Hey everyone,

I just recently discovered that my girlfriend has some acres in the Boise Mountains, and have suddenly developed a long list of projects! Right now one issue is that cattle are grazing for free on her property. It has BLM land on two sides, and ranches all around, so the cattle just wander in. We're looking at fencing the property off.

Here's the rough part: It's 260 acres, and a lot of it is steep and rocky. Planning on 42" high barbed wire fence, primarily using metal stakes and trees as attachment points. My big concern is the areas where the ground is too rocky to get a stake in. Anyone have an advice on this, or fence building in general? Any tools I should pick up to make the job easier?

It's going to be me and whatever friends I can round up, but we're all Boiseans, and none of us have put up barbed wire fence before.