine tune it after and the attach your hinges. Then grade the lower side
You and your wife are perfectionist your fence looks absolutely fantastic you see things we don't see of all the firm's I go and watch is best-looking ever
Another project complete, good looking pasture. I like your idea of adding rock/gravel to that one gate to make it level/more level, I think it would look much better.
Great job your wife is a good assistant
Rachel and Evan as always wonderful job on the fence and everything else! God bless y'all!
I know some guys like to put top hinge pointing down to prevent gate theft, but if you point it up it will help support weight of the gate.
The Happiest of Father's Day, Evan. Enjoy.
I don’t know why, but I love a fence with gates.😊
En joy the video Evan and Rebb .
You have a really nice place. Enjoy the videos.
Thanks for more fencing lessons Evan and Rebecca, looks great. Downhill slopes are tough to install gates in without lots of ground work. It looks alright. Stay safe and keep up the fun, Fred.
Miss Rebekah has got her "fence" down! Wow. Nice to have such a good helper. Building fences is tough. Don't be too hard on yourselves! And not to be too punny ... But we all know how stretched for time you are! 🙂
It looks awesome to me. As long as it keeps the cattle in.
You're good at welding you could always shorten that gate and weld it back together so it will swing both ways.
It looks fine, as long as you are satisfied that’s all that matters! Great job!
Get job Evan looks good will and will hold the animals in. As great to have a good helper working along side you.
Helps the day go by faster and adds productivity, and last always someone to talk with and see something that you may overlook.
Great job on the fencing!
Good job Y'all!!!
Great job...on the first gate would recommend that it opens "in" and hits the post as a stop. That way if they push against it (and they will) the gate is hitting the post.
Good job on the fence. We used two 2x4's and bolted three bolts and sandwiched the wire in-between, I have not used the wedge woven wire stretchers before. It's hard to hang a gate on uneven ground, I've hung dozens of gates and I still issues with uneven post for gate openings. I enjoyed watching, thanks for sharing, have a nice day.
I really like the job you have done on your fences. It is hard work.
Great video! You gave me some good ideas for the fences I need to build this winter. Not getting any livestock on our new 45 acre farm until spring so I am giving myself some time to plan and build in the cooler months.
The farm looks great
Looks great Rebekah and Even. Good to get another big job done.
Looks great Evan ,Rebecca nice work
Happy Father’s Day
another good video. thank you.
I bet it looks really nice as you drive down the driveway👍
Awesome job you two! Evan, you are your own worst critic! I’ve never seen such nice detail on anything you do! Keep up the great work y’all! Enjoying it!!
My OCD says that gate will not work at an angle like that LOL. Looks good guys, your whole property looks good.
JudithB Looks great to me!! We had our 20 acres divided in quarters, with the barn lot in the middle and loading pen. It was easy to move the cows from pasture to pasture by clapping hands and calling them. We cut hay on east and west pasture, south pasture had the pond and n. pasture was a rocky mess so not much grass. After cutting hay, we let the cows in to clean the edges and any left over, then close it back up, and open the other hay field to be cleaned, then close up to grow next crop of hay. In winter, we opened one hay field at a time to graze and take pressure off south field. Worked well, and the cows had to go under bug thing passing thru the barn yard too.
Thank you
Tires me out watching Rebecca and Evan work so hard, But this farm is shaping up quickly and this is my favorite TH-cam channel. Evan, one day when you have time, would you please discuss your cameras and the editing software you use? Thanks.
That is a beautiful piece of fence. Good job 🦞
you need a barbed wire on the top,keep the cows off it,you can adjust those gates later ,main thing grass gets used,nice work guys
I've said many times. I love this guy
Happy Father’s Day Evan 🤙
Adding a spring loaded weel o hay gate will help. That's a long gate 🍻
Very nice looking fence. You were making me nervous when you were trying to unjam the come-a-long. I was sitting here watching and kept saying, "Watch your fingers, those things hurt like crazy if they get you." (voice of experience)
Yep, move the second gate up to next section, put post in old gate area, but do it your way, works as much as you want it to.👍👍
As usual, you guys did a great job
Grate job on the fence. Looking good took a little time but love it good info on how you due on the fence from steve c from state Oregon
On the second gate, maybe hang it on the high side, and then back fill the low side?
Good job man good video
Nice job!
Fences and gates all work. It looks great 👍 Your setting things up like Pete at Just a Few Acres Farm. Perfect
Great job!
Happy Father’s Day to you
Good looking fence. Pete at A Few Acres Farm suggested that I come check your channel out.
Nice fence
Sggest you swing the first gate into the pasture. that way no tree cutting, cattle push against so, the strong post is great as gate stop. and gate can free swing into pasture, so road is not bloacked.
i always strip out barbs on the ends of my wires saves the fingers later, when we built our corral we put in lots of gates some on rings that pivot around a pipe post able to go about 200 deg or so helps lots in working cattle or other animals the loading alley has 3 gates in 15 ft or so, 8ft across one right at where the trailer sets to crowd into the trailer with loaded lots of cattle by myself with the setup.
Greetings from Australia...good job on those fences mate! I prefer to use galvanised steel strainer posts with bolt on braces for gate fittings - makes adjustments SO much easier. That said, those timber posts do look good! Seems you folk in the US use timber posts a lot more than we do here in Oz...on new fences, steel is about all you see over here. Really enjoy your vids...
