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On 24/01/2018 15:59, Tim Lamb wrote:
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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.
Please can you explain "18# ! 19#"

Wire gauge. Much cheap wire netting is 19#. Where it blocks an
established Rabbit route, persistent nibbling fractures the strands:-(

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.
Thanks! That led me to this:
http://www.tornadowire.co.uk/wp-cont...-122-8-web.pdf
- interesting!
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.
These have a 25 year guarantee and don't seem too expensive:
https://www.jacksons-fencing.co.uk/p...-long-75mm-dia
-machine-rounded-fencing-tree-stake-pointed-chamfered-jakcured

Jacksons are an upmarket supplier but I don't think any treated softwood
post will actually last 25 years in normal soil unless pressure
impregnated with creosote. Actually the post and rail fencing on our
by-pass is still sound after 41 years and not creosote. Whatever they
used smells a bit like mothballs and stops the wood burning!

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Tim Lamb