Maybe, I am off to town today to purchase a dozen wooden toms to prop the structure up, its sagging under the weight, the wire is stretching I think?

Wow, if I buy the Ni-Fe battery system 48Volt, this would give me 10 amp Hour battery at 48 volts and cost me $1,200 for the batteries including delivery charge, and the total weight would be 25 Kg ! And get this these batteries last forever, a 100 years. You can run them down dead flat no worries and overcharge them again. And mow all day, who mows for a full 8 hours these days?

I add to that, I purchased a 18V cheap electric trimmer, ripped the battery bit out, hooked up a 12 metre cable to an old car battery on 12V, and cut anything I like with it, the machine ran at 60% of its strength due to the reduction of the voltage, never was strong enough to break the whipper cord, and while a little less powerful in cutting, I ran the system all day. The only thing that was a little inconvenient was lugging the heavy battery around in 12m increments. On the plus side, I have never changed the whip cord. It’s great.

In about 3 hours, I had advanced nearly half way on the first roofing sheet of wire netting. So the machine is working OK for now.

Welded up the horizontal turntable for the wire netting. Because it moves width ways the progress is much slower, about 1.2 to 1.5 m each time. Not sure how I will navigate over the fruit trees, soon to be a challenge.

Correct, the building is rabbit proof, pig proof, and soon will be bird proof. Than I can grow my 60+ fruit trees, run my chooks, do my veggie garden without wildlife interfering with it. I can also place shadecloth over it too and make it frost proof.

View from up the ladder, it’s quite a way down (5 metres to be exact). You can see the cable clearly.

Details of the straining of the wire (stainless steel cable) I use three links of chain, cheaper than other techniques, and the rod and nuts are super strong tie downs used in houses against cyclones.

Like so, see red arrow

Using two strong bolts and a 4x2 beam, I make a brace for the ladder, up a pole, to take weight off the pole leaning too much, when I climb up. The second bolt stops the ladder from being pushed over. The rope ties all the bolts to the ladder and pole.

Ready for tomorrow. The platform is very stable, with 5 stabilizer poles help. I also stand on a milk carton as well for that extra height at times. The red boxy thing in the picture on the trolley platform. The ringlock pliers makes it easy to attach netting to the wire.

Got half of it done, on my first roll, the full length is 48m

The netting is fine

Starting off first time, nervous and scary

Like so, than I wondered does it need bracing too? I slowly wheeled the netting into the place, another 25m further down.

Yesterday I lift the 30+ Kg wire netting up by pulley to fit into it’s rolling table.

Sunny Queensland Australia, Darren, but its terribly cold at the moment, 12 degrees C. Our winter.

Yes thank you, hopefully it’s going to work today.

On the first trial , no change in battery capacity, I suspect the current was too low, around 60 Amps instead of 80+ Amps.

Wired up the Jinko Solar panels to manually charge my batteries.

Here you can see on a late afternoon, I have nearly 4 AMPS coming into the battery system.

Tomorrow will start a manual recharging.

Welded up fencing wire turn table, make it easier to wind out the wire on your own

The wire and trolley as comparison, still another 2m above trolley

The new weld trolley to reach this wire and wire on wire netting, 5m off ground

You barely see the wire (red circle)

Where I am up to, with the new shed