I hope you are all well. I was wondering if any of you have ideas you can share about temporary, moveable fencing?
We have a paddock area approx 20m x 30m and would like to fence it but the farmer needs to be able to drive over it to get access to hay bales so the fencing needs to be moveable and free standing i.e. can not be knocked into the ground.
The area is for supervised turn out and so the fencing should not be dangerous for horses. There is an outer fence going around the whole yard and so the fencing does not have to be 100% barge proof but just enough to keep most horses in and as the turn out will be supervised no harm will come to the horses if they do get out, although we would like to avoid this as much as possible.
I am working my way through the results supplied by googling "temporary fencing" and any other ideas would be great, the cheaper the better!
Here in France post and rail is a luxury and tempory fencing is the norm. I use small wooden (acaia or oak) poles 5ft high and about 2 inches in diameter with 3 or 4cm electric tape. They are easy to bang in and easy to remove, plus they have slightly more "presence" than polyposts. I'm sure that you can get an equivallent in the UK. My yard in the UK, come to think of it, had a similar thing. Chestnut posts and tape.
Are poly posts the plastic posts that have a stake on the bottom that drive into the ground and are usually used with electic fencing? If so we are unable to use them as the ground the posts would be stuck in is unsuitable to support them i.e. not soil. This means the fencing has to stand on it's own and not be banged into the ground. We use electric fencing effectively in the fields and so do have the tape and posts already so a similar idea but with self supporting posts would be great. Just need someone to invent it now. I was trying to think of a way of weighting the base of a post down may be with sand bags or something. Hummmmmm.......
I've adapted mine so it looks really neat but is still completely moveable and adaptable. I have 'metaposts' (metal, square holders which you push into the soil) which hold 4 x 4" posts. To those are fixed two tension devices - cheap and available from any countrywide store - but so clever as they hold the electric tape nice and taut.
These set-ups form the 'corners' of the individual paddocks. I use 40mm tape between them, with 4ft plastic poles at regular intervals to hold the tape and form a barrier at knee and chest height (like posts with two rails only they're thick white e-tape.
I have e-fence 'gates' that are sprung so it provides easy access that maintains tight electric fencing rather than floppy stuff. This way it doesn't get flung about in high winds and looks nice and straight and neat. But the local farmer can just put down the plastic poles and drive the tractor over the top of the tape to collect the manure heap.
I'd take pictures if I could only post them. I'll try to find links to the stuff I mean.
Thanks for your ideas. If any of you can get links to put on that would be great.
May keep my eyes open for some road works nearby to "look at" the cones as I think some of them have a weight around the bottom to stop them blowing over in strong winds.
Topic Locked 
England
Posted - 23 Nov 2008 : 7:28:34 PM
[
