Jan the lunch lady... mom use to make dad's lunch, pack the meal and us 4 kids and we picnicked in the field during crop work seasons... often the college fellows ate breakfast and lunch with us on saturdays, unless it was grammy's turn and they ate next door...back in the 70's. One of those college guys visited recently and many old tales were told...

Greg some people just have to say something negative. Just nature or they’ve had a bad experience. Now I do know that there are different grades of pressure treated. I don’t know what the difference is but I had a contractor just this week tell me that the box store pressure treated wood can’t hold a candle to the posts he buys for his pole buildings. I think maybe the pressure treated he buys might go through a series of pressure and vacuum to make sure the treatment goes through and through. If I had time I would have just showed up to help just for the knowledge. Looks like an awesome fencing job to me! And I like things right!!

What a gorgeous property. I’m so glad you’re stewarding it now.

Thank you! This would make a great "short" I look forward to seeing more. I have 6.5 acres in central VA and I am ready to put up perimeter fending

In areas that have soupy ground, it may rot out a post, but in most areas that even get decent rainfall, not having concrete around your post gives you another 20+ years of post life. Apparently, the concrete keeps water on the wood, which is what I heard from my contractor friend.

Greg I have a ton of wood post from the 90’s that are as good as the day they were put in. Any wood post we put in the ground in the last 15-20 years are rotted off. As you know, they don’t make stuff like they use to.

Most people simply look at the cost of capping a wooden fence post with an aluminum, copper, or galvanized steel cap, and *NOT* the added longevity that capping delivers. Most studies give any where from 2-5 times the longevity for a capped post versus an uncapped post. That is because even treated wooden posts still retain the phloem cells which are a part of the xylem system that transports sap, nutrients, and water up and down the trunk of the tree. Those phloem cells are not full of the chemical that prevents rotting so moisture, especially through freeze/thaw cycles, can easily enter the end grain of a treated post and begin the process of decomposition. If I recall correctly, telephone poles and railroad ties that were treated with creosote are a different kettle of fish because the phloem cells in those two instances were actually filled up, at least to a certain extent, by the gummy creosote, which prevented the incursion of moisture into the end grain of the railroad tie or telephone pole.

Congratulations on your new farm.

Such an informative video Greg I'm loving it! I'm taking notes Greg writing in my notebook from your grazing school and from your other videos when dealing with numbers, parameters, equipment etc.

Great video, thank you for sharing it. This is the year we will be switching over to Timeless products and using your design as a guide.

Wow Greg, you guys are working fast! Congrats

Fence looks great !!

Scott and I just finished putting in Timeless post on another section of our property on Sunday and ran 4 strands of wire yesterday and today. Love those posts.

Thanks for the video and showing the progress! It looks awesome. My longest run was around 1500 feet. I know it takes a lot of work to put all those posts in. Those timeless post are so worth the extra money because it doesn’t take long to run the fence through the holes unless you go into the wrong hole 😂. If you get moisture in the ground, pounding posts is so easy.

Glad to see you finally got some good rain yesterday.

if those 7" treated posts fail in 10 years it is because a beaver must've chewed them off, lol. I have 4 x 4 treated posts older than 10 years in low wet areas. Still solid! As you said, Greg... "some people." nice fence. We have been very busy and miss watching your videos. Enjoying some viewing time today. on to the next one! Have a good day.

Real progress: when the spinning jenny reel progressively gets emptied... eagerly awaiting livestock on this new farm

70 years is the life of the treated posts.

@markpennella

3 ай бұрын

Even the new ones that changes the chemicals in pressure treated lumber? I was working at Lowes when they changed chemicals in pressure treated lumber, and they now been different nails, screws, staples bc the new chemicals will ear up the original nails.

Another great video thanks

I’m keen to see the finished fence, including the fence endings/corners.

@arrond141

3 ай бұрын

Found your earlier video on corners and fence endings. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqRtz82qZcfRpM4.htmlfeature=shared Thanks.

Great work

Nice coming along

My uncle put locust posts along the perimeter back in 1950. In 1980 I took over and they still wouldn't take steeples, too hard!

@C.Hawkshaw

3 ай бұрын

Very oily wood

Greg, I’m stuck on what I should put up for my perimeter fencing. I’m wanting to install post and rail near the house for aesthetic reasons and then transition the remaining into either 5 strand high tensil or woven wire. I’ve never installed a fence so I’ve been watching as many videos as possible, but with so many variations I’m stuck on which one is right for a small 5acre homestead. I intend on running sheep, chickens and a cow calf pair. And if I heard you right on many occasions, I’ll still need to install an offset poly wire on the inside on the inside of the post and rail. Thanks you, and I hope one day my fiancée and I can make a visit out to your beautiful farm.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

With running sheep and cattle, chickens thrown in, you need a net wire fence. Woven wire and hi tensile will not keep in chickens. They sell 48” high, heavy duty chicken fence. It’s not cheap though.

@_Justin0305

3 ай бұрын

@@Jj-gi2uv Thanks for the feedback! My intention was to bring in chickens behind the ruminants after three days for fly control. I do have a permanent coop for them already set up, but the mobile coop was an idea as well. I guess if I do have them free range to clean up the paddocks while also fertilizing the soil with nitrogen I’ll still have to throw up temporary electric chicken fencing.

How do you maintain the miles of fence line you control between the the fences and the roads?

thx

Awesome video! I see in a lot of your videos you use wooden corner post and timeless post throughout. What is the reasoning for this? I suspect the timeless corner post are significantly more expensive compared to a wooden post. Is there any reason to believe the timeless corner post will bend under tension or not support a gate? I do admit i love the look of wooden post and timless fence post throughout. Also, I'd be interested in seeing the process to get the fence post straight. Yours are straight as an arrow, killer job.

