Re: RC: Re: Running fence across creek

[twoodcock@lendleaserei.com]

What is electrobraid?

-Tamara




"Barbara H-B" <bahoba@sprint.ca> on 08/24/2000 06:13:38 PM

To:   Tamara Woodcock/US1/Lend Lease@LLNA, ComeRideWithMe@egroups.com,
      ridecamp@endurance.net
cc:

Subject:  RC:  Re: Running fence across creek




Sounds like a job for Electrobraid to me!
Barbara Holmes-Balmer
Secretary Treasurer, ERABC http://www.img.net/erabc/
Ride Manager, Ride Over the Rainbow
Kelowna, B.C.

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| From: twoodcock@lendleaserei.com
| To: ComeRideWithMe@egroups.com; ridecamp@endurance.net
| Subject: RC:  Running fence across creek
| Date: August 24, 2000 9:33 AM
|
|
|
| I need some ideas on how to run a fence across a creek.
|
| There is a deep (10'+) creek bed that crosses my property north to south.
| Currently my fences run along the west side of the creek, but this means
that I
| have some land being unused and inaccessible by the horses.  The creek is
| twisty, so I actually need to run fence across it 4 times, once on the
north,
| and 3 times on the south.
|
| This creek is dry about 1/2 of the year, only filling about 4' deep with
spring
| rains and sometimes in fall or winter.  It fills to the top of the chanel
about
| once every 3 years or so, depending on flash flooding upstream.  The bed
is 10'
| deep in most places and around 10' wide at the top.  Because is does have
swift
| waters in spring, it moves a lot of debris when it is running.  And it
has a
| heavy sand/silt bottom with is quite deep and soft.  In areas above the
banks
| where many years of flash floods have deposited much of this sand/silt, I
have
| to use 3 t-posts banded together to make it strong enough to run twisted
| barb-less wire.
|
| I need a way to fence across it to keep the horses on the property, but
not have
| it catch so much debris that the force of the water will push the fence
over.
| I've thought of maybe suspending a log or something on chains from tops
of the
| banks so that the horses are discouraged, but the log will float as the
creek
| rises.
|
| Any ideas?
|
| -Tamara
|
| "Harry Browne in 2000!"
| www.HarryBrowne.org
|
|


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