Creating an Entrance

[EddieWalker]

schmism,

No real plan or date on finishing. It's just a project that I work on when I can and have the money. When I get to the point that the trees are out, and the dirt is where I want it, then I'll get the loan to start building. It could be next year, or several more years.

Dave,

You're right about utility pole not being in line with my street light. That pole is straight in the ground, but then it makes a graceful (joking) curve towards my pond. hahaha

They put it in when I was away on a job and when I called to complain, they said the pole is fine and if I wanted to replace it, I'd have to pay for it. They weren't rude about it, but it wasn't a battle that I felt very comfortable about winning.

James,

I never thought about powder coating them. It just never came up.

The poles are 4 inch galvanized that I'm able to buy for less than I can get steel pipe or tubing thanks to Harvey. When we all got together at his place for the first TBN Get Together, I was really impressed by the gate he built for that client of his. Until then, I had no idea how I was gonna deal with lighting and blending it with my vinyl fence. I also didn't know how to finish it, but he likes Rustolium paint, and that's what I'm using. I figure I'll have to touch it up from time to time, but the other two are looking great after two years in the ground.

Can you powder coat galvanized steel? The lights are 21 feet long. Is that too long? I had a custom Gate done one time and each half was 8 feet long. They said that was pretty big, but I don't have a clue what the maximum size is that they can handle.

Something to look into.

Thanks,
Eddie

 

[hunterridgefarm]

"Can you powder coat galvanized steel?"

Eddie,

You can powder coat galvanized steel. We do it all the time for some of our customers. The powder coater needs to know what he is doing since the galvanized steel will put off a gas while in the oven and cause the paint to bubble or streak. It all has to do with the pretreatment of the metal and a certain type of phosphate wash. And it can get expensive. If the rustolium works go with it, like you said it may only require some touch-up later. But if you have the money powder coating is the way to go.

Also the project looks great, keep the photos comming. I always enjoy reading you project post!

 

[MF1455v]

Eddie, you are doing the next best thing to powder coating by using the Rustolum. I forgot about the galv pipe but as was already mentioned it can be powder coated. As for the length that will depend on the size of the oven the coater has. The guy I have been using has a 20ft long oven. I don't remember how wide or tall. But with a 21ft pole it would be easy just turning it at an angle.

I was going to have my 18ft gate PC'ed and he was going to have no problem with it. Now that I going to sell my place I'm just going to use the Rustolum paint.

James

 

[Gene And Tonya in FL]

Just wanted to say the colums look great and offer this tid bit of info about your cap project. As an old flat worker useing concreat we always applied diesel to the molds and skreeds with a pump up garden sprayer to avoid creat from adhearing this might work in this aplication as well.

 

[EddieWalker]

It's been a few years since I've even thought about finishing off this fence, but it's now moved to the front of my list of things to get done. A good friend told me that I really need to fence in Oscar, my pet pig, before he hurts somebody or causes an accident of some kind. He's fairly destructive and gets into everything. I love having him wonder around, but it would be better and SMARTER to have a place for him away from the house and vehicles.

His home will be around four acres with a 3/4 acre pond and severl thick wooded areas. Once the fence is done, I will run an electric fence around the bottom and the top rail. My long term goal is to have a couple, maybe three, longhorn steers in there with him.

Part of the fence will be my gazebo, http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/208125-gazebo-number-one.html that I'm working on already. Four sections of the gazebo will have a railing on it that will also keep Oscar and his future friends in there. I'll be updating both of these threads as I progress.

I bought 1,000 feet of White Vinyl 3 rail fence from Gardner Fence when I started this. I put 300 feet of it in at my entrance, and the rest went in for the pasture. I shoped around to see if I could find another source, but they are still the cheapest for what you get. I paid $3.80 a foot for 952 feet yesterday and picked it up in Corsicana. I'm not ready to start on the fence right away, but at least I have it on hand and can work on it when I have the time.

Eddie

 

[R_Walter]

Is it okay to dredge up an old thread even if it is yours?

 

[jinman]

Eddie, I hope your electric wire will contain Oscar. It should unless he becomes frightened. If you want to hold him for sure, you may need to line the inside of your fence with these hogwire panels. I'm just not sure a vinyl fence is substantial enough to contain large animals like hogs and longhorns.

 

[CurlyDave]

Eddie, I hope your electric wire will contain Oscar. It should unless he becomes frightened. If you want to hold him for sure, you may need to line the inside of your fence with these hogwire panels. I'm just not sure a vinyl fence is substantial enough to contain large animals like hogs and longhorns.

Of all the common animals, pigs are the ones most sensitive to electric shock.

 

[EddieWalker]

Eddie, I hope your electric wire will contain Oscar. It should unless he becomes frightened. If you want to hold him for sure, you may need to line the inside of your fence with these hogwire panels. I'm just not sure a vinyl fence is substantial enough to contain large animals like hogs and longhorns.

Oscar loves to rub mud on clean tires. Come over and count to ten, and odds are good that he'll rub one of your tires!!!! My parents are very proud of their RV and spend a lot of time cleaning it.

Oscar took that as a challenge and did an extra good job of messing up their tires after they cleaned it, then he ate their valve stems.

After that, they installed a hot wire around the RV at about a foot in the air. Oscar got zapped by it and squeeled like he was in pure pain!!! Being that he's probably the dumbest pig out there, he did it again. :laughing: Honestly, it was really FUNNY. As far as we know, he never gets anywhere near that wire. NOT EVEN CLOSE!!!!!!!

Eddie

 

[jinman]

Oscar sure sounds like the normal hog to me. Thank goodness you named him Oscar instead of Anthony.:laughing:

I can't ever recall seeing electric wire used around a pig pen by folks who raise hogs, but it may work perfectly. The reason people use hogwire panels is because pigs love to root around in the dirt and can dig under the normal fence. If Oscar doesn't dig under your hot wire, you will probably be okay. I can remember our old hogpens when I was a kid being lined around the bottom with old corrogated metal off a barn.