Building A Cattle Panel Fence

Licensed contractor and diy network host jason cameron shows you how to construct a custom fence made from hog wire.

Building a cattle panel fence.

4 u posts these are the stakes we drive into the ground to secure the trellis. Build a cattle panel hoop house. Some people prefer to just use the space for their. For a subdivision fence he uses fiberglass posts.

Picking a building site and getting started. This is also part of what makes a fence strong and sturdy. For board to rail fences the standard is three board or rails one on top of the other and evenly spaced per fence line. This is our first and likely biggest project of the 2019 year building our perimeter fence.

First lay out your site and hopefully you have good soil because the best way to create this cattle panel hoop house is on a site that will allow you to build one bed on either side with a walkway down the middle. Tie wire typically used for rebar use this wire to tie the cattle panel to the u posts. The fence is about 400 and spans. When you re building a high tension fence maybe the most expensive part is the post.

Take measurements with a measuring tape or ribbon of at least 100 feet 30 5 m long of the area you wish to do the fencing on. Draw out a plan of how and where you wish to lay out your fence. 16 cattle panel don t forget i have two cattle panel trellises in my garden but these instructions are for building one. Make sure each wire is evenly spaced with the other.

Hello and thanks for watching. There are tons of creative ways to utilize cattle panels like adding them as a trellis in a raised bed garden or building tall vertically oriented panels around tomato plants. Gardeners also use cattle panel fencing to protect their plants and flowers against hungry deer and other unwanted guests. Find more great content from diy network.

So it s reasonable to put 30 feet centers on your posts.