dmccarty
Super Star Member
All of the fence discussions focused my thinking on what kind of fence(s) we are going to need at our place. Our house should be done in November and we have two requirements for fences.
The most immediate requirement is to keep our dog in on the house lot. The one dog will eventually be multiple dogs. Our first thought was to use mesh fencing but that is expensive. If we where only going to put in a dog run that would be one thng but we want to fence in 5-6 acres. We want the dog(s) to be able to run around the entire house to provide security. Given that requirement and the lay of the land we are looking to fence in a good bit of land.
Since that much land means that much more money I was thinking of using HT fencing. Kelly does not challenge the chain link fence we have now and she could easily jump over the four feet tall fence if she wanted. Soooo, I'm guessing HT would work with her. Whether it will work with The Dogs To Come is another question only time will tell. If we had a problem with the dogs getting through the fence we figured we could put in an electrical wire right next to the HT fence.
Has anyone tried to keep dogs in with a HT fence?
The portion of the fence that will be seen at the road and from our house we are going to "cover" with shrubs. We will plant a bush on each side of each post so that in a few years the post will be invisible. The enitre length of some fence lines will have this double or a single row of plantings to hide the fence. The HT fence should be easier to "hide".
The other reason for using the HT fence is that we have a mile of property line we will almost certainly have to fence in at some point. This is to keep the ATVers and tresspassers off the land. I don't want to put up the fence but these bozos have got to go and I can't have them poaching on our land.
Later,
Dan
The most immediate requirement is to keep our dog in on the house lot. The one dog will eventually be multiple dogs. Our first thought was to use mesh fencing but that is expensive. If we where only going to put in a dog run that would be one thng but we want to fence in 5-6 acres. We want the dog(s) to be able to run around the entire house to provide security. Given that requirement and the lay of the land we are looking to fence in a good bit of land.
Since that much land means that much more money I was thinking of using HT fencing. Kelly does not challenge the chain link fence we have now and she could easily jump over the four feet tall fence if she wanted. Soooo, I'm guessing HT would work with her. Whether it will work with The Dogs To Come is another question only time will tell. If we had a problem with the dogs getting through the fence we figured we could put in an electrical wire right next to the HT fence.
Has anyone tried to keep dogs in with a HT fence?
The portion of the fence that will be seen at the road and from our house we are going to "cover" with shrubs. We will plant a bush on each side of each post so that in a few years the post will be invisible. The enitre length of some fence lines will have this double or a single row of plantings to hide the fence. The HT fence should be easier to "hide".
The other reason for using the HT fence is that we have a mile of property line we will almost certainly have to fence in at some point. This is to keep the ATVers and tresspassers off the land. I don't want to put up the fence but these bozos have got to go and I can't have them poaching on our land.
Later,
Dan