I reached a personal milestone this weekend, I was able to drive in some steel fence posts for the first time since my accident this summer. I needed to wear a splint that uses a metal bar to reinforce my wrist, but at least I was able to get the job started.

With the decision to finance the renovation of the house out of our own pockets, I knew there wouldn't be any extra cash for vinyl fencing. And, a call from the livestock hauler saying he could bring my horses down as soon as Monday (10/16) help me find new motivation to tough out the pain and start fencing again. So, I decided to fall back on my original plan of putting in a barbless wire fence with an electric wire running along the top.

In order to get the fence in, I need to drive in at least 6 fence posts about 11' apart. Then, I neeed to dig holes for four wooden posts - two corner posts and two support posts. Once the posts are in, I need to brace the corner posts using the support posts before stringing up my barbless wire. By the end of the weekend, I had 5 of my 6 posts in place.

My dad is playing the role of 24 hour fence support. We talked about fences for quite a while this weekend. I explained to him how we setup our old fence. When I told him that Tyler and I had used electrical tape to fasten our grounding wire to our grounding rod, he said that is probably why our fencers kept blowing up on us. He said that if I put in a better grounding system, he'd have one of his old International fencers fixed and sent to me.

So, after the posts go in, I need to drive in three copper grounding rods and connect them with heavy guage wire using clamps and not electrical tape. :-)