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[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> Do you have some source of information that says this is high enough? Seems I've heard somewhere that the low fence in front of the high one works, or at least something in front of the fence, which changes there intent. </font>

Yes, I found several sources that showed a 6' high fence with the wire spacings I used. 8-8-8-8-8-8-10-12. I read that about 90-95% of deer will not jump a 6' fence -- I hope that is accurate.

I have heard about how horrible their depth perception is -- so I will do something else if this does not work.

My neighbor to the west has 60 acres of soybeans or corn (alternates each year), so I am hoping they rather just walk an extra 400 feet and eat that rather than jumping my fence to eat some trees. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MikePA]

You must have great soil to be able to pound that many posts in by hand. Nice work. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[Gatorboy]

<font color="blue"> Maybe 6 to 8 ft away at nose hight </font>

You must have some tall deer around your parts if nose height is 6-8 feet. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif Around here, there nose height is 3'-3.5'

 

[PineRidge]

You must have had lots of pent up energy for that project. Nice job!

 

[slowrev]

"Around here, there nose height is 3'-3.5' "

You muyst have deer like Florida, look like greyhounds with horns.
Still can jump well though, most deer seem to be able to jump at least twice their height.

 

[Gatorboy]

The deer are not those puny ones like in Florida. I may have gotten nose and shoulder mixed up -- but White-tailed deer are on average 3-3.5' tall at the shoulder -- not quite sure how much higher their nose would be, but it isn't that much more.

Description of WHITE-TAILED DEER (Odocoileus virginianus)

 

[rambler]

Hope it works. The local brewery here has whitetail for it's logo (Schell's Deer Brand Beer) and have a deer park. They use 10' fence, few of the fed deer escape, but during mating season they get a whole lot of visitors over the fence. All depends on how badly the deer want to get in to your trees U guess. They hop over my 4' cattle fence without breaking stride at all.

--->Paul

 

[beenthere]

In a search on "deer fence height", I found
slant fence

And another on height extensions, which was mentioned as a 'next phase' if the first phase didn't work (hope no more will be necessary for you). height extensions

 

[Currmudgeon]

That slant fence looks like it might work. But since the tall fence is already up, adding an apron to it may be the way to go.

Place short pickets on the deer side of the fence, midway between the posts. The top of the picket should be about a foot above ground. Then run wire diagonally from post top to picket, to post top. This will give you a diagonal zigzag extending out from the fence. Finally, attach longitudinal wires to the zigzags. The deer will foul in, or avoid the apron, which should inhibit their jumping the fence. Add an apron on the inside, if you want to nail them as they come over. If you want to foul the deer, use barbed wire, but gutted deer fouled in the wire are ugly.

This is a variation of the old military Double Apron barbed wire fence used to break up infantry assaults. They've largely been replaced by triple concertina wire, which is much easier to install.

I don't know if high tensile wire isn't too stiff to use for this task. Using barbed wire, you can twist the stuff togerther so the apron wires don't slip. You may have to wire them together with soft wire. I keep a roll of 14 gauge steel electric fence wire around for those oddball "baling wire engineering" jobs.

It will be a bear to control the grass inside a double apron fence. You'll probably make Round-Up's stock go up.

 

[meledward23]

I dont know about the slant fence.

I buy trees for a living. Anything from 1" - 12" diameter measured 6-12" from ground level.

Down in Georgia the common practice is a 10' fence for the local deer. My understanding is a few end up inside occasionally even with that. However, most of those few break something or get caught up in it.

Deer are a pest.