I am totally stumped on this fencing problem. Please someone shed some enlightnment. I want to put up a perimeter fence on our 25 acre farm. This will be replacing a 50 year old barbed wire fence that i can barley find in places. The majority of the perimeter is in thick woods. The property line is lined with huge trees with barbed wire running through the middle of them. This perimeter fence is needed to keep stray dogs and wondering neighbors out and as a backup to my interior fencing for horses,dairy cows and dogs. Our property is surrounded by a not so nice subdivison and our 15 property sharing neighbors dont all respect the property line. Clearing the line of big trees would be very very hard in places but i guess i could do it. We've considered fencing in 5 feet from our real line where the trees are a bit smaller and not filled with wire. 6 of my neighbors have there own fencing up. Do i put my fence right next to theirs or move back for some space between? I orginally wanted woven wire but looking at other options. Is their any fence that can be zig zaged through the trees. And then i get to cost.... the guy i had out here today, who is supposedly the best in the area for fencing, wouldn't even give me an estimate but just kept telling that it was going to cost a ton. What do i do here? Give up on fencing through the woods. The property is hilly too.
