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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

Thanks for the description, but you didn't mention the heighth?  I have read 
about 'high-tensile".  I don't think it was around when I was growing up in a 
farming community.  Most people had barbed wire or cattle fencing; mostly 
barbed wire, with an electric fence for extra care............

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--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] You think they won't 
> taxyourhomestead...............
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 8:31 AM
> >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 
> 
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