POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

mmcmdl said:
Fence building around the garden . May have another 3 hours in it if I find a helper . :encourage:
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Wished I had one of them a while back. Digging fence post holes is not my idea of fun. Especially in New England. The ground is a rock factory. dig a hole, maybe 3" deep and you hit a rock. That rock is, if you are lucky, about 6x8x12", if you aren't lucky its far larger. I was lucky, umm, maybe 25% of the time.

I have to put up a bunny fence to keep the dang things out of my garden. S.NH has both cottontails and New England cottontails. The latter are a protected species. That means no hunting, (kill) trapping or things like that. NE cottontails and normal ones are indistinguishable by eye. The cottontails are crowding out the NE cottontails. We'll need to get a dog I guess, to keep the population down. I like dogs, but they sure are a bit of work! Had them for thirty years, and sort of on a pet break for a while.

In the evenings the bunnies come out and munch on our lawn. That doesn't bother me. Eating all the veggies in the garden, I'm not so keen on. At times there's been 6-12 in the evening. All of my wife's flowers were being decimated, the new growth is apparently very tasty to them. So I've had to fence those flower beds as well. Fortunately bunny fence doesn't have to be that high. It does have to be strung tight, to keep them from going under the fence. We apparently have dumb bunnies :) because they haven't figured out how to burrow under the fence. Some years, we get nests in the yard which I try to discourage. Baby bunnies are the cutest things - and have no fear of humans. I've had them hop over my feet, and be all around me. Unbelievably cute. But, yeah, they sure do eat, and turn into big bunnies with bigger appetites and a proclivity to reproduce, umm, like rabbits.

We are lucky we don't have many deer around. My kids in MD have deer in the neighborhood, and they just jump the fences and get in the back yards. They pretty much eat everything they can reach. Remember taking my 2 YRO grandson around their yard and unexpectedly walking up to a doe. Both the doe and my grandson studied each other both of them were fascinated with the other. Might have been the doe's first experience with a pint sized human. Definitely was his first experience with a doe. Had to keep them apart, (we were 3-4 feet away) but it was a fun experience for all of us.
 
mmcmdl said:
Fence building around the garden . May have another 3 hours in it if I find a helper . :encourage:
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I had one of those PTO augers previously. Just don't get them caught on a root, even possibly on a rock, and have them cork-screw into the ground. Without reverse on the PTO that can cost you a lot of time getting it unburied. Opted for a front end loader mounted hydraulic auger. Reverses and easier on the neck. With horses we've spent too much of our life digging fence posts.

Fencing off our garden is on my immediate to-do list. Deer. Rabbits. And later this summer, construction workers as we start the new house build.

The wild life is nice to watch, but I'd rather the deer didn't use our fence line along our yard as a path between wooded areas. In addition to the challenges with the garden and any small trees planted, it makes for a constant battle with ticks in the yard. We're not in the worst of areas for it, but lyme's disease is possible around here.
 
ChazzC said:
I'm on my way (but don't wait for me, keep at it).
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I'm waiting on you to clear out the junk in my garage chazz ! If you don't show , I'll be on my way up to your place with a large trailer . :grin:
 
rabler said:
I had one of those PTO augers previously. Just don't get them caught on a root, even possibly on a rock, and have them cork-screw into the ground.
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The first time I tried this I had the 3 point valve wide open . That auger bit into the ground and yanked the front of the tractor off the ground . Skeered the **** out of me ! :oops:
 
mmcmdl said:
The first time I tried this I had the 3 point valve wide open . That auger bit into the ground and yanked the front of the tractor off the ground . Skeered the **** out of me ! :oops:
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Have one of those pants filling stories too. In my case the neighbor talked me into drilling some holes for him. No worries, I don't mind helping out.

We were about 3/4 through the fourth hole, and his wife comes running out yelling that the lights are flashing...
I just assumed he knew where the power was buried. I assumed wrong.

He never told me what it cost to have the power company show up on Sunday evening to repair underground power. He hinted that they didn't charge much, after the power company guys almost cut the gas line with their backhoe...
 
WobblyHand said:
Wished I had one of them a while back. Digging fence post holes is not my idea of fun. Especially in New England. The ground is a rock factory. dig a hole, maybe 3" deep and you hit a rock. That rock is, if you are lucky, about 6x8x12", if you aren't lucky its far larger. I was lucky, umm, maybe 25% of the time.

I have to put up a bunny fence to keep the dang things out of my garden. S.NH has both cottontails and New England cottontails. The latter are a protected species. That means no hunting, (kill) trapping or things like that. NE cottontails and normal ones are indistinguishable by eye. The cottontails are crowding out the NE cottontails. We'll need to get a dog I guess, to keep the population down. I like dogs, but they sure are a bit of work! Had them for thirty years, and sort of on a pet break for a while.

In the evenings the bunnies come out and munch on our lawn. That doesn't bother me. Eating all the veggies in the garden, I'm not so keen on. At times there's been 6-12 in the evening. All of my wife's flowers were being decimated, the new growth is apparently very tasty to them. So I've had to fence those flower beds as well. Fortunately bunny fence doesn't have to be that high. It does have to be strung tight, to keep them from going under the fence. We apparently have dumb bunnies :) because they haven't figured out how to burrow under the fence. Some years, we get nests in the yard which I try to discourage. Baby bunnies are the cutest things - and have no fear of humans. I've had them hop over my feet, and be all around me. Unbelievably cute. But, yeah, they sure do eat, and turn into big bunnies with bigger appetites and a proclivity to reproduce, umm, like rabbits.

We are lucky we don't have many deer around. My kids in MD have deer in the neighborhood, and they just jump the fences and get in the back yards. They pretty much eat everything they can reach. Remember taking my 2 YRO grandson around their yard and unexpectedly walking up to a doe. Both the doe and my grandson studied each other both of them were fascinated with the other. Might have been the doe's first experience with a pint sized human. Definitely was his first experience with a doe. Had to keep them apart, (we were 3-4 feet away) but it was a fun experience for all of us.
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We use to put up a weak electric fence about 6" high around the garden as the corn and peaches would bring raccoons in from miles away, it stopped all the critters except the crows. I'd tell you how we stopped the crows but some on here might take offense...
 
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