The New Fence

I have probably mentioned in previous posts the condition of our horse fencing. It is the Heinz 57 variety, consisting of roundpen panels, chain link, wood, electic wire and tape, and stone wall. We even have sections of  very dangerous stock panels, and a few feet of the equally dangerous barbed wire. For posts we had trees, metal posts and plastic step-in posts. The electric wire and tape sections have been broken and repaired so many times that I considered changing our farm name to Half-Ass Acres! In additon to the fencing, the solar charger had been dropped, broken, and was taped together with Duct Tape. What did people ever do before Duct tape! Needless to say, I was also spending a lot of time chasing horses down the road, or searching through our back woods. One of  the many projects I had planned for this year was to take down all the missmatched junk fencing, replace all the step-in posts with metal posts (yes, they have the yellow plastic safety caps), run 2-1 inch wide strands of electic tape, and buy a new solar charger. Fortunately my son-in-law had some down time at work so he and his father, were able to spend 2 entire days tackling this enormous job. In total they put up 2/3 mile of tape, and pounded in at leat 30 posts. We did still use many trees for some of the insulators. The new fencing looks wonderful, the solar charger is providing a good ZAP, and the horses aren't escaping so long as I don't leave the gate open!