We bought these yesterday. Now to get them on the posts we set a year ago last fall.

Richard, I actually enjoy nailing those suckers up, it can go fast! Nice to see quick results.....


We have some 6 rail with both flat iron and solid bar stock for the vertical 'slats'. I have not seen any like the stuff you guys have.


I guess the latest and greatest is the 7 rail but that's probably only needed for wild Montana cattle....grin

As an aside Sam, are the calves sold?

Yeah, we sold back in late February. Calves weighed up nice and looked good but a flat market... Still flat 3 weeks later.

Don't get me to crying.......grin

It would be an honor to feed out those calves some day Sam.

Richard, we(the farm) still have 20-30 head of totally organic calves.

Late calves, born in June, slicks, never felt a needle, no back pour, nothin'. Banded the bull calves back in January. They are good to go, probably weigh 600-650lbs. The heifers are still half wild and you wouldn't want them...

The big run of the steers at auction weighed about 780lbs. Bad memory, $1.42/lb?


Fats are up there, you have to be doing alright.

I gotta back pour here. Too warm and too wet not to.

Failure to do so will take the weights down considerably.

Richard, I like those panels!

Please post a pic or two of how you fasten them to posts. That'll be interesting to me.

Oh yeah... I'm seeing lots of MUD in that photo...

Better than dust, I reckon.

This is just a web image, I'll try for a picture of what we put on about three years back. We used lag screws, I'm not sure what is holding the clips here.

Thanks Richard...

Yeah, I agree about the lag bolts being better.

For the city slickers, what is a back pour?

Barry may be pouring for lice, grubs, something else, or all.

Got it, thanks. I envisioned something a bit more involved.
I'm two generations removed from the ranch so I depend on you guys to let me cowboy vicariously.

Don’t you worry about the screws falling out and getting in your cow’s stomachs. Dad always implored care when using nails and staples in the pasture.

Hardware disease can, does kill cattle, I've lost several head that way. We used 5/16x 2 1/2 lag bolts, I'd hope those are to large for them to ingest.

Mostly internal parasites here. I think it takes care of ticks a lice too.

You gotta be PC and use the kind that won't kill the dung beetles nowadays.

What we put up about three years ago.

Richard, how do you 'slice' the joints?

How do the ends adjoin, if you don't mind me asking?

They come with short pipe couplers that will slide in, with a bump so the do not slide to far in.

I paid $85 each for the new sections the other day.

Thanks!

16 foot panels?

20 feet long.

That's how ours connect as well. We try to have the splices end up on the center of a railroad tie or post.

Drill a hole in the splice and run a pole barn nail through it.

That answered my next question!

Thanks

The only thing I don't like about continuous is that the sections are heavy. I can barely move one around(a short distance) by myself.

I would not try Sam. As to splicing on a post, I'm not that good at doing things.

A plan is to use a few in sort a catch pen. I like a fence that can be climbed in a pinch!!

Richard, I'm no fencing expert but a cordless saws-all is really handy when working with that stuff!

Sam, we talked about cutting the pipes, a square, and straight edge would be a must.

As to cordless, the DeWalt impact driver is the cat's meow driving those lags.

I'm trying to go as "cordless" as I can now.

Got a cordless drill and impact driver set that I love.

I like my air tools too. I can drive my pickup with the air compressor on it and use the tools without electricity. It helps!

If it's that heavy,
How much fun is it to get 6 pipes lined up and slid into the connectors while you
fight with a 20' panel?

I assume it requires at least two people.
And a third with machinery would be nice.