What did you do TO your Gladiator today? [ADMIN WARNING: NO POLITICS, NO GUN TALK]

[WILDHOBO]

Fence project is looking good!

Getting there.

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[JLPeekaboo]

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[Narth]

Getting there.

Looks good.

 

[Mud Pie]

I hear ya there!! Mine felt like sunburn too. Still need to get them finished up when I have some extra funds. Need to get wifey’s finished up to eventually. Her artist is high demand though so scheduling is a bear. No shame in running doors on. I do with the windows down or if too windy then half down so my dang hat doesn’t blow off my head.

My wife had a cartoonish tat of our dogs puppy face on her shoulder. I thought it was ugly as hell, she liked it, it was truly done well. 15 years later she decides to cover it. Original tat; 200 bucks. Coverup; 1,200 bucks.

The new artist is known for taking his time, but his work is great. 4 hours into the coverup, she has all the line work done and maybe 20% of the color. He says to wait 2 weeks for the line work to heal and come back. Made a partial payment. She was fine with that, the pain was horrible.

My wife still works, so my new retirement job at 4am every morning was to wash her tat, dry it and apply Aquaphor. Then I'd make her brekfast.

2 weeks go by, she calls the artist to schedule. No answer. She emails him. No answer. A week later, still no response. She calls the tattoo shop direct. The artist quit. Wonderful. They ask her to come down for a consultation. We drive down (45 minutes each way), the owner says not many artists in his shop can do coverups properly, he gives her the number of an artist that can do it. Of course he was off the day we were there.

On the way home I suggest a shop about 5 minutes from our house. We both got tats there in the past. We swing by. They look at the work in progress and ask who began it. We say his name and that he quit. 3 of the artists start chuckling. Did they tell you he quit ? Yes. They KNEW him. One lady (the owner) says, "This may be poor form to say about another artist, but he didn't quit. He got arrested. If you want to wait 10 years, maybe less for good behavior, he can finish it.". The other artist goes, "Damn, girl !!". Turns out our artist worked in this shop and they let him go because he was always underpricing his work. He'd say it'll take 3 hours and he'd take 7 but you couldn't "change the bill" on the customer, so he and the shop lost money.

Yesterday they finished the tat, looks great and only cost 380 bucks.

Now I'm back on tat washing duty at 4 am for then next few weeks.

Not Jeep related in ANY sense, apologies, just an amusing story.... Well, Jeep related if you want to tie in my doors-off post, but that there is a helluva stretch...

 

[WILDHOBO]

Looks good.

Thanks. First fence, so lots of imperfect stuff, but very happy with it.

 

[Supazuk]

Friday night Oil change 69,800 and full shake down before going wheeling Saturday

 

[Bandit’s Lair]

Thanks. First fence, so lots of imperfect stuff, but very happy with it.

Looks pretty good to me! That’s a heck of a lot of work. As long as it functions as intended you should be fine. You should see some of the barbed wire fences out here and some I’ve done. Posts don’t match. Some of em are just black locust pieces dug into the ground. Most of it’s the same fence height. Long as they keep cattle in or out, it’s a success.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Thanks. First fence, so lots of imperfect stuff, but very happy with it.

2 years ago the county hired a minority contractor to replace a 100 year old bridge with a modern concrete culvert. It means taking a few yards of the neighbor's cattle pasture - which of course meant the contractor had to deal with and replace fences. Wow, what a mess. First, the contractor had never done that type of work before (concrete cast-in-place culverts), so subbed it out, and the in turn subbed parts of the work out. Cattle got out through their temp fences. I helped round them up more than once.......... and then when the project was supposedly done, I watched them struggle to put up a very simply fence (took them a bit to figure how to cross the creek) - but the most funny part to me was their ignorance of how to terminate a run - how to brace the END posts.
The result? (the end post is the lighter colored post to the right)

Yes, that brace is BACKWARDS. The brace should be at the top of the end post and go to the bottom of the next post over. The end post is already leaning. If it wasn't for the weight of that gate, well.......
There's a dozen other things they did wrong.

OK, Hobo, you are now a fence expert - what's the right hand rule for farm and ranch fences?

Back on track - decided to charge the batteries in the JT since it hardly gets driven these days.......
Still wasn't too bad as after 3 or 3 miles the ESS bits worked just fine. So that tells me battery capacity is still ok. Still, I do not like batteries sitting at low voltage.
I ran across a post where a guy wanted to convert his AMC 360 over to HEI. Of course, first, I asked why, but another jumped in and said HEI needed to bypass the resistance wire as once the battery was down to 12.0 or less, the HEI would cut out.
Guess what my next questions for that guy were - dude, 12.0? Why would your battery EVER get that low? Do you not have a charging system? Is it a track only car? (if so, convert to magneto ignition)

 

[WILDHOBO]

Looks pretty good to me! That’s a heck of a lot of work. As long as it functions as intended you should be fine. You should see some of the barbed wire fences out here and some I’ve done. Posts don’t match. Some of em are just black locust pieces dug into the ground. Most of it’s the same fence height. Long as they keep cattle in or out, it’s a success.

