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Garden Used Chicken Wire Mesh – Light Weight Hexagon Wire Mesh
Although the wide use of chicken wire mesh in chicken protection, chicken wire mesh is no longer just for chicken anymore. The distinctive feature of chicken wire mesh is its hexagons. And benefited from its light weight, it is found gradually that chicken wire mesh might also apply wonderfully to various garden applications. In the light of customers' demands, we market five chicken wire mesh products used in garden as following:
Chicken Wire Garden Fence
Garden fence is commonly used to screen out the unwanted animals and pets like rabbits, rat, deer, neighbor dogs or cats out in a friendly way. Compared with welded wire fence and expanded
Galvanized chicken wire mesh used for surrounding garden has usually 1 inch opening between two 20 gauge twisted wires. Stretching wires are added every 50 cm to increase the structure stability of the hexagonal wire mesh and then protect your plants. As for its selvedge wires, we take one or two threads of greater diameter than that used for the net.
Before putting the chicken wire fence up, a trench should be created for the underground chicken wire installation. With the help of this underground chicken wire, no bunnies can dig holes through the vertical fence and get into the interior of your garden in secret. Or we could directly putting chicken wire on the surface of earth to create an illusion of intimidation.
Recommended specification of chicken wire garden fence:
- Manufacture: galvanized before weaving for durability.
- Wire diameter: 20 gauge.
- Mesh opening: 1 in.
- Height: 18-36 in.
- Length: 150 ft. (46 m).
Available substitutions for chicken wire garden fence:
Chicken Wire Greenhouse
If there are not much plants, an integrated greenhouse could be built in your backyard. Several wooden strips or steel posts combined with chicken wire mesh could create a simple greenhouse for your plants. Plastic film could also be fixed in the middle of wooden strips and chicken wire mesh, if needed.
This greenhouse could not only provide a safe place to against animals, but also aesthetic enjoyment. In addition, all the materials you need are quite cheap.
Recommended specification of chicken wire greenhouse:
- Wire diameter: 20 gauge.
- Mesh opening: 1 in.
- Height: 4-6 ft.
- Length: 25 ft.
Feature:
- Large critters like birds and squirrels cannot destroy plants anymore.
- Protect plants from frost, wind, snow and bad weathers.
- Sunlight enjoyment and good circulation.
- Temperature increases.
Chicken Wire Raised Bed
Raised bed is a wonderful design for solving terrible soil, concrete-paved road, animals, kids and space lacking problems. All the materials needed are plank, chicken wire mesh and accessories. Chicken wire could be used at the bottom of raised bed, to prevent gophers entering, when the raised bed is placed in the earth; or to support the soil and allow plants breathe freely. Chicken wire could also be used on the top of the raised bed to make a lid or layer of cover.
A-Frame Trellis, Free Standing Chicken Wire Trellis...
Vegetables or fruits growing in vertical direction, like cucumber, bean, grape and so on, could be hung upon chicken wire mesh easily and therefor increase the sunlight exposure and air circulation. Instead of spread on the earth and entangled with each other, chicken wire trellis guarantee a plentiful harvest and clean appearance.
Specification of chicken wire trellis:
- Material: galvanized or PVC coated steel wire.
- Mesh opening: 3", 4" or as required.
- Wire Gauge: from 14 ga to 18 ga.
- Panel size: 53" W × 58" H.
Feature:
- Increase the sunlight exposure and air circulation.
- Be free from dirt and be clean.
- Efficient utilization of limited garden space and be neat.
- Production improved.
- Easy to install, removable.
- Could be used year after year.
- Recyclable and environment friendly.
Application: Suitable for tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, pole beans and other stem plants in garden or house.
Available substitutions for chicken wire mesh made trellis: galvanized wire, chain
Chicken Wire Cloche
Chicken wire cloche refers to chicken wire made cloche shaped protector that protects one individual or a row of plants, not a piece of land full of plants. With several pins attaching to the ground, chicken wire cloche could protect plants from munching rabbits. The aimed plants include lettuce, cabbage, spinach, tulip bulbs; intruders include squirrel, cats, rabbits and other birds. Chicken wire cloche is easily portable and beautiful. Or chicken wire panels could be made into cloche, which is made easily and directly under our guidelines.
Specification of this GUCWM-21 chicken wire cloche: 37-1/2" long × 13-1/2" wide × 8" high.
Three styles of using this GUCWM-21 chicken wire cloche:
- Place it horizontally made a semi oval like this picture to protect a row of picture.
- Place it vertically and leaning on a wall or something with part of cloche buried to protect one individual plant.
- Fold this product by the center of it to be an integral oval to protect only one plant.
Specification of chicken wire mesh:
- Material: galvanized steel wire, PVC coated wire.
- Weaving type: regular twist (double twists or triple twists), reverse twist.
- Color: galvanized silver; PVC black, green, blue, etc.
- Stretching wires: Added every 50 cm to increase the structure stability of the hexagonal wire mesh.
- Selvedge wires: Take one or two threads of greater diameter than chicken mesh wire.
| Mesh opening size e (mm) |
Preferred annealed wire diameter c (mm) |
Preferred zinc coated b wire diameter c (mm) |
Minimum zinc or zinc alloy coating mass f (g/m2) |
Typical roll width a d (mm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 0.60 | 0.70 | 145 | 300 450 500 600 750 900 1000 1200 1500 1800 2000 |
| 13 | 0.60 | 0.70 | 95 | |
| 13 | 0.50 | 0.60 | 80 | |
| 16 | 0.60 | 0.70 | 70 | |
| 20 | 0.60 | 0.70 | 55 | |
| 20 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 65 | |
| 25 | 0.50 | 0.60 | 40 | |
| 25 | 0.70 | 0.80 | 45 | |
| 25 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 55 | |
| 25 | 0.90 | 1.00 | 60 | |
| 30 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 40 | |
| 30 | 0.90 | 1.00 | 40 | |
| 30 | 1.10 | 1.20 | 60 | |
| 40 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 35 | |
| 40 | 0.90 | 1.00 | 45 | |
| 40 | 1.10 | 1.20 | 55 | |
| 50 | 0.80 | 0.90 | 25 | |
| 50 | 0.90 | 1.00 | 30 | |
| 50 | 1.10 | 1.20 | 40 | |
| 65 | 0.90 | 1.00 | 30 | |
| 75 | 0.90 | 1.00 | 20 | |
| 75 | 1.10 | 1.20 | 25 | |
| 75 | 1.30 | 1.40 | 30 | |
| 100 | 1.50 | 1.60 | 30 | |
| a Other roll widths - by agreement. b Zinc coated diameter in this table is the coated wire diameter in finished netting. c These tolerances apply to the diameter of the zinc coated wire in finished netting. d The tolerance on width shall be ±1 mesh size measurement. e Tolerances on mesh size shall be ±20 mm for rabbit netting when specified. f Coating mass as netting coated after fabrication. For mesh width 75 mm and over centre strands and selvedges could be by agreement. |
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| Core diameter Bright/Zinc coated wire (mm) |
Organic coated wire diameter (mm) |
|---|---|
| 060 | 100 |
| 080 | 120 |
| 090 | 130 |
| 1 00 | 150 |
| 1 20 | 170 |