Farm Fence Installation in Ashland, MO
Columbia Farm Fence builds field fence and woven wire, high-tensile smooth wire, barbed wire, board fence, welded pipe corrals, and farm gates in Ashland, Missouri. Our Missouri license and our insurance are both current. Southern Boone County is our home ground.
Ashland sits on upland between Columbia and the river. The soil here is claypan. You get a silt loam surface, then an abrupt change to heavy clay about a foot down. That break holds water. Auger through it in a wet spring and the hole slicks over, and slick walls will not grip tamped backfill. We watch the weather before we set corners, and we backfill in layers and tamp each one hard rather than pouring concrete around a wood post. Concrete traps water at the collar and rots the post from the middle out.
Small horse places sit right against working pasture down here. The spec follows the animal. Horses need a fence they can see, so four board oak or treated pine on posts set eight feet on center. Cattle lean, so woven wire with a barbed top strand or five strands of barbed wire carries them. Goats look for a gap, so the mesh has to be fixed knot, tied at every crossing with a separate wrapped wire so it cannot slip.
Every corner, end, and gate opening gets an H-brace. Brace posts run six to eight inches across and go three and a half to four feet down, below the frost line. Line posts go twelve to sixteen feet apart, tighter where the ground rolls.
Call (573) 555-0157 for a free estimate on farm fence in Ashland.