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Marking Fence Lines and Assessing Terrain

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YUCK!! Farm Duties...get stinky, fence planning, clearing fields for fencing!

What happens here

Josh walks along a section of the planned fence line, which is marked with ribbons. He explains that the fence will run through forested areas, providing shade for cattle. He highlights the strategy of creating the straightest possible fence line to minimize disruption to the land and reduce the need for additional braces and corners. He then drives to another section, near round hay bales, where the fence will extend. He discusses the route through a gully and mentions a future plan to remove an old pond dam section to facilitate easier passage.

Goal: Josh assesses the terrain for new fence lines, explaining the strategic placement through wooded areas and a gully, and discussing plans for clearing obstacles.

Tools and materials

  • Flags/Ribbons
  • UTV (Utility Task Vehicle)

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other spot and I'll show you that so here's our corner post and we're gonna basically draw a straight line through here go up this way just a little bit there's a hay wagon up there you can see it we're gonna go up that way just a little bit and I'll show you where we shoot down through the woods [Applause] so the corner post is directly out that way that's where the corner goes we're gonna bring the fence line straight down through here and straight down through the edge of this woods right here so in other words I'm gonna clear all this stuff out there are a bunch of stumps and basically a gully right here and this is the next place that the guys are gonna be over here working with the excavator and the loader there's probably another day and a half worth of work here so all in all they'll probably be out here for three and a half days something like that to get all this work done that we're doing right now the budget originally was three thousand dollars we've extended our budget to five thousand dollars just to get this work done so that it's done before we get fences in place and we don't have to work around fences now the line will shoot straight down through the woods here it will make a hard right-hand turn they'll be a gate where we can access this timber right here if we need to so basically we're cutting ourselves out of about an acre and a half of forest right here but it doesn't matter because there's nothing I can do with it it's a hole so things you got to think about when you're buying land is try not to buy a hole if you can help it now this is basically the worst gully on the entire farm on this side of the farm the other side's got some beautiful Rocky Creek gullies and stuff like that it's not really usable land it's beautiful this isn't beautiful this isn't usable it's just garbage the timber guys were gonna cut up in here but it was so steep and there was just not timber it there just wasn't any timber in here to speak of so we're gonna cut a straight line straight down through here make a right-hand turn and finish fencing the bottom we're gonna ride down in that bottom now and I'll show you where we got to cut through the woods down there and that's a very very easy cut through probably 100 yards so I went up and I talked to the guys are in the women ask them about how wet it was and if it was a bad thing for them to be working today and they said no it's ok as long as they're working up the hill in other words if he's pulling a…

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