Contractor shares hard-won lessons from 500km of fencing

Dan Winks from Tilquin, Bollon, and contractor Jack Young from Dirranbandi reveal the challenges of exclusion fencing.

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00:00We've done a total of 75 k's around our boundary of high-exposing fence

00:05to an eastern end of a cluster.

00:07We just chuck the other two sides off.

00:09We're trying to keep more dogs out of our goats and sheep.

00:13We have calves, basically.

00:15We'd be up to maybe 500km now, maybe.

00:17I could work out that in.

00:19That's over six years, so probably a 100k a year.

00:22We went from basically doing it as cheaply as we could

00:25to buying fewer equipment

00:28and try to get it done thicker and more efficiently.

00:31It's easier.

00:32You want it flat for a start, so there's no holes.

00:35You don't want water to lay on it.

00:37You want to be able to drive a lot too.

00:40Don't cheap out on the grading.