Installing Goat Fencing
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- Our goat shelter is built and our area is cleared - we are ready to install the goat fencing! Find out how we built our goat fence, what we did right, and what we would do differently.
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lol, I got a good laugh at half the stores chicks getting names. The fence stretcher was fun to see in action. Great work.
Ha ya...they spent probably a good 2 hours "managing" the chicks while we shopped for fencing. :0)
Loved to see the girls engaged. I won't be able to get goats in my urban backyard, but if I ever move it will be on my list of demands for my new property and use your fencestretcher, not the truck.
Not the truck lol
I am looking at that fence stretcher and thinking WHY did I not think of that?!?!? BRILLIANT!!! Sure beats all the fighting I did making my girls their enclosure! I am planning on fencing in the garden area this year - wanna guess what I am gonna do?!? Thanks so much for the share!
great team work.
Great video guys, is good that all the family is a great working team. from the little ones to the big ones.
The unicorn has returned!!! All is right with the world.
The most entertaining video you have done so far. Congrats all around.
I know you probably cannot do this type of video all the time, but the work you put into it is fantastic.
Goats in Spandex? Who da thunk.
Thanks Michael. Ya this video was as challenging as the fencing itself. Glad you enjoyed it
Great job guys!
Preparing for new livestock is my favorite. The kids and the chicks. 😂 exited for you guys. Everything is looking great. Leonard seems like a great supervisor. We're almost done with our response to the tagged video btw!
+LifeGoesNorth - Oh sweet! Can't wait to see it! (and yeah... Leonard is a pimp) 😂
Great video.
Oh dear me.... I'll have nightmares of the bloody snake for months! Lol! Just a casualty of homesteading. Keep up the great work, J & J! Xx
Ya that was not fun
Oh ya, me too...LOL
Great Job, What Team!!
Great stuff guys. Thanks for sharing.
I probably laughed harder than I should have at the inch worm and the "lol" caption. Y'all are awesome. That fence is amazing. Great job!
lol ya I didn't even know it was there (obviously) until we were editing
You have a nice family.
Fence looks great.....
Awesome job!
That was a huge project! All the way through about 8:00 I thought the girls must have lost a bet with them doing all the work and Jeremy working the camera.
+Keith Brookshire - Yeah no way I could get away with just shooting and editing. This one was a monster. 2+ weeks of actual project work, 24 hours of footage, 14 hour edit, 31 minute video. These kind of shoots are definitely a labor of love.
You guys did an amazing job on the fence and the shelter! I would let you put a fence up for me anytime! I can't wait to see your goats!
We are playing catchup on the vids. We will introduce them very soon!
That is a huge job!. Yippee that you are done. --Brenda
Well, it's never done but it was done "enough". Yesterday and today we have massive flooding that will require some drainage work through there. Sigh.
Such a great job. We put an electric wire on the inside of the fence to keep the goaty girls from using our nice fence as a ladder. Nothing worse than putting all that work in to then see someone standing on it for fun. Hope your goats are better behaved 😉
+Sonia T We may do that
That snake!!! 😱 😱 😱 Aaaagh, I cannot unsee that! Awesome job on the fence though!
Sorry. Ya. It was just nasty. But all part of the "adventure"
Excellent tips in this video.... @2:14 !! Score !
🙄🙄 2:57 LMBO....love his reaction. 🙄🙄
4:56 LOL...."everytime I find you guys...Your sitting with baby chicks in your lap"
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+Kanzee - This is our life. Every day. Sigh.
@Guildbrook farm..... Love your life and love even more that you guys , take the time to share your successes and challenges...cheers
Thanks Kanzee - We love that you watch and share your thoughts with us. 👍🏻
Starting around 14:00 gave me a new appreciation for head covering.
Awesome!! And everyone should have a BAW in their toolbox!
+Cog Hill Farm & Homestead - Yes!
awesome job on the fence!!!! family time!!
Nothing like work to bring a family together! (until the camera is off then they run away lol)
LOL, I wondered...but still they are as excited as you are about the farm! that is what is important...I REALLY thought you were gonna give on the chickens...good for you being strong! =)
Well ours arrived 2 days later so I wasn't buying more lol
perfect!! Lol...sorry about the little fellow you lost...that is tough...
