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posted 5 years ago

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This is a badge bit (BB) that is part of the PEP curriculum. Completing this BB is part of getting the straw badge in woodland care.

This BB is all about making a 36 feet of junkpole fence plus one mediocre gate with a mediocre latch

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Requirements:
o 12 foot fence segments (give or take a foot)
o 36 feet of new junkpole fence
o 3' or wider mediocre gate with mediocre latch
o chicken and deer can't get through
o posts/rock jacks can be existing or installed by someone else

To get certified for this BB, post pictures or video (<2min) of the following:
o Before of the area
o During construction
o Finished fence
o Finished gate
o Closeup of latch

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Mike Haasl

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posted 3 years ago

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I built some junkpole fence and a gate at the 2021 SKIP event. For reference it took me about 14 hours to do this work. That doesn't include making the rock jacks or harvesting/transporting the junkpoles. But I did have to finish two of the rock jacks on either side of the gate.

The technique we used was to attach the upper and lower horizontal poles (bigguns) to the junk poles with two screws (toenailed at different angles for strength). Then attaching four vertical (normal sized) junkpoles to those two horizontals. Then one normal sized junkpole horizontally to the verticals to hold in all the remaining loose junkpoles. When installing them, strive for one pointy end up then one pointy end down (thin part cut off so it rests on a finger sized diameter or fatter).

Gate-before-(note-unfinished-rock-jacks).jpg