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Tree guard mesh

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  • #2
    kay 9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,679 ✭✭✭kay 9


    Just curious why ya don't want to use ordinary treated posts and some of that green garden mesh/fence? Would work out alot cheaper than those things ya posted mate.


  • #3
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    kay 9 wrote: »
    Just curious why ya don't want to use ordinary treated posts and some of that green garden mesh/fence? Would work out alot cheaper than those things ya posted mate.

    Trees will form a shelterbelt on my sheep farm. I'll be planting them individually so as not to waste any ground. The net, stapled onto a stake, and cable tied shut to form an O around a 3-4 foot tree should, I hope, keep it safe from sheep, lambs, and hares. To form the O the mesh would have to be rigid but flexible.

    What type of mesh do you mean, windbreak stuff or the cordon off type, don't think either of those would do me.


  • #4
    TomOnBoard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,111 ✭✭✭TomOnBoard


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    Trees will form a shelterbelt on my sheep farm. I'll be planting them individually so as not to waste any ground. The net, stapled onto a stake, and cable tied shut to form an O around a 3-4 foot tree should, I hope, keep it safe from sheep, lambs, and hares. To form the O the mesh would have to be rigid but flexible.

    What type of mesh do you mean, windbreak stuff or the cordon off type, don't think either of those would do me.

    I reckon yev answered yer own question.

    "net, stapled onto a stake, and cable tied shut to form an O around a 3-4 foot tree "

    Use chicken wire for the net: Simples


  • #5
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    TomOnBoard wrote: »
    I reckon yev answered yer own question.

    "net, stapled onto a stake, and cable tied shut to form an O around a 3-4 foot tree "

    Use chicken wire for the net: Simples

    Horned sheep, chicken wire won't last pissing time, it'll deform and stay deformed and they'll get caught up in it grazing or attempting to browse.


  • #6
    Rovi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,569 ✭✭✭Rovi


    Kestrel Forestry Consultants in Wexford are the Irish agents for Tubex products:
    http://www.tubex.com/

    They do a big range of tree shelter/protection stuff, including rolls of mesh in various sizes:
    http://www.tubex.com/product-selector.php


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  • #7
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Cheers Rovi, will check them out.


  • #8
    Conmaicne Mara
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,543 ✭✭✭Conmaicne Mara


    Got sorted on donedeal :)


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