Best fence for splitting field

Cran

Well I have to split a field I've bought with another fella. Anyone ever done this before and whats the best type of fence to use just posts and wire or would cement stakes work?
Sheep and cattle using it so wondering about best long term option...

jack77

concrete posts and wire, do it once and do it right, good fences make good neighbours as they say

Muckit

A lot of cement stakes were used by land commission to divide up parcels of land around here. But no reason why a good pressure treated timber stake wouldn't do the trick. Are ye going getting in a contractor? If doing it yerselves deciding the fencing materials might be the least of yer problems.... 'oh the stake should be 3" on your side....' 'no back the other way'. What side does the wire go on?!?

Cran

Muckit wrote: »

A lot of cement stakes were used by land commission to divide up parcels of land around here. But no reason why a good pressure treated timber stake wouldn't do the trick. Are ye going getting in a contractor? If doing it yerselves deciding the fencing materials might be the least of yer problems.... 'oh the stake should be 3" on your side....' 'no back the other way'. What side does the wire go on?!?

We're going to get a contractor its the only way really. Luckly enough its a flat field and straight line which has been marked already by a mapper so should be easy enough. I have no cattle so the we've agreed to put the wire on the other side were cattle will be, and agreed if I got back into cattle split the cost of putting wire up my side as well.....

freedominacup

Cran wrote: »

We're going to get a contractor its the only way really. Luckly enough its a flat field and straight line which has been marked already by a mapper so should be easy enough. I have no cattle so the we've agreed to put the wire on the other side were cattle will be, and agreed if I got back into cattle split the cost of putting wire up my side as well.....

I think ye should agree that ye both put up at least a single strand of electric fence on yer respective sides of the fence. Concrete stakes and wire will last a long time but if cattle start to use them as a scratching post which they will if there's no shock and the wire won't be long about loosening. On the law of averages it'll be your cattle that do the wandering if and when you get them despite the fact that his will have been using the fence as a scratching post for a while.

milkprofit

Cran wrote: »

Well I have to split a field I've bought with another fella. Anyone ever done this before and whats the best type of fence to use just posts and wire or would cement stakes work?
Sheep and cattle using it so wondering about best long term option...

Make sure some steel in posts cattle scratching will crack them
6 ft high -- sheep and barb wire the good stuf--electric fence both sides

imitation

I just have a passing knowledge of this so I could be wrong, but is there a regulation about the type of fencing required to seperate two different herds ?

Muckit

Yes a row of electric, even for sheep would be money well spent. Keep it maybe 2' off the ground, stop them from pressing on sheep wire. I see a lad beside us keeping sheep where they should be with just two strands of electric, no sheep wire at all. Now there is some rattle off it.

bbam

Concrete posts can be a problem.
If cattle get near them they scratch on them. This either loosens them or they break.

Bizzum

Is there anything to be said for a double fence with a hedge in the center?

Farmer Pudsey

It depends on what stock both of you will be keeping. Even the best treated post will only last 20 years. If it is only cattle a double row of whitethorn hedging keep it cut back for first 2-3 years but good quicks and stick the cuttings into the ground. So to department spec. Then put a electric fence both sides. In five years time the Whitethorn will be stock proof by itself. Do not worry about the quality of poles for first electric fence as you will have to move it back after 5-6 years. The second time leave it half a metre from hedge so that you can cut ever 3-5 years,

49801

Bizzum wrote: »

Is there anything to be said for a double fence with a hedge in the center?

Ya that would be a much better approach for the long run

Cran

Bizzum wrote: »

Is there anything to be said for a double fence with a hedge in the center?

drainage pipes up the middle would presume that would knock it on the head