Maggie's Farm

Nice shot. The light working the different plantings into checkerboard a la Van Gogh. Nice to note also that your fencing is in as fine a repair as is so dreadful much of mine.

:-(

That's how i secretly control the entire stock market

BD, just noticed your fence ref in the post. Here's an idea --whittle down the bigness, work at any pace, end up with the charming old rail fence you have, but plumb, stouit and practcal.

Hog panels --16', galvanized, can prob get by with the lighter gauge, can be cut with a hand tool, and they disappear from sight at 50'.

Affix them whichever side of the existing fence the aesthetics suggest, with galvanized tie-wire (the light ''handy'' gauge will prob do, as the weight will be borne by the posts as usual).

No nails, no screws.

Buy one or two of the panels and give the system a try. You could re-plumb posts and re-hang level rails 16' at a time, via the hog panel as the spacer, stabilizer, and fence body.

Do 16' and go to the house foran earned rest, or maybe 32', or whatever --you can quit and re-start at will. Not like stretching bob war (which i'm given to understand is spelt 'barbed wire').

PS, you can rest the bottom of the panels on the ground (they're galvanized) if your old posts are weak, but you'll play hell leveling the panels --which you'll want to do, even tho the horizontal lines will be far junior to the level line of the wooden rails. Reason for this is purely aesthetic, so maybe it won't apply, but i think it does.

Ergo, hang the bottoms in the air but as close to the ground as you can, and still get away without too many step-ups or downs as you are forced to confirm the terrain along the length of the project.