Oh clanter nooo don’t tell me that :dead:
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Oh clanter nooo don’t tell me that :dead:[/QUOTE]
just trying to cheer you up 
time lines drag out… too hot today, too wet, too dry (weather and no beer available today), too late, too early are some of the better excuses :lol:
now where is the hammer, the fence stretcher, the what ever you call that thing we are supposed to use
On pricing, we found shorter length rolls of fencing was less expensive than the longer rolls (two 100ft rolls were nearly $20 cheaper than a 200 ft roll of the same fencing)… so do not assume that bulk purchases are cheaper
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a good friend of mine who later became an international urban planner the first sub-division he planned was done in the winter. The snow covered land was surveyed, the land plotted out in streets and lots that worked out very nicely until Spring when it was found that several lots were in the middle of lakes[/QUOTE]
We had record rains last year and many houses were found to have been built in playa lakes, that only hold water in record rains, like last year.:eek:
One house in our way to town was under water for months, saw someone go there in a boat once.
Guess they needed a change of clothes?
It was not funny, really, but who would build in such a low place anyway?
[QUOTE=clanter;8793711]
a good friend of mine who later became an international urban planner the first sub-division he planned was done in the winter. The snow covered land was surveyed, the land plotted out in streets and lots that worked out very nicely until Spring when it was found that several lots were in the middle of lakes[/QUOTE]
My father once told me to always look at land in early spring, during the snow melt.
(He said this as we were looking at houses on the other side of our street, with small ponds in the front yards, turning their garages into boathouses.)
To estimate using round numbers, an acre consists of ~44,000 square feet (precisely it is 43,560).
The square root of 44,000 is 210 feet, so a perfectly square paddock is 210 feet on a side…times 4 sides is ~840 linear feet to fence one acre. Multiply that times the cost per linear feet.
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To estimate using round numbers, an acre consists of ~44,000 square feet (precisely it is 43,560).
The square root of 44,000 is 210 feet, so a perfectly square paddock is 210 feet on a side…times 4 sides is ~840 linear feet to fence one acre. Multiply that times the cost per linear feet.[/QUOTE]
Glad to see your numbers backed up mine.
Some may think well, if 1 acre fenced in a “square” requires 840 feet of fence line and I want to fence in 5 acres I will need 5 times as much. On face value it makes sense. 5 x 840 = 4,200’. But the real math comes to 2.23 times more fencing, 1880’ in total.
1 acre fenced in a perfect circle will need 740 of fencing. 5 acres, 1,654. If my math is correct. But I would fact check before ordering.
I was never a math wiz but pretty good with the basics.
This is a pretty good site explaining things. The comment section makes for interesting reading.
http://www.homeschoolmath.net/teaching/square-root-algorithm.php
I am fencing in rectangles and my numbers are about 930’?
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just trying to cheer you up
time lines drag out… too hot today, too wet, too dry (weather and no beer available today), too late, too early are some of the better excuses :lol:
now where is the hammer, the fence stretcher, the what ever you call that thing we are supposed to use
On pricing, we found shorter length rolls of fencing was less expensive than the longer rolls (two 100ft rolls were nearly $20 cheaper than a 200 ft roll of the same fencing)… so do not assume that bulk purchases are cheaper[/QUOTE]You would not think buying shorter rolls would be cheaper than longer ones… That seems strange to me.
There will be lots of beer and bitching from my husband I’m sure. I told him I wanted to rent a post hole digger to save his back and he looked at me like I had 2 heads. He thinks he’s Super Man and can dig them all manually himself.
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You would not think buying shorter rolls would be cheaper than longer ones… That seems strange to me.
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at least it was at Tractor Supply for twisted 2by4 none climb, since we replacing a twenty-five year old fence the shorter rollers were easier for us to use
and went to store the other day to buy some Dawn dish soap… four bottle sizes on the shelf… by the ounce, the largest bottle was the most expensive followed by the next to the largest size followed by the next one and finally the cheapest by the ounce bottle was the smallest …the spread was 3 cents an ounce, not much but it was something that I have often noticed
and a very far off side note, while in college a course I took was pricing products … it was interesting as to the psychology used to set a price point
