pipe fence -how do you make it look right?

Cormac · Mar 8, 2010

I built some cattle pens. They more or less ran straight and had relatively level runs of pipe. The landscape was fairly level. I am now going to build a catch area that has some noticeable dips to it. In one length of pipe (32'), the ground will drop 3 -4 feet I want the horizontal pipe runs to look and flow nicely. The side run of will be about 100 feet long and the catch area will end up being about 75' by 100'. Any tricks to this before I start experimenting?

Craig Clayton · Mar 8, 2010

Dear Sir
The vertical support pipes are probably to be 8' feet apart. So if you cut the 32' lengths to 8' feet then at every post you can drop 1' foot in height.
Craig Clayton

ModMech · Mar 8, 2010

My neighbor came over and estimated completing our pipe fencing some time ago. His preference is to have the top rail fairly level and not to have it rigidly follow the "lay of the land". It avoids bends in the rail and does look nice.

Our property has about 1400' of pipe fencing already and the top rail closely follows the terrain, it doesn't look all that great because the variations are generally under 12" in 100'. It looks more like they weren't careful to set the supports carefully than anything.

Maybe you would consider a more gental curve to the top rail using slightly longer supports and allowing the ground to vary more from the bottom rail? However if you are trying to keep critters in our out, as the case may be, this may not work in your situation.