Treated Landscape Timbers?

big rockpile · #21 12/23/10, 02:16 PM

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Originally Posted by texican

If you have 'dirt', if they get bored, they'll dig out. If you have rock that close to the surface, mightn't be an issue.

BTDT.

You might consider just building 'squares' say ten feet long, or as long as your longest boards... board on bottom and top, and two uprights, to staple the wire onto... then zig the next block, then zag, then zig back and forth to make a pen... thissaway, you wouldn't really even need posts in the ground. To keep it steady, drill or nail in a short board at every corner, to brace em a bit. Sorta like a split rail fence type pattern, just loop em back to the beginning...

Run the Zig zag idea by my wife sounds like a good plan.Thanks.

big rockpile

Bearfootfarm · #22 12/23/10, 03:06 PM

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You might consider just building 'squares' say ten feet long, or as long as your longest boards... board on bottom and top, and two uprights, to staple the wire onto...

That's pretty much what I did, only with uprights every 3 feet

big rockpile · #23 12/23/10, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Bearfootfarm

That's pretty much what I did, only with uprights every 3 feet

Yea but where I'm going 90 feet I don't think it would be as sturdy as Zig Zagging it.

big rockpile

pancho · #24 12/23/10, 04:13 PM

I drilled holes in landscape timbers and drove rebar down through them into rocky ground. With a sledge you can usually get them down far enough. Don't know how long they will last as I have some that are 15 years old and still solid.