Building the house has taken a bit of a back seat to our immediate dreams of having a homestead/farm/ranch.
Part of that has been refencing the 25 acre pasture for our sheep and guard donkey. This spring I'll be hunting for deals on cattle.
I Had 4,000 feet of barbed wire which needed to be completely redone due to what I'd guess is about 30-40 years of neglect. Each spool of wire runs 1360 feet, and weighs about 70 pounds of "touch me and I'll rip you and your clothes to shreds!"
After 5 minutes of humping that roll down the line I came to the conclusion that there was a better way to do this . . . some brief querying showed numerous $$$$ contraptions for ATVs, trucks and tractors . . .I went out the shop and made my own ghetto version . . . for free. If I had more $ and had miles to do I'd invest in a decent unroller but this worked fine for the immediate future.
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Don't laugh it works! Went through 2 1/2 spools that way! And it was considerably easier than hauling it by hand . . The 2N gets the job done! What a wonderful machine, built in the 40's, and 70 some years old it starts up right away in the MN cold and will pull a 50 yard row of old 4 strand barbed wire, posts and all, right out of the cold ground!
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