Fencing tips, hints, or ideas?

[doublejfarm]

I used a galvanized cattle gate and screwed fence pickets to it. It is cheap sturdy and way lighter than a wood gate.
Also since its galvanized, it will last almost forever. When the pickets go bad just change them out; but that will take years and years.

 

[larkflying]

Wow -- lots of good ideas. I'll have to make a list and go see what we have here -- and what will work the best. Not sure if we have hurricane fence for one thing . . .

We are doing well with the electro net -- moving it every three / four days, mowing, moving it, mowing . . . it is busy work, but it works. We are very impressed with it -- wish we'd known about it with our goats. We have the expensive charger -- learned our lesson with the cheapo ones. Lately the geese have been keeping the grass so short that I don't have to mow much of the inside, so that is nice. Then I just move the fence . . . But I am going to get one of the digital voltage reader thingys. That would help me to fine tune the whole process.

The fence is mainly to keep dogs out and coyotes too -- but this section is on the road near houses, so I'm thinking it will mainly be dogs. Eventually we'd like to permanent fence the outside of most of our animal areas, but we can only do so much at one time . . . Thought a board fence would block the neighbor dogs vision, but probably wouldn't change much -- since they operate by smell and hearing about the same.

We have several metal gates with finer mesh on the bottom -- we'd gotten them for our goats, but now I realized we can use at least use one for the back fence. that will help! Going to use the round wooden posts -- we like those - I'm all in favor of lasting a long time . . . I'd thought of the concrete blocks under the fenceline . . . or pavers . . . We've tried to use the torch on fencelines, but the grass grows so fast here that we were using a lot of propane. If we did have the bottom edge raised several inches, then the wheeled weed eater might be able to deal with it . . . but I don't want to encourage digging under either . . . I was wondering about ordering a load of gravel, and using weed fabric, sand and gravel under the fence line, but that may end up to be too expensive to be practical -- and eventually the weeds would come back. They always do here : (

The gates won't be across the driveway. There will be one gate by the front door, and a couple larger ones for tractor/vehicle access, but none will be on a drive way requiring daily use. I was thinking the metal gates might be the best way to go. I like the sill idea. Will have to play around with what works out . . .

Decisions, decisions! Thanks for all the information . . . got to plan some more. I'll post pictures / info when we do decide on some kind of design.

 

[True Grit]

Didn't they used to spray oil or kerosene, something like that, to kill vegetation? Is that a nono for an organic farm?

 

[amenfarm]

we have used straight vinegar spayed on weeds to great success, the vinegar diluted 50% also makes a get wallpaper remover if you perferate the paper first

. I have used 1 cup of vinegar to 1 gallon water in a garden sprayer on veggies to keep varmints from eating my veggies redo once a week or after a rain, good foot soak to remove dead skin/callouses- lots of uses, cheap, and organic.