Building an interesting fence on the farm today. Wood post, woven wire and electric!

support companies that help support the Stony Ridge Farm. Subscribe to the channel and contact Farm Fence Solutions for all of your fence building needs. Folks, today on the Stony Ridge Farm channel, we're going to be building farm fence out here in the middle of the pasture. We're making a cross fence. It's going to be awesome. Come along as we teach you how to build a good quality fence for your farm. Hey there folks, this is Josh, Stony Ridge Farmer. Welcome back to another gorgeous day here on the Stony Ridge Farm on our first generation farm here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Today we're out here in the cow pasture and we are building a cross fence to help us with weaning our cattle off. We've got several fence crews out here from all over the country. We're here learning. We're here building and we're here having fun on the Stony Ridge Farm. Hope you guys enjoy. We're going to build some wood fence with hightensil woven wire and show you some really cool tools. I ain't afraid of play. I ain't afraid to get the job done and do it my own damn way. I ain't afraid to lie. Times like this. If you can mess with my freedom, I'll tell you just what you can kiss. That's right. They're out here driving post right now. Welcome to the farm. This is your first time here. Your 50 millionth time. Hit that like button, guys. We bring you stuff that nobody else is bringing. So, this is wood post. These are tapered wood posts from Madison Wood. We're going to be using staples from StockAde Staples. We're using Farm Fence Solutions. That's where we're getting all of our materials and our wire. Uh farmfenceolutions.com, guys. Super huge supporters of the a fencing industry and super huge supporters of the Stony Ridge Farm. That's how we're able to pull all these contractors together. And everybody's here to learn and grow and be better fencers. And I'm here to get the cows fenced in. Who's this guy? Hey, Luke Gibson. Farm Fence Solutions. Luke Gibson. So guys, without Luke, we would not have progressed the way we have here on the Stony Ridge farm with getting the high quality perimeter fence and now we're starting cross fencing here on the Stony Ridge. So big shout out to Farm Fence Solutions and Luke here. Tell them what you do. What what you do? What do you sell? Yeah. Uh we sell mostly agricultural fencing supplies. So uh material, post, wire, pipe, gates, uh things of that nature. Also, uh small tools uh stock aids here today. So, stockade staples, staple guns, uh hog ringers, um anything and everything. Anything and everything. Hand tools, and then uh a very large part of our business is equipment. So, Gotcha. Protek machinery is is a huge part of what we do. Gotcha. And that's the post drivers that you're seeing, guys. These are called Protek Evo. Is that right? These are all EVO machines here today. Gotcha. Gotcha. So, these machines are pounding post in which makes life super easy. There's no digging, there's no tamping, there's no concrete, and these posts sink right down in the ground and hold super strong. And we'll show you guys that. We're also going to show you some new bracing techniques that are pretty cool. New to you, maybe not so new to the fencing industry. And we're going to have fun. These posts, they're from Madison Wood and they are a tapered What size post are they? Uh these are a 5 to 6 in 8T tapered on the line post and then the uh the strainers are a 6 to 7 10T is what they sent us. Gotcha. Awesome guys. We're going to get busy. Howdy, sir. How you doing? Getting you. Good to have you. Hey, what's your fence company? Cowboy Construction. Cowboy Construction out of Spokane, Washington. Eastern Washington. Right on. Awesome, man. Thanks for coming. Yeah, long travel. Good to be here, guys. This is Ryan Sloop with Sloop Fence out of Mount Ola, North Carolina near Slesberry. Yep. Right. So, you service kind of South What part of North Carolina do you serve? Uh, South Central North Carolina. South Central North Carolina. Sort of. Yeah, South Sort. Awesome. We got three machines moving over here the other side of the farm today. So, Sloop Fence. Yep. All right, guys. Who we got here? This is S and Jessa Jessa Branch Fence, right? Jess Branch Fence Company. Where you out of? I'm out of uh Stokes County, North Carolina. Sto County. So, you were just right up the road. I didn't realize you're like 10 minutes away. Yeah, you know, but uh you can call me anytime there. No doubt. No doubt. Guys, good to see you. See and Jessup Jessup Ranch Fence. Real close uh neighbor of mine. Tell us who you are and tell us about your fence company. Hey, I'm Deuce Brown, owner of Brown's Fencing Company out of South Carolina. Awesome. I cover most of the Midlands, low country. Um, do a lot of primarily a fence, woven wire. Um, just happy to be here this weekend, man. Me too, man. Thanks for coming, dude. So, let's take you through from A