- That's a freaking huge post. - Yeah, that power pole there
is smaller than that post. - Yeah, that thing is huge. - Notice that he's not just
horsing that around by hand. That post probably weighs
200 pounds, pretty easy. But if anybody could lift that post, it would probably be Rory. How in the world are you
not, your legs are purple? - They're tanned, they're tanned. - That's not tan, that's cold. - No, that's.. - But if I put trousers
on, I'd be too warm. - That's your blood crying for help. Yeah, you're in shorts
and I'm already like, I need a warmer coat. - (laughs) - Welcome back to the channel, guys. No, we're not in Florida. Despite the fact that
this crazy man right here is wearing shorts. You can see his legs are purple and that's because
they're crying for help. - (laughs) - So we're gonna be fencing
today with Rory Sampson with Sampson Fencing
in Lockerbie, Scotland. So, stay tuned, come along with us, and let's see how he builds fence. (music) (machine slaps against wood posts) That thing slaps. (machine continues) Now did you say you did pre-drill that? - Yeah, pre-drilled. Yeah. So pre-drilled about five foot down, but it's already been cut up 'cause of a full-length pole. You know, so there's no
treatment on top here anyway, so we'll just give a wee cut there and - Okay. - (laughs) (music) (machine slaps pole) - So I don't know if you can tell, but what he's doing is he's
leaning that into the turn 'cause he's gonna wrap the wire around. That just kinda pre-loads it a little bit. So that the wire's pulling back on it, so it's already kind of cocked. It's cocked a little bit into the lead so that as he stretches that wire, it works to his advantage. (music) (machine whirs) (music continues) - If it's drilled all the way down, still try and get more stuff out of it. So I keep doing it two or three times
and it sticks to the drill. That's why I keep, I'm keeping going. - He's got a lot more work to
do than Peter down in Essex. This is, this is a lot more of a process. You can't just knock 'em in. (music continues) - Yeah. Bingo. - Easy, yeah good, it's in right. (music continues) - Good job. - Sorta heavy. - I'm not. I'm not. I like my back. (machine slaps) (techno music) (machine slaps) - That weights 500 kilos. They're half a ton, half a ton. And you can feel it like everywhere. It's gonna be almost six feet
in the ground when it's over. - Just think he already got the volt done. - We are already almost there. This is pointless. Wasting our time. - Put it in three feet
and tamp will get it. Overkill. This is overkill. - You don't need this. - Waste of money. What a
waste of time and money. - Let's go home, let's - I've seen enough. Oh I'm gonna drive the post. So he tells me I got that much more to go. He's gonna trust me with
those other six inches. I can't screw it up. (machine slaps) I did all right. I did all right. - It was all the extra weight. - It was all the extra weight. Yeah. - On your arm. - Yep. - You really threw that
lever forward with authority. - I do. - I would love to tell you what
he is gonna do in some sort of just amazing Scottish accent, but I'm not gonna try. What I'm going to tell you, I'm going to do it in an English accent, like American English. He's gonna put a tieback in. He prefers the tiebacks
over the breast blocks because he feels like
that just holds better. Now breast block could be
right up against the post. The tie block is gonna be out further, and then they'll tie
it back with some wire. So he is gonna use this heavy wire, and tie it back so as that
post tries to go this way, it's actually gotta rip
that one out as well. So like that post is crazy strong already. That's a 10, 11 inch post, drove five and a half feet in the ground. That thing's not going anywhere, but - So what he is doing is
he he took another block, and he took that block and
put it on top some post, so that way, he can beat that
post deeper in the ground to get that wire to get tight. To keep that post from
pulling back the other way. - (laughs) Call it a day! - Small force. (tools clang) (music) (machine slaps) - I have quite a big
spike in the cap here, Like I'm not afraid to
move this thing everywhere. A lot of guys are scared
to move it in case they're bending stuff, especially the whole mast bending hitting a lot of stuff. But I can move boulders. But I've got quite a big spike. (machine slaps) This is still the original
cap, seven years old. (music and machine slaps) I put that other one over here as well. - Rory it looks like maybe somebody from Florida's been
in Scotland building fence, because that post is in the ground all of about maybe a foot. - Foot. Yep. - Maybe a foot. Maybe some people do fencing over here like they do in Florida. - Certainly wasn't me. Is that what you guys
do if you were doing it? Or do you drive them straight in? - No, we, we would
angle it like that yeah. We haven't gotten into
doing a lot of this. It's like say, it's mostly pipe. - So if you are doing pipe
are you straight in as well, or on an angle? - Angle. Yeah. Back it out an angle. - Yeah. What would you put
in for your block generally? - Mm. That'd probably be
either two and seven eighths, or four inch pipe. - Aye, but two or three foot in there? - Yeah, probably four. - Yeah, four, yeah. Let's go and put some
posts in the ground now. - Let's do it! So this is something I
have not yet seen before. Apparently it was
developed in New Zealand. These are called clipex posts. And so they are specifically
designed for xwire, which is a specific field fence, woven wire fence whatever
you want to call it. And so it'll fit exactly
inside of these clips. So you'll knock these off
and you won't have to clip it and it'll just hold it
there permanently, forever. The top one I think is a high tensile wire and then the netting fence
will be go on the bottom of it. No, I got it, I got
it, I got it, I got it. Hey I did this before
once. I did this once. I can do it faster. I totally got this. We're going all the way. All the way. Ah. It's getting a little harder. Man there's gotta be an easier way. Is there an easier way? - I've got two options,
two easier ways. Yep. (machine slaps) - That is some freaking
hard, that's hard ground. 500 kilos. That's a half a ton that it took to get that hole poked in the ground. That's insane. I'm impressed with how
