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It is very difficult to work with numb hands and fingers and don't blame ya one bit....the temps are warmer here at 47, but the wind sure makes it feel much colder. The good thing about it is that it is you that is pushing yourself and not a have to for some animals....no need to push it thru the extremes, there'll be more pallatible days ahead....:)
 

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You know you don't have to go freeze your buns off to put up a fence, don't 'cha? There will be a sunny, nicer day.
Mike,
You. Are. Retired. You can pick your days to work hard and if the weather is not to your liking, there are plenty other things to do. ;)
 

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....no need to push it thru the extremes, there'll be more pallatible days ahead....:)
....no need to push it thru the extremes, there'll be more pallatible days ahead....:)
Ain't that about the same thing you said back when the temps were up and humidity thru the roof?

There's no such thing as a 'fair weather farmer or rancher'.

Fence is looking good Mike!!
 

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Ain't that about the same thing you said back when the temps were up and humidity thru the roof?

There's no such thing as a 'fair weather farmer or rancher'.

Fence is looking good Mike!!
Yep....and it applies to both ends of the spectrum....fair weather is one thing, but extremes are quite another....like when your fence and grass is covered with water....;)
 

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Depends how deep the water is.
I've welded a 5' and 8' tee posts together and driven lots in from an an aluminum boat before and waded waist deep water fixing fences so when the water went down, the cows wouldn't get out on the highway.
Brother and I built new, 750' ft of 5 strand fence Feb 2015 over 2 days of pouring rain that was so cold I could barely feel fingers to put the tee post ties on.

No such thing as bad weather, just bad clothing.
 

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You know you don't have to go freeze your buns off to put up a fence, don't 'cha? There will be a sunny, nicer day.
Mike,
You. Are. Retired. You can pick your days to work hard and if the weather is not to your liking, there are plenty other things to do. ;)

Retired to me means I work till I don't want to and then go in. ;) I have a list of things to do after the fence is done and I'm hoping to get them all done during the cold weather.

Today was actually colder in the morning than yesterday but the wind was not blowing 30 mph today so it felt better. I got another 250' of fence finished. I'm going to at least hang the 320' run tomorrow and then do the last short leg after this weekends trip to Charleston.
 

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It isn't terribly cold (32) but the wind is a steady 25 mph with gusts above that. Gloves seem to get in my way and by the time I got this leg finished up my fingers were numb and I decided there is always tomorrow.
Gee that seems somewhat familiar. Oh yeah, fencing last Nov and Dec, except "tomorrow" would be as bad or worse and it had to get done. Yep, gloves are a pain and a hindrance and no gloves yield pain and lack of feeling is a hindrance. Lose - lose ;)
 

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I guess one of the reasons I want it all usable pasture is that I come down the driveway and as good as it looks, I still see it like it was when we first bought it. I want to get this vision gone for good. This is how it was when we bought our place.

It looks like mostly weeds but it was a dense stretch of sapling trees among the weeds not to mention a couple of tons of debris. That dense looking section in the upper part was briars so thick that all the tractor could do the first three times I bush hogged was to flatten it down. :)

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