[Pil-pc-oceania] does 2400mm high cyclone mesh keep foxes out uptop?

[Darren Doherty]

G'day,

At Woodbrook Farm, in Central Victoria back in 1996 we enclosed the first
vineyard in a Ringlock fence of about 1.8m high and then used a 1.5 panel of
netting as Tamara described though it also went up the fence 1.5m as well.
We also put a 300mm piece of netting on top of the fence facing the outside,
and left that floppy so any climbing animal would have this collapse on top
of them. My bible for fencing designs is the Kondinin Publication "Wires and
Pliers" which has all manner of fences in it for all manner of scenarios.
One note on the laying netting is that in acid soils to protect the
galvanising a bit longer from the ground/vegetation contact is to spread
some lime along the fence - the Rosemary that Tamara suggested would
certainly appreciate that! At Woodbrook we incidentally planted Acacia
howittii along the fence (offset about 2m) facing the dirt road - this was
to act as a barrier to the dust from the road - something that the 'Sticky
Wattle' does very well with. Acacia montana works just as well in drier
conditions (<500mm).

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