Low-Cost Portable Posts

Low-Cost Portable Posts FENCING Miscellaneous 30-3-4 Sturdy, low-cost and easy to move. That describes the temporary fence posts that Clyde McCoy of Clyde, Alta. made for his cattle operation. McCoy uses the posts for winter swath grazing. He says they could be useful for rotational summer grazing, too. He bought junked car rims "by the pound" from a tire recycling plant for about $2 per rim, and on each one, he welded an upright 3 1/2-ft. section of 3/8-in. re-bar into a lug nut hole. To hold the wire, he placed a regular plastic electric fence insulator on the re-bar. The mobile posts are extremely stable and are also very easy to move. By moving one post, and then walking to the next one to move it, in a zigzag pattern, the fence line can be moved over to a fresh section of ground pretty easily. McCoy grazes 300-plus cows using this system with about 65 of these portable posts. "It works well for me and I like it. It's something I find handy," McCoy says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Clyde McCoy, Gen. Del., Clyde, Alta., Canada T0G 0P0 (ph 780 348-5435).

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