wbvs58
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Here is a post for "Fence", you seem to be a bit left out of a lot of the intensive discussion about Angus and BH of late Mate, so I would welcome your critique of my project here. I am doing the back 2km boundary of a block that I recently bought. The fence is also the state border. The existing fence that we originally thought was the boundary fence was originally put in about the early 1900's as the "tick fence" to keep cattle potentially carrying cattle tick from entering NSW, it used to get ridden twice daily by a government boundary rider up until about 1980. I noted from photograph maps that the cleared area didn't correspond to the actual border so had it pegged by a surveyor and it was out all the way varying from 20m to over 150m in places in my favour so I contacted my neighbours who knew about the error and have agreed to fund half of it. The actual state border was surveyed in the mid 1800's and is along the watershed where water in NSW runs out to the coast and on my side Qld it runs inland into the Murray Darling system so the fence line is along some tough rocky country that has stood up to the weathering but the country is selectively cleared and worth reclaiming.
The fist two photos are both sides of a big hill that has been heavily mined for tin, a lot of horizontal trenches to fill in that was fairly challenging to get post in but over all I am happy with what I was able to achieve.
Evert change in diection I used a H brace. I prefabbed the 73 mm drill pipe in the shed by welding on some 40x40 SHS steel using the bearings from the survey plan for the alignment so that the horizontal pipe slipped over them. I had no means to drive them into the ground so holes were dug about 7-800 mm and they were concreted in and everything seems to be holding well with no movement when straining the wire. The netting I am gut straining with gripples and am happy hosw tight I am getting it. I keep saying to my self "if it aint tight it aint right" dammed annoying that. Top wire is at 1550mm, Il translate that one for you (5' 2") the idea is to keep roos out, we have mostly wallabies and wallaroos so not the big jumpers. A hot wire will run along the bottom on my side to keep dogs from going under into the neighbours sheep.
Ken
The fist two photos are both sides of a big hill that has been heavily mined for tin, a lot of horizontal trenches to fill in that was fairly challenging to get post in but over all I am happy with what I was able to achieve.
Evert change in diection I used a H brace. I prefabbed the 73 mm drill pipe in the shed by welding on some 40x40 SHS steel using the bearings from the survey plan for the alignment so that the horizontal pipe slipped over them. I had no means to drive them into the ground so holes were dug about 7-800 mm and they were concreted in and everything seems to be holding well with no movement when straining the wire. The netting I am gut straining with gripples and am happy hosw tight I am getting it. I keep saying to my self "if it aint tight it aint right" dammed annoying that. Top wire is at 1550mm, Il translate that one for you (5' 2") the idea is to keep roos out, we have mostly wallabies and wallaroos so not the big jumpers. A hot wire will run along the bottom on my side to keep dogs from going under into the neighbours sheep.
Ken
