Defending against the escape artistry of cats

Almost two years ago we invested a lot in to having a portion of our property fencing replaced with colourbond fencing ( metal sheet ); on top of the fence we further installed cat-rollers which do a great job, assuming your fence is ~1.8m or taller ( to force the cats to be on their 'last reach' as it were ).
Unfortunately, one of our cats, enticed by the behaviour of some of the local wildlife, discovered the trick of digging under the fence to see what was on the other side. Twice this happened and we had to close up the "Wedge" as we call it until we could come up with a solution to stop this digging out behaviour.
The solution we came up with was to buy two pallets of concrete blocks ( 390x190x90mm) and place them underside between the existing posts in such a way that they also contribute towards inhibiting snake ingress.
In total there's 36 fence segments that need this modification, this morning I reached the halfway point ( 3 more segments done this afternoon, so 15 to go now ).

[@blindbodger]

Looking good Paul, and the fence lower defence is coming along nicely 🙂 That tree which is making babies is going to be fun taming though

[@vincei4252]

The great cat escape! Good to see ya Paul.

[@QsTechService1]

looks like lots of hard work .. it’s looking good Paul

[@pldaniels]

at the end of it, it'll not even be really visible potentially but at least it should put a stop to the digging.

[@ForTheBirbs]

Meow! Well done

[@pldaniels]

How many different birds did you hear in our yard? :D

[@johnnychang4233]

​@@pldanielsThose are the singing praising Paul for building the kitty Alcatraz of Australia 😉

[@ForTheBirbs]

​@@pldanielsgot me! Lol. I was listening for kitties. Hehehehe 😂🎉❤

[@josephking6515]

@@ForTheBirbs What kitties. ☹

[@pldaniels]

Next week we'll have kitties back in this part of the yard most likely - assuming I don't falter in my progress. Sadly they missed out on having it for "Winter"

[@als1035]

Wow!, that's a huge amount of fencing to be installed by one person. Great job!

[@pldaniels]

Fortunately in this case I had a proper fencing person install the actual colourbond fence, but I've done the top-rollers and now the main thing we're doing here is installing the blocks on the underside to inhibit the dig-out

[@MrPnew1]

00:54 laid as well???? Me too 🤣 Nice job Paul

[@LetUsRepair]

Haha, I started giggling bad here. First I thought I heard wrong, heard it again, and was "confirmed". (Yes, I'm a little school kid in my head.) Love the work Paul

[@TradieTrev]

Lot of work Paul! You would rarely catch me doing any landscaping!

[@pldaniels]

Definitely labours the body in many ways. My back and shoulders seem to be taking the hit this time. Placing the blocks is particularly entertaining as I have to do a full squat, hold the 8kg block with two or three fingers and try slide it in sort of level below ground level. Currently only getting about 3 fence segments a day done

[@josephking6515]

We got a gate like at the start in 2004 and cost $425 then. I hope the prices haven't increased like everything else. Stupid gate had two locks, one each side so you could easily lock yourself out or in depending on where you were standing and what you had locked. Hope they fixed that far cup as well but didn't look like it. It's looking really good Paul. .👍👍

[@pldaniels]

Like a normal house door, you can use the key to lock/unlock it from either side. Fortunately we do have alternative access options. Stuff is certainly never cheap. The fencing in the video cost $14,000, then we added the rollers which were another $3,000, and now the blocks which is another $1,000 :(

[@philliplopez8745]

Cats are Newtonian , they can transform from hard as nails to as fluid as 90wt gear oil in the blink of an eye . One of natures mysteries .

[@marcellipovsky8222]

Whoa looks like a kitty prison 😀 It is getting pretty expensive I think.

[@pldaniels]

It certainly is :/

[@KathrinHausermann]

Install 45-Degree Extend-A-Post Extensions and install them inwards so no kitty can escape

[@pldaniels]

We do already have that sort of set up around the rest of the area ( see other videos/photos :) ). The main problem we had currently is the dig-out ( now solved ). The rollers do work very well so long as you have the 1.8m elevation, shorter than that and some cats can get enough of a purchase over the roller.