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Fencing Poles For A Game Estate

My father is a get it done yourself-er and good with his hands. He’s also not only a suburbs and white picket fence kind of man, preferring to be in the middle of Nature rather than city sprawl, which is why our family residence is located on the borders of the town. Daddy says he’ll take a lengthy commute to work over living in a house or complex nearer to the town hub any time. We live on what is referred to as a game estate; an enormous piece of acreage that is far enough out of town for the animals to have horns, as Daddy puts it, but close enough to civilization that we can still view the outlying sections of the town shining in the distance on a clear day.  There is a lot that needs fencing on our game estate.  The wildlife, of which we have buck, zebra, buffalo, and hippo to mention but a few, must be kept clear of people’s homes and the domesticated animals and horses that are also on the estate. There’s also a chicken farm, not that chickens have horns, but, as you can imagine, that is a lot of animal life requiring secure fencing and a lot of fencing poles for sale!

The perimeters of the estate are fenced along with some of the inside but additional fencing is urgently needed, particularly along the dirt roads to prevent the creatures from straying off.  The perimeters of the estate are fenced as well as some of the inside but additional fencing is urgently required, especially along side dirt tracks to stop the creatures from straying.  The original fence is also ancient and is starting to display wear in some spots.  A meeting of the plot owners was called and they made a decision to pool their funds and have new secure fencing professionally installed where needed.  My father wisely agreed that this was the best plan as even he would not want to chop poles for sale for such a large area himself. He joked that he would still be  into the next century if that was the situation but he did offer to set up and oversee the fencing assembly process.

I went along with him at the time he ordered the poles for sale and I must say, it was a fascinating and informative process for a teenage girl who is normally more interested in clothes and nail gloss. I learned that there are lots of diverse types of timber used in making the posts.  You can even find poles with the bark still on them but my sensible dad selected eucalyptus as it’s a tough wood that is nonetheless flexible enough to prevent it from cracking easily in the hot South African sun. The posts are usually precut but my dad needed a few different lengths for various reasons so he had them cut to his specifications.  The scent of the raw wood, particularly the eucalyptus was quite powerful but not at all unpleasant.  It reminded me of the massive eucalyptus tree that we had to have cut down when I was a child because it is at danger of falling on the house.  I got sad for a little bit because I adored that tree when I was small.  The other thing I observed was the high stacks of cut poles everywhere.  Although they were adequately secured and couldn’t tumble on us people, it was quite terrifying to think about that happening.  I had to write a poem about it when I got home.

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