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Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
Topic Started: Apr 22 2008, 08:49 AM (228 Views)
Jolly
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Hope so.

Gonna cost me $5,000 to put up new fencing, and that's with with my labor. That's 39" field fencing with a couple of strands of 4-barb up top, and just on my piddlin' little place.

I can see why farmers go broke faster than piano dealers.... :weeping:
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Aqua Letifer
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Jolly
Apr 22 2008, 08:49 AM
Hope so.

Gonna cost me $5,000 to put up new fencing, and that's with with my labor. That's 39" field fencing with a couple of strands of 4-barb up top, and just on my piddlin' little place.

I can see why farmers go broke faster than piano dealers.... :weeping:

Why for are you puttin' the fence up?
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JBryan
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No concertina wire?
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What is the fencing made of? (I've seen people call wood and steel fences 'fiels fencing'.
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big al
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What are you aiming to keep in (or out), Jolly?

What do you use for fence posts in your area? The traditional post around here was locust. I've seen some last 40 years, although pressure treated timber posts are becoming more and more common.

It's the horse farmers that can really run up a fencing bill in a hurry. Only thing more expensive was one place in Ohio I know of that was raising elk. Salvaged utility poles and 10 foot high woven wire. Supposedly the Chinese paid a very good price for some parts of the elk.

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Jolly
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Field fencing:

http://www.tractorsupply.com/webapp/wcs/st...istingPage=true

Sometimes, we also refer to it as "hog wire". That, with a few strands of barb wire up top, is generally good for cows, sheep, hogs, etc. If I was only contemplating cows, I'd just throw up barb wire.

You don't use barb wire for fancy horses, it'll scar them. For plain old usin' horses, barb wire is no big deal.

As for posts...everything rots or roots down here. Untreated, mulberry makes the best posts, but most handmade posts were made from post oak. I'm too old to split my own posts, anymore, so they'll have to be store-bought. Figure I'll use treated 4x4 for the corners, t-posts for my runs, with an occasional H stretcher made with some more 4x4. Alternatively, if I run across some drillstem reasonable, I'll use it for corners and H's...even though my welding looks like a drunk dirt-dauber did it.
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big al
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We always called that woven wire. We had a lot of fence built that way by some CCC crews in the late 30s. Woven wire with a strand of barbed on the top. Very well built fences but hard to repair when it broke (and as it got old, it did). Three strands of barbed wire served very well for cattle. An electric strand in the middle kept those old, tough-hided cows from leaning on it quite so much trying to get that grass on the other side.

Drill stem should make some sturdy posts. 4x4 seems pretty light for cattle unless there's electric on it, especially if the posts in the straight runs are steel (I think that's what you mean by t-posts).

High-tensile wire has become fairly popular around here, especially for high-class horse fencing or close confinement. That takes heavy posts or bracing at the corners.

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Steve Miller
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I'm sure traditional is the way to go, but I saw something in Central America that might interest you.

Around Guatemala they use pieces of tree branch for posts. You can see big piles of them along the roadways. Whatever tree it is they use will take root from a cutting and that is exactly what all of the fenceposts do. Allow a little time and what was once a barb-wire and rough pole fence turns in to a hedgerow. Kinda pretty; thick enough that they don't need the wire any more.

And the posts never rot. :thumb:
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big al
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The trouble with some of those is their invasive tendencies. Multiflora rose was promoted by the USDA as a natural fence in the 1930s. Now it's a pest that's spread into the fields and is hard to eliminate, even with herbicides.

The hedgerows of Normandy were, from what I've read, so dense that tanks couldn't penetrate them.

Big Al
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