Well done, gentleman. It pays to be wary of any "quick and easy" method for something that is proved to be complex. Can't wait for the investigation video. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun!
Fellers… cut him some slack! His ingenious use of a common lawn mower for stretching that ultra high tensile fence… alone… elevate this way over yonder above and beyond the normal suburban DIY dad installation. When you couple that with a stretcher made from brand new two by fours and shiny zinc bolts&nuts… it almost raises the stakes to hobby farmer performance. Then topping it off… those carefully researched and highly overpriced brace brackets assure that this fence will contain Bush’s Golden Retriever … through dozens of takes for their next “Roll that beautiful bean footage” commercial. In my book, y’all should grant him his Fencing Rookie Card and have him use that sideways thumb to hitch a ride to the SWI Wyoming School of Fence Mastery! PS… if he’d run a strand of Bob-whar around the top… he’d have reached Ozark sod buster elite fencer status!
@8:44 you say that strain would pull that corner post out of the ground, but what strain that wouldnt pull that ouf of the ground wouldnt also drstroy any other type of fence
Wedge lok works great until a cow puts some pressure on the fence then they just pop out of the ground (6.5' t-posts driven 30" deep in clay soil). They are good for holding up electric fence put that is about it. I've tried just about every "hack" this guy has used and it all ends up being a huge mess. Bite the bullet, buy the right stuff the first time and get something that will last 15-20 years easy.
Not to mention what happens with a spring thaw on saturated ground - the kind of spring where walking on pasture feels like walking on a wet coil spring mattress. Higher t-posts over knolls or terraces sink and part of the fence ends up underground, while the post in low spots come up and out of the ground. What looked like okay work turns into a floppy, saggy eye sore a goat could push over or walk under. T-posts are great for intermediate posts in the right places, otherwise - nope. 15-20 years isn't very ambitious. I'm replacing some fence right now that was put up in 1965, and it would have gone longer if it wasn't for damage caused by removal of trees. It was field fence between heavy welded corner braces. (Did they even have stick welder/generators back then?) The line post are all hedge, (Osage Orange), and nearly all of them still strong enough to stay intact pulling them up with a loader. (Pulled instead of cut so a mid size tractor can grade parts of the old fence line with a box scraper and not get hung up.)
Well done, gentleman. It pays to be wary of any "quick and easy" method for something that is proved to be complex. Can't wait for the investigation video. I'm sure it will be a lot of fun!
Can’t wait to see the four wheeler testing!!
Fellers… cut him some slack!
His ingenious use of a common lawn mower for stretching that ultra high tensile fence… alone… elevate this way over yonder above and beyond the normal suburban DIY dad installation.
When you couple that with a stretcher made from brand new two by fours and shiny zinc bolts&nuts… it almost raises the stakes to hobby farmer performance.
Then topping it off… those carefully researched and highly overpriced brace brackets assure that this fence will contain Bush’s Golden Retriever … through dozens of takes for their next “Roll that beautiful bean footage” commercial.
In my book, y’all should grant him his Fencing Rookie Card and have him use that sideways thumb to hitch a ride to the SWI Wyoming School of Fence Mastery!
PS… if he’d run a strand of Bob-whar around the top… he’d have reached Ozark sod buster elite fencer status!
Yes! "Bob-whar" is the only correct pronunciation. "Barb wire" is them things Aunt Barbara uses to hold them curler tubes on 'er head.
@@jimmyyounger618 abso-bygosh-lootley! Thanks for helping me edubicate these folks here on the Yoo-Tubes!
Guy said i'm going to use the Tractor, I'm thinking yeah a backhoe or something heavy duty. Guy shows up with a ride on mower LMAO i Lost it laughing.
Look @ 9:18 you can see the back t post starting to lift out of the ground when he's stretching the fence
Good eye!
Marks face in some parts of this video 😂😂😂
@8:44 you say that strain would pull that corner post out of the ground, but what strain that wouldnt pull that ouf of the ground wouldnt also drstroy any other type of fence
We've stretched welded wire using a chainlink tension bar and a ratchet strap its possible
Wedge lok works great until a cow puts some pressure on the fence then they just pop out of the ground (6.5' t-posts driven 30" deep in clay soil). They are good for holding up electric fence put that is about it. I've tried just about every "hack" this guy has used and it all ends up being a huge mess. Bite the bullet, buy the right stuff the first time and get something that will last 15-20 years easy.
Not to mention what happens with a spring thaw on saturated ground - the kind of spring where walking on pasture feels like walking on a wet coil spring mattress. Higher t-posts over knolls or terraces sink and part of the fence ends up underground, while the post in low spots come up and out of the ground. What looked like okay work turns into a floppy, saggy eye sore a goat could push over or walk under. T-posts are great for intermediate posts in the right places, otherwise - nope.
15-20 years isn't very ambitious. I'm replacing some fence right now that was put up in 1965, and it would have gone longer if it wasn't for damage caused by removal of trees. It was field fence between heavy welded corner braces. (Did they even have stick welder/generators back then?) The line post are all hedge, (Osage Orange), and nearly all of them still strong enough to stay intact pulling them up with a loader. (Pulled instead of cut so a mid size tractor can grade parts of the old fence line with a box scraper and not get hung up.)
Welded wire is fine if you are keeping in a flock of cats. lol
What about it being a permanent fence to keep a Chihuahua out of your vegetable garden?
I got an ancient horse that would lay that fence down in the mud if she wanted on the other side
that wedge lock t post wouold last 20 years after it rusts together.