Actually, when I started doing things the way I do I copped a bit of flak. Not to my face of course, always the way but you know how all people can be when someone's work or a solution that shows theirs up. Me, I don't judge other peoples efforts, I see people having a go and that's awesome.
Having a go is what impresses me even if it's different from my vision. Thing is, I'm having a go and bugger stuff up all the time, but at least I have a go.
Everybody's doing exclusion fencing around here but there are different ways to do it, electric, Weston fence, mesh, high mesh with apron, whatever you think works but the age old problem is cutting tracks, drainage, getting posts into rock. Some blokes use drill stem hammered in by excavator, most of my back country we can't do that as it's solid rock so we work out what works. A neighbour of mine hired a tracked drill rig to drill into the rock and used a slurry to set his posts. He needed a loan from the bank to do that, brave bloke.
Here's a pic of two neighbours boundaries joining along the road, two completely different ways of dealing with all the issues.
I took the pic on the way into town today.
The bloke on the left has a dozer and that alone makes him a big man (just ask him, he tells everyone), initially he cut his driveway in level and set up a Weston fence, said my angled gates were a weird way of doing things. The post 2019 rains came and the corner assembly washed out and fell over under the tension of the 8 or so plain wires running away in the pic. I can only imagine how soon my tall 16 - 19 wire mesh would pull it over so much quicker. I diagonal brace because that's basic principle.
So he ripped it all out, filled it in, track-rolled it with the dozer back to original grade and fitted this unmodded gate.
First time, it had the customary big gap under it on the left under the hinges.
But feral dogs got in under it and caned his sheep. Funny that.
So he got a mate from work (He's fly-in/out Fitter not full time here like I am luckily) who's a shooter and a Boilermaker, and to "pay his way" welded multiple horizontal pipes under the gate. Apparently my mesh idea first up was a waste of money and he actually said "showing off".
Then it rained again, and because it had no diagonal bracing it pulled back and the line wires got slack. Wallaroos pulled it over.
So he put in a diagonal 32nb galv pipe brace in (WTF?), which flexed sideways and the assembly loosened again.
So old mate welder came back and welded another brace on the far left. It's holding for now.
But the dogs were getting in through the pipes. So he said.
So back again, out comes the weldmesh.
Apparently, now all he has to do on his monthly R&R is spray Roundup all along the fence and slash the fencelines, an ongoing huge cost, because the grass grows up and shorts out the fence and it doesn't work. When it does, just go for a walk along it and find multiple dead echidnas electrocuted to death stuck underneath the bottom wire. Is that acceptable?
How many times does it take going back to enact the "definition of madness"?
Would he say, sorry mate I bagged your work out but now I'm copying you? No way, big man small dick, but I don't have to say anything.
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My mates on the RHS with the "no shooting" sign don't have the skills or the money to do that, so they just do what they can with scrap mesh. They had a fencing mob do it for them as they didn't have the confidence to do it themselves, but the contractor at least diagonally braced the end box assembly.
Which looks the tidiest? Who cares.
The bloke who bags out and belittles everyone else shows just how qualified he really is to comment. The blokes who just have a go, and praise their neighbours for also having a go are the ones I won't wipe my feet on when they fall down in front of me.
), so when I was doing it back up again I grabbed the '06 and ran the torque wrench over the bolts just to check and low and behold a couple of the scope screws were a tiny bit loose. Maybe enough to make a difference but they're good now and a quick check on paper and I'm good to go again.
