Our New Barn , In Picture Series. Enjoy!

[USNative]

USNative,

In looking at the ground around your new barn I was wondering how you got the posts in with that rock. That driver looks to be a very good answer. In comparison, building fences in our area is so much easier than at your location, there is virtually no comparison. Not only are you dealing with the rock, but it looks very cold so the ground is probably frozen hard as well, at least the surface.

The new barn looks great from a distance and your new fence job is impressive considering the conditions you are dealing with. Nice straight fence. Your idea of using wire that is not barbed sounds very wise around horses. Cattle can deal with barbed wire pretty well, but I have seen some nasty injuries on horses from barbed wire. That choice of wire should be good for the horses and will keep the vet. bills down.

My oldest Son's family are horse people and I notice they utilize plank fencing in confinement areas and tall woven wire in combination with electric tape on the large pasture areas. They removed all of the barbed wire fence on their place prior to bringing in the horses. Their girls show horses in a wide variety of competitions and injuries of any kind don't fit with their program.

I hope we don't have to wait until spring when work begins again on the new barn to hear from you. It might be slightly off subject, but seeing some of your other activities in the mean time is definitely all right by me. Hope I don't get into trouble with the moderators with that last remark.

Nick, North West Farmer

Fortunately the ground wasn't frozen enough to make pounding the post's too hard, the rocks were the main concern. With the pounder they used it sure made easy work of it considering the conditions and only two post's were broken on the entire job, Not Bad! All the post's are in and about a third of the fence is now wired with 5 strands. :thumbsup:

On the fences that I built at each end of the barn I had the holes drilled for the post's there using the same Bobcat & PHD attachment that did the holes for all the poles for the barn. Then I put all the post's in and hand packed em' then attached all the panels. I will be adding the 2x4 welded wire to those sections after winter.

I'm finding that our area the Post Pounder is the best way to do it, takes less time and way less work. I would like to have one like the one they used, man that thing worked great here. I honestly didn't think it would work in this rocky area but I know now what a good Post Pounder is capable of doing.

Bit by bit we are going to be replacing all post's and getting rid of all barbed wire here and it will be a lot safer for the horses. The old place we lived on was way smaller than here. I would love to build fence on the new place like I had on the old place but it would be way too expensive and would take way too much time.

Nick, check out the link below and you will see my post with pics showing the type of fences I built at our old place for smaller confinement of our horses and a fence line I built for cross fencing a field. Sounds similar to your Son's fencing, maybe just a bit of difference in style. The first two pics are of one of the corral's I built just after finishing. In the last picture of the cross fencing you can see how I put up electric. I did that with the corral's as well. Works great for keeping the horses off the fence. Also is a picture of my stud colt I had to put down in June because of getting hung up in barbed wire here on the new place, I was sickened over loosing him but it's to be expected when having horses around barbed wire. Check it out and read the text and you will get the idea. :thumbsup:

Here's the link: http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/...rse-pasture-fencing-advice-6.html#post2548597

Thanks.

 

[USNative]

USNative,

I hope we don't have to wait until spring when work begins again on the new barn to hear from you. It might be slightly off subject, but seeing some of your other activities in the mean time is definitely all right by me. Hope I don't get into trouble with the moderators with that last remark.

Nick, North West Farmer

No danger in me disappearing from the forums Nick :laughing: If not on this thread I will be on other threads offering my knowledge to others in need. To much good stuff to pass up on TBN. I'm usually here somewhere daily. :thumbsup:

I think this spring I will open a new thread showing my flood irrigation and how it's done around here. Although our hay field needs a lot of work I am still going to irrigate it and pull one cutting of hay off it a year and then pasture it for now. I have just recently moved our horses on it now for a couple months.

When the time is right (a year or two) we are planning to re plant it in alfalfa so we can be totally self sufficient on hay. This 45 acre hay field we have will produce over 3000 bales on the first cutting and about half that on the second I believe if it's redone. Anyway that will be something for me to think about in the near future.

