Tag: Fencing

Homesteading takes investment of time ad money. Sometimes it is planned; other times it catches you by surprise.

Sometimes things go bump in the night. Sometimes the dog barks and we don't know why. Then I saw a pair of glowing eyes in the distance.

Fixing my electric fence meant tearing it down, installing larger insulators, and almost starting from scratch. But it was a learning experience.

I've never installed an electric fence before, and it showed. Sometimes watching YouTube can't replace trial and error.

With spring giving way to summer and summer storms rolling through, we have to plan our work around the weather. There always seems to be more to be done.

Now that the beehives are set up, we need to get our fencing up before the bears sniff them out and come for a visit.

After drilling our holes earlier in the week and picking up gravel and concrete yesterday, we are ready to continue installing our fence posts.

After evaluating a number of power augers, we decided to go with a powerful option to dig our 25 fence post holes.

We venture out to fetch supplies for our future garden and load up the pick-up truck with fence posts and welded wire fencing.