Deer
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- Subject: Deer
- From: H* L* <l*@avalon.net>
- Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 16:25:05 -0700 (MST)
Greetings
I certainly second E.Peplowski's comments on electric fences. I was
likewise pestered by deer until I fixed up one. I cut six foot steel posts
in the middle and welded them to get a nine ft. post. That way I was able
to drive them and still have enough length to put 4 wires on them. Six or
seven feet seems to be tall enough to turn them away, as the areas adjacent
to my garden are wooded and they can't get too much of a running start. I
made my own insulators from 3/4" cutting board. My system is a 'weed
burner" that plugs in to ll0 volt power source. We also have raccons so
to raise and harvest any extra-sweet corn, I have to erect another fence
around my corn field. It is a two hot wire affair with the lower just high
enough to clear the grass and the second about 6"above.
This past summer I left the deer fence on all the time, to be sure to
keep them out. I only need the coon fence from about silk phase to harvest.
Lawrence Lacey
Sioux City, Iowa
Zone 4b , where we are having the warmest winter I can remember.
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