It is very hard work to install fencing. You guys work so well as a team! Don't worry I won't mention the worm ;)
+Natural Living Homestead - Question: Once you saw the worm did you hear one word she was saying? I didn't. 😂
Not a single word at that point lol
+Natural Living Homestead - I knew it! 😂
I really enjoyed this as my wife and I did pretty much the same thing over the weekend. I also own a Farm Boss that I purchased 15 years ago when we acquired the first old house, good saw but get some chaps, you cannot overdo safety. I really liked the way you used the ratchet straps to stretch the fence, sounds like you eventually hooked up to your truck but a good idea just the same. I know you know this but buy a good come along and some chains and a few heavy duty nylon tow straps, I also have a farm jack which can be used in the same manner to pull a chain etc. For what its worth, we always try to buy commercial grade when we have the money so you may want to upgrade from the Ryobi to Milwaukee, not judging but I killed my Ryobi a long time ago and the Milwaukee 18 and 12 volt stuff is still going strong. Thank you for sharing your great story, btw, I know absolutely nothing about goats but wife says they are in our future.........!!!!
+Joe Nadeau - The Farm Boss is top notch. Chaps are on the list. Using the truck to stretch was just an experiment. It worked a little too well. I almost bought a come along but decided to try the heavy duty ratchet strap i already had and it ended up working well. I have heavy tow straps and chains and all different brands of tools. Many are inherited like the Ryobi stuff. I planned to use them until they die and then replace them with commercial grade, but they just haven't died yet lol. The Milwaukee, Makita, Delta and even most of the DeWalt stuff I have are the best around, I agree.
I like the way you think bro, I would do the same thing, we have also used a number of different posts both wooden and metal and those T posts are really great. We are constantly moving fences around and those can withstand being yanked out and pounded on a number of times. I really enjoy connecting with people that do the same stuff as us, thanks again for sharing your story. J
"This calls for a B.A.W." I'm thinking "Big A** Wrench" for a cheater bar on the gate hangers. Ha! Good job on the fence! The homemade come a long is brilliant! Go with what you have! I'll tell you another great investment, that you WILL need at some point, is a T Post puller. I move fences around in my garden area as I rotate plots (rabbit exclusion devices!) and those pullers make that job SO much easier. Trucks will win that fence stretching battle every time! Always enjoy watching!
Ha! 😉 You got it! And yeah I know I'll be needing a post puller soon. Putting it off until I do lol.
Understand! I have found a couple of other "leverage" uses for it, so it's not completely one dimensional. But, dang does it make pulling those T's easy! I pulled 36 posts on my cattle panel trellises in about 45 minutes. Game changer!
+Tom Mathews - Awesome. 👍🏻
great job ya'll !
Thanks!
I don't thank your husband was impressed with the goat tube.
lol no he wasn't. :0)
Great job! I love how you always do everything with so much passion. This is very inspiring!
Thanks Kara :0)
Awesome video, great job guys! I had a thought about the perimeter of the fence in the woods; you guys have decent sunlight there, far enough away from the fence they might be good spots for fruit tree seedlings, as the trees mature they'll drop fruit into your goat pen to passively feed goats and you can harvest the other sides!
That is a pretty good idea Josh. Permaculture is something we are trying to incorporate in our plans. However, we don't plan on being on this property long (could be a year, could be 8 years) so I don't want to invest too much in something we may not profit from. But definitely something to consider for the next place
Gotcha. I wonder if theres any trees (thinking seed/cheap here) that could potentially add property value for the eventual sale?!
Well now that I am aware of the Lowes clearance section, I may purchase some end of season if I catch them right. Same with any berry bushes.
can you provide more information on how built your post stretcher
+Josephine Gallegos - cut an 8' 2x4 in half, clamp it together, drill 4 holes through both pieces with a spade bit big enough for the bolts to slide in freely. Stagger the holes so they aren't on the same grain line of the boards. Use four 4" long 3/8" bolts with 3/4" heads, a fender washer on each side and tighten the nuts with a 3/4" socket, sandwiching the fence between the boards. I used ratchet straps to stretch but most people use a come-along.
With those pole-drivers, I bet you had your share of blisters. That's no easy task. When I visited my cousin's farm in NE Rhode Island, he had a cool method. He put all of the green metal poles in the bucket of his front loader and then we'd go to each pole location and I'd pull a pole out of the bucket, put it in place and he'd raise the bucket above it and then lower it, using the weight of the bucket to drive it in. Since then, here in Phoenix, without a front loader, I used the same method you did. It's effective but I ended-up with lots of blisters - and that was just from doing a half a dozen. So, kudos to you for driving in so many. Quite a workout! Well done.
Great to see the kids participating, raise mine up as no strangers to work, worked out for them when they became adults...
