Boundary Fencing

Jan informs me I need to be more careful with the blog content as I may offend some readers.  She was obviously referring to the last post.  In the past I’ve been described as having a “lively” sense of humour and if that means I offend, then it’s not deliberate.  But nor am I going to change.

The back boundary fencing and side fencing with our neighbours is being replaced today.  It’s a task I would have attempted except the original fencing is made from corrugated asbestos cement which is of course, hazardous.  The old fencing is starting to degrade which increases the asbestos hazard.  Furthermore the fence is also starting to fall over.  The third problem is it has insufficient height to be compliant with swimming pool regulations.  We’re therefore replacing it with colourbond steel fencing.\

It has taken the fencing contractors a morning to remove the old asbestos fencing whilst dressed in their hazmat gear and then install the new steel panel fencing.  I dare not touch the new fence as the concrete is still curing.  Obviously they have completed the task much faster than me.

In the above photo you can see the join between the original and new fencing.  I’m going to lay the lengths of concrete kerbing in the foreground at the base of the new fence to create a mowing strip.

The states of Victoria and New South Wales continue to control outbreaks of COVID-19.  Consequentially the adjacent states have either closed their borders or imposed severe movement restrictions.  This is having a adverse effect on many people in the border region where they usually seamlessly pass backwards and forwards over the border on a daily basis.  Some farmer have been particularly affected with parts of their farm and stock on either side of the border.  The media have reported one farmer needed to move 40 tones of hay across the border to feed his stock.  The bureaucratic response was for him to road his hay from the border down to Melbourne and fly it on a 747 to Sydney where he could then road it back to the other side of the border.  However the sheep shearing problem has been resolved.