[TheForge] Re: Setting up shop (more or less)

[Mike Spencer]

> 1) Snake fence. Small trees or split rails.  Lay extreme ends on rocks
> in a "\ \ \ \ \ \ " pattern....

I've done this. Way more work cutting the trees, hauling them to the
fence site splitting the bigger ones and building the fence.  And
then.... and then it's not pig-tight unless you put a pair of
fenceposts in each of the places where the rails cross, so you end up
putting in twice as many posts as you would for wire.  This is a fence
for docile cows with good pasture, not for any critter with some
ambition and a compelling notion that the grass is greener on the
other side.

This year I'm trying to figure out how to fence the deer *out* of our
rather sprawling garden.  About 20 years ago, we had deer trouble so I
strung about 200' of gill net haphazardly across the back of the field
behind the garden.  Eventually a deer got into it and created quite a
ruckus getting out again.  She must have passed the word around
because for twenty years the deer have come out of the woods at the
north-west corner, walked and grazed around two sides of the back
field and left at the south-east corner, ignoring the garden. Last
year they ate all my Roma tomatoes and some other things. So I'm out
there with tall poles and more bundles of old gill net again,
scratching my head and trying to think like a deer.  Ho hum.


- Mike

PS: Another new pic added to my web page:

      http://home.tallships.ca/mspencer/gallery/maxwell-demon.html

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