Kiwi Farmer Fencing (THIS IS NOT A HOW TO!!!! , this is how I do it)
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- Опубліковано 2 бер 2022
- Building another holding pen at the sheep yards between sheep and yard work. Goldpine posts, Strainrite Fencing Systems, Hayes, Gallagher and Kinghitter post driver.
My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Join me as I document our daily life bringing you the highs and lows on a New Zealand Sheep and Beef farm.
Thanks so much for watching.
Facebook: / thegrangenzbirds
Our on-farm accommodation is listed on Air BnB www.airbnb.co.nz/rooms/20445220
Email: ak.gkbird@xtra.co.nz
Mail: 211 Ashley Gorge Road, Oxford, 7495
Love watching you’re videos here in the uk this is one of my favourites with the fun banter and chat in this one great job keep up the great work 🤙🏽
Thanks Very much.
First time I’ve seen your channel brilliant First time I saw a kiwi fencer was at Ag college in Ireland in 1966 ,now that was a long time ago Later spent some time working in your wonderful country in the seventies, didn’t do much fencing,but managed to find me a stray Waikato lass who I brought back to Irl to do me fencing ,she’s still fencing me in only disadvantage is she lacks the full Kiwi 🥝 accent I love it ,the accent I mean My favorite in NZ was Footrot Wal n Dog and Fred Dagg We are the Kiwi lady and I are now living In Sunny Western Australia 🇦🇺 and I love ribbing the Kiwis about their Rugby 🏉
Yes I will agree your top class fencers My kiwi Wifey could tell some funny stories about Irish ☘️ farm fencing she spent a number of years there great to see another Kiwi farming you tube channel Keep up the good work
Hey its great to have you watching. Hope your Kiwi wife doesn't give you to much grief. Our kids are into Footrot flats and Fred Dagg at the moment and are loving it. WA sounds magic at the moment, as we have had a heap of rain over the summer.
First time viewer from Orkney Islands, Scotland. I understand all your fencing terms.
Nice Thanks for watching along.
I am from Northern Canada and I understand you perfectly.
Great video again and well explained. Love Gennas comments, she's funny. Cheers from Ireland
Thanks, she will be happy to hear that.
I confess. Enjoyed the banter getting things to fit.😂 Remember sweating much younger priverbials digging T block holes on South Canterbury farm years ago. Box stays not so much. Looks like another job well done👍
Thanks Mate. The banter is great but not everyone likes it.
Canada calling. We understand most of what you are saying. Thank you for showing us. And thanks to Genna for standing up for herself in the comments. Made my day.
Thanks for watching Ed. Genna will surely speak her mind.
Alistair and Genna I enjoyed your tutorial on fence post installation. Well done! I am sure you have learned by doing hundreds of them. Greetings from Tennessee
Great to have you watching. I have done a few and am always working out more efficient ways of fencing.
Brother you are awesome. You have all the skills to be a good farmer. I am getting educated by your videos. Keep going brother. Ram from India 🇮🇳
Thanks 👍
Thanks :D
Working as a fencer in aus but practicing a few nz style stays on my own property since its hilly and hard to get second post in
For work we are always doing H braces with occasional steel stay
Ga-day alistair greetings from the UK ,and used to have dairy farm in reporoa from 1972 ------> 1999 , its a real treat to see you doing the fenceing brings back all the memories back in the day in reporoa pumice , no problem digging postholes down there , now to get to the posts , seeing you pull an old post out the ground , something that would never happen here , i dont expecr you would know what a rotten post was !!!! now here in the UK there very lucky to get 5 yrs out of a post !! they say there presure treated , ha i wonder what with , saw a fence line just last week ,after this hurricane had been through & there was 25 post all in a row rotten as a pear ,an the fence laid flat !!!! great videos ailister , love it regards to you & Genna
Hi Pete its nice to have another expat following along. I was brought up in the Manawatu and had no issues with stones there. No such luck down here tho, The quality of posts are hit and miss here as well. My Dad has pulled a retaining wall out and the H5 poles are rotten after 12 years. We have rotten posts here only thing is they are hard wood sleepers. Probably 60 years old.
Using a bar to make a pilot hole for the straining post. I never saw that before. Good idea.
Once again I love it, no really easy way to do fencing just one of those jobs that takes time and patients. Hats off for the joinery work very impressive
Thanks
don;t worry about the splintery corners theres got to be somewhere for the spiders to live!
Two helps you can do (I do these) is cut a measure stick to have all at the same height. Use a small level marker that 'clips' to the post being piled, 3rd uses a hydraulic cylinder to 'push' the post in then that avoids all vibration and wood splitting on the crown.
Love the banter between the 2 of you!
He edited it to his advantage 😆
Haha, no doubt!
Despite liking learning about fencing, Ima thinking you should take the cam and let us see the babe’s skillz😇
Great video - very informative - thank you.🙏🏼
Great video Alastair nice bit of fencing there 👌
Thanks 👍
Loving your channel, I feel like I'm right back in NZ on the farm with family, I'm always looking for cool farming to watch, I'm a kiwi I miss NZ, I'm living in Australia, I understand all the gibberish 😀 I was born Cambridge but actually went to high school in Feilding.
Thanks for watching. I was actually born in Feilding, grew up in Kimbolton.
As a kiwi , it doesn’t matter how you do it just as long as you get the end result. DIY it’s in our DNA lol.
Love it . Thanks mate
First time I've seen the ”rock spike" ?? used. Thanks for filming, loved watching.
Thanks for watching.
