Anyone use this fence

Its 20 acres, we have to do the perimeter fence and all the different pastures we need. We also need to buy a few fencers, and some gates, all the posts which will be a combo of cedar posts and t-posts. Then we need to build a few small shelters in the pastures not connected to the big barn. We also have to fence off the garden and orchard areas. The perimeter fence by itself is $1800 in woven wire plus the t-posts clips for woven and the fence staples for the cedar posts. The plus side of it is we wont have to worry about the livestock if the barn door gets left open or they damage a pasture fence because there will be the perimeter fence to contain them. The perimeter fence will also give us the option of letting the herds out into the hay field in the off season when there is something for them to eat out there and we can let our dogs runs the full 20 acres without worrying about traffic. The entire projected cost is about 30k but it will up our property value by about 40k so we are ahead. We have plans in a few years to also put up a new house which will up the value around another 150k. So final value will be something like 230k which is not bad for a property we are buying for 45k. This is getting off track but thats our plans anyhow.

We spent about 10K on fencing on 8 acres. But we are counting cross fencing and fencing into small pastures. We aren't through with the fencing, but it is all bought and paid for. We had a lot of fence posts, 2 pickup truck loads of treated wood posts, that we bought used. That really helped. We also cut some of the cedars here for corner posts and braces. I think I would have bought 1 roll at a time, I was so determined to use only the non climb wire. DH nearly died at the cost, but he got on board when I told him that it would even keep our chickens in.

For what we paid for this place and what we have spent, we are WAAAAAY ahead!

Yikes that's a lot of money to spend on fencing! And we are trying to keep the property value down here, lol. I don't want to pay more taxes!

Our taxes are frozen, DH's senior citizen taxes will never rise!

Is that a Texas thing? Frozen taxes?

norseofcourse said:

This is a great thread. I may be replacing at least part of my perimeter fence with something 'solid'. It's currently multiple strands of electric/poly rope. I was looking at the sheep/goat fencing with the 4" squares, but now may go with the no-climb horse fence.

I'll have braced wood end/corner posts, with the line posts being t-posts. It's a straight line, gently sloping. How far apart do you put t-posts? And can I do a whole run of a 330' roll with just a wood section at each end, or do you need another braced pair of wood posts every so often?

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How often do you want to go on the other side of that 330' roll of fencing? I guess if it is perimeter fence, not often since the other side isn't your property. But everything I've read says put in more gates than you think you need, because you will need them I've heard 10' between t-posts for woven wire, not critical which is good since some of us have quite a lot of NON cash crop of rocks not far under the surface (if not sticking up a bit). I suspect post spacing depends somewhat on the terrain. If there are rises and falls, might have to space posts accordingly so you don't have bottom gaps or fence trying to run through the ground to get over a rise.

NH homesteader said:

Is that a Texas thing? Frozen taxes?

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I don't know, but since DH is over 65, we filed for senior citizen exemption, which freezes taxes and they will never go up. We also filed for homestead and agriculture.

Bruce said:

. But everything I've read says put in more gates than you think you need, because you will need them .

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I hung so many gates that DH complained and called out place Gateland. But he doesn't mind now. You can't have too many gates.

I agree with the gates, I have been putting in more all the time and have my eye and a few more. The thing about gates for me is two things...the electric wire has to be modified and my dogs go over gates if I don't have solid wire all the way to the top and most of the gates have a gap at the top. Where I don't want the dogs to get through I really like chain link panel with a gate; as long as I don't need tractor access...it gets complicated.

The value of my land doesn't go up unless I get a building permit for something and then they can add the value of the improvement to the value of our place, but they can't reassess the entire property which is a really good thing. The value of our property is based on its last selling price. Our property tax is never more than 1% of the appraised value.

I see that everyone that has hills are prepping for more gates. I'm putting in H-braces in a couple of spots that I don't have gates (yet) but I think I will at some point. It's easier to cut wire that is already well supported to add a gate later.

I have one spot that is next that I have no idea how I want to run the fence from a joining paddock. I guess it's time for some pictures and ask for input in how to get over my terrain.

NH homesteader said:

Yikes that's a lot of money to spend on fencing! And we are trying to keep the property value down here, lol. I don't want to pay more taxes!

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As fas as i know know it is like Babs said as long as a permit isnt pulled they dont just automatically jack up the taxes and the tax increase is based on the value the permitted "thing" is adding which is approx 50% of it's assessment value or 50% of its cost to install/construct which is depreciated over something like 15yrs. We are also filed agricultural but not homestead until we buy it but in my county agricultural and homestead are the same tax rate so it doesnt matter much. Of course our taxes on 20 acres for the year is $458...so im not complaining if it goes up for awhile and i get a brand new house that is actually reasonable to live in, our trailer we have now is a joke.