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Fuddy1952

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I had to replace fence on property I bought, fence was 45 years old, woven wire, wooden post every 50ft with 4 T posts between. I just cut wire every wood post, wound rusty wire with barbed wire up throwing into a ditch thinking I'd clean it up someday which was today.
I'll never do that again! I just finished, so tired I can barely type! All overgrown, had to winch everything out. Most wire I'll haul to dump a little at a time, posts on the burn pile. Lesson learned a mess over time can become a nightmare.
 
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Oh my... the classic 'I'll get to that later' or 'aroundtoit' scenario.

Lesson learnt. (until it happens again :))
 
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I had a woven wire fence around the garden. After it being there for twenty years I went to remove it. Ha - what a joke. The weeds & grass was so intertwined, tangled & thick. Pulled it out in chunks with a logging chain and the tractor. If there weren't such a fire hazard - I would have burned all around the fence first.
 
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this is what I use on fences!! ---dont care HOW overgrown they are! lol!!

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Before MOOSE, I used this little guy,--it too will make short work of fences!
old fences can be a problem to remove.---putting the new one in is easy!
 
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Don't add unnecessary clutter to the landscape. A GF once gathered rocks and proceeded to put them around all manner of things. Cute and well meaning. but Just created a maintenance nightmare.
 
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Good thing is you shouldn't have to worry about that project again..."45 years"
 
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I put up the exact same fence over 20 years ago. There's parts of it in the back corner that I can't even see because of overgrowth. Just as well. I don't go back there much any way. The habitat gives the mountain lions a place to hide. :eek:

Whoever has this place after I'm gone will have to deal with it. ;)
 
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I put up the exact same fence over 20 years ago. There's parts of it in the back corner that I can't even see because of overgrowth. Just as well. I don't go back there much any way. The habitat gives the mountain lions a place to hide. :eek:

Whoever has this place after I'm gone will have to deal with it. ;)
Good place to stash trespassers
 
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Don't add unnecessary clutter to the landscape. A GF once gathered rocks and proceeded to put them around all manner of things. Cute and well meaning. but Just created a maintenance nightmare.

Yes, my wife likes to use rocks int he tilled garden to mark her veggies and things. I can't quite seem to convey the importance of avoiding that practice, as every rock adds to the number of bolts I shear. Drives me nuts. Rocks are evil.
 
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No rocks/bricks/blocks/logs/etc. here!!!---spent too many years getting rid of that crap!!!
 
 
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