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Apr 9, 2020 at 1:29 am #3640441
The snow and moose took out a section of fence around my dog’s run and normally I’d just go to Home Depot and buy 25 feet of livestock fencing and two T-posts. Â However, Covid-19 shelter-in-place orders are in effect and I wouldn’t be able to get the fencing material down to the ground anyway with lots of snow frozen in place.
I keep a lot of materials around including old crutches as a source of aluminum tubing and fiberglass-rod driveway markers as pack stays, and atlatl throwing darts (and as driveway markers). Â That, lots of ropes and scout knots and I replaced a section of fence.
Apr 9, 2020 at 7:28 am #3640448Talk about MYOG, David! Well done. I expect that the dog doesn’t have any special opinion about what you’ve done, either way.
Apr 9, 2020 at 7:59 am #3640451Never thought of you as the macramé type, David. But it looks good!
If there is one thing this Covid19 pandemic will do, it is to get people to think a little out of the box. Or in your case, out of the garage.
Apr 9, 2020 at 5:40 pm #3640606Paul, I’m actually an okay seamstress. Â I embroidered my own hippie jeans in high school and after I explained to my mother how to sew merit badges onto the sash so they looked best, I found I had to do it from then on.
Never got into bondage, so my fancy rope work is limited to Turk’s heads, barrel hitches, diamond and spider hitches for backpacking without a pack bag.
Apr 9, 2020 at 5:42 pm #3640607Nice work David. Kinda looks like a bunch of buoys on a dock.
Apr 9, 2020 at 10:33 pm #3640662I keep a couple of (partial) coils of fencing wire and a couple of partial coils of electric fencing tape in the barn, plus some spare star stakes.
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