Hi Guys great job and the way I used to do it many years ago when I was farming [back in the ,60s and ,70s near Gore and near Te Anau only thing is we didnt put our stay block as deep top of it was level with the ground good job Paul
Thanks for watching Paul. I try and use a stay post the same length as the strainer. Its great to have you following along.
I worked in Wales in the early 1980's. We had a post rammer on a Zetor, we had a place for the netting to go beside rammer, we drove forward using 2.5 wire on ground for guide. Rammed posts and pulled out netting at the same time. I was impressed as we still use wire and battens. I am going netting from now on. Did i mention it rained every bloody day, we worked in wet with synthetic sacks wrapped around our legs tied off with baler twine. That was when I decided I should use my brain rather than rely on braun.
That's an awesome story. I have seen one of those netting stringers. They are very cool.
Thanks for the vid Alistair...have always liked the look of timber strainers and intermediates but they're rare over here in Oz...steel is MUCH more popular, especially for new fencing. Really quick to install and long lasting, typically less expensive too. Bolt on stays with welded stay plates - makes for a fast, easy job. Different ways for different countries I guess...that said, Kiwi fencing innovations and products really do set the standard worldwide.
Thanks for the comment. I suppose its how we have always done it over here. We use steel only where we can't drive a tractor to ram in wooden posts.
You're NOT doing it wrong,really great to see to Kiwi style fencing Living here in Aussie they have alot to learn,and have an addiction to barb wire.Great family
Hey Paul. Barb wire is a shit of an invention. Thanks for watching along.
@T Paterson Not Taranaki gates,Mallee gates is what they call them and not Waratahs they are called star pickets.haha.Lots of different names
I once had a mate whose job was to catch goldfish farts to put in spirit levels 😀
Also my favourite thing of all time is Footrot Flats. Omg I loved those books.
When I write to my friends in Whangarei I always sign it ....The Dog🐾
Good job with the fencing, loved it.
Haha goldfish farts😊 thanks for watching Mark.
Sweet rig you have !!!
Thanks 👍 Its old but it works.
Wow thats a hell of a contraption. The "i didnt ask" post driver haha
It sure is. Have you checked out our latest fencing videos with the new post driver.
Enjoyed the video 👌
Thanks mate
It doesn't matter how you do it it'll be wrong according to others. I was raised down on a dairy farm in southland
Thanks for watching Grant.
You’re not wrong .
Hey, that's a nice job you have done and I enjoyed watching it but Please please try NEVER to put your hands on the top of any post ever. Think of it like pointing a shot gun at someone- you just don't do it. I was told that by an old fencer back in the day. I just don't do it. That way I will never have to pick my nose with my elbow.
Genna will have the lingo sorted this time next year.
Tidy bit of fencing first class 👍
Thank you
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I wonder if you screwed two level bubbles on the main frame that would help. So you wouldn't need the hand level.
Kinghitter post rammers do have a level on them , this one is broken tho.
What type of wood do you use and how long do expect the posts to last .I agree with you Alistair when it comes to doing a job everybody has different priorities to how it looks at the end
Treated pine, in normal circumstances a fence will last 25 plus years. I've removed posts that have been in the ground for 40yrs.
Yep Treated Pine. The posts should outlast me.
@@kiwifarmernz As Pete Scales said about 15 years ago quality changed ,now we are being told to spend more money and buy redwood .Time will tel whether it’s worth it.40 years ago we used quarters and half stakes put in by hand sledge and they can be still standing if the hedge has good growth with wire netting to make it sheep proof.Has the timber work finished ?
You could use a forstner bit for drilling the hole in the strainer post, then you wouldn't need to chisel it out
Have since purchased one. It's in a later fencing video.
Not sure if this is a common term but I’ve always known that type of stay as a ‘dead man stay’ or ‘burying a dead man’. Might not be as common as I think?? Nice video 👍🏻
I have herd that term before. Its probably common where it is used more often.
when you tie the netting to the post why do you start from the top of the post rather then the bottom?
Great question. I don't really know
Lol that's what she said 🤣 😂
Is your plumbing in reverse on the monkey lever
I don't know. Just got used to it how it is.
Tough job one out.
Watch your fingers
those goldpine posts are bastards they always pop off towards the rounded side
Just like that. Easy-peasy.- with a big tractor. Pins = pens. NZ accent. It's like sex. The Kiwi's are mentioning it all the time, It's really the number six. - Lady, most of what you are saying is just nonsense. Can't you just keep quiet?
Yeah, most of what I said in this video was nonsense. A bit like your comment 😆
Speaking of, thanks for pointing out our accent. = Sarcasm. See what I did there?
I could keep quiet, but I don't tend to take advice from strangers on the internet. Maybe you should though. Be nice.
Hey the lady makes it First time I’ve seen your channel brilliant First time I saw a kiwi fencer was at Ag college in Ireland in 1966 ,now that was a long time ago Later spent some time working in your wonderful country in the seventies, didn’t do much fencing,but managed to find me a stray Waikato lass who I brought back to Irl to do me fencing ,she’s still fencing me in only disadvantage is she lacks the full Kiwi 🥝 accent I love it ,the accent I mean My favorite in NZ was Footrot Wal n Dog and Fred Dagg We are the Kiwi lady and I are now living In Sunny Western Australia 🇦🇺 and I love ribbing the Kiwis about their Rugby 🏉
Yes I will agree your top class fencers My kiwi Wifey could tell some funny stories about Irish ☘️ farm fencing she spent a number of years there great to see another Kiwi farming you tube channel Keep up the good work
Shot Genna
Yep gota love a big tractor.