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

> 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

I may be tough, but I'm not up to single-handedly  fencing 42 acres :-)

I think it's 4" locust posts, driven 4' into the ground. So far it's 
subdivided into 3 main pastures. I'm putting in the rest of the subdivisions 
myself. So far I've got one pasture subdivided into 3 acre sections. When we 
had the dairy, we used poly wire to give them half-acre paddocks twice a 
day. Too much work! And the bulls and sheep don't respect poly wire...I find 
it dragged all around the pasture.

About 25 acres is woodlot, but it was timbered before I bought it, so it's 
not a very attractive woodlot, with lots of briars and underbrush (I have to 
buy firewood). The young trees are now 10-15 years old, so they are big 
enough that the animals can't damage them. I'm trying to keep sections of it 
open for grazing.

Lynn Wigglesworth