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[Norma Sutton <sweetspringfarm@gmail.com>]

Hi Paul,
We've used tomato baskets made from them.  The down side to field fencing is that you will have to anchor it in several places or it will sag under the weight.  It is also more cumbersome to set up, dismantle and store.  If you can get them and afford the panels they will last as long as you need them to.  Speaking from experience.  I had to take down some really old field fencing my dad put up in the 50's.  It gets brittle with time.  Just tugging on it would break the strands.  Trying to roll used field fencing up is another time consuming endeavor and you NEVER get it back into that neat little roll it was bought in lol.  I took down some I bought and put up that had only been up a short period of time a few years back too.  The smallest I could get it rolled back up to was about 4 feet in diameter.  I was just moving it to another location and not trying to store it.  The other option would be to staple it to wooden frames of a certain length so you could anchor it to the posts and then store it flat when you took them down.
Norma

On 6/13/10, Tradingpost <tradingpost@lobo.net> wrote:

What about field fence on t-posts instead of cattle panels? I see a lot of it around our area, quite rigid and it costs considerably less. I went even cheaper on garden fencing with treated cull lumber set in cement holes, and stapled chicken wire on four sides. I couldn't dig deep enough in this subsoil with post hole diggers so I soaked each hole in stages to get a foot deep and used readymix to hold the posts, ten feet apart. Works pretty well even with high winds, and keeps out dogs and rabbits which is all it needs to do. Plus hold up pole beans.


paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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