You may want to rethink your first scaffold height, 5 foot plus. I’m starting mine at 6 foot because fruit will bend the scaffolds down anyways.
I meant rings of fence around individual trees, deer don’t jump into a confined place like that. Similarly, if you face a low fence in front of an obstruction like a wall or dense vegetation, they don’t jump over it. A small orchard can probably also be protected with a 5’ fence, deer don’t like to jump into a confined space (e.g they don’t jump into my 70x40’ veggie garden, surrounded by 5’ fence)
I would absolutely take photos and send them to the company. We received similar complaints which are likely animal girdling issues but are making it right if it was our crew.
They shouldn’t be cutting your stuff and need to make a note about it.
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I find that the plastic deer netting/fencing from Tenax and others work really well for deer. And for deer only. All my rolls are chewed through at the bottom from rabbits and squirrels. I would like to migrate to this type of knotted fence with close bottom spacing, but can’t find it near me:
That would be great. Since I am not covering large areas, I’m thinking about adding chicken wire on the outside of my 2x2 or 2x4 fencing to help with rabbits. Though, I’m pretty sure they’re going to be able to get through at gaps at the gate. Anyone have a metal gate they like? I keep coming back to the deer busters one.
Double fence. Inside fence 5 feet, outside fence 4 feet. Landscape fabric and mulch or stone in between. On the outside, much larger rocks. Larger rocks are so deer can’t get a good footing to jump.
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Have not used so I can not give a review. But perhaps the least expensive option i’ve seen yet. 7x100 $26.95
I use a 4’ diameter of 4’ high woven wire on 2x 6’ t-posts. Inside I use a coffee can diameter of 2’ tall hardware cloth. I also start my scaffolds around 6 foot high. I have a hunt club 120 acres to the south.
Previous owners of my place installed the thick version of Tenax plastic 7.5ft deer fence, with t-posts, around 1.3ac. It’s gotta be around 10yrs old now and is still holding up decent to the CA sun exposure. It’s pretty strong on its own, but does tear if you hit it with a weed eater line. It’s not very expensive compared to metal fencing; my inlaws have a proper metal deer fence with wood posts around their whole property, but it was a small fortune for protecting their 3.5ac, but MIL has always been a gardener and always battled the deer, so it’s nice not having them chomp everything anymore.
I think ours was a quick and dirty DIY installation by the previous owners, over the top of old metal fencing in the 4-6ft height. It lacked 100% security and I’ve been upgrading it here and there. One issue is we’re on a hillside and deer will just jump downhill where fence is “lower” to get over; they also focus on any section that’s sagging between the posts because the installer used like 20ft spacing on the posts, probably to save $ and time - I think sagging will always be an issue with these plastic fences, as they’re meant to have some stretch to them. Recently I started remedying this by reinforcing with horizontal lines of galvanized wire, woven through and anchored on each post - you also can’t really just lift up from the bottom to get underneath anymore, yay!
Talk to me about gates. Are people building their own wooden gates or buying something like tractor supply or deer busters metal gate? I keep going back to deer busters.
I bought fishing line. They get spooked because they can’t see it but can feel it touching them so they back off.
You can add a bell for extra effect as well.
So far, it’s worked great! Even got me a bunch of times 
Cheap 6$ post from lowes + fishing line. I do a few lines together at chest level.
I was getting nibbled on every 2-3 days but it’s been over 2 weeks now with no nibble since i did this
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I had been putting welded wire fencing around my trees in a 3’ circle but recently ran out. I had bought some 7.5’ tall plastic fencing on clearance from Wal Mart, but it was really flimsy and didn’t hold up very well. Buying more of the welded wire fencing was not in budget so I had to do some scavenging. My father-in-law used to put up snow fence along their lane years ago. He still had 3 rolls of it. So I am giving that a try now.
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