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I planted my first garden this year and have come to realize that EVERYTHING needs fenced in! I ended up replanting my onions and corn 5 or 6 times each before I gave up on the corn and the onions finally took hold. Something was digging my pepper plants up by the roots and just leaving them lay...

Yea I wanted to get the panel's but they're 16 feet and my truck bed is 5.5 feet. I don't have a trailer so couldn't make it happen. I have a bunch of treated 2x8 that the previous owner left there so I plan to put one flush to the ground and one 12 inches up from that. Should do the trick. The...

Well I got out of work just in time to make it to tractor supply. I ended up with this no climb horse fence. 2x4 woven wire. Seems pretty stout and I don't think the little piggies will be able to squeeze through those holes as long as the fence is good and tight. So it looks like I'll be...

@Latestarter yep, Navy. ET2. And thanks for your service, Chief.

Good luck with the closing! It looks like a beautiful piece of land. I used to drive through that area on my home to Ohio from Norfolk for leave pretty often. very beautiful country.

@Latestarter yep, that's the front yard down to those trees and there's a pond down there. It was about 3 or 4 years overgrown when we moved in but i got it to where i can mow it now with two weeks worth of vacation and much sweat (tractor and a brush hog would have been nice.). overlooks the...

Thanks! any other animals will be in the future a few years. for now it's pigs and chickens. Like you said it's 5 acres. I like room to stretch and I do enjoy a nice big lawn so it'll never get too carried away. anyway, I'm hoping to be off early tomorrow after a week of 14 hour days so i'm...

of course there is a bank behind the house that's completely overgrown with scrub brush that i'd just looooove to have cleared. I bet a couple of goats would have a field day in there.....

@Baymule I'd love to fence the whole place and fill it livestock. but... I'd have to build a mighty fine shelter for the animals because I think the wife would have me sleeping outside with them. my "next door neighbor" has the exact same lot and she has it completely fenced with cross fencing...

I never thought to check walmart. I usually try to avoid the place :ep Probably worth a look if it'll save me a couple bucks.

Thanks for that break down! I didn't realize how much less the woven wire was per foot. That's crazy. Maybe I'll have to come up with some uses for it..... I'm sure I could make nice trellis from it.

I was set on the woven wire because I was able to find it in good heavy gauges but I can't find a roll shorter than the 330 foot rolls. I'm not sure what I'd do with all the leftovers! :)

That makes sense. I'm sure if I decide not to do pigs again I could find uses for the panel's so they wouldn't be wasted.

(I would have put this in the fencing forum but I thought I'd keep a kind of running journal as the pen is finished and the hogs arrive all the way to the end)

Hello, I'm new to the site and new to this homesteading stuff. The family and I just purchased our first house on 5 acres out in the middle of no where. 3 acres was open and had been let go to field (I now mow the majority of it) with a pond in the front. The other 2 are wooded (mostly junk...

Glad I found this thread. Don't i feel like an over achiever now... I'm also building my first pig pen in anticipation of a couple of feeders I'm getting. A "friend" told me I had to build an extremely sturdy fence and recommended I use no smaller than 6 inch posts at 6 foot apart. So, I...