For those like myself who are looking into trellis systems and ideas, please post photos of yours 
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Trellis for what? Apples, grapes, blackberry?
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Yes please! I need inspiration for kiwi trellis, I have 10 kiwis in different locations that now need to have trellis for next season. One grew already to the top of my old fig tree (6 meters height, its a beast. But my fig is not too happy about it I feel)
Im going to use metal , if anyone has good information/pictures let me know. Thanks
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This is the best trellis design I have come across for my needs
This guys channel is a gold mine, I think he made all the content that needed to be made and then peaced-out on a high note.
I have used this trellis with great success for my tomatoes. The trellis is also extremely durable and lasted through high winds. They also broke down easily and store well.
I am sure you could modify the design to make them taller, but they would be less stable and it would be difficult to pick.
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Trellises for everything
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Not my pictures, and I haven’t built them yet, but I am looking to trellis my brambles and my grapes this spring.
This image represents what I plan to build for my trellis system for my bramble beds:
there is good advice in this thread Raspberry Trellis Systems - #10 by RobertH
For my grapes, I plan to use the modified munson technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqdYFHq4dZk
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Panel trellis for loganberries
V trellis for raspberries
Panel trellis for trailing blackberries
Post and wire trellis for 2 muscadine vines.
TNHunter
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Thanks for the pictures. Do you have black raspberries? Would they get a similar v-trellis as red raspberries?
No pictures right now, but I use 4’x16’ cattle panels in both arches and 4’ high vertical configurations.
TNHunter has very nice ones. I do all of mine like his V trellis but i dont do any Vs. I just go with wires and T-posts and i use mine like pinball… not much tying. I only use wire on the top and use polypropyline baling twine on the bottoms.
However if i didnt do so much experimenting and adding this or taking away that… i would go with something like this…
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I used the V trellis on red, gold and black raspberries for a few years and it worked well…
I then changed to using raspberry stakes (4 ft fiberglass rod about 5/16 thick)… made for electeic fence I think… I get them at TSC.
I like the stakes better… because they are neat and tidy, and the support is not really visable from a distance.
It just looks like they are all standing up and behaving nicely.
In that patch above close to 60 Herritage reds. There are 2 goumi bushes and more HRs to the left.
TNHunter
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They look like little trees! Do you just chop up the floricanes at the end of the year/ tie up the primo canes each year?
Here in the hot humid south east (southern middle TN)… once your raspberry floricanes fruit in the spring (big crop)… they immediatly start to die and get unhealthy… funky brown spots on the leaves… which will transfer to your new primocanes if you leave the dead and dieing fcanes in the patch.
Over the years i have learned how to manage them here. As soon as my fcanes finish fruiting…they actually die pretty quick… especially if it is very hot like this season.
When they die or are mostly dead… i take out all the old fcanes… and then stake and tie all the new years primocanes.
That is what you are seeing in the pic above.
Those are all the new primocanes that came up this spring… after I had them staked…
Also the old dead pcanes had been removed as well as any small spindly pcanes that were in the patch… i have to thin the patch out… so the remaing pcanes get better air flow to minimize the spread of the funky brown spot.
I dont think people in more northern climates have to do that. My southern TN weather grows and produces some great raspberries…
But my summer months are a bit more brutal than they can tollerate well.
Golds and blacks… struggle more here… and eventually die back. Reds and Purples do much better. I bought 3 Heritage reds on 2020… and now have close to 100. Very easy to propigate from root shoots and spread them around.
TNHunter
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In the category “more fun than practical”: an A-frame from living willows braided together. Needs regular pruning, but looks nice.
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I’m updating all my trellises. Need to standardize bottom wire for grape (42") so I dont need to bend to pick, and can keep the bottom cleaner. Also need to add a 8’ top wire.
I want to switch to cattle pannels for brambles, makes spacing easier (1 cane per hole) and keeps them from laying downhill. 2-sided isn’t enough support.