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  • From: VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] You think they won't taxyourhomestead...............
  • Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 07:41:34 -0800 (PST)

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



> 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


Sounds like you had the fence installed rather than you doing? What kind of
posts did you use. You mentioned sub-divided, enough to do intensive
grazing? Do you have any woodlands, if so are they outside the fencing?
Van Dell




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