chain link fence repair

Fencing, barb on bottom

Greenbeast asks:

Barbed wire is hateful stuff and i had pretty much decided to avoid it most of the time (perhaps use it on the boundary fence) but what with the pigs digging below the electric i'm now reconsidering running a bottom line of barb on my pig pen fencing. Should i run it out first as my bottom line, or should i use a plain bottom line still and put barb up after net is on?

renewablejohn:

I detest the stuff and it is banned on the farm. Only way we could keep pigs in without using barb was 3ft of chicken wire with 1 ft above ground then 6 inches below ground with 18 inches buried in field 6 inch deep. Electric fence above chicken wire. Plastic coated lasted a lot longer than galvanized.

Greenbeast:

Yes i agree but as we're not keeping a handful that wouldn't be that feasible

renewablejohn:

Admitted it was only a 3 acre field but you can get quite a few pigs in that area using arks.

Pan mixer:

1 strand of electric about 9 inches up works fine.

Greenbeast:

yeah you say that, but that's exactly what we do.....they just dig close to it, then give themselves head room to get closer and closer to the fence

Pan mixer:

I know people who kept hundreds of pigs outside with only one electric strand - no other fence at all, they were on rock though.

Greenbeast:

yeah i'm a big advocate of it, with us it's ahead of stock net. and the sows aren't a problem but our two grower pens are a worry, and i'm just gearing up to fence the next pair

Hilly:

Hate the stuff but to cut long story short ended up with a few rolls for nowt so used it as bottom line for fencing then nailed it on under rylock stop sheep trying to go under means keep rylock up failry high and electric on top make a good high fence for cattle, 6`6" x5" posts.

S J H:

I'd put it at the bottom for pigs. I use it as a line wire, like I usually would with a plain wire.