Oh, just picking up crap, and going thru my sister's 40 acres next to me looking for some of my 'stuff'.
Fences aren't as bad as i thought, but lots of crap hanging off them.
I drove around to take some pics today, but realized I had left the camera's SD card sticking in the slot of my laptop so could only take a few on camera's internal memory.
This is one of 2 high spots where I last saw the chars the night the water started up high. There were 27 of them there, cows, calves & bulls. It's one of two highest points on my place. The Beefmasters were in another smaller pasture on the other high hill near the National Forest line. Their fence was damage free except where a telephone pole had floated over then settled on the fence. Didn't break the wire, but pulled teepost clips out and a few staples on the big posts I have every 150'.
Going up from the pond dam to the hill where the Chars were:
You can tell (or maybe you can't in the photo) that they milled around there along time in water, hooves broke the grass loose and it flowed off with the water that was running left to right, as well as about a foot of the topsoil eroding away. Sometime in the early morning hours, most of them left that spot and tried to make it over to my pond dam about 100 yards away, but the dam's elevation is actually lower than the hill they left. They had to travel down hill to get there, and either got washed over a wire gap into my sister's place or swam over it. Closer view of the top of that hill--it used to be covered with red clay. You can see the tree roots are now exposed and weren't before. Pond dam is off to the right between the trees. My sister's place is beyond the fence..it's all wooded. The fence between her and I is the worst. Lots of big limbs and logs on it, but I got them all pulled off of it this afternoon and can start pulling and splicing wire back together tomorrow.
Opposite fence between my brother's place and mine. That fence is newer. Built it in 2007 from scratch and it has held up thru several floods, none as bad as this one. People can say what they want about that hi tensile barbed wire and how hard it is to work with, but that Bekaert wire don't give. Posts may lean over, but even with the wire covered in debris, the wire holds.
Same fence, just a little further down toward the river. About all I will have to do on this one is replace a few staples and tpost ties and walk around with a leaf rake and knock the little crap off it.
I am SOOO glad I went with barb wire and not fixed knot field fence like I originally was going to.
The fence that actually follows the river does have some major work needed, as some big logs settled down right on the wire, but I was out of cam memory by the time I got over there. Even that tho, won't be a terrible amount of work. Except...we are now inundated again. This time, with mosquitoes. They're terrible anytime you get near brush or the river.