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On 2018-01-24, Martin Brown wrote:

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You might also want to put a finer grade of chicken wire lower down and
buried to keep rabbits out if you intend to have a garden or vegetable
patch. Just one rabbit can do a surprising amount of damage overnight.

+1

Or do the whole job in rabbit wire and save on the stock fence. Lots of
sound advice above but a few more thoughts.

If you use rabbit wire, buy 48" roll and 18# ! 19# is 'kin useless.

For field fence I use HT tornado stock fence topped by 2 strands of
barbed wire. (HT because it annoys the Leathermen carrying trespassers).
You could substitute plain HT wire for the barbed if you are not
controlling livestock.

25 year fence posts would have to be pressure treated with creosote and
very expensive (X3). Dosing the bottom 18" of a cheaper treated post
with your preferred timber preservative is likely to be a good thing.


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Tim Lamb