Another beautiful Saturday and another day on the fence line. It's been exciting to see how much more fence we can lay down with each session as we improve our technique.
On our first try, we got about a 1/3 of a roll and the 2nd time we did the other 2/3rds. Last Saturday we were able to get a full roll of fence put in. That's 330 feet of hard work. The fun part is going to be putting in all the support posts later on.
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it though.
For now, we just want to get the 10 acres encircled and put the gates on so we can get the animals in there as soon as everything starts blooming. At this point, I figure we have at least 3 more rolls to do and the long straigtaways are turning into the serpentine section which will slow things down as well. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes to wrap this up.
Sawyer was my chain man. He wanted a picture of showing off the proper way to accessorize when putting in fence.
Sammy came down and helped out too. She worked really hard clearing the fence line and helping me with the stretching.
What a good crew. Sawyer could'nt wait to use his machete on the brush. However, he always seemed to be cutting good trees and never the brush or roots that I needed cut.
These days, we try to minimize the axe work, but it comes in handy every now and then for chopping out roots or cutting things that the chainsaw can't reach.
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