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["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

Understood. I've never thought of anyone wanting to move field fence. It 
seems moving any kind of fence that's strong enough to hold animals in or out 
would be a challenge to say the least. I don't understand about sagging. We 
pass by a large field near the Sandia tribal resort that's fenced with field 
fence to hold their herd of bison on the Res. The posts are railroad ties 
maybe fifteen feet apart, but no support for sagging. If there were a problem 
I'd imagine bison would make it obvious since they don't respect any kind of 
fence.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 6/14/2010 at 10:04 PM Norma Sutton wrote:

>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:
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