Types of Fences

• Barbed wire fence
• Chain-link fencing, wire fencing made of wires woven together
• Concrete fence, easy to install and highly durable
• Chicken wire, light wire mesh for keeping predators out and chickens or other small livestock in
• Electric fence
• Ha-ha (or sunken fence)
• High tensile smooth wire
• Hurdle fencing, made from moveable sections
• Newt fencing, amphibian fencing, drift fencing or turtle fence, a low fence of plastic sheeting or similar materials to restrict movement of amphibians or reptiles.
• Palisade
• Pest-exclusion fence
• Pet fence Underground fence for pet containment
• Picket fences, generally a waist-high, painted, partially decorative fence
• Pool fence
• Post-and-rail fencing
• Roundpole fences, similar to post-and-rail fencing but more closely spaced rails, typical of Scandinavia and other areas rich in raw timber.
• Slate fencing in Mid-Wales
• Slate fence, a type of palisade made of vertical slabs of slate wired together. Commonly used in parts of Wales.
• Snow fence
• Spear-top fence
• Split-rail fences made of timber, often laid in a zig-zag pattern, particularly in newly-settled parts of the United States and Canada
• Stockade fence, a variation of the picket fence that is typically 5 to 6 feet (1.5 to 1.8 m) high with pickets placed adjacent to one another with no space between. This type of fence is commonly used for privacy.
• Vinyl fencing
• Wattle fencing, of split branches woven between stakes.
• Wood-panel fencing
• Woven wire fencing, many designs, from fine Chicken wire to heavy mesh "sheep fence" or "ring fence"
• Wrought iron fencing, made from tube steel, also known as ornamental iron.
• Hedge
• Walls

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fence