hard that ground is. And then that thing just opens up, and then now I can't get it out. You don't even have to do anything. It just, it's that easy. I'm cold, I'm not gonna lie. Like my hands are cold. I'm a little cold up here. My legs are fine. I could probably pull off the shorts but the rest of me is cold. This is Scottish, Scottish Brew. I asked them what it tasted like and they said it tastes like nothing. And of course my response was
I'll be the judge of that. So here we go. He's over there laughing. Hmm. Well he's kind of right. It kind of tastes like
nothing, nothing else. It's, it's a little bit fruity. It's different. Maybe like some like almost a mix of an orange slash
cream soda or something. Let's let Dan have a bit. - Oh shiver me timber. - They're Scottish, not pirates. - Sorry. That's amazing! - What does the taste like? - I don't know. - It's like a mix of orange
slash cream soda or something. Almost. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm thinking like some
7up, some Pedialyte. - I've never drank Pedialyte. What are you doing drinking Pedialyte? For you I recommend Ensure. Ensure is what we should
be drinking for you. - You like it? - We're trying to figure
out what it tastes like. - Girders. - Huh? - Girders. - Garters? Tastes like garters? - Metal girders. - Means beams. - The H beam. - Oh! You said girders! (music) (machines whir) So the theory is, I asked him about this. I said that post is a lot bigger than the bit on that drill but
apparently they drill enough of a hole that it'll
actually break the rock. And he said one day some farmer came up to him and asked him what
they were drilling tree roots. He said No, I'm drilling rocks. And so they got the post driven down there couldn't get it all the way down. He had to pull it up with the driver and it pulled out this
big old rock with it. So it sticks 'em in the rock. So what they're doing behind
me is they're going back and putting in the intermediate posts. So we talked about those bigger posts, they're they've already
done the bigger posts they did that with the big driver. They're putting in the
smaller intermediate posts in between and they're
using two different drivers. So they're using something
very similar to like the rhino or the ready driver. And then Rory is using
an air powered driver a pneumatic driver. But apparently after they've
drilled that small little hole that's enough to get the
rocks broke out of the way and that those things will
drive right into those rocks and they won't have any issues. So pretty incredible. And if you're thinking
about some of our no dig fence systems, maybe look at
this driver or one like it because it's pretty easy to
pack as you can see him doing it by themselves now. And that's always one of
the concerns we have is having that weight so they're
able to drive all these posts and that is, I would call it
an extremely aggressive driver compared to the Gaspar drivers. They go to town, and there's
several different adapters available for this and I think
you can probably make one for postmasters or whatever else. He says that they actually put in three inch wood posts with this. So that's how aggressive it can be. What a system! That's pretty cool. It's freaking tight. This is a dead man, or an
anchor post that he's driven to help hold this post
down cuz we've got a dip and he drove this from
clear up here all the way to that grade without pre-drilling or doing anything special. So that's how powerful that driver is. - What we're doing right
now is we're comparing the marching driver to the rider driver. We're gonna do a drive off. See which one can get
it down to depth first. Go! (music) I feel like I won. I was on top of a rock. It was a big rock. (music continues) - I dunno what they're doing here. Over here working my butt off and they're just over there playing. - I do have, I do have
one serious question. - Yep. - So we're in Scotland. There's this thing
called Lochness Monster. Real or not real? - Big debate on it. I think it was real
probably years and years ago but it's not there now. - What if it had a baby? - Never heard of a baby. - Used to be real. - I reckon it was real years and year ago. - You heard it from the man. (distant chatter) (drill whirs) - Well I've never seen
one like that before. - Custom made. - Custom made. (mumbled voices) (drills) (music) - So I just look for all the differences when I'm looking at things and like why don't we do smart things like this instead of
our stupid chain latches that everybody does. This just keeps the animals
from being able to open that, so to it's two-handed. Silly things like that interest me because we're not doing that. Anyhow, this is what
that fence is gonna look like when it's all said and done. Now a lot of this stuff on this fence was repurposed material. So this is old guardrail, these are old beams that
came off of a building and you're probably gonna say, Hey you know what,
that's gonna rust, yeah. Like in a 50 more years it'll
finally rust through that, but it's gonna last an
incredibly long time. Rust doesn't happen overnight all the way through thick
eye beams like that. So we didn't talk about it but here you can see I'm
still a little winded from running up that hill. So he does three line posts, three of these smaller posts and then he'll do one of the larger posts and you can see the
size difference in this, versus this post. So these are quite a bit heavier duty and he does that just for strength. But let me just be the first to tell you, this is incredibly tough when you get a nice tight wire conjoined with these posts and good
strainers at each end. This is still a great fence. They use this because
it's a lot easier to get and more economical but still better than like a T post fence. And there's no clips to put on so they don't have to worry about clips or clips falling off. It's just a really good setup. First time I've ever seen this. I like it. I don't know what you think, but this is pretty cool, I think. Hopefully you've enjoyed
learning a little bit more about how Rory Sampson
here in Lockerbie, Scotland installs this fence, a little bit more about
the clipex fence posts and these giant freaking
strainers that he uses and the equipment you use. So we really appreciate
you having us out and - Yep. - let's go get some food and warm up. - Yep. Thank you. - I mean you put some
pants on first please. - You'll see me in pants tonight. - I'm Mark with SWI. - I'm Dan. - I'm Rory at Sampson Fencing,
and you have a good dang day. (sizzle)
