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lol Dwayne,

that's a great story!

am hopin you find the pix, if so, imho, it deserves a thread all its own.


Happy Easter to you and yours as well my friend!


I believe there's a moral to these stories.....critters can JUMP!

Professionally designed and operated, but the fence/gate wasn't taken into consideration?

Stuff like that makes me giggle..

I helped a guy put a fence around his orchard (only 1/2 acre) we welded the longest Tee posts we could buy together and pounded them in whilst standing on a platform stretched across a pickup bed. It then took two layers of horse wire. Whether they can jump this high or not is immaterial as they didn't try.

I was raised in northern Cal, north of Sacramento. There is a small range of mountains in the middle of the Sacramento Valley called the Sutter Buttes. The Buttes have gas wells all over them. The gas and oil companies have service roads to all the well and installed bump gates. Bump gates can raise hell with a pickup if you don't learn how to operate them, also if they are not in great repair lol. If you have to go thru pulling a trailer you better get out and hand open it and chain it back, seen a lot of stock trailers with bump gate dents lol.

I just want to see a 8' tall bump gate.
Show us a pic spankie, can you do that.

Well, IIRC and I don't have time to scroll back up right now, you said the pricing of a gate opener was out of line or too high or such. When its not.

I don't know what a cattle guard will cost you but we had a standard depth one built but 24 feet wide for our drive, with installation that was over 2000 as I recall. And you are looking at similar cost wise I"d suspect.

1.5 inch pipe AINT gonna cut it. I've seen 2 inch pipe bend under load. Unless you put all kinds of ibeams under it every 2 feet or so probably... even then I've seen em bend unless you get up to oil field 2 and 3/8 tubing at a minimum.

I would call Mossy Oak and have them make you some camouflage for your grapes. I'll bet the deer would walk right on by.

The Feds and county here put in cattle guards made by PowderRiver, they cost 3 to 5 thousand, depending on size. Lol a solar gate opener is a hell of a lot cheaper.

We are going with two electric gates.

Of course deer protection was taken into consideration. I figured about 20k. Looks like it will be considerably less if I use two gates.

I don't make detailed plans and spend money before the need arises. I have also taken into consideration frost protection and will probably have to install at least one wind machine at 30k. But am I going to go out and buy it now? Of course not, I'll buy it if and when it is needed. I have also taken into consideration bird protection. But am I going to go out and buy it now? Of course not, I'll buy it when it is needed. I have also taken into consideration a $4,000.00 water filter. But am I going to go out and buy it now? Of course not, I'll buy it when it is needed. I have also taken into consideration that I will need about 90 more miles of trellis wire. But am I going to go out and buy it now? Of course not, I'll buy it when it is needed. I could go on but maybe even you get the point.

This is a professionally designed, installed, and managed vineyard and I have the resources to fund it.

We had a hunter come in through double bump gates once. .. Rich SOB.... rented a caddy in San Antonio and hit every bump gate on the way to the ranch I worked at in Rocksprings.

Buddy of mine laughed so hard when he got to camp, bumper was almost hanging off, one mirror gone, and dents all up and down the side.

Probably didn't help, or did, that he had managed about half a gallon of Vodka by the time he got there... felt sorry for his teenage son to see all that....

Decided against bump gates. Will use auto-electric. Out.

Was not paying attention when I first saw this to whom had created the post, good luck Spanokopitas, sounds like your move from CA is working out for you.