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How to Use a Cattle Panel As a Trellis
How to Use a Cattle Panel As a Trellis. Cattle panels, which are flexible wire panels that are usually used to pen in livestock, also made ideal arched garden trellises for growing vegetables like cucumbers, peas and melons. In order to transform a horizontal panel into a trellis, you'll need to bend it into an arch and secure it to ground posts....
Cattle panels, which are flexible wire panels that are usually used to pen in livestock, also made ideal arched garden trellises for growing vegetables like cucumbers, peas and melons. In order to transform a horizontal panel into a trellis, you'll need to bend it into an arch and secure it to ground posts. The size of the arch will depend on the size of your panel and how high you want the arch to be.
Things You'll Need
Cattle panel
4 stakes
4 T posts
Post driver
Wire ties
Pliers
Place the cattle panel on the ground where you want to install it. Place one edge of the panel exactly where you want the arch to start.
Insert stakes into the ground at the two corners of the panel where you want the arch to start. Ensure that the stakes are abutting one of the wires that run across the length of the panel. Place two additional stakes 4 to 8 feet down the panel, abutting the same wires that the first two stakes did. Remove the panel from the area.
Remove one stake from the ground and place a T post on that same location. Slip the driver over the T post and slam the driver down, driving the post into the ground. Continue to lift the driver and drive the post down until one-third of the post is underground. Repeat this process for the other three stakes.
Place one end of the cattle panel against two of the posts. Press the panel against the bottom of the posts, on the side that faces the remaining two posts. Have someone hold that end in place while you go to the other end of the fence. Push your end in toward the second set of posts, allowing the middle of the cattle panel to bulge up. Push the end of the panel until the bottom is resting against the bottom of the second set of posts.
Wrap a wire tie around the bottom of one post, then wrap the edges of the tie around a horizontal wire running from one side of the panel to the other. Use a pair of pliers to wrap the wire tie. Repeat this process on every post. Then repeat it up every post for every horizontal wire that crosses the posts.
