Surshot
Silver Member
I know this is not a tractor, but I imagine you guys do some fencing on occasion so I thought I would tell you about my fencing cart.
First I took a 48-volt electric Club Car golf cart and turned it into a Sporting Clays cart with a basket in front, below the windshield and a carryall pickup style bed in the rear. I mounted two double upright gun racks inside the bed and a barrel holder/clamp on each front support for the roof.
When my wife and me decided to put in a mile of high tensile, 5 strand, fence by ourselves I looked around for ways to do the different functions, hauling equipment, material, etc. I decided to drill holes in the hard clay with the auger on the Kubota and haul the posts on the root rake mounted on the FEL. This combo works like real well. I can haul 1,000 ft of field posts on one trip. With a chain I can lift and set big gate posts with the root rake. With a 12-inch and 9 inch auger I can get all the holes drilled and concrete set without much problem.
I haul sackrete in the floor of the cart and after removing the two gun racks a 25 gal electric sprayer, I bought from AG Supply, was put into the back, full of water, to water the sackrete. A post hole digger and shovel lay in the basket while the level, wrenches, rolling paint marker, etc., slide in beside them. A high-speed drill lays on the seat in its carrying case. Hanging from the driver side barrel holder is a rolling tape measure. With my wife driving the cart we can go down the fence line installing post after post.
When the posts with concrete were all installed (8 gate posts, 3 corner posts, 2 end posts, 16 brace posts with bracing wire), I removed the spray tank and installed a + frame made of 1x4s, 2x4s and a 4x4. The 4x4 was drilled through with a 3/4 inch bit and a spinning jenny installed on the horizontal with its center pin in the hole setting on the 1x4. Then a cable was run from the rear roof brace around the pin and back to the other rear roof brace to secure the spinning jenny in place. A 4,000 roll was placed on the SJ. Then I put all of the wiring equipment into the cart, tensioners, springs, crimping tool, staples, hammers, splicers, etc. I can put in three strands of fence, 1,000 ft long in about 3 hours. Half of the fence is now finished except for the spacers being installed between the posts.
When cutting the 12.5 ga wire, I hold the fence end of the wire in my hand and use a vice grip pier clamped on the wire to hold the roll end of the wire to keep it from going crazy. The weight of the vice grip holds the end of the wire to the ground and it will not flip around.
I also made a vertical spinning jenny for barbed wire by drilling the two gun racks and installing eyebolts in each with a 1/2 inch galvanized pipe, keepers on each end and double 1/2 inch plywood with u-bolt keepers to retain the barbed wire roll. This also works like a champ.
I have tried to post a picture of the cart but I must be doing something wrong.
First I took a 48-volt electric Club Car golf cart and turned it into a Sporting Clays cart with a basket in front, below the windshield and a carryall pickup style bed in the rear. I mounted two double upright gun racks inside the bed and a barrel holder/clamp on each front support for the roof.
When my wife and me decided to put in a mile of high tensile, 5 strand, fence by ourselves I looked around for ways to do the different functions, hauling equipment, material, etc. I decided to drill holes in the hard clay with the auger on the Kubota and haul the posts on the root rake mounted on the FEL. This combo works like real well. I can haul 1,000 ft of field posts on one trip. With a chain I can lift and set big gate posts with the root rake. With a 12-inch and 9 inch auger I can get all the holes drilled and concrete set without much problem.
I haul sackrete in the floor of the cart and after removing the two gun racks a 25 gal electric sprayer, I bought from AG Supply, was put into the back, full of water, to water the sackrete. A post hole digger and shovel lay in the basket while the level, wrenches, rolling paint marker, etc., slide in beside them. A high-speed drill lays on the seat in its carrying case. Hanging from the driver side barrel holder is a rolling tape measure. With my wife driving the cart we can go down the fence line installing post after post.
When the posts with concrete were all installed (8 gate posts, 3 corner posts, 2 end posts, 16 brace posts with bracing wire), I removed the spray tank and installed a + frame made of 1x4s, 2x4s and a 4x4. The 4x4 was drilled through with a 3/4 inch bit and a spinning jenny installed on the horizontal with its center pin in the hole setting on the 1x4. Then a cable was run from the rear roof brace around the pin and back to the other rear roof brace to secure the spinning jenny in place. A 4,000 roll was placed on the SJ. Then I put all of the wiring equipment into the cart, tensioners, springs, crimping tool, staples, hammers, splicers, etc. I can put in three strands of fence, 1,000 ft long in about 3 hours. Half of the fence is now finished except for the spacers being installed between the posts.
When cutting the 12.5 ga wire, I hold the fence end of the wire in my hand and use a vice grip pier clamped on the wire to hold the roll end of the wire to keep it from going crazy. The weight of the vice grip holds the end of the wire to the ground and it will not flip around.
I also made a vertical spinning jenny for barbed wire by drilling the two gun racks and installing eyebolts in each with a 1/2 inch galvanized pipe, keepers on each end and double 1/2 inch plywood with u-bolt keepers to retain the barbed wire roll. This also works like a champ.
I have tried to post a picture of the cart but I must be doing something wrong.
