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Location: NC | Eventually we are planning on moving. If we can not find a place already fenced we are trying to figure out which fencing would be best and most affordable. Sort of easy to install would be great as its only my mom and I (unless i could find people to help) What does everyone have as fencing for their horses please? If none of them, any suggestions please?
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 Swiffer PIcker Upper
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | Good Fence and affordable don't really go in the same sentence. Cheap fences have cost me more vet bills than they have saved me money.
If you are renting go with electric. If you buy a place go with the no climb horse fence. I decided to do 5' tall and 4 strands of electric on top. I did a wood post every 32' with T-posts in between at every 8'. It is costing me a mint to do the perimeter of 20 acres, but at least I know my animals, (all of them from little dogs to the stud horses) will be kept in and the neigbors animals (including the 4yr old untouchable stud) will be kept out. My best advice is build it a step at a time as you can afford it. Buy a roll of fence every payday or something like that.
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Elite Veteran
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Location: NC | Thank you so much!!! We will be buying, but have to finish fixing this house up before we can move. |
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 A Bit of a Grammar Nut
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Location: floating down a river | We have both the electric coated wire and electric high tensel. I would love to have my whole place done in the horse coat, but financially cannot. Wire fence isn't terrible, but you MUST keep it hot, tight and clear as well as the bottom strand high enough off the ground. If you do this, your chances of wire injuries will drop drastically. Good luck, building fence isn't terrible if you can find someone to show you the proper way. |
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 Keep those crap slapping tails away!
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Location: Around here somewhere... | what I have and what I want/think is best are 2 different things... I have barbed wire. I would choose pipe fencing- but it's way too expensive for several hundred acres. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: NC | Thank you! totally did not think of pipe fencing. Would anyone know how much that tends to run please? |
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Swiffer PIcker Upper
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | I decided against pipe because I couldn't do it myself and if I need to change anything or add a gate here or there I'd have to call a welder. |
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Elite Veteran
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| I have RAMM Hotcote fencing and I absolutely love it! My SO and I put it up by ourselves (and we're definitely not professional fence builders). I wanted to add that the folks at RAMM are awesome to talk with and will answer any questions that you have, even after you've bought the product. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: NC | equussynergy - 2015-01-01 6:28 PM
I decided against pipe because I couldn't do it myself and if I need to change anything or add a gate here or there I'd have to call a welder.
Makes perfect sense. Would be a pain if needed to change. Plus i worry about if someone decides to roll on the fence line (have had them do this in smaller paddocks) that they would get stuck. Thank you! Both my current horses respect electric and im liking the idea of electric with no climb to keep unwanted animals out. |
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 Canine Carryout Queen
Location: Oklahoma | I also have the RAMM hot cote .... LOVE!!! |
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  Sock eating dog owner
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Purchase one panel per payday.avoid prefert they crumble like cookies. Heavy duty panels are ok. If you have 6 you have something to catch your horses with. Electric hot wire is efficient if you get the desired for horse and cattle. I had a solar one that was awesome and somehow my horse got a hold of it and stomped it in the ground . One roll of wire will cover close to one acre one time. I do two strands if they break one then the other will hopefully hold they till I fix it. I walk the fence line daily to check for breaks or shorts. Don't worry about your horses seeing the wire they remember where it is. Show them the fence line first and wiggle the wire so they look at it turn them loose and the turn it on. |
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Sock eating dog owner
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Location: Where the pavement ends and the West begins Utah | Purchase one panel per payday.avoid prefert they crumble like cookies. Heavy duty panels are ok. If you have 6 you have something to catch your horses with. Electric hot wire is efficient if you get the desired for horse and cattle. I had a solar one that was awesome and somehow my horse got a hold of it and stomped it in the ground . One roll of wire will cover close to one acre one time. I do two strands if they break one then the other will hopefully hold they till I fix it. I walk the fence line daily to check for breaks or shorts. Don't worry about your horses seeing the wire they remember where it is. Show them the fence line first and wiggle the wire so they look at it turn them loose and the turn it on. |
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 Shelter Dog Lover
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| bowersk - 2015-01-02 7:58 AM I have RAMM Hotcote fencing and I absolutely love it! My SO and I put it up by ourselves (and we're definitely not professional fence builders). I wanted to add that the folks at RAMM are awesome to talk with and will answer any questions that you have, even after you've bought the product.
I have it too and love it. |
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 Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | The old place we were at for 10 years had 3 & 4 strands of 1" electric tape on capped T-posts. It was a small place and we had a lot of horses but we never had any problems with the fence. We had trees come down on several spots and if we didn't have time to take care of the tree, we just pulling the tape out and re-stretched over the top until we could get the tree out.
The new place, we were on a big budget too. There was barbed wire but we also needed to put up fence where there wasn't any. Some stretches of barbed wire we haven't added anything, and then in some places we've added a 1" strand along the top. The new fence we used 1" tape on top and 2 strands of the rope fence with capped T-posts. All of it came from Tractor Supply and was the most affordable for fencing a large area. |
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Elite Veteran
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Location: NC | Thank you everyone!!! A ton of great suggestions!! Anyone else have any? Sort of hoping to find something already "made" but if we cant or they are out of price range, well end up doing it ourselves. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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| One place I boarded had hot rope - the corner posts were 6" wood and the in between posts were t-posts with PVC slid over them and the hot rope held in place with zip ties. It worked GREAT - it was super easy to repair if someone got into it and broke a zip tie, the PVC protected the t posts and the ponies from the t-posts (I'm not a fan of bare t posts for smaller pens, I've seen the results of a horse coming down on one).
Not sure how that would work for a large perimeter fence, but for separating out smaller pens it was great |
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