Triple X fencing in the Fells
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Several years ago, ecologist and entrepreneur Sally Phillips set up a Community Interest Company called Buy Land Plant Trees which does exactly that. It’s a not-for profit organisation that has acquired over 160 acres of land in stunning Cumbria National Park and has now planted in excess of 35,000 trees.
Aiming to restore the moorland, the owners needed to keep the neighbours’ sheep out, so they decided to install 1,800m of fencing.
As Sally puts it, “The terrain is really quite steep, boggy, uneven and rocky”, so not easy to fence. Triple X, with its 30 year guarantee, was chosen because “We most definitely didn’t want to have to put another fence iin our lifetime.” Contractor Jonathan Burkitt described it as the most difficult job he’s ever done, “it was on your knees steep”, but succeeded using his tracked hydraulic percussion post driver and a mix of standard and beefy posts (about 3 to 1), 300m rolls of Xfence stock net and a line each of plain and barbed wire.
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