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| Standard sheep netting fence with barbed wire at the top. Source: [Agridirect](https://www.agridirect.ie/) | _Standard sheep netting fence with barbed wire at the top. Source: [Agridirect](https://www.agridirect.ie/)_ |
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| Post and rail fence with morticed joints. | _Post and rail fence with morticed joints._ |
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| Keeping the chickens out of the garden with a [woven birch fence](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/posts/56159-2). | _Keeping the chickens out of the garden with a [woven birch fence](http://lowimpactorg.onyx-sites.io/posts/56159-2)._ |
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| Tools and equipment that you’ll need for a standard sheep fence: clockwise from top left – crowbar, hammer, post driver, roll of barbed wire, roll of sheep netting, gripple wire joiner (optional), wire strainer, staple. Source: [Agridirect](https://www.agridirect.ie/) | _Tools and equipment that you’ll need for a standard sheep fence: clockwise from top left – crowbar, hammer, post driver, roll of barbed wire, roll of sheep netting, gripple wire joiner (optional), wire strainer, staple. Source: [Agridirect](https://www.agridirect.ie/)_ |
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| For gardens, instead of traditional larch-lap fence panels and concrete posts, you could plant a [living willow](/livw/living_willow_structures) ‘fedge’ (half-way between a fence and a hedge) – seen here just after planting and in summer. It will need to be pruned each winter, and the prunings can be used for kindling or basketmaking. Fedges are a carbon store, and provide food / habitat for insects, and a ‘wildlife corridor’ for creatures like hedgehogs to move around, via the gaps at the bottom. | _For gardens, instead of traditional larch-lap fence panels and concrete posts, you could plant a [living willow](/livw/living_willow_structures) ‘fedge’ (half-way between a fence and a hedge) – seen here just after planting and in summer. It will need to be pruned each winter, and the prunings can be used for kindling or basketmaking. Fedges are a carbon store, and provide food / habitat for insects, and a ‘wildlife corridor’ for creatures like hedgehogs to move around, via the gaps at the bottom._ |
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| Corner with straining post and two bracing posts. Source: [Agridirect](https://www.agridirect.ie/) | _Corner with straining post and two bracing posts. Source: [Agridirect](https://www.agridirect.ie/)_ |
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| You can make a ‘straining box’ rather than a bracing post, with a wooden cross-post and strained wire from the top of the original straining post to the bottom of the other post, for rigidity. Image: [Fanfield Farm](https://fanfield.farm/). | _You can make a ‘straining box’ rather than a bracing post, with a wooden cross-post and strained wire from the top of the original straining post to the bottom of the other post, for rigidity. Image: [Fanfield Farm](https://fanfield.farm/)._ |
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| ## Further resources | ## Further resources |
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| | - [University of Tennessee](https://utbeef.tennessee.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/127/2020/11/PB1541.pdf) - planning & building fences on the farm |
| - [Allan Shepherd](https://allanshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/how-to-split-lengths-of-untreated-round-wood-for-making-fence-posts-coppice-crafts-and-other-random-rustic-objects/) - how to split lengths of untreated roundwood to make fence posts | - [Allan Shepherd](https://allanshepherd.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/how-to-split-lengths-of-untreated-round-wood-for-making-fence-posts-coppice-crafts-and-other-random-rustic-objects/) - how to split lengths of untreated roundwood to make fence posts |
| - [Journey to Forever](https://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devices8.html) - various tricks when building or fixing gates and fences | - [Journey to Forever](https://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/device/devices8.html) - various tricks when building or fixing gates and fences |
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