An automatic gate is a great addition to your property with benefits such as increased property value and security. But should you go with a automated sliding or swing gate. Both choices are popular and the following issues discussed might make it easier for you to choose what's appropriate for you. Cost Given the overall [...]
The tagline we use for our company is: Good fences make good neighbors.This is from the poem Mending Wall by Robert Frost We did change the spelling to Australian English from neighbors to neighbours. Thank you Robert! Funny enough his poem is more about trying not to build a fence, being a wall in this [...]
If you're looking for the most cost effective way of creating a safe fence for your horses than this is a fantastic solution as shown below. This is a rural metal fence with 110mm round metal posts for the corner strainers and 50mm metal posts as fence posts all capped, with a white sight wire [...]
I make this every year for Christmas, so I thought I might share it here. Should be prepared a day in advance. Ingredients: 1.5 - 2kg small potatoes, firm cooking such as desiree6-8 boiled eggs2 Chirizo sausages, diced500grams pickled gherkins (Polish or similar)a container of good mayoa container of Caesar dressing or similarsalt and pepperwhite [...]
Have an average you want to fence? Like many others you might want to have a rural fence or maybe you need to have a rural fence because it's so stipulated. The traditional rural fence is of course timber strainers and timber split posts with wire or fencing rails. But even if you "only" have [...]
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Are the goats to clever or are the fences non functional? Well let's look at each fence and it's functionality: Timber stays are not a good choice and angle stays per say aren't a good choice unless they can be placed on the side of a fence that will not [...]
When you're planning your fence make sure it's functional (eg contain cattle, keep wild dogs out etc) When twiching barb to posts use at least 2.5mm gauge wire to ensure it lasts as long as the barb itselfDon't use black star posts since these will not last as long as the galvanised wire willWhen cutting [...]
Wolf is pictured above on the right. Where do you think the fencing industry is heading? In rural fencing I think we're slowly seeing the demise of the traditional hardwood timber fence being replaced more and more by all metal fencing, concrete posts or hybrid solutions. What’s the best thing about FENCiT? It's great to [...]
Well you have a new rural timber post and wire fence that has just been installed and it looks like, well like timber! But guess what, after 18 months to two years all the posts will look like this: So no matter what materials you have chosen for your fence posts, they will end up [...]
When planning and designing your fence it sometimes gets overlooked that you will need to maintain your fence over time. Why? Because no matter how well your fence has been built things happen over time such as: The soil moves or erodesanimal pressure on fence mightbranches fallingpeople stepping on wires And the list goes on! [...]
