Fixing fence is nothing new in any rural area. Fencing goes down for lots of reasons including being cut, posts rotting, trees falling on it and flooding.
Anyone who owns livestock knows fences must be checked frequently. It’s far easier fixing fence before livestock wanders through the hole and off sometimes for miles or causes an accident on a road.
Water Versus Fence
Barbed wire doesn’t catch as much debris as field fence with its six inches squares or six inches by twelve inch holes. I have field fence because goats do not consider barbed wire a fence.
Water alone flows easily through field fence. If that water is pushing branches or piles of leaves, these catch forming a dam. Water is powerful when it’s on the move. The wire/leaf dams get pushed over.
One of my fences is along the road. The water moves road gravel on top of the leaves.
“Hopes, Dreams and Reality”
Mindy has a much bigger storm to contend with than the one we just had go through. She has long stretches of fence along the gravel road. Her feeder steers need to be in those pastures.
As I wrote about how Mindy is fixing fence, I remembered the steps I use to repair mine. It had been some time since I had actually done it so I hoped I got it right.
I did. I know this because I am going through those steps now. And those sore muscles and sore back are real.
Facing Reality
The major storms are getting more common. They are doing more damage. Fixing fence will get to be a common chore.
However, I am lucky. I don’t have much fence down from this last storm. A friend told me about a man with four miles of fence down.
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