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  • From: Mark <mpludwig@facstaff.wisc.edu>
  • To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] gabions
  • Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 12:19:11 -0500

At 01:08 PM 7/31/02 -0400, you wrote:
Greetings, this sounds like a possible solution. We have plenty of helping
hands, mostly youth involved in a Young Ranchers project so this could work.

Might poke around and find some old woven wire fence (sheep fence). I've seen this used to make gabions or even corner "posts" made of piles of rocks wrapped in the wire. Certainly cleaned a lot of stuff out of it where it crossed streams after big floods.


Mark P. Ludwig
Poultry Research Lab
University of Wisconsin -Madison
608-262-1730 WK
608-846-7125 HM





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