Free range/ bush cattle would hop over that wall without looking back. We rented pasture to feedlots that brought in grass calves from federal land every spring and loaded them up in early fall. We have hedge posts every 10 ft w/twiss on stays 3.5 ft apart on very tight 5 wire bared fence. It was five feet high and those wild MFers would jump over or break the fence if they got their heads in it. All the farmers bordering us had cow/calf operations with very shitty three/four wire fences. My job was to ride fence and make sure the windmills had the water tanks filled every fricking day.
Grass calves are yearlings weighing 450-600 lbs in their physical prime. No doubt some of those wild af horny af steers would clear it with the smell of love immenating from the neighbors pasture.
These old girls are 5-7 years old at 1,400 lbs with a calf not likely to follow... part of the year, these gals are contained by a single hot wire.
We did get cattle from Mississippi for a time that had some "ear" on them. Some of those wild boys would make a leap for it in the sorting pens. Pretty sure we added a pipe or two in the alley to curtail the escapees.
Tom
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We had around 300 acres for our cow/calf operation. We didn't have problems keeping them in and our fences weren't anywhere near what we had for the free-range cattle. We also shared a limestone fence with a neighbor that was around 600 feet long. I don't know who or when it was built, but it was 3 wire with the posts around four ft. tall and basically maintenance-free.