Forest pasture top wire
The downside to using this 5
foot tall chicken wire on the new forest pasture fence is how flimsy it gets
towards the top.
I've found that a semi tight
stretch of electric fence wire helps to firm it up.
It took me a few times to
figure out, but it's a lot easier to measure
out the distance first and cut the wire to size and then weave it
through.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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comment 1
I've left the top of my wire fences flimsy and floppy. I read somewhere that it makes it a lot harder for foxes (our main predator here) to jump/climb over.
Comment by
Darren (Green Change)
— Mon Apr 26 21:32:22 2010
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comment 2
That makes a lot of sense. I always forget that other people have to deal with predators!
Comment by
anna
— Tue Apr 27 07:27:25 2010
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