Which is harder to split?

[ChoppyChoppy]

All you're thinking about is getting the job done and going home to an air conditioned house and drink a few beers and watch tv or play some pool. So you staple the wire to the tree and move on to pound in the next t post. That's how it happens.

doesn't sound like any successful farmer/businessman I know. Do it right, or don't do it at all. Not to mention beer, TV and or pool is hardly something to look forward to. More like supper, shower and sleep.

 

[Iron Head]

I just pulled a wad of hot glowing barbed wire out of my wood heater. Somehow, my saw missed it, which was good. And yes, I've stapled barbed wire into trees myself. Here's what happens. It's mid July, you're tired, it's hot as hell, it's mid afternoon and you already want to go home. There's a small tree there that will make a perfect corner post. The poor dude that saws into it 30 to 40 years from now won't know that you are the SOB that did this. All you're thinking about is getting the job done and going home to an air conditioned house and drink a few beers and watch tv or play some pool. So you staple the wire to the tree and move on to pound in the next t post. That's how it happens.

So you're that SOB! lol...
I had to put up an electric perimeter hi-tensile fence around my property a couple of years ago. I cleared out the perimeter as much as possible but there are a few large trees that I could get rid of.
So I just slap a piece of 2x6 on it's side and staple my wires on the 2x6 so the trees can't eat the wire.

 

[chuckwood]

doesn't sound like any successful farmer/businessman I know. Do it right, or don't do it at all. Not to mention beer, TV and or pool is hardly something to look forward to. More like supper, shower and sleep.

If you've been out since 7 am and it's three o'clock and 95 degrees with high humidity, you'll be thinking about something cold and just getting it done as quick as possible - at least I do. Sometimes I've done it right as you say. But sometimes I've been a slacker and said to myself - "I've cut wire in trees before, and spent 15 minutes cussing and sharpening a chain - well - some guy 50 years from now will have the same experience and I just don't care"! Of course, it could end up being my grandson having to do the sharpening, but that's life.........

 

[rarefish383]

You can usually see a fence row. Cut above the fence height, cut below, and throw on the burn pile, Joe.