Wooden Pole Fence – Simple To Make

If you have pets, then this will help to keep them out of your flower beds and still have a nice-

looking garden. Obviously, this will not help if you have huge dogs, but it works great for smaller breeds. Cats go where they please and no amount of fencing will keep them out. This also gives a rustic look to your garden.

The items you need to make these should all be available from your local hardware store.

You will need:

Round wooden poles 75mm or 100mm in diameter. Use treated poles if you can get them, they will stand up better to weathering.

Wire – you can use just about any steel wire that your hardware store has.

Some nails or staples if you have a staple gun

How I did it:

I bought 3000mm (3 meter) lengths of poles from the hardware store and cut them into 400mm pieces. Determine how many you want in a string, remembering that you will want to be able to move them later.

I also bought a 100 meter roll of 2mm steel wire. This is to thread through the poles to keep them together.

You can buy some 25mm nails or use staples for fixing the ends of the wire. I used staples left over from a previous project.

Measure 100mm from the bottom end of the 400mm poles and mark them, then measure 200mm from the top and mark them. I did one as a template and then set up a small jig using some scrap timber and a few F-clamps on my workbench.

Drill 3mm holes in the poles at the marked point. This will allow you to thread the wire through the poles. Depending on the diameter pole you are using make sure the drill bit is long enough to go right through the pole. Drilling from two sides may work but then you run the risk of the holes not lining up.

Lie the poles next to each other on a flat surface and thread the wire through the first pole then the second and so on until you have threaded through the number of poles you decided on for your string of poles. I would advise 15 to 20 per string so that you are still able to move them around to where you want to place them in your garden.

Loop the wire on the end one and thread through the second hole until you get back to your starting point. Turn the wire down and knock in a nail or staple to hold it in place. Two nails or staples will suffice.

You now have a small fence you can use to keep the pets out of your flower beds.

You can make small changes, for instance the end pole on each could be made slightly longer, taper the bottom end and you can knock it into the ground with a mallet or hammer to make it more stable if the surface that the fence is standing on is not level.

Your comments are welcome.