posted 4 years ago
Don't know if others feel this way, but I've learned to dislike concrete wrt fencing ... digging a hole, mixing/pouring concrete into a hole and setting any kind of post is too much work, too permanent and/or too hard to remove later, if the need comes up. Depending on the design, it also seems to contribute to accelerated rotting, in combination with a wood post.
Like some of the above postings, we use t-post, welded-wire cattle panels (8' length), and just wire them up; wire being the equivalent of duct tape, around farms. For interior fences, the pounder/puller tools make quick work of putting a fence in or taking it out later.
Perhaps mesh wire across the bottom, at whatever height needed, would keep out smaller critters that the welded-wire doesn't keep out (although my LGD already does a good job of that ... if no critters, she stately walks out ... if critters, she *leaps* out and into the chase).
There's nifty methods to dress up the t-post, if it will become more permanent ... while previous landowners used the rust method to hide them, I've experimented with wood facings, gabion wire circles & rock filling, and am still thinking up and investigating other ideas (while reusing those rusty t-posts). We put something up and let it sit for a year, to see if it, or the elements, wins.