How to Build a Farm Fence

 

Farm fence is built to mark your territory as well as to keep your animals in place in a well-designed way. There are 2 ways to build a fence on your farm: using wire or barbed wire or the wooden farm fence. Using wire or barbed wire is the cheapest way to build a farm fence while the wooden one is the easiest to do.

 

Here are the steps to guide you:

 

Choose an area you would like to build your fence on. Double check if the area you will be digging will not hit any gas, water, oil or electric lines. Once this has been checked, you can now start digging a hole about a foot deep. 

 

Mark it with a landscaping post with your ready mix concrete. Using a lever, check the post to make sure it is straight. With a string tied to the first post, go the place where the fence will corner.

 

Make a straight line with the use of the string and dig the second hole. Just like the first hole, dig and place the landscaping post with the ready mix concrete on the second hole. Repeat this process to the third and the last post.

 

To help keep the post in a straight line, tie the string 1 foot away from the ground. The distance between each post should be 16 feet.  Always remember to keep the holes in line with the string to have a straight farm fence. Once you’re done with all the posts, add another post that is outside of the fence line to be used for the fence spreader.

 

Now, you are ready to roll out the barb wires along those posts. Be sure that you are using work gloves especially when working with wires.  Handle the wire with outmost care as you do not hurt yourself or hurt the eyes of your assistant.

 

The first line of the wire serves as a guide for the next layers of wire your will add. Make sure that you do not stretch out the wires too tightly as it will break. Never use your bear hands to tighten the wires; fence pullers are available to do this job for you.

 

Put the rest of the wire fence, make sure that the wires are evenly spaced otherwise it will be simple for the animals to poke their heads outside of it or they can easily escape. Check also for holes like a disconnected wire from the post or a wire that has been snapped into half.

 

Check that all barb wires have been stapled to the posts. If everything has been checked and no holes on the farm fence are seen, you may now continue with the rest of the fence.

 

Every corner of the desired place you choose has been fenced and every single detail has been checked, you are now ready to release the farm animals. Observe if they if will ever find a way to go out. If they are not able to, then you have fenced correctly.