Bradley Road Field
2020-05: The western edge of our property fronts along Bradley road and we have long planned to put up a fence along it. Finally that goal is achieved. Bradley Field is designated as that area north of the Western Entrance to the branch that crosses the road.
It's a long distance to kick out a role of wire. We adapted the pallet lifter that Jeffrey built to unroll the wire as I drive along in the Gator.
To anchor the end of a fence, before we bought the post driver, we drilled 5-foot deep holes and packed massive posts into the ground with sand and water. Sometimes putting a concrete block "deadman" on the fence side.
We have found these massive end posts to quite nicely sustain the pull of a fence and it eliminated the need to drill another hole for a brace post and fit in the brace cross member. Attaching the wire is also easier. However, now that we have the post driver, it is much easier to drive the posts in rather than drilling holes and back-filling around the post. We placed these end posts several years ago in anticipation of eventually putting up fence.
There is another massive post part way along the fence where there is a slight bend. Every 200 feet we drove a 6-inch wood post, called a "line-boss". The T-posts are spaced 20 feet apart. Here Jeffrey is standing up the fence and temporarily attaching the wire to the post with some string, as I roll out the fence with the Gator.
At the middle, massive post, on the road-side of the fence there are several Longleaf milkweeds (Asciepias longifolia) with two or three yellowish seed pods sticking up from each plant.
We are getting ready to suspend the fence roll from the pallet lift. A strand of barb wire stretched along the ground between end posts provides a guide for placing the T-posts. This tends to be a wet area, when we placed this massive post, we back filled with concrete ready-mix.