Eight feet is no joke, williamh48. That's a serious fence. But have you actually seen a deer clear something that high? I've watched them jump a standard six foot fence like it's nothing, but eight feet seems like a whole different game. What kind of posts and mesh are you using for that? A flimsy setup won't hold if a full grown buck decides to test it.

That's brutal. Old tools can really turn on you. Had a rusty pair of pliers slip once, took a chunk out of my thumb. Makes you realize how fast things go wrong. Now I check my gear way more often.

Watching this happen at work makes me see it everywhere. People cover for a friend's bad date by making up a family emergency, then have to keep that story alive for weeks. It starts small but the upkeep always costs more than the original mistake.

That "new hot thing they learned on" idea... it's like when a bad process gets set in a workplace and nobody questions it because it's just how things are done. You see it with software or paperwork routines that make no sense but stick around for years. The aluminum wire feels like a physical version of that, where the habit overrode the obvious problems.

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