Here am I, in my little kitchen prepping apples from our trees in our garden (UK), and enjoying listening to your video when I thought I heard you mention Spandex for goats! Thinking it must surely have been my imagination I had to wash my hands and rewind the video to actually watch that bit rather than just listen. A very amusing, and slightly bemusing, distraction. Would love to see goats in Spandex! Back to the apple prep for the dehydrator. All best to you and yours in your endeavours. Thoroughly enjoying your videos. Found you by searching for helpful information on canning and have subscribed. Canning is my next learning curve! 🌺
haha.. yes and the prints were killer! Right out of the 80s!
I stretched it with a bar of the metal used to hold chain link fence to the post. I feed it thru the fencing and pulled with a ratchet as you did.
Great video. How did you fix the leaning post?
+Tabatha Evans - I haven't yet. That's going to be a whole other project. It's actually not as bad as it looked at first. It is definitely going to be fixed though.
Awesome job you guys! That was no small task. It came out great. Having never put up a fence before, I picked up some great tips as you worked. thanks for filming as you went along. Great video as always! - All the best.~ Theresa
Thanks!
That came out really nice. I wish I had seen a video like this before attempting my first goat fence a few years ago. Great job! Subscribed!
Thanks you and welcome to the channel!
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Lol great video thought for sure the girls were coming home with chicks ;). I may have miss heard but don't attach a fence to trees it will stretch the fence. We don't have the rock in the ground here so concrete 2" to ground level then soil for run off. Nice improvised stretcher.
+Autumn Oaks Farm - It will stretch the fence and eventually eject the staples. I did not want to attach to that tree. But sometimes the worst option is the option. It will last as long as we are here though.
Wish I was closer I would have come help. I put miles of fence up in the past. Understand the necessity though. I replaced the boarder fence on my property its a long job as you have found out, ;). Great video as always looking forward to the goats arriving.
+Autumn Oaks Farm - (they're here. 🤐) Update this week.
I am soon getting goats for 4-h and your videos help me a lot. I had goats a long time ago and your videos are helping me refreshing me. Thank you for making good videos for me! Also can you do a video all about your goats and why you got that breed of your goats.
I did. Check our playlist on goats.
Poor snek. :'(
WOW, we had to put up taller fence and two strands of barred wire with about 3foot high electric fence to keep our goats in... they were Houdini goats, I swear!!!!! great job on the installation tho! 👍👍👍👍
Looks really great! Can't wait to see the goats. Maybe I missed it in an earlier video, but what breed/ages/number of goats did you buy? Also, I'm curious about the size of your goat pasture and shed?
+ponygirl Coming soon!
H braces on corners......10' corner posts sunk 5' so post won't move when you stretch fence
+Rhondar9 - Totally unnecessary for this small fence run.
awesome job with the fence posts! and always important to use woven wire fence with animals.
when you are done building the feeder and water stands, you will be building a milking stand, a jungle gym to keep them busy, and a separation stall for birthing. goats come with lots of stuff, but the milk and meat is so worth the work if you are able to keep up. good for you!
Yep. That is the way! (but don't tell Jeremy yet about all the future work lol)
ha ha! he's gonna find out soon enough.
and then there's the new birds to make happy. looks like work for the whole family.
i'll have to rely on trade and wwoofers when i get started, my kids are too old for slave labor.
Your family is not only organized and conscientious but, also funny(zebra print goat spandex??)😀....great👍probably will increase kid production.
10:56 wow, never seen anything like that before... yikes 🐍🐍
Yes. That's gotta be like a 1 in a billion odds that would happen when sawing a tree.
+Kanzee - Me either. They hibernate wherever they can find a spot for the winter though. The hole in that tree stunk from the snake being in there all winter. I smelled it as soon as that cut was finished.
Great work. It looks very good. The goats will love ir
Thank you...they seem to! :0)
Looking good!!!
Thanks!
WHAT LENGTH ARE YOUR T POSTS?
7' t-posts. They are in the description
Wonderful life..earth is awesome..
That is a beautiful fencing job .. and having purchased a few of those items, I know goats are expensive .. kinda like owning a Ferrari.
Hi ya Jeremy, Jaime!! Though u weren’t getting the spandex for the goats, it was worth seeing Jeremy’s expression when u asked for them! Once u pointed to the inchworm on ur bandanna, I had to watch it inch along Lol! I can’t believe the snake stayed put with all that vibration going on, who would’ve thought, cutting a snake n half by cutting a log n half. I like ur fence stretcher better, I made one by hammering nails into a 2x4 and bending them, hooking nails to fence, ur way is secure, the nails kept turning on mine, I’m glad I didn’t experience it as a slingshot which just now occurred to me. Ur friend the lizard looked to u n thanks for helping him out of the tub 👍🏼 Thanks for the how to video on the fence and shed installment/preparations!!!