to Z. So, the first thing that happens is the king post or the end post or the gate post are going to be driven just like this. Then the next thing is going to happen is we run a wire, a hightensil wire down along the ground as a straight edge to match up each one of these posts as we go down. These posts are driven. You don't have to drive your post. You can dig and tamp or you can dig and put concrete in. But driving these post, a lot of people have the fear it's going to be loose. Let me show you that post is not going anywhere. I'm about 230 lbs. It's not going anywhere. So, the next thing we do after we get all our posts driven is we build those braces that you saw. And that's called a rance brace. There are several different kinds of braces you can build. There's plenty of videos out there on the internet teaching you how to do that. Eventually, we'll have a dedicated video for each one of these braces. So, jump in, subscribe to the channel. We'd love to have you back. Next, we're going to roll out our wire and we're going to tie our termination knots at the end of the wire, which is where these fellas are right here. Tie that termination knot, roll your wire out, and then we use that machine to pull the wire tight. So, we pull the wire tight, we tie the termination knots on the other end where there's another gate, and then we come back through and we put our staples in place. Now, we also have a insulator on each post where we'll be running our hot wire. And if you run a hot wire across the top of your fence, it helps to keep your animals in and it helps to keep them off. So, keep pressure off the top of your fence because a cow or horse or donkey or anything is going to rub on this thing and scratch on it. If we have a hot wire on there, that will teach them to respect the fence and they'll stay off of it. So, that's kind of the process. As we're in process of getting the second half done here, I wanted to tell you how this kind of all works out. So guys, the first step in this process this and you're going to hear some post drivers going is to line this up. And what we did was basically line this new fence line up with the old fence line. So, it's directly shooting off of that corner right there and we're shooting directly across the pasture. This effectively splits this pasture into two sections so we can wean our young calves off. In other words, mama cow will be over here, baby cow will be over there, and we need them to be separate for about two to four days in order to help wean off the calves. We also need to separate our bulls and our steers from our heers. So, the males from the females, and we'll be doing that with some of this cross fencing, too. So, that's the purpose. We'll have a gate on this end, a gate in the center, and a gate on the far end for rotational grazing purposes. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] All right, guys. Big shout out at this point to Stock A. Stockade. This is the ST400i fence stapler and we've got Andy Starns with Stockade North American sales manager. Nice. Now Andy's going to walk us around this fence stapler and tell us a little bit about it. One thing I want to make sure that you guys understand about the fencing industry. You see stockade here. You don't see any other companies here that make fence staplers. Guys, these folks stand by their product. That's something that's super super important. and they support the industry and they support your farm. And there's something really cool we're going to tell you about at the end of this video. Uh what is it? A 100,000 shots you can get through this thing. Yeah. Little little secret teaser. Something coming down the pipeline. I'm going to let Andy walk us through one of these awesome staplers. All right. Thanks, Josh. So, we're going to walk through just the 400i stapler. Comes in a really durable hard case. So, a lot of other uh staplers that you get don't come with a hard industrial case like this. They'll come with a bag or sometimes just in a box, but uh you know, this is a contractor grade tool. So, we want to make sure that it stands up to the tough rigors that these guys put it through every day. So, this is the staple mate of our um lineup. Holds two rungs of staples. These are nine gauged 9010 coated staples. So 9010 simply means zinc and aluminum coated. So this is a 30-year staple. So most of your wire that these guys are going to put up is going to have a class 3 galvanized coating, which is a 30-year coating. So these staples are actually designed to last longer than the wire does. Now, when you shoot this staple in, it doesn't just go in like that. It goes in and twists. Is that right? Yeah. So it kind of it kind of spreads. You've got a divergent tip on these staples. And you can get those in a right or a left hand cut. Okay. Oh, I see. Okay. So, one side is cut and goes this way and the other side is cut and goes that way. So, when the staple goes in, it twists in there. So, it doesn't just pull