You are right. You will see that one day.
I didn't make fun of you. You can't take a joke.
I don't understand why you get so worked up every time I post on certain things.
Had a guy get cut real bad grabbing a wire that was being rolled out.
I'm in Williamson /burnet... working in Milam today.
I'm baleing hay tommorow and maybe the next. But I'll be back in a day or two....Then forget it! I won't invite you over for cold ice tea on the porch! OR a cold beer.
When I was 14-16, my twin brother and I fenced 4 & 5 strand, 124 acres of raw woods here where I live now. Every roll of the old gaucho carried and unrolled on a pipe carried between us. If a tree was in the way, we carried a 2 man crosscut saw down the propertyline and cut it down.
I never saw any fly back and try to coil itself back up either, but way back, when the original Gaucho came out, it would do it to some extent. The first gaucho we bought in '64 was made in central or south America and it may have been different than the better stuff we have available today. I remember that stuff being a lot stiffer than what Bekaert hitensile barbed wire is now.
This is better than the Olympics. I would like to request a post-game report.
They both seem like super nice guys but, I think they need to meet up at a stripes. Maybe have a couple of those hotdogs that roll around on that warmer all day and a tall boy while they talk it over. If y'all pick the one in Lampassas make sure not to sit on the curb on the north side there's tons of stickers on that grassy slope towards the creek. They'll get in your dogs paws and their a pain to get out. Hope y'all work it out.
Sounds good but we should probably have a safety meeting first. Those stickers could cause a infection ........... definitely going to need safety glass with those hotdogs.
Damn, Greybeard I'm getting all beat up just thinking about walking out 5 strands for 124 acres of woods...with each roll on a pipe walking in tree brush and then switching over to a crosscut saw. I'm currently fencing a 5 strands on 30 acres...one long side is completely dense wooded,,,hasn't seen footsteps-on any good upright fencing in there since 1960. I waded in poison ivy with chainsaw in hand... currently cutting down a 9 to 10 foot path for my truck to drive through. On another property I walked a few rolls by hand and with buddy last year....it was enough for me. I'll take the poison ivy skin itch and clean up trees and brush for 10 feet wide 2,000 feet long...just to roll it out by truck. I'm 58, we're not 14 to 16 anymore...and no way in hell can i find any 15 to 22 year olds to do that kind of hard physical work today. Hell, everyone's afraid of poison ivy too...can't find anyone to chainsaw it but myself. Real men just deal with it...6 days it's over with.
That's the kind of thing that turns boys into men. Every teenage should have to build a fence like that.
It's also the kind of thing that in the middle of wartime makes 2 teenage boys decide it might be easier to face the bullets instead of the seedticks and greenbriar....boy, wuz they ever wrong.