Only a handful of posts are tall, since there’s only like two holes where we were short on depth. Decent number are a couple inches short of the 48” welded wire height, but at least that means the post will be strong. We originally thought we’d need one 50# fast set bag per 4” line post. We’ve since topped of all of those, and all of them being set are getting 2 bags. All the 6” x 8’ corner and gate posts are getting 4-5 bags. Learning as we go. But I’m really happy either way the results. Tractor is warming up as we speak to go auger as many holes as I can get done today. 18 more holes to dig. 26 more posts to set.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

Looks pretty good to me! That’s a heck of a lot of work. As long as it functions as intended you should be fine. You should see some of the barbed wire fences out here and some I’ve done. Posts don’t match. Some of em are just black locust pieces dug into the ground. Most of it’s the same fence height. Long as they keep cattle in or out, it’s a success.

A cousin uses hedge apple posts - ever tried to drive a staple into that stuff? Holy cow - it's like steel.

 

[WILDHOBO]

2 years ago the county hired a minority contractor to replace a 100 year old bridge with a modern concrete culvert. It means taking a few yards of the neighbor's cattle pasture - which of course meant the contractor had to deal with and replace fences. Wow, what a mess. First, the contractor had never done that type of work before (concrete cast-in-place culverts), so subbed it out, and the in turn subbed parts of the work out. Cattle got out through their temp fences. I helped round them up more than once.......... and then when the project was supposedly done, I watched them struggle to put up a very simply fence (took them a bit to figure how to cross the creek) - but the most funny part to me was their ignorance of how to terminate a run - how to brace the END posts.
The result? (the end post is the lighter colored post to the right)

Yes, that brace is BACKWARDS. The brace should be at the top of the end post and go to the bottom of the next post over. The end post is already leaning. If it wasn't for the weight of that gate, well.......
There's a dozen other things they did wrong.

OK, Hobo, you are now a fence expert - what's the right hand rule for farm and ranch fences?

Back on track - decided to charge the batteries in the JT since it hardly gets driven these days.......
Still wasn't too bad as after 3 or 3 miles the ESS bits worked just fine. So that tells me battery capacity is still ok. Still, I do not like batteries sitting at low voltage.
I ran across a post where a guy wanted to convert his AMC 360 over to HEI. Of course, first, I asked why, but another jumped in and said HEI needed to bypass the resistance wire as once the battery was down to 12.0 or less, the HEI would cut out.
Guess what my next questions for that guy were - dude, 12.0? Why would your battery EVER get that low? Do you not have a charging system? Is it a track only car? (if so, convert to magneto ignition)

I don’t know the right hand rule. No idea. But yes that brace is hilarious. No need to be a fence expert to know that you’re bracing to prevent the gate/corner from leaning. Can’t do that from the bottom. I wanted it to look nicer, so we used wood posts every 10’ instead of 20’ with t posts in between. I hate t posts. I was originally going to do angled knee braces, but switched to H because of the hills. I lashed some together to see how they’d look and FUNCTION, and I think H made more sense for us. It means the brace isn’t always at the very top of the gate/corner/end, but ever post is concreted up to the grade, so screw it. Compromises.

the amc ignition question is fresh on my mind. I want my upcoming amc build to be fuel injected, but I don’t see any value in electronic ignition. But yes, it’s on a charger all the time, as is the JT.

 

[WILDHOBO]

A cousin uses hedge apple posts - ever tried to drive a staple into that stuff? Holy cow - it's like steel.

I bought a very expensive and powerful Milwaukee fence stapler. It’s rare, but if it hits a knot, it kicks back like a 12 gauge.

 

[ShadowsPapa]

I don’t know the right hand rule. No idea. But yes that brace is hilarious. No need to be a fence expert to know that you’re bracing to prevent the gate/corner from leaning. Can’t do that from the bottom. I wanted it to look nicer, so we used wood posts every 10’ instead of 20’ with t posts in between. I hate t posts. I was originally going to do angled knee braces, but switched to H because of the hills. I lashed some together to see how they’d look and FUNCTION, and I think H made more sense for us. It means the brace isn’t always at the very top of the gate/corner/end, but ever post is concreted up to the grade, so screw it. Compromises.

the amc ignition question is fresh on my mind. I want my upcoming amc build to be fuel injected, but I don’t see any value in electronic ignition. But yes, it’s on a charger all the time, as is the JT.

Yeah, I laughed when I saw what they were doing. You'll find the fenced done with H posts, or angled braces, depending on the landscape and the person and so on.

My jack, which they used to call "handiman jacks" but Jeep people renamed them to hi-lift and charge 3 times as much for them than at farm stores - also acts as a fence stretcher. Imagine holding one of those things up to stretch fence wire! WOW. I also have a fence wire stretcher somewhere, much lighter and easier to use. The precursor to the come-along.

As you stand and look at a fence between farm fields, ranches, whatever - the right half is your responsibility if anything happens to it. So fences were put up by two people - each handling the right hand half of the fence as they looked at it from their own property.

 

[Mud Pie]

Thanks. First fence, so lots of imperfect stuff, but very happy with it.

We are a LOT alike !!

When I do some type of project and someone says how good it looks, I reject that and show all my errors. The typical response is, "I never would've known that if you didn't point it out. How did you notice that ?".

 

[Mud Pie]

Whoops

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Since no one has leaned into the classics, allow me....

1) That'll buff out.
2) I can fix it. My Dad has a bitchin' set of tools. (Jeff Spicoli, Fast Times at Ridgemont High)

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