Fences, walls or nothing .........

[dogmandont 9,843]

6 hours ago, mC HULL said:

10 acre is like a school field with a few football and rugby pitches on my way small bit a land 

I know what a 10 acre field looks like. 

[Aussie Whip 4,110]

Steep bare hills and lots of boulders where the smaller agile dogs reign supreme. 

[Black neck 16,013]

37 minutes ago, dogmandont said:

I know what a 10 acre field looks like. 

It's about 10 acres I'm told

[C.green 3,231]

Think some of them bushing spots gotta be hardest to make a kill with a lurcher. Easiest for me is them big grass fields with square stock fencing

[white van man 3,329]

Difficult if you hunt a lot of different ground. If you are always on the same type of ground then the dogs will soon pick it up. A lot of my ground is fenced. Some big fields and some small. If the dogs jump the hedge/fence then they are out of the beam. Then you risk hunting up. On the bigger fields as sheep chaser mentioned then you have to let the dog out the beam or it might not catch. If I was letting the dog run through woods etc at night with the possibility of a really long run, I’d have a tracker on it. I’m still in the thought of lamp goes off. Dog comes back. Doesn’t always work like that though

[dogmandont 9,843]

2 hours ago, Black neck said:

It's about 10 acres I'm told

Some can be very deceiving and look like football or rugby pitches. 

Sneaky bastruds them 10 acre fields. 

[runner neil 215]

We run quite a variety , stone walls , Cornish banks ( basically earth and stone pilled up to form walls ) , forestry edge , moorland etc etc , some fenced with stock netting some with 3 strands of  barbed wire . Dogs always do best on the unfenced fields with clean wall faces . Most of the fields are pretty small round us , our biggest at home is just over 5 acres and so don't give bigger dogs much chance . We have to travel a bit to get in to bigger ground but do find it helps to know the ground well as quarry can often go over a brow in a field and duck out of the beam.

Edited October 28, 2021 by runner neil

[Gypsydog94 4,607]

1 hour ago, runner neil said:

We run quite a variety , stone walls , Cornish banks ( basically earth and stone pilled up to form walls ) , forestry edge , moorland etc etc , some fenced with stock netting some with 3 strands of  barbed wire . Dogs always do best on the unfenced fields with clean wall faces . Most of the fields are pretty small round us , our biggest at home is just over 5 acres and so don't give bigger dogs much chance . We have to travel a bit to get in to bigger ground but do find it helps to know the ground well as quarry can often go over a brow in a field and duck out of the beam.

Got fields round here fenced with two strands of barbed bottom strand about 2 foot of the ground. I will avoid it’s as best as I can disaster waiting to happen 

[Moocher71 4,050]

Electric fences ,double hedge with drop on one side and barberd wire every where in area I work .dogs just get used to it as they brought up with it .

[Moocher71 4,050]

1 hour ago, Gypsydog94 said:

Got fields round here fenced with two strands of barbed bottom strand about 2 foot of the ground. I will avoid it’s as best as I can disaster waiting to happen 

Most places I work the same and electronic fences  

[Black neck 16,013]

5 hours ago, dogmandont said:

Some can be very deceiving and look like football or rugby pitches. 

Sneaky bastruds them 10 acre fields. 

U know the game mate ,I had trouble wi a 10 acre field for years could never get 2 grips wi ote on it ,turns out c**t were 11 acre

[SheepChaser 8,089]

Fences and ditches are a bad combination. Like I said we’ve very little fencing around here but in the corner of one field is a little run of very old three strand barb, there haven’t been cows on the ground in a long long time. Mate came down for a nights lamping, drove five hours, first slip and dog went sailing over the bit of fence after something, hit the far ditch bank as he came down and that was game over. The next slip my other mate who’d travelled down with him ended up with his dog retired. Not the most successful night ! 

[Wales1234 5,541]

No fences , woods just rocks and cliffs

[Black neck 16,013]

9 minutes ago, SheepChaser said:

Fences and ditches are a bad combination. Like I said we’ve very little fencing around here but in the corner of one field is a little run of very old three strand barb, there haven’t been cows on the ground in a long long time. Mate came down for a nights lamping, drove five hours, first slip and dog went sailing over the bit of fence after something, hit the far ditch bank as he came down and that was game over. The next slip my other mate who’d travelled down with him ended up with his dog retired. Not the most successful night ! 

Sounds a bit of a rum do that mate

[Black neck 16,013]

2 minutes ago, Wales1234 said:

No fences , woods just rocks and cliffs

Call that rock ,its mostly grass