Barbed Wire Fencing - The Devil's Rope (Alternate Audio)
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2017
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Join us on our journey as we leave a life in corporate america to come back to Wyoming and help on the family ranch.
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Awesome info! I really enjoy your videos!
Awesome video Mike!!!
Found this one from last year. Perfect as I've got 7 acres to fence. Great tips, advice and infotainment.
Cheers Mike.
Regards
Jonathan
Thank you very much. I hope it helps -Mike
Fantastic!!!
Great video!! Love the channel!! 👍🏻👍🏻
You have a GREAT channel!
Thank you and thanks for watching - Mike
Nice fence, we just had a fence system built to paddock shift our small Kentucky farm. Quite different but I used to dryland ranch and appreciate your ranch a great deal. I am really enjoying your story and your approach is terrific.
Thank you very much an thanks for watching - Mike
thanks for the video
Thank you Jim - Mike
Brilliant work! Keep it up!
Thanks!!
i realize it is kinda randomly asking but do anybody know a good site to watch new movies online ?
Awesome video ..I've always loved the country and dreamed of owing a ranch since I was a child but that'll never happen so I get to enjoy your videos ..you make it feel as if you were there with u in the ranch giving you a hand ....but I gotta ask when your not busy on the ranch what do you do for fun?
That is awesome. It's fun to bring you guys along. Thanks for watching. -Mike
There is never a time when they are not busy.
I live in one of the two remaining open range areas in California. I love it.
That is awesome! Thanks for watching - Mike
I recently discovered your channel and I'm digging the heck out of it! You folks are preserving a uniquely American way of life. Thank you for bringing us along for the ride!
Thank you very much :)
awesome video. I like the pictures of the old West . heafers look great by the way .
Thanks Chad, I love the old pictures too. - Mike
Amazing "fence wars." Wyoming an open range state.
Excellent fence job man! 👍 If you happen to be putting in more fence in the future a useful strategy is to load the loader bucket with about 30 steel posts and back the tracker along your laid out fence area. Then have one guy out front of the tractor hold up a steel post in its position on the fence and use hand signals to the tractor operator to bring the bucket down center mass flat on the post and push it into the ground. It's a delicate maneuver as the guy in the tractor can't see shit. But once the pair has the technique down, you can put in 10 posts in, in the time it takes one person to tamp one in. My dad also said to go about 5 steel posts and then put in a good old wooden post then go another 5 steel posts etc. The reason being wooden posts last 20 years and eventually break but they have more surface mass in the ground. Whereas steel posts last 100 years but can bend easily if it's nothing but a line of steel posts. The problem is your first 2 years are good as the wire stays in tight but eventually the wire will loosen up and the steel posts don't have anything but a small anchor in the ground to hold back the fence. We learned the hard way so I hope I can pass on this knowledge so that you don't have to in the future. Excellent work though 👍 It looks like a pro job!
Hi Mike. I was a CNC machinist and in the machine shop we were required to wear steel toed boots or shoes. This may save you from future foot injury. I prefer the leather 8" high boots that also protect ankles from scrapes.
Thank you very much, they make steel toed cowboy boots too, thank god :) - Mike
someone has to do job.... Good Morning.from N.M. Great Vids
Thank you sir! - Mike
Will you do a video on branding? I gave a hand to some neighbor ranchers for the first time this weekend and it was very eye-opening. I think other viewers would learn a lot!
I was planning on announcing shortly but here's a sneak preview. We will not only do a video on branding we will also be livestreaming branding all day long here at the ranch. It should be alot of fun! -Mike
Awesome!
Hopefully it will be, I hope you enjoyed branding, it can be alot of fun. Thanks for watching. -Mike
Tip: When installing any post using concrete (corner posts, braces) simply level with your plumbob, then pour DRY Quikrete around it. Let it set overnite, test for firm next day. Should be good to go second day. Moisture in ground mates with it, sets overnite. Works well. Water weighs about eight pounds per but maybe not in Wyoming.
