Fencing

My third massive summer project is nearing completion. The horse pasture behind the barn had been fenced in, sort of.  Yes T posts lined one side of the pasture but they were not evenly spaced and they definitely were not pounded in straight or at the same height. To top it off barbed and smooth wire were strung haphazardly across the T posts and in no orderly fashion whatsoever. Even before doing research I wouldn't have used barbed wire for a horse pasture.

Sooo I had to take down all the old wire and all the old insulators (the yellow things on the posts), Pound in all the posts to the same height, put on all new insulators (brand new and evenly spaced of course), Put on cap posts that double as insulators for polytape (the white strip at the top of the posts) and the fun part, put in the corner post.

Ahh, the infamous corner post. It's made of wood, is 8 feet tall, about 6 to 8 inches wide and it's so heavy that I had to drag it up to the pasture behind the tractor.  Just how did we get it in the ground you may ask. We did not use an Auger or post hole digger, we used two spade shovels a garden shovel a small rake like thing, two plastic soda cups cut down to size, an empty foldgers coffee thing, a tape measure and muscles. Some of the rocks we found would have eaten an auger for breakfast and I did not have a post hole digger so we did not use one. After much digging we got down to thirty four inches, two inches shy of thirty six but I wasn't about to fight with another ginormous rock and plus the hole was deeper than my entire arm. Then because I was too cheap to spend thirteen dollars on a cardboard concrete form I cut the bottom out of a plastic bucket put it in the hole we made, put the post in, leveled it then filled the entire thing with concrete  and dirt on top of that. I am happy to report that the post is still level and very solid, this thing is going to stand up to a line backer.

Thank heavens I didn't have to put wooden posts all the way down the line.