dats de way my wife's family does it for their annual cuchandele. (lil help here on the spelling please, Bot

Sorry for the repitition--connection is flakky. Anyway, why not just shoot a bunch of them and donate them to a local homeless shelter. I have given a few deer.

This is why you see so few Chinese Jews, or Chinese Muslims for that matter. Can't keep a chinaman away from pork.

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Maybe one of these days. Lately, we've been putting in long days on fence repair and the idea of sitting up in the cold, waiting for a bunch of pigs that may or may not show up has less appeal than a nice warm bed.

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Understood. We got the opposite here: 70 degrees--almost too warm for me to get excited about hunting. Hopefully you got one of them fancy augers on your tractor's PTO for the fence mending

Cuchon du Lait (thanks wifey) is the party surrounding the killing of a spring hog in cajun land, and its subsequent roasting, blood sausage making, ect....they are an experience--google it.

It's been desert-like dry here so sometimes it gets cold at night and unnaturally warm in the day. Last Saturday night it was down to 24°F at the barn and by noon Sunday you would have been comfy in a tee-shirt.

And, yep, I have a 40hp hole digger (that's Dad on my tractor):



Unfortunately, I cannot afford the fancy self-stretching wire.

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I have always done it with a small pickup and a fence puller tied to the trailer ball. Multiple strand just spread them out with a 2x4

I know guys in Pearl River and Lamar Cty in S Mississippi that catch feral hogs for fun. They have hog dogs and chase all through the woods at night. A dog will grab one by the snout and these guys get in there and hogtie the beasts. Sometimes they shoot one, especially a young sow. But most of the time they haul them off to some other place and turn them loose. Usually forest land owned by timber companies or land owned by FWS or FS. Landowners HATE it. You get rid of a herd and here come the Ladner's and Pinton's and Frierson's turning them loose again.

One guy I know likes to hunt them with a spear. At night.

B

The latest project was about 900ft of 5-strand that had to cross two gullies, one with permanent water (Sassy Creek). I opted to do one wire at a time lest a pair of them decide to mate for life.

Sassy Creek



The fence runs left to right just at the edge of the clearing (you can see a pair of the old pull posts in this picture).



We run the wire using a Mule (you can see it above, next to the hi-tension pylon) with a pipe across the bed holding the spools. There's enough difference in elevation here that you can simply snug the wire with a jack-style stretcher and then go to the high points and steeple it to the wood posts at the right place then go to the low areas and step on the wire to hold it down where you want it and steeple there. Next, go back and clip it in the right places on the intermediate t-posts.

Believe me, you can get it tight enough that way to play a tune or shoot the occasional shallow t-post.

In a couple of years, I'm going to cross fence two of my big pastures. Those will be new fence in wide open terrain. I may try running more than one wire at a time then.

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Some of the guys I know that do that neuter them when the dogs get them occupied. Those guys are as crazy as catfish noodlers.

Sounds like the Fear Factor version of catfish tickling.

ed: tickle = noodle

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I saw a sports show where they showed these guys catfish noodlin'!!!!

I can't remember a time when we all laughed harder. Oh man, that was some funny shee-it!

But hey, it gets you the babes!

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1998 E430 - sold
1989 300E - 333,000 Km - sold
1977 280E - sold
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"And a frign hat. They gave me a hat at the annual benefits meeting. I said. how does this benefit me. I dont have anything from the company.. So they gave me a hat." - TheDon

Girls gone noodlin.

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Not sure... but I do remember a line: "Nothing which goes into a man from outside can make him unclean..."

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