fencing questions

["Jerry & Mary Fields" <fields@mesh.net>]

Sarah,

    My husband, daughters, and I fenced our farm ourselves. We had never built anything before. We used 100-ft rolls of non-climb horsefence. We put an H-brace every 99 feet. We dug post holes by hand, some through solid rock.

    When we fenced over the small mountain on our property, rather than try to dig on the rocky slopes, we used trees for posts. Between the posts elsewhere we have T-posts.

    We paid for materials as we needed them, fencing one area of the farm at a time. It took us one week to build our first fence. We got much faster as we gained experience. We now have thirteen acres fenced and cross-fenced, a fence around the goat barn we built from native rocks and mud, and three of four sides of our 7-acre coastal field fenced. (The remaining side has an old fence that we will eventually replace.)

     It can all be done with determination! If you are an endurance rider, you have that! If you have any specific questions, email me privately for more details.

Mary Fields