stretched another 100ft of....

[growalot]

Fencing today ...now it goes all the way past the blind so they have to round the end to get to front plot or feed down lane way  past the blind to get to neighbors swamp...doing this isn't a quiet thing...pounding brace posts using gator to stretch the fence and securing it to the posts...

I look up and standing maybe 35 yards away is a fawn eating...then 10 mins later another...I'm in a bright wht sweat shirt and blue jeans,,,they would look my way chew bugs on their backs then go back to eating ...I am just part of their landscape...lol

[monkeyman2269]

Why have a fence ?

[growalot]

If you've read any of my post you'd probably know...lets just say great fences help to make good neighbors. Also deer run down hill ...USUALLY...after a hit...with the fence they tend to run out of steam and then turn to run parellel to it...when I plant corn along it they never jump on retreating...This lets them expire on my place and I need not  make a call....

Edited October 8, 2015 by growalot

[nyslowhand]

Like she mentioned, to divert their travel route onto/off of her property.

 

Up here in apple country, technology is beginning to catch up with some of the ~150yo orchards. Newer varieties of cash crop apples are replacing older, lighter producing, aged trees. Very similar to a vineyard, on trellis. Huge initial investment for these apple farmers that have had the farms passed down for several generations. Pay-back is lower labor costs for harvesting and faster, less costly spray applications. Deer will destroy these new plantings over one winter. To protect their investment, most new trellised orchards are then fenced in around the perimeters with 10' high fencing. More to the point...You wouldn't believe how far the deer now travel to skirt around these fenced-in orchards to get to the older, traditional apple orchards.

 

So..if you build it (a food source), they will come (around a fence)!!!

Edited October 8, 2015 by nyslowhand

[growalot]

Yes you are right and what I am doing is on at least 300ft of this........ Putting up tensile wire between the blk. locust posts I sunk and growing grape vines on a 2 strand cordon. Multi tasking

[landtracdeerhunter]

I removed all my cattle wire fencing around the garden area.  Had way to many deer getting caught up in it, or running into it. Moved whats left of the garden up by the buildings where deer are to scared to visit. Plant red clover in the old garden area now. Maybe Amish field corn next.

 

[growalot]

Never had that problem even with the old cattle fencing ...but this is a goat type fencing and easy for deer to clear but not for a person to climb or a dog to get through.

 

I had to laugh...as I climbed down from the apple tree stand last night one of the fawns caught me as I hit the ground...it walked across the field to the garden fence and stretched it's neck out as long as it could to peak over the top. It watched me as I walked along on the other side of the garden to go home..never spooked but was curious about what that dark thing was walking past it's good apple tree...When I got to the drive I looked back to see it calmly eating clover under my other stand.

Edited October 9, 2015 by growalot

[wdswtr]

How close together are your stand Grow?

[growalot]

100-300 ft apart in clusters. I place them to cover all wind directions  and in what I call zones around the property....Being  a bow hunter I like having lots of stands and blinds  as well...If going into an area if I can't reach a stand due to deer or turkey then I have a brush blind nearby to scoot into ...