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I jumped on the Cattle Panel Arch Trellis wagon

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Hey everyone! Yesterday was a beautiful warm day here in northern Ohio. (Hope it was were you are too!) I've been watching Roots & Refuge on YouTube and Jess always has these beautiful cattle panel arches in her garden and I got to thinking. My parents took their cattle panels down a couple years ago & my dad doesn't like to trash much. I wonder if they still have them and if they would give them to me.  Yep, they had them. I just had to pull them out of the weeds. I rounded up a few t posts and I had my arches.  My original plan was to set them up parallel to the house going straight back, but when we went to put one up, I thought it would be fun to angle them slightly to go back to our chicken coop. (Our property is almost a triangle anyways) We put down 2 lines of twine anchored with rocks and put in 2 t posts on each side of the cattle panel. Then we used wire to attach the cattle panel to the t post.  Both roots and refuge and whispering willow fa...