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classic33

classic33

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MikeG said:
Morning tea people.

I've got probably 10 or 12 hours of drawing to do this week. I looked at the forecast and thought that today was probably the best day to sit inside staring at a computer, so today is the work day, and the rest of the week, hopefully, will see me outside making stuff.

Yesterday I rebuilt an old woodshed which I had saved when I demolished the old rear extension on this house:

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With a couple of shelves, and infilling of the side panel, (plus a new roof) it will become a useful plant-pot and bucket shelter.
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How high do the lambs jump round those parts?

Twin row of lambing wire, about three inches apart, the top of them are level with that board that looks loose. That's about 5'4" high!
 
MikeG

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Perspective has fooled you, Classic. That top strand, without measuring, is probably about 1300 off the ground (4'-3"), and it is to keep deer out. There are hundreds of them around here, and they can kill all your trees in one night if they get in. Actually, roe deer and fallow deer can clear that pretty easily. Muntjac can't, and they are the commonest. The roe deer (and the much less common fallow deer) haven't been tempted to try jumping it just yet, as there is plenty of great deer habitat for them to enjoy without jumping my fence. In a couple of years, when the hedge gets up, they won't see in so won't be tempted. In the meantime, we just hope. We get visited by a fox every night, and it marks out its territory by pooing on anything that the dog leaves around. Leave a tennis ball on the lawn overnight, and there'll be a big splodge of fox poo on it in the morning. I think you'd need Trump's wall to keep foxes out!

A better view of the fence, alongside the veggie patch. We bought this 10 metres of the farmer's field last year, and that first pile in the distance is 20 tons of horse muck.

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classic33

classic33

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MikeG said:
Perspective has fooled you, Classic. That top strand, without measuring, is probably about 1300 off the ground (4'-3"), and it is to keep deer out. There are hundreds of them around here, and they can kill all your trees in one night if they get in. Actually, roe deer and fallow deer can clear that pretty easily. Muntjac can't, and they are the commonest. The roe deer (and the much less common fallow deer) haven't been tempted to try jumping it just yet, as there is plenty of great deer habitat for them to enjoy without jumping my fence. In a couple of years, when the hedge gets up, they won't see in so won't be tempted. In the meantime, we just hope. We get visited by a fox every night, and it marks out its territory by pooing on anything that the dog leaves around. Leave a tennis ball on the lawn overnight, and there'll be a big splodge of fox poo on it in the morning. I think you'd need Trump's wall to keep foxes out!

A better view of the fence, alongside the veggie patch. We bought this 10 metres of the farmer's field last year, and that first pile in the distance is 20 tons of horse muck.

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I was going by the rows, usually 4 - 6 inches apart(lambing to sheep wire), and picking a mid value of 5 inches. Taking into account the slight overlap, rolls are usually three foot 2 inches. 12 horizontal strands visible.

If that's to keep deer out, you'll need stronger posts and wire. And a fence that's at least seven foot high. You can't dig out for the posts either, it creates a weak spot in the fence. They've to be driven into the ground. You'll have fun, I did helping to put a two mile fence in in place.
 
MikeG

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The digging we did was to bury the chicken wire 6 inches down and 6 inches out, so rabbits and badgers couldn't dig their way in. The posts were driven in 3 feet . We had to soak the ground overnight at each post location to give us a chance, and that was with some big machinery. The posts are 4 inch diameter, with the 6" strainer posts, and the wire is the heaviest gauge of fencing wire you can buy. As I say, it's fine for muntjac, the major problem, and will deter roe. The only thing that will keep them out in the end, though, is the hedge when that gets up.

Bed time for me. Catch you in the morning.
 
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MikeG

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Afternoon traindriver. Where are the other lazy stop-in-beds?
 
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