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Fencing project
Jun 06, 2020
11,000ft of fencing...................
Mark's been working super hard in 90 degree heat pulling the fencing up in the bottom half of the farm. The fencing was old and in need of too much TLC to be able to recover, so we have the huge task of changing ALL the fencing on the farm. Currently there is 11,000ft of fencing, but we will be turning the bottom hay field into paddocks, so the total is now 14,000ft! Stupidly, Mark calculated it in miles.......lets just say you would want a car to drive the distance.
As the farm is split in two halves, we've started on the bottom half of the farm first. We don't have any horses grazing down there, so its easier to just crack-on!
The main problem we came across was, how do you get rid of 650 old posts, and 950 boards?!?! We looked at getting in a wood dumpster, but the closest companies said we were too far away from them ! Next we thought about burning them, but being next to a state forest, I was concerned that Mark would start the biggest forest-fire in Virginian history. So I turned to the best place for advice (lol) .......... facebook! After 1 week of being on there, we have half the wood collected by people needing it for their alpaca fencing and random projects. Great! But we still had half left. So Mark put an advert on Craigslist and within a couple of days, the lot was gone. I really don't know what we previously did without the power of the internet!