you lost me with placement of the cattle/game guard. I figured it would have been centered between the gate post. It seems the weakest link is that animals could cross right at the guard and gate post very easily if gate is open, as you commented it is most of the time.

I've already considered that before we started. Wait till the gates are on and you'll understand better. They will be 8' tall gates that swing in, they will have drop rods that will connect them to the guard. The gates will be right at 10' long. I had to put the guard in that way because I didn't have enough room to feather gravel with it being centered. The overhead was already there and I didn't want to tear it down and move it in. I was in the county road when I took the picture.

I was also wondering and that makes perfect sense.

Congrats on the project!!!! I know your ready for a well deserved break so go have a few cold beers and enjoy all the hard work and money you’ve put in…

I will just say it is your place and your dollars and cents. The fence looks good and no doubt you are proud of the work.

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Makes perfect sense now.

Ok, final pictures. The gates are done. Big Thanks to Rick's Fencing for a very nice job.

That's a serious entrance. Well done.

Great looking!

Awesome, sir!

Bet that was a pain putting in place. What kind of equipment was required to move it into position?

It wasn't that bad turns out. We built it just across the road in one of my dove fields. My big tractor on one side, a skid steer on the other. Picked it up with heavy chains and slowly walked it over and set it down perfectly in place. Took about 30 minutes. The tricky part was, the guard is 19' wide, had to get through two 19' 6" openings.

Good looking guard/gate setup. Looks like a record size guard.

I did a lot of research, seems the 16' guard is the preferred size for deer. My entrance splits 2 of my sunflower fields, I get very few deer in that area anyway.

I know I said the last pic was it, but I couldn't let this thread end without a pic of the HF project being 100% finished. I painted the entrance gates yesterday. Thanks for the nice comments and questions fellas, it's been fun.

It all looks fantastic Stompy. Congrats on a job well done!

The fence is 100% complete and I finally got to do some fishing. Went last Tuesday and Wednesday and we put over 160 bass in the boat (mostly dinks) for both days. I did manage to stick a couple of good ones, a 10.25# and 7#

You at Hubbard Stompy? Damn nice fish brother.

Congrats!