Don't feel uneducated swim. It's all hit and miss. It's good to ask questions and learn from others mistakes.One of the most useful tools I have is a t-post remover. As far as the electric fence stuff goes. Hollywood has made us think you electrify the whole fence. Then of course there's the...
Too much juice and too many ground points. The fence would have to be insulated wherever it touched something that went to ground. Then it would require too much amperage to juice the whole fence.
I have t-post about every 10ft. Then wood post every 150 ft or so to stretch against. The only problem I have is one of our Percheron's likes to eat the grass on the other side. He leans against the top wire and the poles in that area are bent about 10 degrees. I don't have a hot wire through...
The woven wire is what I was talking about. You can also use the 39" with 7' T-post driven in 1 ft. Then stack the wire overlapping about 4" using those hog type c clamps that you squeeze closed. I used that setup on my backyard with the dgs. One of them is a dane/retreiver and used to be able...
I would go with something heavier than 2x4 welded wire. We had goats for a little while and they made short work of that stuff. Use 5' livestock fencing. That's the stuff that has progressively larger holes as you go up from the bottom. You can get a 300" roll at Home Depot for about 139 or so...