I'm not sure we had enough moisture in the soil for that but makes sense for wet ground. Thank you very much - Mike
I have fixed fence and I understand how much work goes into fences. As a hang glider pilot who fly's cross country for sport we never know where we are going to land, could be 10 miles away or 100 miles away. Legally as an aircraft we are allowed to land on anyones property for a safe landing... we avoid lands with Cattle first, no one needs a stampede crashing through a fence. We really try to avoid crops but if have no choice we will. I will not step on the corn or soybeans and will walk in the rows. A freshly picked hay field thats level and near a road is best. The glider is 34 feet wide and weighs 75 pounds which when packed is 14 inches by 16 feet long. With help it can go over a fence or slipped under the fence. I will try to belly crawl under it if possible but many times the fence is too tight. Using the gate is best.
Had a few Ranchers show up very upset that I landed on their property with guns or about to call the police... mostly in western states and Florida. I heard of once the Rancher was almost arrested in Florida as the police officer knew the law. I don't like to upset anyone and I even spent two days picking up trash along the highway just to show the landowner that we are the good guys. I even got stung by those fire ants in the process. After some conversation the landowner found that I also was a hunter and he offered me to hunt pigs on his property anytime! I brought him over some fresh venison from New York... he loved it. Funny how things can work out.
A few years ago we had a helicopter land on the ranch because of an emergency, so we got educated on the laws pretty quickly. I did feel bad that the pilot had to hike out all that way though. Thanks for watching - Mike
Mike, where do you buy barbwire that you can pull to a thousand pounds? I don't know a manufacturer that makes wire that quality. It's all good
You should use a deadman on your corner post. The fence will never move
Nope... can't find Blake's tractor in the dump there. Do you suppose he's actually managed to fix it finally?😁
haha, I hope its not in there! - Mike
Barbed wire. We were stretching a long section of wire years ago. My uncle asked me if it was tight. Just then it broke and whipped over my face cutting me from my lips up to my left eye. Blood everywhere, but miraculously I healed well and you can hardly see where it happened.
Ouch, that will happen, ya gotta be careful. Thanks - Mike
When I was a teenager I was repairing some fence, when it snapped. It was high-tensile smooth wire, as I remember it. Anyways, one end whipped back and hit the right lens of my glasses, taking a chunk of glass out of it in the process. I was VERY lucky to have not lost an eye. My eyeglasses have saved me more than once, even though they are not safety glasses.
When you are building barb wire fence and are tightening the wire how do you know you have tightened it enough? I have helped build barbwire fence before and would like to learn more.
Good question, I usually like to get it to where it will one deflect one or two inches when you push on it. It will loosen over time. Thanks Cody - Mike
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someone has to do job.... Good Morning.from N.M.
Thanks Anothony you are totally correct. Thanks - Mike
Yah' et' eh, Anthony! I used to live in NM -- I miss it.
I used to work in WY, Mike -- I miss it too.
How old do you think heifers should be to be bread
Heifers are bred between 13 to 15 months of age. They are bred to a bull that's about the same age as them to limit the injury that can be caused by a full grown bull mounting them. That's why we are getting a new bull in a few days. Good questions and thanks. -Mike
Thanks Mike!
Tell your help to lean the T-post toward them when putting on the post driver. makes it so much easier.
Do you breed your horse
We do not, thanks for watching - Mike
The Fable of the Fence ? [ As YYZ - Planker No's" it ,1000's% True ] . Ridi'n" the Range / Rolli'n" a Smoke , Old Yelle'r by My Side ,on Top of My Steed ,[Did I Mention I Was 8-yrs Young at the Tyme ] , Happened Across a Break in the Fencing . I Kwicky Spat out the Demon Fire to the Ground , Looked & Accessd the Situation . Without a Miss of a stride I Grabbed My John Henry Long Gun & Fetched That grounded Fence Up Skyward / Parlayed a U nail Mouthward & With a Quick Spit of the Nail Planted said U Nail Homeward .Alway's Willi'n" to Help - a FOX , Jumped out of the Foliage & Drove said Nail Home with a Newly Discovered Hammer . After That Event Old Yelle'r Pounced Upward on to The Horn of My Saddle Delivering For-Mentioned Rollie to it's Wright-Full Owner . Life is Good & ThX's 4 The Autografted Hammer - Mikie !!! Off in 2 da Sunset as Western Hero's Due ? [ Wishi'n I Was U ] . lol
Wild. Thank you very much -Mike
Oh no! broken toe? You know what they do with horses....
Dont give Erin any ideas!!! -Mike
Horrific fence.
You don't have to tell us all about the barbed wire we could care less we know what it's all about
I just got censored for using our presidents Donald J Trump's logo.