Why I hate barbed wire!

[oosik]

Ha - the reason I checked my entire fence line the other day. Had one of the neighbors black Angus bulls stomp right thru my five strands of Ever Sharp. Sure he got cut but he also got to my green grass.

Unless you don't know. Out here in NE WA state - all the grass is now a light tan. Every single blade has dried out, turned tan and died.

I have a small green patch in front of the carport. I guess the bull could see it from across the fence line.

I let him stay until the following afternoon. Then he and I peacefully walked down my driveway and out my inner gate.

 

[5030]

Heck Barb only keeps them in when they agree to be fenced. Anytime one really wants out they do. I gave up on electric after one dog would just grab a old of the wire and fight with it until the charger would quit, then walk through.
BTW all the local ranchers wad up old fencing and leave it just outside of their new fence line. Stays fine until someone with a mowers runs over that pile.

Cheap fencer lacking enough Joules. Far as juicing the strands, not the bottom on e but the top run or the next one down and never pee on an electric fence wire either or it will cook your pee pee.....

 

[jmc]

I like to use 4 pt, high tensile barbed wire for a string line on my 2x4 horse fence. I can pull it super tight, mark my posts, release it, drill my posts, tighten it up again to set my posts, then attach it to the posts so I can install my T posts. What's even better is it's under my 2x4 horse fence to discourage digging under it.

And maybe counting barb spaces might might save you some measuring post locations.

 

[newbury]

Twenty years...still finding it the wrong way. Have removed miles of it. This is not the way. Lol.

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Just think of it as a big round magnet!

I found a discarded piece stuck to the tread on one of the tractor tires as well.

I found some when I was young stuck in my foot. Standard solution was iodine and keep tetanus shot up to date.

 

[Dftodd]

Just think of it as a big round magnet!

I found some when I was young stuck in my foot. Standard solution was iodine and keep tetanus shot up to date.

Got my tetanus shot a couple months back when I tried cutting off my thumb while washing dishes

Henkel Knives with the sharpener built into the block if you need a kick a%% knife set for the kitchen

Got mine from target

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I know where all the barbed wire is on my place, and I don't go on yours.

So, I'm fine with barbed wire, even though my dad put some of it up in the "50's.

SR

 

[Thomas]

Good chance there's more goodies hidden along with barb wire.

 

[Jstpssng]

I know where all the barbed wire is on my place, and I don't go on yours.

So, I'm fine with barbed wire, even though my dad put some of it up in the "50's.

SR

Land here has changed hands several times in the last 100 years, and some of the bits of wire fence likely were put up before your father was born.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Land here has changed hands several times in the last 100 years, and some of the bits of wire fence likely were put up before your father was born.

That would be an old fence, as my dad was born 112 years ago... lol

SR

 

[ponytug]

That would be an old fence, as my dad was born 112 years ago... lol

SR

Well, more than a few of my fences would qualify, or at least I know that the wire is from the 1880s. Much of it is on old growth redwood.

Just picked up an old roll that was recently surfaced by a fire, and as I carefully picked it up with thick gloves on and the end tucked in, a loop popped loose and stabbed me in the face. Grrr.

All the best,

Peter