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Moving Fence

We have rented an acre of pasture land from my dad that directly adjoins us. We had to move some perimeter fence line. It was a one day job on paper that took 4 actual days to complete,

My dad and my brother Mark set the wooden line posts, my dad and I installed the fence, metal t-posts, and hung the gate.

I had forgotten how much walking is involved building a fence. Pulling wire, and walking back and forth from the pick-up truck to get fence staples, insulators. and tools.

I had planned on knocking out the fence by lunch on Thursday. My dad came to help and it was finished at 4:30 pm.

It would of went faster if we had used new stuff, but all the wire, t-posts, and insulators were re-used.

New Ground

With the fence move complete, Jenifer and I went out Friday morning with a fist full of orange flag wire stakes and laid it off on how we will work that ground. I spent Friday sub-soiling the new ground and Saturday, doing the initial tillage.

Farm Unfolded

Our farm space has always seemed cramped. Our big 310′ X 60′ field ended abruptly at a fence line, followed by a grassed waterway, which we run chickens on and then another fence line of my dad’s cattle pasture.Adding the additional acre of my dad’s pasture land was like opening a book. The left page was our existing land and the new ground was the right hand page. I guess the spine and binder of this book would be the grass waterway.

The chicken wagon is in the grass waterway, there was fence about 30 feet in front of it and a fence 30 feet behind it. The tilled up land behind the chicken tractor is an acre of new ground that has been in pasture for decades.

It is hard to describe how awesome it is to double your acreage with close access to water lines