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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

--- 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