Using brush & limbs to build a "fence" in woods?

Pony · #21 01/17/12, 10:42 PM

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Originally Posted by texican

If I wanted fence, I'd use cedar or post oak posts, or t-posts. If I wanted screen, I'd chop out/bushhog a wide swath, and plant jillions of privets and eastern red cedar... with a smattering of wild rose... in five years you'd have an impenetrable screen... in ten, it'd stop everything but a hungry goat.

LOL! If you built a fence like that, you've actually put out a welcome mat for a LOT of hungry goats. A virtual salad bar!

ronbre · #22 01/18/12, 05:14 PM

no rattlers in Michigan..we put all kinds of brushpiles up for the wildlife here.

meanwhile · #23 01/18/12, 07:30 PM

I have only seen one rattler around here in ten years. We do have too many copperheads though and they would probably love the brush piles.

texian: I do not have time on my hands to be building fences or trail markers out of brush and tree limbs but I do have three sons and their friends who want Bike Trails and "zip wires" and so I plan to get some work out of them! But....I see your point about the brush fences. We plan to do a mix of fences and some of the "rabbit tats" too.

Thanks everyone.

texican · #24 01/18/12, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by meanwhile

I have only seen one rattler around here in ten years. We do have too many copperheads though and they would probably love the brush piles.

texian: I do not have time on my hands to be building fences or trail markers out of brush and tree limbs but I do have three sons and their friends who want Bike Trails and "zip wires" and so I plan to get some work out of them! But....I see your point about the brush fences. We plan to do a mix of fences and some of the "rabbit tats" too.

Thanks everyone.

I'll take rattlers over copperheads any ol day...

Three strappin' young men, with friends, and everythings possible!

secretcreek · #25 01/18/12, 11:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Pony

One of the Victorian Farm segments showed how they made hedgerow fences. They take a few years to get really established, but if you use what's already growing there and shape it/add to it, I'm sure you'll have some really nice borders.

This is exactly the show I was thinking of... 1600's farm "Tales From The Green Valley"... They are on youtube!!! Can't remember what episode showed the men cutting halfway thru sapling trees, bending them over and weaving them to become a hedge fence. Probably around episode 3,4,5,??? 5's summary talks about hedgerows but I didn't see what I was looking for in the footage.

Episode 5.

-scrt crk

meanwhile · #26 01/19/12, 03:14 PM

Thank you for the link to the Green Valley show. The boys liked the idea of the "rabbit tat" and have worked on one pile today. We are getting rain this weekend so the rest will have to wait till later next week.
Have good rest of the week everyone.