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Post by rhonda on Mar 13, 2013 15:13:21 GMT -5
Is there an easy (like anything about fencing is easy) way to put a fence through a brushy woody area and stay on line? I wonder how you stay straight even if trying to clear a path to string a line through. I would hate to clear for 3 days to find I'm off the property line!! A nice young couple bought what was my brothers land-we have used it for 10 years but now will have to divide with fence.
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Post by lavacaw on Mar 13, 2013 15:25:24 GMT -5
How about asking the new owners to help with the clearing - after all, the fence will benefit them too. Try to clear a path to run a string line = if you are off by a little, clear a little more. You probably can't clear too much and you will have to get in there to run fencing anyway. I can truly sympathize with you - we are clearing this weekend for a new barn. Tons of yaupon, wild roses and greenbriar!
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Post by dexterfarm on Mar 13, 2013 15:28:17 GMT -5
find a strait line of site off of the fence line. 5 feet 20 feet doesn't really matter. sight up a straight line and put in temp post as markers. then just measure back what ever distance you used and that is where your line is.
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Post by rhonda on Mar 13, 2013 15:38:09 GMT -5
The new owners are going to fence the easement. They spent a fortune putting a road in that I hope to use to move to across someday. We have the front 40 acres and they bought the back. They have built the road and run electric lines as well. This land is across the highway from our house and 6 acres. So when I stand at the marker just go as straight as I can. My husband isn't worried about this as I am.
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Post by kozzy on Mar 13, 2013 15:38:23 GMT -5
Have the official corners been surveyed yet? Surveying isn't cheap like it used to be but is generally worth the cost in the long run. Saves a lot of potential future battles.
Since you can buy levels with LED laser diodes pretty cheaply now a (10-20 bucks), I'd set the end posts because you know those locations (and they define the rest of the fence) and use the laser to shoot a line rather than a string.
If there is too much brush, you can angle the laser based on the angle recorded in the deed--even using the compass app on your Iphone or similar. You can then work down the line clearing general brush and trees to get a clear shot post to post. (If you can't see one post from another due to hillocks, I can go into that problem but it gets more complicated)
Once you have a rough clear from end to end, you need to set an intermediate post (or a couple). I prefer to set the intermediate centered on long runs. That post gets SIGHTED in, no strings necessary. You sight from end post to end post while someone holds the center post for placement--and you can usually get it exact to less than an inch in-line.
You may have to divide again to have visible posts but most runs tend to be 500 feet or less so you can usually just go to setting the posts on whatever centers you have chosen.
Hard to put the details in a forum post and not leave stuff off. I can be more detailed if needed but would bore your pants off.
My father ran commercial fence crews for US Steel for years and passed the info on to me....and turned me into a fence zealot. I hate wonky fences.
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Post by rhonda on Mar 13, 2013 15:42:16 GMT -5
Yep, it is marked. I will check into a laser thing. I just have visions in my head of a curly fence through the brush and trees!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 13, 2013 17:03:15 GMT -5
if it helps, we couldnt get a line of sight because of the slopes, ups and downs etc, and OH is a perfectionist and I thought it would take forever to ensure the 900m fencing was straight. But it didnt and its as straight as it could be.
1. Star picket in at the beginning of the fence. 2. Star picket in at the end of the fence. 3. Stepped out star pickets from start to finish just placing them on the ground. 4. secured strain wire at the start star picket and ran near bottom strain wire through each star picket and left it lying on the ground. 5. Got to end and fastened off strain wire to end star picket and strained it about 3/4's of what it should be. 6. This created a straight line and also the strain wire created enough tension that when you stood the star pickets up along the way, they would automatically move into line creating a straight fence. 7. Hubby hammered the star picket in so far and I came along and finished them off into the ground.
From there it was straight forward.
Cheers Donna
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Post by rhonda on Mar 13, 2013 17:30:45 GMT -5
What's a star picket? If I used stakes of some kind and ran string low would that be the same? I have hills to deals with too. Cute Gene!! Now come do mine!!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2013 15:14:01 GMT -5
Star picket is a stake with holes up and down it for the strain wire. That's what we call them - sorry thought it was a global term
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