Fence: can I do it?

[EastTexFrank]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( <font color="blue"> I'll be working alone. Is this an easy task? </font> )</font>

On your own, it's not all THAT easy but 1000' isn't all that bad either, especially since it's a straight shot. It's a lot easier, safer and faster with two people. There's as many ways to build fence as there are people who do it. Some ways are better than others. There's lots of information out there on "how to" from fencing companies and university extension services. If I remember correctly, the University of Georgia has a good one but don't hold me to that. Pick the method and materials that suit you best and "get 'er done". /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif A 1000' should be a good introduction and learning experience. The only piece of solid advice I'd give is that if you are going to do it alone and are going to use barbed wire, get a wire unroller. They're not cheap, around $150 to buy I think, but they will save you so much grief that I think they are worth it. That barbed wire will tear up arms, legs, clothes, gloves, just about anything when you are handling it alone.

 

[AlanB]

I have no idea what your soil is like, but where we hold our motorcycle events, I need to put up fences to keep people corralled either into or out of certain areas.

I wait until we have had a saturating rain for a bit, (like this week) and then two of us go out, one driving the tractor and the other holding the posts, and drive the T posts into the ground with the front loader of the tractor, My buddy has a pipe on his loader to capture the top of the post, but we have done it with mine just with the bottom of the bucket.

The ones we set last year are coming out on Sunday and moving to a different location.

It sure makes it quicker than hand driving them.

 

[Unclebuck257]

There's nothing for me to add to the advice on actually building the fence that you've already haven't gotten. What I'd like to add is a personal note...... We had this same problem with ATVs and dirt bikes up at the ranch we lease in Colorado for Elk hunting. AFTER you put up a barbed wire fence where there hadn't been one before, and considering these riders will probably be drinking, you can go one of two ways. You can be very nice and hang rags tied from the barbed wire for the first few weeks, to show them in advance that the area has now been fenced, or you can just NOT!! I won't tell you what we did, but after several years of telling them to stay off private property and getting cursed at and laughed at way too many times, let's just say that it was worth the case of cold ones and a afternoon sitting under a tree to watch!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

When I fenced off a part of my place here in Texas, I did put up the pieces of cloth to warn any local kids that were riding, and might not have noticed!