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In my smoker thread, someone said they were waiting for my next project, well here it is.

Turning these native cypress pine logs

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Into a decorative brush fence to hide the neighbors back yard and old gal tin fence.

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Cut the pine on Saturday and had the panels for a few years. Picked a good day to dig post holes, warmest day for a fair while and not one breath of wind, good to work up a sweat......... not Image
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"Turning these native cypress pine logs" into firewood :lol: :wink:
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Quit ya whinging you runt arsed bugger - I cant see a difference from when I was talking to you this morning in these pictures.







Mind you, there was maybe 40 minutes between phone call and posting of thread....
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Hey, fair go, I swung off the crowbar till it was too hot for my delicate little fingers to hang onto it, knocked off, had a snooze and got back into it at around 4.30 this arvo, now got three posts stood up and three rails along the bottom for the fence panel to sit on. Dunno why I gave up digging post holes, such joy and fun I haven't had for years. :roll:
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Taking shape, most woodwork done and one brush panel in place, it will have a roll top added when I finish putting the panels in place and securing them

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Panels are in place, need to get out and cut some more brush for the roll top, might do that tomorrow

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Looking good there.

Is that cypress pretty hardy?

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Timmo84 wrote: Thu Oct 24, 2019 8:33 pm Looking good there.

Is that cypress pretty hardy?

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G'day Timmo, yeah it is very hardy, it was the timber of choice for building just about every wooden building before the Radiata took over, our whole house is made from it, from stumps to rafters, white ants don't like it much, unless it is well rotted and even then they dont really get stuck into it. Unfortunately the last few governments in their wisdom closed down the Cyprus sawmilling industry, there is now only one fella left who mills it, and the only reason they didn't close him down was he had a massive contract to supply the Japanese market and didn't want to pay him out in compensation.
Just about every town west of the great divide had a cyprus mill somewhere and a lot of properties had their own mills cutting their own timber for buildings on the place, and for their reighbours. It really is one of natures finest products.
Now out this way, it has been turned into a woody weed, with billions of small thing whipstick trees that will never turn into anything useful, just crowd themselves out and get burned when the next fire goes through, and of course, the thousands of blokes employed in the industry are gone as well. All this was done to appease a handful of Greenies in the cities.
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Went out and cut the brush I needed for the roll top this morning,

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Because I am using it I picked the absolute best I could find, nice young, supple soft regrowth, I had the 250Myra along for the ride, spotted this big bastard panther slinking for a pile of pushed up pine trees at around 80 yards, after the mad scramble out of the Ute, I jacked in a round, followed him in the scope and squeezed off the shot when his head was centred, he walked into it. Very pleased to not miss the only cat seen for months, and the only thing I have shot in months

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Rippa having a sniff

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Gun, dead cat and dog, not many better photos

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Fence looks fantastic, much better than the old corrugated fence. Terrific stuff on the cat too - very satisfying I bet.

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Fence looks great!
Shot moggie also :D

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