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Mon, Jan 13, 14 at 7:58
| Does anyone have a suggestion for a substitution to using cattle panels for a vertical trellis that can handle melons and squash? I've never tried them before but would like to try attach cattle panels to posts to build trellises this year, but I've heard they can be rather dangerous as the panel can spring out at you when you're removing them from your pickup bed. And, as much as I don't want to admit it, getting up in years I'm tending to be a bit more cautious then I was when I was younger. Or, is there a store that would sell them cut down to size? |
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- Posted by sweetquietplace 6 WNC Mtn. (My Page) on Mon, Jan 13, 14 at 8:16
| Can you tie the bottoms together so it won't spring open? I LOVE my cattle panels...and you will too. |
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| They (big box stores) also sell CRW (Concrete Reinforcement Wire) in sheets of about 82" x 48" . So there is no springing there. They are very sturdy as cattle panels but with smaller grids. ( 2" x 4" ?). I have made cages out of them. |
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| When we went to tractor supply, a nice man (who worked there) helped us cut our panels into two pieces using a tool from the store. It was good because we would needed to cut them anyway and then we didn't have the problem of a little curve being left in the wire from being tied shut. I don't remember the first one I bought being too springy when we untied it, but there were two of us opening it. It might have been different with just one person. :) |
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| Many stores will cut them in half for you - sometimes for a small fee - but you'd have to call around first to your local stores that carry them to find out if they will. Otherwise, as suggested a rope tying the two ends together so they can't spring until after unloaded and you cut the rope works fine. Almost any kind of fencing will work as a substitute but it won't be as strong a support. Dave PS: of course if you can get them to deliver the panels flat or haul them on a flat trailer then no problems. |
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