Saturday, April 13, 2019

Great day to work outside. Light posting

My standard "armor" for planting trees is to stake them and to put a 10" diameter, 48" tall cage around them. The cage is made from 2"-by-4" welded wire fence.

The fence wire is typically galvanized.

I want to extend the life of the fence so I can reuse it. I also want to increase the visibility so yahoos riding dirt bikes don't decapitate themselves on the support wire.

So I painted the fencing white.

The reason you are getting an odd angle is because every other angle had junk in the background. That is one of today's tasks.

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  1. milton fApril 13, 2019 at 9:14 AM

    ERJ, A couple questions:

    Do you get a lot of yahoos riding motorized vehicles across your property?

    Doesn't the tree grow through the fencing, which would then (sometime in the future) require cutting the fence off the tree?

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    1. Eaton Rapids JoeApril 13, 2019 at 9:41 AM

      This is for the project at Salamaner's farm. Nobody lives there. We have lost trees to dirt bikers.

      The plan is to have the first branches at four feet. Yes, I have failed at that in the past. It is a balancing of risks, near certain death by deer and rabbits or possible inconvenience later.

      For reasons I do not understand, the fence also keeps out rabbits which I assume could easily squeeze through the mesh.

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