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  • From: "Vanagon Man" <vgonman@msn.com>
  • To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] inexpensive fence idea
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 06:41:59 -0400

My grandfather uses cut strips from plastic soda bottles instead of the
fibreglass insulators...........cheaper, and he just folds the plastic over
the wire and nails it to the post.

Adam P
Charleston,SC Coburn, WV

"Mountaineers are always free"
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Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:31 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] inexpensive 10' posts


> Randall:
>
> Schedule 40 galv pipe would indeed be expensive, mostly because it's new.
> If you were lucky enough, you might find scrap post (of varying lengths)
at
> a scrap yard. The "Cadillac" fence that one of my neighbors installed was
> all welded from salvaged steam pipe and at least 8' above the ground.
> Apparently tough to work with, but he need a good fence since he has
> variously raised elk, zebras, camels, and some type of donkey.
>
> When I constructed my 8' fence, I used pressure treated 4x4 posts that
were
> also dipped/brushed with a thick coating of foundation sealer. They were
> spaced fairly far apart because originally it was an electric fence (used
> fiberglass spacers between.)
>
> Two inexpensive options come to mind for 10' posts. One is the horizonal
> post used for chain link fence. They are about 10' 6" in length. These
can
> be found at home improvement stores and run under $10 (~6-7 bucks if I
> remember correctly.)
>
> The other option (that I went with) was 6' HEAVY GAUGE T-posts, to which I
> wire tied 10' reinforcing bar. If you are really cheap, the 20' are often
> less expensive and cutting them (abrasive blade in chop saw) is pretty
easy.
> I pounded the rebar 2' into the ground and used wire ties (the kind used
> to secure reinforcing bar in concrete walls and floors.) Woven fence has
> some stability of its own, so no sag with that system.
>
> I have to admit that 10' t-posts would definitely do the job, but pounding
> them in sounds like a challenge. Maybe dig a post hole and set with
> concrete?
>
>
> On 13 Sep 2004 at 22:04, RW Spalinger wrote:
>
> >I have to special order 10' T-posts as well as the field fence.
> >T-posts are the most economical supports I can find. I wanted to use
> >10' schedule 40 galvanized pipe for the orchard fence, but the local
> >hardware store priced them at $97 per post. So, my orchard fence is
> >all T-posts and 85" field fence. I placed posts 6' apart at the
> >corners and put them in concrete, and contracted a local welder to
> >weld 6' T-posts between them for bracing.
>
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