I want to fence in the 1 acre around my house to keep the dog in and the future cows out. I was looking at putting the 48" goat fence with 4'x4' squares but then I saw some high tensile field fence and it caught my eye. The High tensile is a little cheaper and supposily the post spacing can be up to 25'. Are there any disavantages to the high tensile fence? Or do yall have anythink else better to recomend. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance!
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I used the field fence around my house. It is the 39" stuff. I raised it to 42" and left a 3 inch gap from ground to weedeat under. I ran a strand of barbed wire at 42" as well and another at 52" I used little "pig ring" clamps and clamped the bottom barbed wire and the top FF wire together in a few spots between the t-post...which are 12 feet apart. A little overkill...but best fence I have ever built. -
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i like the stay tuff fence. they make many different sizes.Comment
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x2 on what hogdude said...I build may almost the same way and it is the best fence I have ever built.Originally posted by Hogdude1234 View PostComment
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We used the Ok wire(4ft with the 4x4). 250 per 330'. Pipe every 5 th tpost, t post every 12 feet. The t posts just keep the fence up right. The corner hold it tight. We have pipe corners, 7 pt to the ground. The pipe is 3 foot in the ground in a 10-12'' hole with 2-3 bags of concrete. Longest run of fence is 325'. It is tight as heck. 1000' of fence with 3 gates came in at just under 4k. 2k in mat and 2k for the labor part of the deal.Comment
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I thought it was ; Horse High, Bull Strong, Pig Tight.Originally posted by shinerbock View PostBull high and pig tight
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We just used some no climb horse fence (2X4) with cedar stays at 8ft centers. Ran me around $4.25/ft installed.
I would not run 25ft centers on the posts unless you have t-post in between.Comment
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So is 12' t-post spacing pretty typical? I planned on putting t-post every 8' and wood post every 5th one. I have fairly sandy soil but is 8' still really too close? I do plan to run a strand of barb wire on top to keep animals from necking over it. I also heard people running a strand of barb wire at the bottom to keep dogs or predators from digging, but not sure how safe that would be? Thanks guys this is the advice I was wanting!Comment
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On the high tensile you can run post 25 foot apart, that is a big selling point. On regular wire 8 foot might be overkill but it dang sure dont hurt. Just added expense and labor.Comment
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Well the labor is me and the t-post are free to me I just have to go pull them from there current location at a friends place, but is the the high tensile a better fence regarldess of the spacing difference. Even if I did the high tensile I don't think I would go with the 25' spacing. It just dont seem right!!Comment
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I havent used it but I had some customers that had it and it looked dang nice. They had it for hog control. More post are not going to ever hurt a fence.Comment
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I would go every 10' and a wood pole every 4rth if your in sand...yes barbed wire in top and bottom easier to do it now than try and fix it later...Originally posted by JAP View PostComment
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When stringing 48" net wire do you all use 6' posts or 6 1/2' T Posts? I jst strung about 100` and put posts every 8` with 6 1/2' posts drove 2` in the ground. That left me with just enough room to string 1 strand of barb wire on top.
Am I driving my posts to deep? I`m in sandy soil alsoComment
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