Fences for Pasture & Garden

by Gail Damerow

Book Overview

Whether you're trying to protect your garden from wildlife predators or want to keep your livestock from wandering too far, effective fencing can bring welcome peace of mind. Covering the pros and cons of a variety of fencing types, Gail Damerow shows you how to build a fence that works for your needs. With clearly illustrated instructions for building wire fences, rail fences, electric fences, woven fences, and more, you'll soon be creating effective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088266753X
• ISBN13: 9780882667539
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Storey Publishing
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Gave a Newbie Fence Builder Confidence

I am a complete newbie at fencing - or at least, I was before I read this book. When I first started thinking about my fencing project, I was completely overwhelmed and not sure I could get the job done on my own. But this book gave me all the knowledge I needed to feel confident about building my own fence. Not only did this book go over concepts of fencing, but also the pros and cons of each fence type, how and when to bury posts, when to use brace posts, what tools to use, what materials to use, step by step instructions for everything from digging post holes to tying off woven wire fencing, and how to plan my fence. Thanks to this book, I had a very successful first fence building experience!

Outstanding Book

This is one of the best books and resources I have ever read on fencing. It is truly a must buy for those new and old at fencing. If you are looking for a well written, well researched book on fencing, this is it.

Good Basics

We looked at the Fence Bible and a Guide to Stock Fencing. This book was better than both of them. It offers good basic fence building skills, expecially for building fences for livestock. Not a book for "pretty" urban fences.

practical and useful

I found this very helpful in putting up fence which I had not done before- just what I needed

Wonderful book filled with great examples

I was very impressed that this book went into so much detail about fencing. We are at the beginning stages of fencing in over 8,000 feet of fenceline and this book offered many wonderful suggestions that we had not thought of and will definately put to use now that we know better! Thank you so much for putting together such a great book for those who aren't very fence educated!

If you are fencing this is the book you need!

I was new to small scale farming and found that there was very little practical advice about the right way to build various fences other than learning on the job, from friends and neighbors and such. I then found this book and it told me everything I needed to know from how to choose the right kind of fence to how deep to drive a t-post. I now have a lot of sturdy fences that should last a very long time. (by the way, drop by your local farm store and get a copy of the Galagher fencing manual if you plan on doing electric fences. Lots of good info there too).