straight out like grandpa's old staples from 1946. Exactly. And you've got a barb as well. Uh, so this is a smaller staple, but this tool will actually install 2 in, inch and 3/4, or inch and a half staples. Gotcha. Now, we're looking at putting insulators just like this up, right? Yeah. That is a strain right insulator. It is. And this tool is an add-on. And we can just show this real quick. This fits on the end of the stapler. Uh, you can show us how quickly it goes on if you want to. So, we're just going to take and undo this right here. That'll take off the depth adjustment piece. Like so. And this is from StrainRight also, guys. Yes, StrainRight makes these and manufactures them. So, we we don't sell them, but uh StrainRight does. And so, you just simply put that on the end, [Music] tighten it down. Oh man, that's super easy, huh? And you're done. And now, how does that work? We're going to show how it works, but show me real quick. Yeah. So, basically, this is just going to fit right in there like that. Yeah. And it automatically lines up the hole with one of the staple legs. Awesome. Awesome. We'll see that in action. Well, I want to thank you so much. Is there anything else you'd like to say? This takes gas, right? A little gas cartridge. Takes fuel cartridge right here with an expiration date printed right there on it. Nice. Um, one of the cool things about this tool is this gas actually has some oil in it. So, every time you pull the trigger on this tool, you're lubricating the inside, which is why we get regularly 150,000 shots out of the life of these tools. Gotcha. And look on our website later this month for some exciting news just around the durability of our tool. Okay. Nice. Now, if you attend a fencing event similar to what we're doing here, Stockade typically will set up like a little shop there and clean your uh stapler for you. Is that right? That's right. Yeah. Okay. So, uh Fall Fence Forum, they're in Worthington, Indiana. If you guys are curious about farm fencing, you don't have to be a farm fencer to buy one of these. You don't have to be a contractor, I guess, to buy one of these. Is that correct? Correct. Yeah. So, we have a lot of ranchers that that will buy these. If you're a rancher and you're you have your own fencing crew in a big outfit, um these are perfect. Even if you're a small rancher and uh you know, you just enjoy fencing and want a little tool that'll save you a lot of time and some money. Gotcha. Check one out. And they hold their value. That's the simple cool thing about this too. The the this is a almost a lifetime purchase tool, isn't it? It is. It is. And you know, for those folks that maybe don't fence enough throughout the year that that don't want to make the investment in a contractor grade tool, a lot of our dealers actually have loaner tool programs. Okay, cool. So, if you go and you buy your fencing supplies and and the staples from your local farm store, if they have a laner tool, a lot of times they they might rent that out for 10, 15, $25 a day. Nice. Yeah. Some stores just allow you to borrow the tool for buying the products here at their store. That's why you buy your fencing from a reputable place that sells fencing, not a place that sells chicken feed. Right. Right. Thanks, buddy. Appreciate it. Thanks so much to Stockade for helping us out with this project today. Super fun, super cool. We're going to get busy. We still got a little more fencing to go. Guys, thanks a lot for joining us here on the Stony Ridge Farm today. If you like this kind of content, please hit that like button. Consider subscribing to the channel and watch another video. There'll be links to some of our fencing videos here at the end of this one. and there'll be a link to our fencing playlist where we do all sorts of farm fencing. So, if you want to learn about fencing or if you just enjoy watching fences get built, this is a great place to be, guys. We're the number one farm fencing YouTube channel on the planet. Awesome. Thanks for watching. [Music] animal. [Music] Heat [Music] up again. [Music] Tell me about this. This is called a king post. Yep. This is a king post. Again, it's also smooth here when we wrap the wire around so the cows and livestock don't get caught on it too. stock will be able to go right around it. No, no hair hung up here. No no no skin hung up here. Animals are sliding around gates a lot. This is a a pinch point for livestock. So, anytime we keep this smooth, we're we're better off. Guys, what he's doing right here is preparing the wire to pull around this post right here. And we're going to do some termination knots. We'll show you guys how that's all done. We'll pull tight to here. And then once we tie the termination knots, we'll let off the slack. And it might pull back about that much right there. But it'll be extremely tight. I'm g walk around down here so you guys can see just how tight this is even before we ever put a staple in because the hillside undulates. In other