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pretty sick fence, how long did that take to make? did you just find the material or buy it?
It's been a labour over a long time, just little sessions of an hour or two here and there. Total, I didn't count but if you took a price on the labour versus some wire shipped in from China, it's more expensive.
The posts were felled, cut, and split maybe 2 years prior from a Gympie Messmate planting (same guy I did the gully planting for). I watched one video of "competition fence splitting" and got the idea and had a go. The bamboo is from an unwanted clump on a bamboo farm, it's a cultivar of Bambusa textilis. It's not too far from the picture so I cut and dragged it there, then removed branches and shortened the culm up a bit. Usually one would split the bamboo and weave it tighter but I was trying to make it "cheaper" by making the posts further apart and not splitting (less Eucalyptus wood needed, less time on culms). A traditional "wattle" has upright posts close together and uses bendy, green wood and bamboo isn't that bendy when not split, hence the longer upright distance.