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Easy fencing for dogs in town?

 
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The plan for this year was to fence the yard for the dogs. Today the province announced they were halting all new construction. Ok, fair, but I really want a fence!

I am stubborn, but dont have much time or strength, so am now wondering how feasible it would be to keep a 50 lb and 10 lb dog back behind a 6 ft fence made of t posts and welded wire mesh? Would I need to anchor the corners(which sounds like the hardest part) How could you construct a gate on this kind of fence?

Any other low-effort fencing ideas?  I am not a fan of invisible fence for a number of reasons (starting with it not keeping things out).
 
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Yes, you can definitely do it yourself.  Just get a post pounder and you can drive the posts pretty easily (wear hearing protection).  The corners may be fine just as t posts.  If they need a brace I saw a slick way to do that with another t post and some hunks of wood and wire.

Gates are definitely the hardest part of the system.  I guess just look around for gate designs on permies or other sites until you see something you could copy and that would hold back the hounds.
 
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Gates are easiest if you have a wooden post to hinge from.  
But I have built many gates with t posts alone.
Just like a field gate , the bottom slips into a loop and the top is pulled over into another loop.
When these are built with smooth wire they are easy to handle.
When you have cattle and they are built from barb wire , gloves are needed.
For doggy's it should be easy.
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An easy and almost free fencing solution - the zig-zag pallet fence! I built one in my yard to keep dogs that were boarded with me for obedience training separated from my own dogs. The dogs in for training are often rather insistent and exuberant about getting to my own dogs, jumping relentlessly against the fence I made (until training started calming the visitors down and taught them self-discipline). It has held up for 4 years already, and has been through dogs of all sizes, but mostly large ones, up to 110 lbs. That's a lot of force jumping up on, and against a fence. I used metal wire to string the pallets together, and at the end of each wall of pallets used t-posts for reinforcement at the corners, as well as where the gate is. Now that it's been so many years, the grasses and other plants growing close to the pallets are also doing a great job at keeping everything solid. I haven't had to change a pallet in all this time. It's a great way, too, to use free local resources and recycle. So all it cost me was some wire (which I got very cheap at the local Habitat for Humanity restore), and 6 t-posts. You could also stain and/or paint the pallets if you wanted to pretty them up. I just left mine natural as I found them.
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