Just happened to be out on the farm, listening to
’s latest One Drink Book Club, when I had to stop and take a picture of my fencing for this week’s general newsletter. All sorts of ideas rolling around in my head about writing.As mentioned, I do fencing more than I like - but not as much as I should.
And when I was close to done, I thought to test out my Substack live capabilities - and, of course, give everyone interested in seeing a snapshot of this Writing While Farming lifestyle.
The W. C. Wyeth reference was actually a placeholder for
. (But of course, its easier to get names right when you’re by yourself in front of your computer and can look everything up (and look so genius, meanwhile…)Here’s the crime scene, almost completely patched:
That bent post over to the right was almost down to 45 degrees when I discovered it. Apparently from multiple cows trying to exceed the maximum width capacity… That top wire was broken at the tree it was attached to (out of this picture and to the left). That also left the other wires were slack on both sides.
I had to trim several large bushes off the left side to restring that top wire. Just in case, I brought down a roll of barbed-wire fencing - which came in handy to hold those two posts together at their tops more firmly. That bucket holds my wire clips and various insulators, as well as fencing pliers, hammer, et al.
The mud is from melting snow, and cows using it as a path.
This is a “wire gate”, which is built out of shortish pieces of barbed wire attached on one side, with a post that gets loops top and bottom. Wire gates aren’t big enough for much more than cattle in width. Like humans, they stoop a little to get through (except calves).
Hopefully, this video is successful enough to share these snapshots from time to time…
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