Busterduck
Kiss my Ass
Anyone use vinyl fence for your horse pasture? If so, please let me know the pros and cons from your experience.
Thanks so much!
Thanks so much!
Angel said:I think it looks cheap. I saw a farm with that stuff surrounding the pastures and a few of the sections were drooping down as if it had melted. It looked like crap.
Cowgirl said:And it is not sturdy at all....I would definitely run hot wire inside the fence....I could see a horse push right through it.
Winn Dixie said:It's not meant for containment, only ornamental purposes. It does break and leave sharp edges if you have the pins holding it in place and, if not, the rails just drop from the holes and a horse can just walk through. Definitely would not use for a pasture. JMO
fredsaid2 said:There are brands designed for horse fencing and they will take a certain amount of stress. They way the material breaks is my concern. All horse fencing should give under a high stress load. Better the damage to the material than to the horse. PVC tends to shatter, leaving pointed edges. The longer it's out in the elements the easier it tends to break especially in the cold.
Busterduck said:Anyone use vinyl fence for your horse pasture? If so, please let me know the pros and cons from your experience.
Thanks so much!
SouthernMdRocks said:Good morning BD. How are you doing?
I bought the Ramm vinyl fence but I am still looking for an installer. The vinyl fence you're talking about looks nice but I would be interested also in seeing how well it survives the change of weather over time. Do they have any farms they have done locally that they can provide you contacts with as references?
fredsaid2 said:If the vinyl breaks differently than PVC maybe it would be a good choice. The two places I saw did not have electric, that might have made all the difference in keeping the boards intact longer. Could the vinyl rep give you a demonstration on how the material breaks under stress?
Do you just prefer the look of board fencing or have you looked at no-climb with a top board? I think you can get the top board as vinyl and you'd still have fairly maintenance free.
You might stop by the farms you saw and ask them about their fencing. If it stands up to cattle it must be pretty tough!
Angel said:I think it looks cheap. I saw a farm with that stuff surrounding the pastures and a few of the sections were drooping down as if it had melted. It looked like crap.
Busterduck said:That's a really good idea. I do prefer the look of board fencing. I just HATE replacing boards and painting. You have to paint every year if you use white paint.
I think I will stop by the farms that have the fence that I like; thanks so much for the idea. Do you think they would mind?
DQ2B said:I have Centaur. It has a 30 year warranty, it was easy to put up and it now comes in electric as well which I used for just my top rail. LOVE IT!
Oh, and I bought the brown. No mold to wash off!
SouthernMdRocks said:Please, who installed it for you???
Well that's what I might end up doing. Maybe I can get some pointers from you!!!DQ2B said:My husband and I did it ourselves.
SouthernMdRocks said:Well that's what I might end up doing. Maybe I can get some pointers from you!!!
DQ2B said:Go to Double J fencing website or just do a search under Centaur Fence and Double J will come up. On the site you'll find installation guides. Print the centaur one (beware, it's long). We mostly followed that though only our corner posts are round. We also went to the outside of the posts on the corners, the rest is on the inside. I highly recommend the spinning jenny, it'll be much faster and easier on the back. We don't have much in the way of hills here so getting the fence tight and appealing to the eye wasn't hard but if you have lots of steep inclines then you may have more effort there.