The New Fence

Well, this got of to a slow start for a number of reasons:

The fence had to deviate around some trees that had to be conserved. I wanted to box the fence around them, by setting the fence back on that section. Everyone else wanted a deviation in the fence line around the trees. In the end, everyone else won, and the fence now bends around the trees (and it looks great....so what would I know!)

Then, originally I had envisaged that one-in-three posts would be treated pine timber, with two-in-three being steel-star posts knocked into the ground. Others felt that all posts should be timber. Again, the others won, and the fence looks better for it -- although we had to go and buy more materials on Easter Saturday.

Then the post-hole digger was useless (see previous post). So we had to dig all holes by hand, with cro-bars and shovels. For about half of the 50 or so posts, the ground was OK and digging went well. But for the other half, the ground was really dry and hard (near gum trees). Also, the two gate-posts took about one-hour to dig, as these had to go down 900mm into really hard ground. All posts were placed using the "rammed-earth" method (no concrete required).

The finished fence took three days (150m of fence) to construct. The wire is White's Hinge-Joint rural fencing wire, with two plain top-wires as well. We have two 14-ft gates for site access, across a 28-ft opening.