![]() When you're happy with the look of the string, mark again and be sure to x out the rejected marks. This is easy to eyeball for good flow and much easier to adjust than a screwed on board. Next run a string and tack in on the line. You can cheat a little up or down if appropriate. Tom has good advice here about installing boards, here are some slight alternatives: Instead of installing the top row, cut a stick to the length you want the top of the top board. They will climb a leaning tree and and are not above getting out and on top of your newly restored ragtop '68 Corvette or Mustang if they get the chance. In the winter the goats would eat the tips of the roses and gnaw the bark girdling the large roses killing them at the stump. We cleared 10-15 acres of thick multi-flora roses with them that the horses now maintain. They are browsers not grazers and briers and roses are ice cream to them. They are great for clearing brush and will create a browse line as high as they can stand on their back legs. A small kid goat will crawl under any low spots then walk the fence line wanting to get back to its mother. Goats with horns will get them stuck in the wire squares of many web fences. Since goats are herd animals they would tend to stay pretty close to her and not wander too far afield. Our best, if limited, success with goats was field fence and to be sure to keep an old gentle matriarch goat in there with them who was too old or too lazy to try to get out. Heavy bark should be peeled at least on the underground part of the post and on the surface that will take fasteners.įor goats all fences require the water test - if water will pass through so will a goat. Other regional options I don't know about. So are black locust, hedge, catalpa, some kinds of oak, and steel ts. ![]() Pressure treated pine gets used all the time and underperforms most other posts. I've never seen raw pine posts, they aren't common trees here but I don't think they'd make the best posts. Distance between posts depends on the wire or material. Don't put your end posts too close together, this reduces the bracing properties. That wastes time and material makes it harder to get the post tight. Don't dig a hole three times the size of your post. Pour in a splash of water and stab with a spud bar. If you use concrete don't fill the hole with it and don't worry about mixing. Here are a few helpful tips that come to mind: Put your posts in the ground. There is a lot of very bad fencing advice online. I started building fence at around 5 years old, just shoveling dirt back in the holes in those days. A well placed horse kick and there goes your board in two. Wire is a lot let labour and maintenance than boards. So, your fence might need a 3rd strand and taller posts. Of course they are not a horse that is meant to go jumping hurdles like in the shows. My uncle had work horses, which are a lot bigger than a riding horse, they was always kept in with cow fence. If your fencing in horses, lots of folks boarded fence down south, but up here all I ever see is cow fence. We don't put treatment on fence posts up here. Pretty much any cedar species works, if it has narrow sapwood. Talking northern white (we call it eastern white cedar up here). Field grown stuff grows too fast for a rot resistant post. ![]() Ceder is the best post wood, will last decades up here, but there is a big difference if it is tight grained with very little sapwood. Up here, two strand of fence wire electrified for cows, one won't keep the calves in, need that lower strand or they will be sampling the neighbor's garden. The satin-like finish on these posts maintains its new look for many years.For easy pealing of your posts, do it in the spring whenever you see the wild flowers breaking ground. You’ll be proud to see this good looking fence along your property. ![]() NEVER Rusts or Rots: Replace wood and steel posts once with the Timeless Fence System and use your extra time on productive tasks – not fence repair. Robust design withstands harsh weather and is strong enough to hold barbed wire and woven wire. Timeless Fence posts absorb impact and bounce back, making it all but impossible to break under normal use. Posts are pre-drilled every three inches to greatly reduce cost and installation time. and around the world are finding that Timeless Fencing is easy to install. High-Tensile wire and electric braid can be threaded directly through the post for an extremely strong, virtually maintenance-free fence.įarmers and ranchers across the U.S.A. Ideal for installing electric wire – no insulators needed. Timeless Fence Posts is an eco-friendly and cost-effective alternative to traditional steel t-posts and wood posts widely used in construction, farming, landscaping, and erosion control. Timeless Fence System offers versatility that other fencing products lack… ![]()
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