Post #9782

Today I removed 600' of fencing and I don't know how many fence posts. The fence was originally put up with quarter sawn 10" diameter posts 30-40 years ago. They were spaced about every 20ft. About 20 years ago they got mixed in with metal T posts between each of them. The result was alternating old wooden posts and T posts every 10ft. So they are all gone now. Kinda funny, the horses went over where that fence used to be and just stood there for a while taking the changes in. I used a spinning jenny to wind up the steel wire. Last thing today we moved the goats into a different paddock with a new bail of hay. Then we resupplied hay to the old paddock. We also put a new bale of hay in one of the unused paddocks. We have 3 moderate sized paddcoks I can lock the horses in while I'm working on the back line of fencing. The plan at this time is to remove 4 of the 5 wires between posts and lay the remaining steel wire on the ground along with the white ribbon on the top of the posts. Each day when I'm done felling trees near the fence I can lightly attach that last wire and the white ribbon. The horses don't challenge the fence, so I don't expect any problems with trying to escape.