Pasture Fence Project, Part Two

Reader Contribution by Keba M Hitzeman
Published on November 4, 2020
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Next up is setting all those t-posts. I know many people set them 16′ apart, but I am more comfortable with them 8′ apart. Even though I’m “just” keeping in sheep, goats, and dogs, I like having the extra insurance of more posts to keep the fence from sagging, or bowing when the beasties decide to rub against it to scratch an itch. Driving the posts went relatively easy except for the five of them that hit solid limestone less than 6″ below the soil. That was too shallow to keep the post stable, so we brought out the hammer drill and rock-breaking bits. We also needed the generator to run the hammer drill because there’s no electricity out in the pasture! Of the three bits (large spade, small spade, and point), the small spade worked the best. We were able to get three of the posts fully driven into the ground, and the last two were not driven all the way in, but were stuck tight in the gravel we created.

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