![]() there will still be plenty of winging it ).Are you building a hog wire fence for your property? This is my first time undertaking a project of this sort, both in terms of planning & scale so trying to do more thinking upfront rather than wing-it. Then the tricky bit would be getting everything aligned horizontally and ensuring posts are all evenly plugged into the ground. I either case I leaning towards digging a shallow channel and burying the bottom couple inches of a 50" cow panel-thus improving dig resistance, critter protection, and eliminating lumber cost for bottom of frame. The downside is that the wood would be mismatched and each individual frame would weigh considerably more (since I'm doing this project solo, that's an important consideration). This latter option would be more sustainable from the perspective of reusing materials and I imagine create a lot of overall stability. After reading your instructions I think I will either a) use lattice caps on posts to create "channels" for the wire panels to slide into and then use a top runner board (2x4 or 2圆 as you have shown) and then staple the wire into the underside to improve stability, or b) utilize all of the 1x3s from the old fence I'm removing to create the frame like you mention above. I had been thinking to build frames for 8' panels and then affix those to 4x4 posts. There are plenty of images of these fences but few tutorials, which is why I was excited to find yours suggestions. Thanks for the reply-& spot on! I saw lots of these fences around PDX but they're not common-actually they're not even known-where I am now (Wisconsin) so just trying to figure out some of design and material pitfalls before I dive in.
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