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<blockquote data-quote="KDM" data-source="post: 178890" data-attributes="member: 314">Hog fence without a doubt has been the best anti deer system we've tried.&nbsp; A picture is worth a 1000 words so here are a few.&nbsp; The first one here is to give you an idea of the numbers of hungry deer that have been walking by my trees.&nbsp; We have 150+ deer coming in every night and the trails have been pounded into the dirt.&nbsp; These are plum, apple, and cherry trees and deer love to eat them all.[ATTACH]23081[/ATTACH]A closer look at the hog fence and if you look closely, you can see how the deer prune the tree branches that extend outside the wire which is what I want them to do.&nbsp; It's good for the tree, natural, and I don't have to do it myself.&nbsp; (Grin)[ATTACH]23082[/ATTACH]We are adding drain tile around the bases of the trees to try to minimize rabbit and mouse damage to the bark under the snow and if we go much bigger than say 8 feet in diameter for the hog fence we add a &quot;T&quot; post on each side to keep the snow from crushing the fence down.&nbsp; Each ring of hog fence is held in place by weed barrier staples.&nbsp; We can move the rings if we want for weed control, but these rings are permanent structures otherwise.&nbsp; When the trees get to be almost full grown, I will still have a ring of fence around the trunk to keep the deer from rubbing the bark off.&nbsp; This system isn't too expensive and has worked for us for 7 years. After that comes my 308.&nbsp; (Grin)&nbsp; Hope this helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="KDM, post: 178890, member: 314"] Hog fence without a doubt has been the best anti deer system we've tried. A picture is worth a 1000 words so here are a few. The first one here is to give you an idea of the numbers of hungry deer that have been walking by my trees. We have 150+ deer coming in every night and the trails have been pounded into the dirt. These are plum, apple, and cherry trees and deer love to eat them all. [ATTACH=CONFIG]23081._xfImport[/ATTACH] A closer look at the hog fence and if you look closely, you can see how the deer prune the tree branches that extend outside the wire which is what I want them to do. It's good for the tree, natural, and I don't have to do it myself. (Grin) [ATTACH=CONFIG]23082._xfImport[/ATTACH] We are adding drain tile around the bases of the trees to try to minimize rabbit and mouse damage to the bark under the snow and if we go much bigger than say 8 feet in diameter for the hog fence we add a "T" post on each side to keep the snow from crushing the fence down. Each ring of hog fence is held in place by weed barrier staples. We can move the rings if we want for weed control, but these rings are permanent structures otherwise. When the trees get to be almost full grown, I will still have a ring of fence around the trunk to keep the deer from rubbing the bark off. This system isn't too expensive and has worked for us for 7 years. After that comes my 308. (Grin) Hope this helps. [/QUOTE]

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