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Fencing |
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All fence posts are 3m lengths of
treated pine set into 600mm of concrete. Two rows of poles inside the
orchard will help to carry bird netting which we want to install later.
The fence is standard chicken mesh. The mesh is 1800mm wide. Possums in
our area like the fruit as much as we do. We try to keep them out of the
orchard with our "possum fences". The chicken wire is laid flat
on the ground for about 300mm. It is not dug in, to avoid early corrosion
of the wire. The mesh is fixed to the posts to a height of about one metre.
Then we try to make the fence top floppy. We use cut 500mm long loops of
fence wire and attach them to the fence top as floppy outriggers. The mesh
is fixed to the outriggers. This creates a floppy fence top that angles
outwards considerably. The theory is, that possums don't trust their
weight to the wobbly top of the fence and don't try to climb around the
outriggers. We also use one row of electric wire about halfway up the fence and slightly offset as a second way of keeping the possums out. So far it has worked. |
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