Building XC fences at home - a bit of advice please?

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I've got a few XC fences at home - some log piles, logs and a proper ditch. I'm quite keen to build some more and have got quite a lot of appropriate big telegraph type poles to use up. Couple of questions:-

1) What would be nice easy fences to build at home? I was thinking some post and rail fences, tyres, palisade, maybe a bank fence.

2) Do I really need a chainsaw or can I get away with a circular saw? Not that happy to use a chainsaw as not got much experience. The poles are all cut to 8 ft long so wouldn't need to do too much cutting necessarily.

Any thoughts?
 
I've always built mine with just a normal wood saw, so def don't need a chain saw! I would have thought you might struggle to get a circular saw thro a telegraph pole as the guard will get in the way before you've got halfway through?

Anyway, some ideas!

Tyres threaded along a pole, resting on some more tyres as wings. Make sure the tyres are packed tightly together, so the horse doesn't get his feet caught if he slams on the brakes.

Oil drums laid on their sides, anchored front and back with poles.

Old gate, chopped down as needed (useful if you have one with a couple of slats broken!)

An old door makes a ski jump...

A corner made using 1 upright (cut down to same height as jump) with 2 telegraph poles coming off it at an angle, then two more uprights (ditto) with two parallel poles set as a bounce - so you have the bounce as the easy option and the corner as the hard. (Hard to explain the layout, but if viewed from above it'd be like a childs drawing of a house with the point of the corner being the pitch of the roof, and the bounce poles being the walls of the house!)

An old rabbit hutch makes a skinny...

Trakaner easy using a ditch (front and back faces lined with planks) and a pole over...

If you have stone lying around it's quite easy to make a dry stone wall, just start with a really wide base!
 
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l l I have drawn what I think you mean by your corner jump (I was bored!). We used to call it a witches hat.

Be interested in replys as am in the same boat, also with three telegraph poles under my belt!
 
If my memory serves me correctly Im sure there is a book on building and constructing xc fences about somewhere? Not a hideously priced book either?? (I think it may have been a pony club publication)
 
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