Thank you for showing all of the steps you are taking to make the new farm ready. I'm very curious about why you used so many wooden posts for the perimeter fence. I have watched all of your other fencing videos and I don't recall that being a part of it. Aside from corners, can't an entire fence be done with only the timeless posts? Thanks again.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

The road frontage has a constant arc to it. To hold 5 strands of 170,000 psi hi tensile wire tight you need posts that are deep enough to hold without budging 1”. Once the posts start leaning your entire fence is ruined. You will never keep it tight. My motto is go it right and be done with it for the rest of your life. I guess I was ruined when I was a young boy, my dad would build fence with a rusty old roll of wire and whatever stick he could find was the post to hobble together the wire onto.

Those 2 ground wires your talking about on that run, how do they get connected to ground? You got a ground rod, or by stapling off to the wood post or how?? Thank you keep up the great work

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

Throughout the whole 141 acre farm the grounds are tied together and trace back to our ground rod location by the fencer where we have 7 galvanized ground rods driven 70” into the ground and those ground rods are spaced 10’ apart.

@brettpayton6286

3 ай бұрын

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher thank you Greg

Hi Greg! Are you going to by more cattle for all the extra land you have now?

I don't remember seeing you use so many wood posts in your fences. I enjoyed watching your trip to Seymour for fence supplies but didn't see the fence posts. Did ya get them there? Just getting ready to start my Timeless fence in Gainesville, MO.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

We bought the treated wood posts from our local lumber yard, 3 miles from the property!

Maybe I missed it but why do you have wooden posts every 100 feet? Why not just go with timeless? Do you need the extra support/rigidity?

@joyevefarmandforge

3 ай бұрын

I’m curious too.

@charleswalters5284

3 ай бұрын

Curved property line

New fence looks great! Why the pressure-treated post every so often vs. straight Timeless posts? Thank you.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

Fence has a curve to it. Keeping it upright by placing a wood post every 100 feet

If you cover the top of those post, or cut them off on an angle so the water can’t lay on them, they last for decades no problem. I’ve seen guys smear a layer of that black roof cement on them also! They rot from the inside out like a railroad tie!

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

Every single wood post top will be covered with a customized painted metal roof. This adds 15-20 years to their life.

Good looking fence. What is the thought process with regard to deciding to fence out the road as opposed to fencing in the pasture? Is it esthetics?

@JamesSmith-vv3ys

3 ай бұрын

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Greg, when do you use opt to use fasteners on the wire rather than the predrilled hole? I feel like I've watched previous videos where you used soft wire fasteners. Thanks.

@jackdennehy-coles8119

3 ай бұрын

Think he runs new wire through the holes and then uses fastners for reused wire that has joins and stuff in them which can't be pulled through the holes easily

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

@jackdennehy-coles8119 you are correct on that.

I thought you ran the bottom wire lower for sheep? Or will you not graze sheep on this farm?

Curious why you put the wire on the outside of the 7" wood posts? I was always taught to put them on the inside, so that if the cows push on the wire, they are pushing into the post. I'm sure you have good reason, just wondering what it is? THANKS.

How long would ceder last ? And how far apart are the pressure treated posts?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

Our eastern red cedars rot off in 7-10 years. Ask me how I know that 😩 Treated posts are spaced every 100 feet.

do you use that fence post driver to set those large wooden posts too?!?!

@charleswalters5284

3 ай бұрын

Big one on a bobcat, lettin' the tool do the work!

Hey Greg just curious, would you ever consider a 3 wire perimeter fence because your animals work with you so well? Thanks

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

No, not against a busy highway. 5 wires allow you to sleep well at night.

How do you keep the grass and weeds from growing up and grounding out your fence?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

We never turn the fence off and we use a powerful charger.

@charleswalters5284

3 ай бұрын

Fence fries any plant that touches it, making it into a very poor conductor of electricity

@mattreeves437

3 ай бұрын

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher good enough I'll give it a go thanka!

What would an estimated price per mile of the 5 hot wire perimeter fence? I know it depends on the type of terrain and things. Just a rough one would suffice. Thanks

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

2 ай бұрын

It is 60% cheaper than the cost of barb or woven wire per foot.

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Is there a reason you stay that far back from the road?

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

The state has a right away easement on all state roads.

@creationfarms3097

3 ай бұрын

Ok, thanks! It looks like waisted grass😂

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

Yep, nation wide there is a ton of wasted grass on road ways being mowed by taxpayer dollars. Wasted resource!!

@_Justin0305

3 ай бұрын

Don’t know about all states, but southern Ohio it’s 50ft from the middle of the road.

Why are you putting wood posts in with your timelines posts on your road frontage? Is there a benefit to wood corners verses timelines post corners? Just about to start my 6000 feet of road frontage on my place.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

The curvature of the road frontage is a huge semicircle. With 9 foot posts set 4-1/2’ deep, the fence should not lean.

That farm will sure look good with no houses on it. Have you ever noticed how much talk goes on about housing? They seem to want houses built non stop on every piece of ground that is out there. They think that shows a strong economy. Sickening.

@gregjudyregenerativerancher

3 ай бұрын

Farmland is definitely being gobbled up by developers with no regard to the land at all.

@feelnrite

3 ай бұрын

@@gregjudyregenerativerancher It is all about building a crappy stick house that will sell, make a buck and move on. Then the people that they drag in are not the type you need around. They are trouble.