We have really poor availability of steel posts. We can get timber posts just about anywhere. Steel posts are also much more expensive than wood. Last time I checked they were almost 10 times the price. one 4" sch 40 post 10' long is about 400 usd
Great job 👍🏼
nice video, thx for sharing. If I should do it, I would redo the gate now... Greetings from Houthalen-Belgium
If you get a cold cold winter wont the wire tend to contract and break. The fence is very professional.
I haven't had it break in the winter. But I guess it could happen.
I’d throw a strand of barbed wire on top, it only takes one critter leaning over field fence to really trash it
Regarding that gate, on Welsh hill farms such as the one that I grew up on, what we do is hang the gate so that it is level and either put a large log underneath the gap (to stop lambs from crawling under) or for a more practical solution is to make a triangular attachment for the bottom of the gate that fills the gap and moves with the gate. Adding dirt underneath means that you create a ridge, making going in and out with a tractor more difficult. Conversely, you could dig the other side, so that if your field also acts as a hay field (for example), you have a flat surface for going in and out, meaning that wide implements do not lean to one side and hit the gate post at the top when going in and out. As you have it, you are putting too much strain on the gate attachment points as well as the post.
When you have the correct steel post at height . Put the post pounder back on , rap some paper around at the height of where the top of post inside the post pounder is spray paint the top of the pounder , this will give you the height of the post without lifting it on an off to measure !
this seemed to take longer than the big pasture! But then I think you mostly did it evenings and days off, when you took vacation time to build the other fence. At last it's done!
Looks good we'll done ✔️
You could dig some dirt from the high side too lower the fence
Gate
I meant too say gate
Take the gate off, lift from corner and bend the gate to fit the slope. Tractor should do it.
Two things I do different you might try. I cut h braces with a chainsaw. And pins I use a short piece of rebar cut on a chop saw. Thoes pins are expensive here
Always attach on the high post, otherwise and job
Awesome
What kind of nurse is Rebekah? Enjoying all your videos! Thing about you your like me you don't worry about your hair. 👍
She has worked in a hospital for at least 15 years. Mostly in medical rehabilitation unit. But she has worked every area of the hospital.
@@CountryViewAcres thank you for responding. Great career she has going!
Is it better to redo the gate and always say, "glad I made it right" or always look at it and know it's not right?
You should have gave the newly weds a shout out
With the swing on the gate have been any different if you would’ve put the hinges on the other end?
Gates look good .... backfill under that second gate would have washed out ....
You need to find out what your hight of your post will we with the driver on top so you don’t have to pull it off and hold it while you measure.
I sure hope the price of gripples, has come down. When they first came out, they tried selling them to the mines. Needless to say they where not a big seller. Cable clamps and a Klein Chicago grip to tension, for hanging messenger wire.
Can you provide the affiliate link to the end post wrapping clips? T Clips? I think. TIA
Here's where I bought them.
kencove.com/fence/Gripple_detail_CGT.php
#thanksforwatchingguysseeyainthenextone
Evan are u putting fertilizer on your cut hay fields for second crop.
Nope. Everything is looking good.
Don't beat yourself up just take your tractor and take a bucket off of the high-end or two and then put it down at the low in make it big enough so you can swing the gate both ways
On that second gate cut a couple inches out of it put a sleeve in it put a couple of tacks on it bingo bango dunno
Why not replace your uphill gate with wooden gate you make? You had talk about putting wood boards to hold the livestock fence .
The wooden gates are very heavy. More feasible for smaller gates.
What are the name of those clips you used to tie your fence ends together? Went to my fence supplier and he never heard of them. They would make life so much easier.
Gripple T-clips
@@CountryViewAcres thanks
Cable pullers are a loathsome invention. And cable jamming between sheave and cheeks is a hassle. Replace that "axle" pin/cotter with a bolt and Nylock nut to adjust clearance between sheave and cheek. Might prevent future jams. Good job on the fence (but I don't think I could "live with" that one gate either...)
I must have missed it one time. But how many acres of land do you have all together?
41 acres
Might be better to mount the second gate hinge on the other side
Good job. Thanks for all your updates and videos
Easier way to drive in steel post in it you measure how far up in that driver that it goes and put a mark there they all you don’t have to lift it off every time makes it easier.
I was looking on Amazon for a fence stretcher is there one on Amazon
Not on Amazon. I bought mine on kencove fence.
Question: is there a reason you don't hang the gates first and then finish the rest of the fence? It seems like the gates have the least wiggle room for error, so I am wondering if there is something that stops you from doing them first because I have never built this kind of fence and am about to.
Posts shift a little when stretching fence. Also a gate is another thing in the way when wrapping fence wire around posts.
@@CountryViewAcres ok. Good to know. Thanks 👍
What size T post you use? I fixing to build a fence
I use 7 foot t-post on my woven wire fence installation. It is tall enough to put a barb wire above the woven wire fence. or a high tensil wire. So the total fence height could be 54 to 56 inches tall. So I have about 2 feet in the ground. A 6.5 foot T-post would probably work fine, if you wanted to save a few dollars.
@@CountryViewAcres thanks I appreciate you taking the time to help and I enjoy your videos I pray y’all have a happy blessed new year.
If you get your goats out in the fence row. will keep up your brush down
you should be less hard on yourself about how things look, they look really good, and function is the key, form is just a bonus
Using the Grapple as a rake might work to clean up that junk area, js
If this was my installation, I would redo the gate. It's problematic as is, and the quality detracts from all the good work done previously.
Yall know after time that fence is gonna need replacement
Hi
Well, I think you're gettin to be a legitimate farmer !! Why? Ya just never give up, find away, Ya just keep "Plowing" away. Get that job done..move on to the next project!!
What happened to your chestnut trees