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Fw: Running fence across creek



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| From: Barbara H-B <bahoba@sprint.ca>
| To: twoodcock@lendleaserei.com; ComeRideWithMe@egroups.com;
ridecamp@endurance.net
| Subject: Re: Running fence across creek
| Date: August 24, 2000 10:13 AM
| 
| Sounds like a job for Electrobraid to me!
| Barbara Holmes-Balmer
| Secretary Treasurer, ERABC http://www.img.net/erabc/
| Ride Manager, Ride Over the Rainbow
| Kelowna, B.C.
| 
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| | From: twoodcock@lendleaserei.com
| | To: ComeRideWithMe@egroups.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
| | Subject: RC:  Running fence across creek
| | Date: August 24, 2000 9:33 AM
| | 
| | 
| | 
| | I need some ideas on how to run a fence across a creek.
| | 
| | There is a deep (10'+) creek bed that crosses my property north to
south.
| | Currently my fences run along the west side of the creek, but this
means
| that I
| | have some land being unused and inaccessible by the horses.  The creek
is
| | twisty, so I actually need to run fence across it 4 times, once on the
| north,
| | and 3 times on the south.
| | 
| | This creek is dry about 1/2 of the year, only filling about 4' deep
with
| spring
| | rains and sometimes in fall or winter.  It fills to the top of the
chanel
| about
| | once every 3 years or so, depending on flash flooding upstream.  The
bed
| is 10'
| | deep in most places and around 10' wide at the top.  Because is does
have
| swift
| | waters in spring, it moves a lot of debris when it is running.  And it
| has a
| | heavy sand/silt bottom with is quite deep and soft.  In areas above the
| banks
| | where many years of flash floods have deposited much of this sand/silt,
I
| have
| | to use 3 t-posts banded together to make it strong enough to run
twisted
| | barb-less wire.
| | 
| | I need a way to fence across it to keep the horses on the property, but
| not have
| | it catch so much debris that the force of the water will push the fence
| over.
| | I've thought of maybe suspending a log or something on chains from tops
| of the
| | banks so that the horses are discouraged, but the log will float as the
| creek
| | rises.
| | 
| | Any ideas?
| | 
| | -Tamara
| | 
| | "Harry Browne in 2000!"
| | www.HarryBrowne.org
| | 
| | 
| 



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