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<blockquote data-quote="Steve Wilson" data-source="post: 659191" data-attributes="member: 8362"><p>All we build are woven wire (guessing it is what you are calling field fence) with one barb wire at the bottom and one or two at the top. Hedge corners and brace posts with hedge line posts at least every third one. Some are still standing after nearly 100 years and you wouldn't know the age by looking at them. Those are all hedge posts though. Our problem on adjoining properties with barbed wire fences is keeping the darned sheep from slithering through or under them. My understanding is that an electric fence won't turn a sheep.</p><p></p><p>Woven wire is expensive to put in, but you only do it once. I can understand the hesitancy to go to that level if you aren't putting in fencing for the following generations. And sure, things can and do happen. Trees fall or the neighbor's bull comes down with an incurable lust for your heifers. I've seen where bulls have flat ruined a section of the best of woven wire you could put up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steve Wilson, post: 659191, member: 8362"] All we build are woven wire (guessing it is what you are calling field fence) with one barb wire at the bottom and one or two at the top. Hedge corners and brace posts with hedge line posts at least every third one. Some are still standing after nearly 100 years and you wouldn't know the age by looking at them. Those are all hedge posts though. Our problem on adjoining properties with barbed wire fences is keeping the darned sheep from slithering through or under them. My understanding is that an electric fence won't turn a sheep. Woven wire is expensive to put in, but you only do it once. I can understand the hesitancy to go to that level if you aren't putting in fencing for the following generations. And sure, things can and do happen. Trees fall or the neighbor's bull comes down with an incurable lust for your heifers. I've seen where bulls have flat ruined a section of the best of woven wire you could put up. [/QUOTE]
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