words, goes up and down here. So we have to make sure that the right level at the ground and the right level is up here at the top. We're also going to run a hot wire. But you can see now super super tight. Okay, this is called a tension curve. This is the tension curve where you pull the wire tight. That's what holds the tension. There's a tension curve here, a tension curve here, tension curve there. You can see all these wires are pulled tight evenly. That's the benefit of buying the right wire from Farm Fin Solutions. Tell me what we got here. This is a Streamright ratchet strainer. Is that what that's called? Or what is that? Chain strainer. Smooth wire. Flu wire puller. Is that the technical word? Chain strainer. Chain strainer. So, this thing walks up and down the chain. Show us how it walks up and down the chain. There. The advantage to this is it's infinitely adjustable. You don't have to use a comealong or a cable or I can throw this on anywhere and use it. It's got a smooth on the other end. So, I can pull two wires together. Ah, nice. Or I can tile off to the end of it, too. Awesome. Hands down the best pliers you can get for cutting fence wire, guys. These are called Kipex or Nipex. Available farmfence.com. All right, Ryan, tell us what we got going. Uh, this is a termination knot. This is how we tie off all our hightensil wire. Pretty well. All our all our terminations are made with this knot. Okay. Um you're going to wrap do one wrap. I go over. I go under. Deuce goes under. Yep. I think a lot of people go over or under. So back up through and then back up through. Don't worry guys, if you don't catch us the first time, we're going to show the next one. We'll be nice and flat. I guess would be called your D knot. Yep. And then you're over, under, over, under. So you're back under. This, I think, would be your lazy loop. [Music] S we're going two and a half right there. Yeah, sounds good to me. Okay, then ring it off. Ring it off. Helicopter. There you go. And that provides no hazard to livestock. It is not sharp. If you cut it with pliers, it's going to make a sharp cut right there. There we go. Over the top, down, back up through just like tying a granny knot. You can watch this multiple times, guys, if you need to get it. Practice it before you build your fence. Go around that nice and snug. Lazy loop right around there, which means that loop's a little bigger. Two and a half tight wraps. Come back on it. Ring it off. That's it. That's your lazy loop right there. Okay, that's a termination knot. We're going to show the difference between a wrapped off wire, which is not a knot. Uh-huh. And a wire on this end that's tied with a proper termination knot. Y or a termination knot. Depends on the internet on whether or not it's correct. Yep. So, watch this tail here. Watch this tail on this end. And as we put pressure on it. All right. Now, look at that other end. This one didn't move. Didn't move. Okay. All right. Now, we're in the south, so we have extreme temperature change. 90° 30° 90° 30°. So, what this wire is going to do over time is it's going to get tighter and it's going to get looser. See what that knot's doing? Even though we've already tensioned it all, that wire just keeps coming undone. So, as time goes on, this fence is going to get flat. It'll eventually unwill itself. And you can put 40 wraps on it. It's the same principle. So, now all we had to do was just tie that knot and we'd have solved that problem. And you can you can watch it. It'll just come right on. [Music] So you see we're using some insulators and we're putting up a hot wire here. There's also a hot wire on the inside and a hot wire on the outside called a belly bumper. There are several different types of insulators that we're using. If you have a hot wire, you have to insulate it from ground. So this one is the top of the post and it is down in the middle right here. Okay. So, what our goal is with this fence is a weaning fence. Okay? So, it's a weaning fence to wean the mother and the baby cows. Now, when you have a situation like that, sometimes they put a lot of extra pressure on your fence. Now, we're using a belly bumper. Also, we'll take you over and show you what a belly bumper looks like. It's an insulated section that stands off the fence about 12 in. So, this is the belly bumper before it gets installed. And basically it just ties into the fence and provides an insulator out here away from the fence line. And again, that helps keep cow pressure off of the fence right here. And the hot line up top keeps cow pressure off of the top of the fence. The hot line down here on the inside doesn't need to be spaced out away from the regular fence wire. So it's just on the back side of the post. So this is the insulator that insulates and isolates this wire from this post right here as you can see. So, what we do is we run off of this and we take an insulated wire and we go underground. We'll be doing that in the future. We go underground…