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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 4324511" data-attributes="member: 15054">Replace the chewed pickets and then paint the bottom of the fence with a paint roller and used engine oil or used transmission fluid.Then take some barn metal or R panel whatever you wish to call it .Usually comes in 2 foot or  3 foot wide sections you lay it long ways down the fence at the bottom and screw it to the pickets.Pokie screws stop some chewing and you are not chewing through steel.WHY paint it with petroleum product.Ants and bugs will love to live in the void between the metal and wood.But those critters including termites will leave the "coated" wood alone.</blockquote>