Cmon. no details for intended useage? Do you have cattle or is this for tomatoes? If for tomatoes take some bolt cutters and size them on the spot.

Sorry. I plan to use it as a cucumber trellis across my two raised beds. It has to be about 7-8 feet tall so we can walk through. I think the cattle panel comes in 16' long. I will need all of the length and may even need to attach it to the T post to give it a few more feet. The width of the panel is 3-4 feet.

Thank you in advance.

I've heard of people gently bending and arching it to put into the truck bed, but it seems it might pop out, or scratch your truck bed. I had someone deliver mine. I have a van and considered putting it on top and driving slowly home (I live in the country), but I was afraid it would start bouncing and lift the van up in the air. lol! I see this post is about 2 months old. What did you end up doing? I love using cattle panels for various things.

Thank you for the info... I gave up on the cattle panels and use bamboo stalks to build the trellis.

Oh come on! You gave up too soon. :-)

I had a short bed truck when I bought 7, I think they were 16' long cattle panels, I forget the exact length, they come in at least two lengths.

We could have strapped them around the top of the cab, but in the end, we did what we were planning to do in the garden: we "bent" them. So they were like 6' high arches in the back of the pickup, and then we tied 'em firmly at the four points where they braced against the truck.

Clearly you need to plan a route that doesn't have anything super low you couldn't clear, you need to drive slowly and TIE IT DOWN WELL, but it's not rocket science. They make awesome "arches" with DIY earthboxes at the bottom of each side and trellis anything.

Here's an old pic

http://www.palyne.com/pjsgardenexperiments/24June2006Garden001.jpg

and another

http://www.palyne.com/pjsgardenexperiments/24June2006Garden003.jpg

PJ