PLAN YOUR OWN DEER FENCE, page 4 |
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Step 5: Support Lines 1) If your deer fence is polypropylene and less than 500 feet long you need nothing along the top. 2) If your deer fence is a polypropylene fence over 500 feet long, plan on putting a single line along the top for support. The line should not go around corners, across gates, or over 300 feet in a straight line. So when you have gone 300 feet, reached a corner, or reached a gate, terminate your run of line and start again. If any of these runs of line are very short (less than 50 feet) or go around a curve, use metal tie wire (items 16-021-110, 16-021-220, and 16-021-350); otherwise use nylon monofilament—11 gauge for polypropylene deer fencing (item 16-01), 8 gauge for metal hexagrid deer fencing (items 16-011-333 and 16-011-1000). 3) If your fence is a metal hexagrid fence, proceed as in (2) above, regardless of length. 4) If you anticipate heavy deer impacts, put one or two additional runs of nylon monofilament and/or tie wire through the mid-section of the deer fence at a height of 3 to 3.5 feet, following the same rule for selecting monofilament versus tie wire that you used along the top of the fence. 5) Based on the above, calculate the number of feet of nylon monofilament (8 or 11 gauge) and/or metal tie wire that you will need. This calculation will tell you how many of the various spools to select from the table below. |
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