You know you want more fencing pics…. a few more recent highlights from D to C and C to B!
Luke
Tendai
George
Artwell
Team work
Garikai walking home on the other side
Garikai walking home on the other side
George and Ramius after a good day at the fence
The challenge is two fold and based on the geography.
First: the electricity line up from Troutbeck enters Hornbydale running through the bottom of a small valley. Along the valley sides pine, wattle and gum trees have grown over the last 20 – 30 years. Now they tower over the electricity (ZESA) lines and we are carefully removing them on both sides. The direction of the prevailing wind is of course just right to blow weaker trees onto the line.
Second: some of the same trees are poised to fall right over the line of our new fence – and that would never do!
The picture below sums up these two challenges pretty well…
Trees on the fencing line and above the electricity lines
Ramius directing
Watching the see when the tree will go
Begins to fall
Falling
Ramius tidying up
Preparing the winch line for the next tree
Two axe-men start work creating the hinge
Time to look up
and we are off to the races…
Tree coming down!
Ramius standing and watching
Megan with the crew
Tendai working in wetter weather
Saving the log for fire wood later
Hamlet the Jack Russell
Megan and Julien (pronounced French way)
Looking for the article about the school
Here we are in The Manica Post. Just click the picture for the online version.
The Troutbeck School in the Mania Post
Clearing dead pines before they decide to fall on the new fence.
The winch man – Garikai
George linking up from the tree to the winch
The happy woodsmen
The moment of impact
Next tree
The chopping begins
until this happens
He’s happy
Arrive at D, turn the corner and we are heading for C. Now we have to practice our downhill fencing skills.
Dogs at fencing D to C
D to C just before the decline
George checking the fence
A serious Garikai
Ramius nailing while the end of the fence is stretched strand by strand
Ramius up close
George manually tensioning for Ramius
Looking back on progress D to C
Last pole before the decline
George holding barbed wire strainer
Pulling the extra strainer between high and low poles
The team tackles the high to low problem
Tightening the high strainer
Bottom support for the same pole
More supplies arriving down the steep section
Garikai
A taste of things to come in C to B
And below the Hornbydale entry in the all Zimbabwe Adventure Fencing Competition 2015.
The C to B Adventure Fencing Challenge Competition
You have no choice but to endure more and more posts – about more and more fencing! Its that much fun as you can see in the next 3 pictures!
We are using the first 600m as our testing ground – to work on our technique and get it right – ready for more challenging times ahead of us.
George and Garikai – enjoy that fence puller!
George and Garikai – enjoy that fence puller!
George and Garikai – enjoy that fence puller!
Tendai
Burying the bottom of the fence
and moving stones to hold the bottom down securely
The bottom of the fence is bent outwards and trapped with boulders
George and Tendai
Bonox veld fence going up
Meet one of our early challenges
Mr Artwell is actually hammering the staple sides together to make sure they are parallel and easy to hammer into the posts
Used as a tool holder
George the senior fencer on THAT boulder
The hands that built Hornbydale
Garikai taking it seriously
And these days we can’t end a post with pictures of nice poles. (Now more important than doggie pics!)
Beautiful poles
Need I say more!
The pole dipping factor being decommissioned
Eastern Highlander 