Fixing fences after the Canterbury floods| Delfast baton staple gun

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Sunday afternoon fencing session with the family. Finally fixing some fences after the Canterbury floods.
My Name is Alistair Bird and My wife Genna and I farm on 'The Grange" near Oxford, North Canterbury, in the South Island of New Zealand.
Join me as I document our daily life bringing you the highs and lows on a New Zealand Sheep and Beef farm.
Thanks so much for watching.
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Our on-farm accommodation is listed on Air BnB www.airbnb.co.nz/rooms/20445220
Email: ak.gkbird@xtra.co.nz
Mail: 211 Ashley Gorge Road, Oxford, 7495
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@FamilyFarmingandFun 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. Great to see the family on the farm

@kiwifarmernz 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks. I am enjoying this lockdown having the kids at home

@gordonagent7037 26 күн бұрын

Love your figure of 8 joins, really neat. Have you ever given the Gallagher spiralfast joiners, I used them on all my river crossover points and anywhere else that I thought I may have to periodically go through the fence for washouts etc. they’re a bit on the pricey side but I like them because you can just put the strainers on and then unwind them and reapply again when finished. One of my neighbours gave me shit about them so I strained up until I broke the wire, the spiralfast held firm. Love your program, content etc

@kiwifarmernz 23 күн бұрын

Thanks mate. I haven't used them but know what they are.

@brentelizabethjames264 2 жыл бұрын

Get the bloody MP’s down to do a few km of fencing.. that might help change their minds. Great to see the family fun going on around you. Nice job! Thanks from a farmers son but now an old towny.

@kiwifarmernz 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Can you imagine trying to get that lot to do any decent work.

@brentelizabethjames264 2 жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz No!!! 🤣

@glenkoopman7347 2 жыл бұрын

We've got one of them exact same staple guns, works bloody good almost makes me want to build more batten fences as much as I hate using them, nice to look at but dairy cows just wreck them

@kiwifarmernz 2 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean. We don't build any new baton fences just used it for maintenance. The deer, sheep and beef cows do a fair bit of damage to our fences.

@christopherembry8804 2 жыл бұрын

If it an area that is flood prone it might pay to have areas like that sacrificial. Strainer assemblies either side so only have to replace short runs?

@jeffmeijer3137 Жыл бұрын

Mate ID like to know a little bit about the history of the farm I noticed you are draining your paddocks I noticed a lot of clay at the bottom I'm just wondering if it would be worth turning over the paddocks With an excavator for greater drainage I'm not too sure if it would be beneficial it was just a thought

@kiwifarmernz Жыл бұрын

I will do a history vid some time. The clay goes down quite deep. And it's quite expensive. We did this on the West Coast and it was about 10kper ha, that was 10 years ago.

@jeffmeijer3137 Жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz Thanks for getting back to us look forward to the video of the history of the property the farm's looking really good...not that I can say that about the All Blacks regards western Australia

@lukeduke3001 2 жыл бұрын

what does set stocking mean

@kiwifarmernz 2 жыл бұрын

It's where we split out the ewes for lambing by putting a certain number of ewes in each paddock, this depends on what size the paddock is and how much grass is currently available to the sheep.

@lukeduke3001 2 жыл бұрын

@@kiwifarmernz oh yea i watched a video of a guy down south doing that but didn't realise that was why he was doing it thanks for that

@sherylwatson431 2 жыл бұрын

I wondered that too 😀 loved this fencing video - you make it look easy and I loved that wire that just snaps off - tidy!

@kiwifarmernz 2 жыл бұрын

@@sherylwatson431 thanks for watching.