If you have no plans for using the wall space where the door swings open, I used a piece of gridwall and hooks. The regular gridwall mounts held the panel a bit to far proud of the wall, so I screwed it directly to the wall. There is room between the horizontal parts of the grid and the wall to use the standard hooks, and saves about two inches so the door will swing all the way open.
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I have a set of hooks that I’ll put back there for lunging equipment. The hooks were put together for a previous boarding barn, and they will fit perfect!
I don’t know why. But grid walls and peg boards always look messy to me. I have some in my horse trailer, and they just look… cluttered? I love the adjustability but the frame throws me off. Once I lock in a layout I don’t need the adjustability.
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Watching them do the work is worth it right?
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They will return tomorrow to finish.
Early in the morning, too early to be making noise, I painted the two walls in the tack room.
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Looking amazing!
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The parts they finished up aren’t really picture worthy - they will make more sense when the fencing goes up. Getting situated and ready for the t post party starting tomorrow.
This morning before the sun came up I decided “eff it” and made a little noise in the barn. T&g back wall is complete.
The lumber delivery came. The barn WAS getting cleaner and more open… 
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Early morning, painting. Bottom will be brown/green. I didn’t feel like cleaning brushes and pans, so it will wait.
Afternoon, tposts. Laid out the next row, will start tomorrow morning. I’m bummed my hammer drill attachment didn’t work, I had to drive them old school.
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What are you using with the T-posts? Thanks
Well, I tried a hammer drill attachment. It would get it to the spade and then poop out. I ended up pounding them old school, with a traditional pounder.
They make other air driven pounders that look awesome. My portable generator won’t run my air compressor so that was not possible.
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Early morning activity. Ideally you randomly stagger but i dont have enough material to play games. This was free, leftover from a project at my moms house:
Took delivery of my pasture seed, pulled another set of soil samples to make sure we’re on track:
Drove a long line of t posts down the west side. The tall, undriven ones are my neighbor protesting. 
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Marked up the east side for tomorrow. Spacing will be a little weird, because I’m avoiding driving right next to my neighbors existing fence posts.
I’m bushed.
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Impressive work! I’m exhausted just looking at everything you’ve accomplished.
I don’t recall seeing an update on your neighbours, I hope they aren’t being too irritating.
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She’s in pout mode. I was nice enough to point out some daffodils that were going to get smashed by the post pounding and she wanted me to pull them for her, like it was my fault they were on my land.
No. She is a capable woman, not an elderly one. Lo and behold, she managed to get them herself.
Note they thought they owned all the way to the bean field. That’s like 25 feet! There was no appeasing that, and she will hate me forever more.
But soon, from the other side of a fence. 
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Good fences make good neighbours. I hope you’re running some serious hotwire along the top. 
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Yes mam, with signs, so she can’t sue me. 
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Has anyone ever spray painted the tops of the t posts green? Does decent spray paint last?
Or spray painted the whole thing brown??
I had caps on my T-posts so no painting.
Are you not capping them?
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I am, but the white is not evenly painted so it messes with my eyes.
Of course you can paint them. I had a similar question some years back, and there was was a thread on COTH about painting t-posts at that time. Maybe 8 or 9 years ago, because that was when I put in the posts. As long as you use a paint for metal you should be fine. The decision is whether to use spray paint or a brush. I have two lines totaling about 60 t-posts for electric fencing on my place, and I painted them with Rustoleum semi-gloss black spray paint in cans once they were in the ground to blend in with my black-painted wood fence boards. They still look presentable, though they have dulled a bit over the years,
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We welded extensions on our T-posts around the chicken yard and painted all the posts shiny dark brown.
When years later we pulled the fence up, the paint on the posts was still like new.
I think we used metal Rustoleum spray can paint also.
If you have a tractor with FEL, we bolted a longish piece of well pipe with a flat cap to the side of the FEL, so the pipe swivels as the bucket lowers and use it to gently push T-posts in the ground.
Some times you can put the post pounder on the post and push with the bottom by where the arms connect to the FEL.
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