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[microchick]

Cap are you going to have to pull any stumps? Or were the trees just overhanging? And yep, DH and I are now both up to date on our Tetanus but we didn't get a scratch on us today. Too much experience with handling barbed wire. Give me field fencing any day.

We got the wire out of the pasture and in the ravine where we wanted it. I need to get some pictures of some of our ravines for reference. The one we worked on today started out being about 10 feet deep and wide. We started loading dead fall into it, then erosion caused two trees to collapse down into it. DH went to work with his chain saw and cut the downed trees so the could fall into the ravine. Now the ravine is only about 8 feet deep and the sides are tapered enough that I could climb down and pull wire down onto the dead fall. It's amazing how much force the water has in those ravines when it rains hard. Some of the dead trees that we tossed into that ravine are a foot plus diameter and cut into 8 foot sections. They have been moved maybe 10-15 feet until they lodge in the bank. This ravine is the main one that runs through our timber and feeds into the creek at the east property line. That creek feeds into the Chariton River and since we live on a ridge, everything runs downhill.

On the up side, we get a lot of sand build up in the ravines now so we have a never ending supply.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I guess they go with the "No blood, no foul" rule. And you clearly had a foul!


Because it is WAY cheaper and easier to put up than field fence.


I still disagree with the idea that it will be rusted and non existent. From what I know of this place no one would have put up the stuff I am finding since the early 1950's. It is brittle but it is clearly still there. Some of it is several inches into relatively slow growing trees.

HOWEVER, given the depth and steepness of the ravine you are dropping it in and the deadfall on top of that, I agree that it is highly unlikely to ever be a danger to others.


Whoa, that is pretty expensive. The town we live in now has it is in the taxes, voted on a couple of years ago, approved by 66% of the people who voted. Runs about $28/month for our house (*). It is cheaper than if everyone contracted with whatever hauler they wanted since the company does every house in the town rather than having to hopscotch through based on which people chose them. IF the town belonged to a solid waste district (like EVERY other town in the state), I could drop off my trash and recycles every 3 or 4 weeks for about $5.

* based on grand list value of course so we get to subsidize the people who generate a lot of trash and recycles. We went with the 32 gallon can size, most got the default 96 gallons. How the h-e-double hockey sticks can people generate that much every week??!!

No garbage pick up here, we have to haul it to dumpsters.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Cap are you going to have to pull any stumps? Or were the trees just overhanging? And yep, DH and I are now both up to date on our Tetanus but we didn't get a scratch on us today. Too much experience with handling barbed wire. Give me field fencing any day.

We got the wire out of the pasture and in the ravine where we wanted it. I need to get some pictures of some of our ravines for reference. The one we worked on today started out being about 10 feet deep and wide. We started loading dead fall into it, then erosion caused two trees to collapse down into it. DH went to work with his chain saw and cut the downed trees so the could fall into the ravine. Now the ravine is only about 8 feet deep and the sides are tapered enough that I could climb down and pull wire down onto the dead fall. It's amazing how much force the water has in those ravines when it rains hard. Some of the dead trees that we tossed into that ravine are a foot plus diameter and cut into 8 foot sections. They have been moved maybe 10-15 feet until they lodge in the bank. This ravine is the main one that runs through our timber and feeds into the creek at the east property line. That creek feeds into the Chariton River and since we live on a ridge, everything runs downhill.

On the up side, we get a lot of sand build up in the ravines now so we have a never ending supply.

There are a lot of stumps, including the pine tree stumps of trees that fell over. There will be a lot of work to do.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

I waved! I thought maybe you'd be standing by the side of the road to wave back but I didn't see you. I understand the trip back since it was dark and snowing, but it wasn't at 11 AM on my way down

I waited until 10:50! When nobody waved, and the state trooper passed by for the third time,
I decided to call it quits. Sorry I missed you!

 

[microchick]

Ok can someone who has chickens PLEASE do this? View attachment 1953782 View attachment 1953783

I just did a second glance at this and cracked up. How funny and what a good sport that hen is! Or maybe not so much a good sport by that scowl on her raptor like beak.

 

[trumpeting_angel]

Ok can someone who has chickens PLEASE do this? View attachment 1953782 View attachment 1953783

Scrooge McChicken

 

[pennyJo1960]

Getting some dungeness crab 10 bucks a piece my post mistress cohort is getting them

 

[CapricornFarm]

Getting some dungeness crab 10 bucks a piece my post mistress cohort is getting them

 

[drumstick diva]

Fell asleep at some point today (who knows when??) and woke up 4:13 am. Lady sitting across from me on bus, was coughing up a lung, all through the ride. Hope I don't get that!!

 

[trumpeting_angel]

I hope so, too! Dreadful.