Preparing Pasture for Liming - Temporary Fence Installation
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What happens here
To prepare the pasture for the lime truck, the farmer must relocate the cattle. He walks along an existing electric fence line and uses a fence tester to confirm the fence is live, generating a spark. He explains that cattle cannot be in the pasture while lime is being spread to prevent potential injury. He then switches off the electric fence power unit, housed in a storage compartment on the hay bale unroller, before proceeding to create a temporary gate. This involves cutting the polywire, tying a loop at each cut end, and attaching an orange gate handle to one loop, which will connect to a fence post to form the gate.
Goal: Safely prepare the pasture by moving cattle and installing a temporary gate.
Tools and materials
- Electric fence gate handle — Functioning as the gate latch
- Electric fence polywire — Creating the temporary gate
- Electric fence power unit — Controlling the power to the fence
- Fence tester — Verifying the fence is active/inactive
- Wire cutters — Cutting the polywire for the gate