Excellent.

´Can I fix you a drink Bobby?´

If I bought it I'd want to put a fence around it. How many miles of fence do ya think I'd need?

Well, it follows a river for 26 miles, so or than 52 miles of fence. My property is 45 feet by 150 feet. I need less fence.

presumably, the river isn't straight which makes a difference.

If it was perfectly square

43,560 sqft / acre

80,000 acres @ 43560 sqft = 3484800000 sqft.

the length of one side of that giant square = the square root of ^that number^, so 59000 feet.

59000 ft x 4 sides 236,000 feet. That's almost 45 miles. Since it's almost certainly not square (the most efficient way to enclose the space with 4 straight sides), it's likely longer. If the sides aren't straight, that'll add another layer. My guess is that it'll be 10-20% more.

On a simple example, a square that's 2' on each side encloses 4sqft and requires 8' of "fence". If you took that same 4sqft and stretched it out so that it was linear with 2 sides of 4' and 2 sides of 1', you'd still have a 4sqft area enclosed, but it would require 25% more "fence" (10sqft). I'd be surprised if the ranch were that long and narrow, but I suppose if the boundaries were very "squiggly" for lack of a better term, it could be 25% (or maybe more) fencing required.

However long the fence is, I don't want to be the guy out there with a post hole digger, some gravel, concrete, and a bunch of fence posts.
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I guess I'll need, at least for a bit, a bunch of peasants that I can put to work...

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Car demigods.

Texas has several really large ranches in the panhandle. Ranches the size of some smaller states. We put in a bid to fly one family's ranch. It included 12 very nice houses. I guess that way they did not all have to live in one house like the TV series Dallas.

https://www.wideopencountry.com/10-biggest-texas-ranches/

It is generally godforsaken county. Without the Canadian River running through it it would be worth $5.76.

The mineral rights are usually what keeps them paying the bills.

Kings Ranch pick em up truck.

In its heyday the XIT was 3,000,000 acres. (Dalhart area)

There is a place outside Conroe TX that was built to survive the zombie apocalypse. I knew a realtor that showed it to me. It had filtered air system and a well, generator, 1000 gallon tank for your diesel buried out back. Fenced, cameras, had a great kitchen. It was big cement building, 2 story with a basement. Sort of like if Howard Hughes wanted a little hideout North of Houston. It was really something.

That's not a "Ranch"...

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"That's your ranch? Aawww, that's real cute!"
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Somewhere I have a picture of the front gate at Chuck Norris's place near Anderson.

Shaped like the bottom of a foot or 2 big fists?