Protecting Paddock Trees with Easy Fencing Ideas

This week I talk with grazing property owner Tim and Carmen from Maffra Landcare about paddock trees. Keen to provide shelter for livestock and increase the paddock quality we know that paddock trees provide many benefits. We discuss why tree decline occurs, how it can be stopped and why you should. We then use a few great products from Whites to protect some existing trees and establish a fence to allow planting of a wildlife corridor on the property.
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[@bretdavisdmd]

This is one of the most underrated channels on you tube.

[@Bernie5172]

Making corner blocks and planting trees has been my favorite job on my farms from 1970 . I have planted about 10,000 of them . Those guards look great. You never mentioned how much they were . The best video ive ever seen on you-tube, it relates to my life

[@jacobcreech4382]

Tim, the amount of fantastic content on your channel blows me away. I’ve been watching for a year or two now, and yet frequently stumble upon this old content which is just top notch. Keep up the great work. Hope to see you in NZ sometime.

[@FarmLearningTim]

I really hope to get there sometime too mate. Cheers!

[@terryquarton2523]

Had a neighbor who pulled out trees we planted at the bus stop. That the southern Antarctic wind came up the valley and his sheep kept heading in to the wind to find shelter and 300 sheep piled into the fence resulting in 27 suffocated sheep. Because the farmer hated trees.

[@electric-fence-australia]

You're a true champion for the people and the land. Great work Tim 👍

[@celticgypsy6067]

Natural Sequence Farming will enhance this project 10 fold.

[@1shooterm]

Thanks Tim. I'm rebuilding a pasture next to my home and want to include some tree cover on the windward side.

[@nakolemitchell6264]

As a 16 year old aspiring farmer I’m loving this it’s so interesting and informative !!

[@FarmLearningTim]

Keep aspiring. The world needs smart farmers. Do me a favour and work your butt off to get educated first eh? Pays off BIG time!

[@siminikiwikii]

Great video! Well done

[@jamiedempster4358]

great video we should all plant more and play a part in the environment

[@CPMJunkRemoval]

Great information!

[@PapaRug.58]

So many farms don’t look after the head lands and shelter belts My grand dad always said trees make an important part of the environment and eco system

[@FarmLearningTim]

Couldn’t agree more mate

[@andreweastwick4929]

Great video! Woodland restoration and land stewardship with animal husbandry has a bright future 👍(I'd say the only future)

[@icryostorm3727]

check out the cactus tree guards - seemingly doing a good job here in the UK.

[@freddofrosch1]

Hey Tim, you make great videos, thanks for that. But you need to invest in a better micro or a wind protector. Cheers

[@FarmLearningTim]

I did. It was blowing a gale. The pros do a voiceover. I kept the original sound. Glad you like the videos!

[@s3138982]

Hey Tim, Great video this is exactly what I wanted to see. Love your videos, I'm currently doing a large planting program in the Macedon Ranges. Would love to possible talk to you about some technics and projects. Also I will call my local store about White Rural fence guard. But what should a set up like yours costs do you think?

[@FarmLearningTim]

You will be surprised how reasonable the cost becomes as you can do most of it (or all) yourself. Check out my video “planning a fence” for a free costing tool and tips on how to do it using google mymaps

[@paulskinner5567]

Another great segment Tim!!! Those tree guards look great, but would kangaroo be able to poke their heads through and get to the plant it’s protecting? I have some land That we have started planted a few trees on, we put some sheep mesh around the trees and C clipped together. But the Roos could fit there head through the gaps and would eat the trees to a stubble. Ended up having to wrap chicken wire around the sheep mesh.

[@FarmLearningTim]

Might pay to run some exclusion fencing. Check out my budget exclusion fence video a few weeks ago.

[@rl3898]

At the end of the 60s in the UK we were paid to take out those 40ft hedges, by the Ministry of Agriculture, who also encouraged the use of all offal being put into animal feed. Gov experts and the future, no change here then !!

[@FarmLearningTim]

Blimey.

[@davidwebb8380]

good vid Tim, but what happens now?? it looks like a fence in a paddock. Do you plant more trees somewhere in the little corridor or add ends to the fence to connect to the original paddock fence?,, [city slicker ] Dave, from Sydney

[@FarmLearningTim]

G’day Dave. There are plans to link it to two other fences completing the corridor and a square area off the end. Probably deserves a follow up eh?

[@gb4915]

Ou tim Whats that guitat tune that plays at sunset???

[@FarmLearningTim]

"Stinson" by Reed Mathis. Free music on the KZbin creator platform.

[@gilescowley9807]

A good idea, but I've two questions regarding the tree guards (based on my own experience): 1) With only two posts supporting them, will the guards really still be standing if the cattle rub on them? (Tim, any chance of an update after a few weeks?) 2) Because some will want to graze sheep and cattle across the same lands... is there a version that has closer spaced verticals or closer spaced lower horizontals to prevent the sheep doing damage?

[@FarmLearningTim]

Gday Giles. You could add as many posts as you want. I actually debated the number for a while and settled on two because the solid ring adds to the rigidity. I don’t think the wire spacing will be an issue for sheep as it’s the same spacing as gates. I have one in my sheep paddock and no dramas at all.

[@gilescowley9807]

@@FarmLearningTim Fair enough, if it works then it's good kit.

[@RnDRace]

Can you twitch it shut on the post? Save a bit of time doing both jobs at once?

[@FarmLearningTim]

Absolutely. Just a bit tricky while filming.

[@alandinsmore1186]

Can you give it to us without the historic hand signals.

[@stediasse]

If I want to become a farmer, do I need to change my name to Tim? This video, and the previous one I watched, both farmers were named Tim.

[@FarmLearningTim]

Yes. It's required.

[@banjerism7281]

I predict the cattle will rub on those tree guards & they'll be loose in the ground by the time I write this.

[@ozlakota1]

trees dont add carbon to soil they store carbon from the conversion carbon dioxide to wood

[@FarmLearningTim]

Trees photosynthesise and make sugars that travel via the phloem. Some of these are leached via the roots to soil bacteria and fungi. These sugars are a food source for these non photosynthesising organisms which create soil humus, which is a far more stable form of carbon sequestration than the wood of the tree which rots when it dies. So very simply, trees add atmospheric carbon to the soil, not only in their roots, but via complex and interconnected processes that when well managed last a very long time and improve overall soil health. Cheers.

[@jgbee2726]

Eucalypts are not a good tree, especially from the fire safety point of view.