Part of the "sustainable" lifestyle is being, well... sustainable. What will you do when the stores close and goat feed it no longer available? This is something i have pondered awhile. I would need a larger land track to grow the right food for them. Granted Goats are easier.
+Rob Lambert We are going to be discussing that. We have a plan ;0)
Rob Lambert grow fodder for all livestock
Haha. Boats and Hoes. Wasn't that from Stepbrothers?
+Scott Miller 😂
two or one rake head( rock rake) can sub as a fence puller.
I'm sorry the whole time you were talking I was STARING at that bug...... had to go back and listen one more time...... LOL
I love watching your, you guys are awsome 😀❤️👍
He just walks away when you ask if you could get that Goat Spandex.........he wasn't having it! LMAO! I actually laughed out loud!
MashAllah very nice job work God bless you and your family I hope I'll be able to see more excitement videos soon thank you sir I appreciate your hard work
Older daughter remind me of Poppy on troll ,she alway happy smiling and hug everything. I love that movie
Looks good. Just wondering about the Gap at the bottom of the fence next to the gate.
Great, love it
Just recently found your channel I love what yall are doing. Props from another IT guy(Network Admin) building a homestead. What is it about us? We definitely subscribed also
+LangFamilyFarmsLA - We like to solve problems and build things I guess 😏
Thats what I keep trying to explain to the kids. When they ask me what my job is like I say problem solving!
For post holes (by the hundreds) we had to get a used 53Hp diesel tractor with a strong 3 point hitch and a 12”w x 5’d PTO drill that busts through any type of soil and we use used 10’ railroad ties, timber cut on our mill then used 4” x. 4” sq holed rigid ‘pig wire’ panels that are 24’l x 5’t x 3/16” rigid welded wir panels stapled to posts every 10th and cabled together adding a 20’w hardened steel fence overplayed with a cut down sheet of pig wire. Took $700+/- by watching sales. The tractor is a needed addition to the farm. Good luck, you might consider moveable soft ‘press in by foot’ posts and solar electric fence box with electric ribbon to graze the goats in sections up and down the paddock so they don’t ‘wear out’ their common areas and over manure certain areas. Where that water was so near the surface dig a shallow well with a hand pump for daily watering. We dug a huge one on our back 40 and hit a spring that feeds hundreds gallons of irrigation, animal and surplus run-off to the neighbors=water daily!
The spandex goat tube!😂😂😂
🦎🦎 14:16 Lizard Leonard is worth alot of money up in the Pet stores of Canada... 50$ or higher they are selling for...🦎🦎 I think Leonard, was looking for a bite to eat..LOL...
18:26 I've been looking at the hand and power tools, that you use, Jeremy and doing a "shopping list" to copy alot of your woodprojects...The prices are not cheap at our outlets...lol
21:51 Wow, you got all the REPTILES coming out to play....SNAKES 🐍 Lizards🦎and Shelled fellas 🐢 LOL
..but no goats ❓ ❔🐐🐐❓ ❔
22:56 wow..truck pulling?? never heard of that ? would it been better to go 10 or more feet, put up a post. then set and stretch..and put up another fence pole, and set and stretch ??
28:46 good trick with the Fence and Wiring..👍 👍🏻 👍🏽
+Kanzee - Leonard was really cool. He hung out in the sun on the same rock for a week watching the goings on. We have tons of these. Maybe I should start exporting them.
Great video glad to see the girls pitching in most kids today just want to play video games
MAKE AN H BRACE FOR CORNERS TO PULL FENCE FROM AND PUT THE POST DEEPER IN THE GROUND THEY WONT PULL OVER LIKE THAT.
Perfect timing on this video. I will be putting up a fence this weekend. How close did you space the T posts?
+stevook21 - 8 feet
Thanks
The unicorn is very cute
Nice job, fence looks great. I think a professional fence builder would not have done a better job. :)
Thank you!
What is the size of spacing of holes in fence? 2" x 4"? or 4" x 6"? Thanks
+Tim McKinney - @19:36 I talk about that briefly. It's 12.5 gauge 4"x4" woven wire sheep and goat fence. It's the perfect size for goats.
It's called deadman. You need to fix post otherwise it will fail. You could also do simple H brace or even a cross angle brace but it wont stand any tension without support.
I rented a post hole digger (auger) for $40 a day
Was funny about the snake 🐍... he thought he was safe😂😂😂😂
Glad I found your channel today. Doing my fence this weekend. Hows it working out? Anything you would change now? Or advice?
This is an old video and we’ve since moved and took the fence with us but it worked perfectly when it was there. Only thing I would say is don’t try to stretch a fence with a truck or tractor, it will pull out the post lol. Use a ratchet strap or come-along or even a 4 wheeler and it should stretch plenty tight enough for a goat.
