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["Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>]

> Why did your fence cost so much?  Is it high-tensile or what ?

It's 5 strand high tensile (I have sheep also, and 5-strand is recommended), 
and it's the entire way around my 42 acres (well over a mile of fencing). 
with 4 gates in it (bracing for gates in high tensile is ghastly expensive). 
For many years, I had old, falling down fences around a couple of 
pastures...I could only graze 10 of my 42 acres. I was forever chasing cows 
and propping up the fences. They were so bad that I couldn't even keep them 
charged...I had to do this or give up the animals. Now I have sub-divided 
pastures, some streambank fencing, and a perimeter fence. It doesn't stop 
deer, though...they sail right over it.

Lynn Wigglesworth
Tioga Co. PA