Still doing the sheep fencing

We have been working hard repairing the fence round a small plot below the house that we call The Orchard (it has a few apple trees but the name orchard might be over selling it at the moment) so that we can put the sheep there.

The 'Orchard'/Jungle

Their job (no slackers on the farm) will be to keep the grass down so we can turn in into a more convincing Orchard along with the similar size plot next door to it (as yet with no fence apart from electric tape which won't work on sheep).
This corner is now finished. Yes I know it still looks 'a bit wonky' but it is better than it was and we think it should be secure now. It was EVEN more effort than we thought as we had hoped that the pieces of fencing would all fit together and just need joining but even when we had removed all the trees that had grown through the wires pulling them apart there were bigger gaps than we could manage to strain the wire across (by approx 30cm in each case) so we ended up kind of weaving a new bit of fence from some green plastic coated garden wire.

Repaired fence

We then had to do something similar in one of the other corners, easier in some ways because it wasn't in the middle of a thicket, but more difficult in others as there was a longer length of fence out of the ground. Sheep are well known for escaping under fences and most the way round the field the wire mesh is quite securely fixed to the ground, partially because it is buried and partially because things like ivy have grown up round the bottom of it but in a few places like the corners it was either already out of the ground for some reason or we had to pull it out to straighten and mend it.

Nice post!

The third and final corner wasn't in quite such a bad way and we just hammered the post in a bit (still quite shonky, but we hope sheep proof for a while anyway).

We now have to do something about a section where there is a 'gate' as some of the bottom of the fence is trailing across the ground in a dangerous way (sheep might put their feet through it) and the so called gate is not going to be at all sheep proof at the moment. It is a length of mesh with a post on the end which can be folded back to open the gate and the post can be attached with a wire loop to a fence post to close the gate.
This is the gate in the open position (spare fence post in foreground)

The 'gate' in to the sheep field