Sourcing snowfence

[roymunson]

Have a swale thru a low spot in an old overgrown field that deer are currently using, but its about 900' long and they kind of cross where they want to. I'd like to make an edge in the old field and snowfence would be one way to do it. Also thought about cutting some of the junk trees and dragging them along that line. Would probably be more effective, but would take a lot of trees.

Any thoughts on snowfence? Eventually this will grow into a brush line and can overtake the snowfence.

 

[willy]

Snow fence will work but it will eventually curl over as the slats fail. Keep your eye on craigslist for rolls of chain-link. It can be found for pennies on the dollar. Most of the times when I see it, it comes with the posts and some connecting hardware.

I picked up 200' of 8' and 400' of 6' and all the posts to go with it plus 2 20' gates and a 12' one for 500.00. I'm going to use it to replace the snow fence I've put up along boundary fences to steer deer or stop deer from using traveling certain areas.

If you use snow fence get tall enough posts so you can hang it a foot above the ground and still have good support. A foot seems to keep deer from crawling under it, allows turkeys and other lower dwelling animals to cross freely yet. The only places they have tried crossing the fence is where a tree branch fell on it or the guy who leases the neighboring farm for hunting has cut it.:) I need to fix spots each year but it has helped improve sightings of target deer tremendously.

 

[Bill]

If you’re looking for where to buy it?

I’ve bought it from Menards in the past. No clue if theirs is the best price but I had a hard time even finding it in stock.

 

[S.T.Fanatic]

Why not plant a wall of switch and mow paths through it where you want the deer to cross/travel?

 

[Bassattackr]

I plan to use some to better direct deer along an edge. They can cross anywhere, but I like them to duck into the cover closer to my stand..

Most hardware and farm stores seem to have them in 50' rolls.