Keeping the tomatoes in the garden, jalopenas too.

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Adopted son wants a fence around the garden,   He would like it to match the fence that keeps the red deer and spotted butt pony on the place.  He's off in New Zealand hunting  red deer.  If he kills one as big as the stag on the place it will cost him dearly.48' 2 3/8" schedule forty galvanized pipe for the most part.  There is on post in there that is sixteen gauge but no one knows it but us'ns and you aren't telling, right?  Fence is going to 62" high with five foot non climb on it.There are no strings on this project because, well, we do it by eye.  The posts are all notched with the Vogel in the receiver hitch.  8' posts three feet deep.Of course the first thing I found that I though y'all might find interesting is a ground spider with her clutch out for a stroll. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:If you look at one of the photos you will see the difference in wall thickness between schedule forty and sixteen gauge, just a bit.I like to leave a little gap in the fit up on top rails and the fit up is always on top of post. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:I use a wire brush on an angle grinder to clean up the welds and then I use cold galv to cover them.  In the background is a fence made that way that is eight years old and we're still not having issues with the cold galv giving up.I have a Legend welder and I use 1/8" 5P+ rod.I'll post more photos when I have the wire on and the gate hung.Adopted son wants to have the ends as panels so when winter comes he can pull them and use the tractor to till everything. Attached Imageslife is good
Reply:Nice project. Nice work.  We call those Wolf spiders up here in Tn, and I see one every now and then with her young 'uns riding piggy back too.Do you jump out of perfectly good air planes?Uh, you and the adopted son, and all your friends can come up here to Tennessee and take all the White Tail Deer you want back to Texas with you.There's so many deer around here I'm surprised there ain't been a bounty put on 'em.  Would suit me if they did.  Just about every day or so somebody wipes out the front of a car on the route I drive to work.  Had more than a couple of near misses myself.
Reply:Originally Posted by walkerweldNice project. Nice work.  We call those Wolf spiders up here in Tn, and I see one every now and then with her young 'uns riding piggy back too.Do you jump out of perfectly good air planes?Uh, you and the adopted son, and all your friends can come up here to Tennessee and take all the White Tail Deer you want back to Texas with you.There's so many deer around here I'm surprised there ain't been a bounty put on 'em.  Would suit me if they did.  Just about every day or so somebody wipes out the front of a car on the route I drive to work.  Had more than a couple of near misses myself.
Reply:If it charged you then you may have encountered a female near a spot she was caching her eggs.  I've heard of them acting aggressive but I'm not gonna debate that.  I know that the Brown Recluse is a doggone fast runner, kinda like the cheetah of the spider world.  If you disturbed the spider, it may not have been charging you, it may have just been trying to get the hell out of Dodge and you just happened to be in the way.  I watch out in everything I touch or move in my out buildings and such because they are numerous up here.  I catch them on glue board traps and it is pretty shocking to see just how many will be caught.  You think you might have a few, but you probably have hundreds (literally).  The glue boards work better than anything else I ever tried.I actually think that the spiders that get stuck on the glue help to attract other spiders to the board by pheromone scent, you know.......males looking for females and vice versa.Oh yeah, the experts say that the Brown Recluse came up from Mexico via Texas many years ago.  How dare you?