I also will be posting a thread later (with lots of pics of course) of the overall place here.We are very proud of this place and what better than to share it with the good members we have here!

 

[USNative]

You can see forever from there :confused2: Have not see a trailer / post driver before... Good job with everything!

Thanks teg, I have seen some of your projects and you are doing a fine job as well! :thumbsup:

 

[North West Farmer]

USNative,

The fences you showed from your previous place are really something. That is just about as good as they get. The fences on my son's place are almost exactly like the fences you show that have the two boards along with the woven wire and the electric fencing

His fence looks like yours, without the boards, and using shock tape on top and about rump high in front of the woven wire to keep the horses away from rubbing the fence. As you indicated, fencing cost quickly becomes a big factor as the fences get longer.

I will be constructing about 1000 feet of fence between my back pasture/hay field and the new hazlenut orchard. We need to have that complete by April or May. We will most likely be using metal line posts with concrete post ends, corners and braces, versus treated posts. In our moist ground, even the most high quality treated posts do not survive more than ten years or so.
We have installed a lot of heavy painted metal angle Iron end and corner posts. The angle iron corners and ends are cemented in place, including the braces. The fabrication of the cemented in place angle iron corners and ends is quite time consuming and costly. These post systems have been put in as far back as 30 years ago and they are all in very good condition. If they are not damaged by equipment impact their life span is unknown at this time.

This will be our first attempt at using concrete posts for corners and ends. We are looking forward to this new system. In a few short months we will know what we think of the concrete posts. Expect to be using 48 inch woven wire, topped with one strand of barbed wire, topped by a single strand of stainless electric fence.

Your new fences are looking great, especially when installing them in frozen rocky ground. I am very glad you came up with that post pounder for installation or you may have been in for one nasty job.

Keep up the good work.

Nick, North West Farmer

 

[USNative]

Hey guys ,

It's been a while and when I last left off on this thread I had the barn all finished except for the inside of the tack room.

Well , I had a lot going on the last few years and unfortunately I was unable to get the tack room finished until last spring . I did get it done and I will be posting pics of that very soon so people here can see how it turned out.

I did it a bit different from a typical type of a tack room , but I wanted it to have our own style and touch to it and I am very pleased with the result. I'll be getting a few pics later on and I should have em' posted by tonight sometime or tomorrow sometime.

This will make this thread complete with all progression from start to finish then, with nothing missed. and I was very happy to have shared this knowing there where a lot of you guys who appreciated this thread.

I feel I should get the final pics in here for you all to see. So stay tuned, I'll have em' up soon !

Seeyaz !

 

[TomSeller]

Looking forward to pictures of the tack room

 

[USNative]

As promised , here are the pics of the finished interior of the tack room. Some of the pics are decent and then others , well , not so great. But at least I got em' ,,, LOL

Enjoy !

 

[TomSeller]

Very nice.

 

[EddieWalker]

Very organized tack room!!! Everything looks great

 

[North West Farmer]

USNative

I saw the notification or your post in my email box this morning and I recognized it right away. Has been a long time since you last post and my last post.

You have come a long way with your tack room. That is very impressive. We have been so busy around here, just completed the first cutting of hay. We are not in the drought condition areas, but we have had no rain beyond a very light sprinkle or two for a couple of months so things are pretty dry. This is the first time I can recall in over 40yrs. of operating at this location when we have made an entire first cutting without dealing with some rain in the haying process at some point in time. The dry condition makes for great hay making, but everything is dry more like late August than mid July. Made lots of great orchard grass hay. Presently irrigating going for the second cutting.

Seeing the notification of your post caught me off guard. I am looking forward to picking up where you left off on your projects. Will need to back up and look over your last posts to bring myself up to date. I recall many interesting exchanges back in 2011 when I looked forward to what you were doing next.

Looking forward to getting reacquainted with your activities and projects. Nick Lambing, North West Farmer