@@Guildbrookfarm Great! Thank you brother!
hey great job on the fence. could you tell me the size of your pen and total cost. We need to replace some of our fence due to age, rust, etc, etc. thank you
What did you do with the space between the fence and the ground near the gate?
+Leanne Garrioch - Just stuck a couple cinder blocks there for now. Seems to work fine.
Good Idea, was it just how the fence pulled or the lay of the land that caused that? We will be putting are fence up in a couple weeks and its gonna be a pain I think, a lot of brush we have to go through. And I must say this video helped.
+Leanne Garrioch - It was both. There was a big drop from the tree to the gate in a very short span so it just had to be filled in. You can stretch single wires or a strand of barbed wire on the inside of the perimeter or just cheat like I did. 😏
That store rocked so I looked it up, they don't have them in any of the states I have property in :(
Yeah I think they're independent franchise locations only in the South. Tractor Supply is really the only other one I know of that is more of a national chain.
I love Tractor Supply and they have one near each of our places in Louisiana, Arkansas and Colorado. Southern States LOL
They do have an on-line store though, so I am drooling over a few items now hahaha.
Which state do you live in?
+Candide Thirtythree - We're in North Carolina and have 2 Southern States dealers close to us but each location is basically independent and carries whatever they want to besides some of the Southern States branded items like feed. The main website is pretty bad about integrating with what the actual dealer locations carry or have in stock. I almost always end up calling ahead of time to check.
That bar is called a spud bar. 😁
should keep your string line close to ground to set post and your gate is wrong especially for goat kids they can get out
nice job...tired of hearing that ? looks good. do u hv trouble w your goats getting there heads in the fence "holes" , i will b putting one up soon also. thinking of high tention fence w electric. nice job.
oh by the way, nice sleeve tats
(Kill me for it, go 'head...) *LeBAAHtards* ... oh man. "Stop naming the chickens!!" Ha! Your kids rock!! Ew, gross snake. Kick butt job there, Jer! Jaime, they will be there soon! Look at the beautiful accommodations. Any goat would be proud to call that home! Nice job, and you KNOW the fence stretcher is an amazing idea.
+Noble Homestead They are heerrreee! We will do a proper introduction soon :0)
So EXCITED! Yay, guys! Can't wait to see.
Guildbrook farm clothing merch idea. A t shirt that reads "goats & clothes" im sorry made me laugh
That gal looks like Cher !
Lizards are good - they eat the bad bugs.
Best goat fence is a horse panel with a hot wire on top.
Zap the damn thing a couple times and your done
It's nice to see someone from NC on here. How have the fence corners been holding up? Have they stayed straight with the key boards? Also, how many clips did you put on each t post?
+Drizzolbud - So far the corner posts haven't budged. So it does seem to work for at least a smaller fence line like this. I think the 2' holes are the key there. If I were stretching much more than 100' lengths I would probably do the H bracing just to be safe. I put 3 clips on each T post.
What is the cart you all have to pull behind the mower? That looks very helpful!
+Robert Hicks amzn.to/2nDtfcD
Guildbrook Farm | Simple Sustainable Living thank you!
Is it cheaper to use wooden post than steel? Just curious, Love it
Boy oh boy, these vids are getting bad, theirs nothing too even critique! Lol !!! Great job on the fence, I'm sure it'll hold the goats but not so sure about Leonard. :-)
That little girl is too cute!
Boy if we could only work that fast .
why do goats need spandex? 😲
Goats don't like rain. It keeps them dry. We may buy a "goat coat" in the fall to keep them warm. This has been proven to increase milk production in colder weather and also to increase butterfat. (no we didn't buy the goat tube though lol)
I don't think I've ever seen a Gorilla cart that big. Was it a special order?
No we just ordered it off of Amazon amzn.to/2nDtfcD
should put braces on corners you haven't included goat rubbing against fence. I didn't either and now I'm redoing all my fence. make it stronger than it seems to need to be
t post on the outside they will push fence out an you will have to redo it
+mellender0 - We've had no issues so far.
Is this your old place? Thought you guys had acres with nothing there, Camper style
Keep in mind they need to eat mostly hay, alfalfa and just natural stuff in the yard. Very little feed and only as treats.
If you mix your concrete first and then pour it in the post hole, let it set for at least 36 hours, it should be fine. If you pour it in the hole dry and then ad water, you’re only getting 3 or 4 inches on the top.
Yes unless you have muscles and small shovel etc to mix it in hole. Way easier to do it in wheelbarrow or something but can be fully mixed in hole just a pain