All the stars lined up last weekend and I was finally able to g0 to the property and get some work done. I started the day by calling in load of gravel, as a base for the roads I've been building. I've never coordinated this all by myself, so I started off a little conservative. I figured there would be less risk to try out the process with one load and see how it went before going crazy on the rest.
After getting the new roadbed laid, I realized that my fence line along the road was too far back, which was aesthetically unpleasing as well as I was cutting off a big part of space I could use for the corral. As much as I didn't want to move fence posts, I bit the bullet and did it. In the background you can see the old fence posts (the post hole digger is laying against one) and how much area I was able to recover.
The joy of digging fence posts in this area is that you can go down 24 inches through nothing but clay then move 10 feet over for the next post and hit nothing but limestone. Generally, if the layer of rock is thin enough, you can break it up with the breaker bar, but other times it's too thick and you have to either drill or have uneven fence posts. Neither is a good option. As you can see from the picture below, I was bringing up nothing but limestone on this hole.
Luckily I had a well place tree at the end of the fence row. I was able to hook the come-along to it and stretch the fence. If that tree wouldn't have been there, it would've been tough trying to get the truck or quad back there to anchor to. I've come to the realization that stretching the fence is problaby the most critical aspect of putting in a good one.
After all the hard work, the boys tried out the new road by playing Frisbee. I think, for a first effort, the road turned out pretty well. I definitely learned some lessons on what to do and not do next time. Stayed tuned for more news to come.
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