Happily mowing was mostly taken care of before I arrived:
So it was easy to work around the trees and along the eventual fence-line.
I started at the corners of the area and drove 8 foot steel t-posts:
Using a post driver:
This was actually a lot easier than I expected, perhaps because of the heavy rains on the preceding evenings. I strung 12 gauge monofilament wire between these to define a straight line:
I used the line to place intermediate t-posts:
After 15 t-posts were up and connected with monofilament, I hung deer netting from it:
This part seemed harder than driving the t-posts, maybe because I was already somewhat tired from that earlier activity, and maybe because this activity mostly involved holding my arms above my head for long periods of time doing more close-detail work.
I started by zip-tying the net to the monofilament to temporarily fight sag between posts:
Then I used inline tensioners to take up the slack:
The bottom of the net is held down with sod staples:
The netting quickly vanishes as you move away from it, so I also flagged each stretch:
Some loose ends still need to be wrapped up. I found some ferrules at the hardware store to secure the monofilament, but I haven’t tried crimping them yet. The zip-ties need to be replaced with a more robust solution. And the deer net needs to be secured to each t-post to keep it from billowing so much.