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  • From: Lucky Pittman <lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] was Tree Planting, now Fencing in rocky ground
  • Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:03:02 -0500

In some extremely rocky areas where it's virtually impossible to dig/bore postholes, I've seen folks build a circular 'crib' of woven wire, 3-4 ft in diameter, filled in with stones/rocks as an anchoring point for wire fences.
Heavy and sturdy enough that it won't move significantly, no matter how much tension is applied.

USDI Bureau of Land Management & USDA Forestry Service Technology & Development Program used to publish a "Fences" handbook, which covered many different techniques of fence-building, encompassing board, woven & barbed wire, and electrified high-tensile, with good drawings/photos of brace assemblies, construction of wire cribs, etc.


Lucky Pittman
USDA Cold Zone 6
AHS Heat Zone 7
Hopkinsville, KY




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