Questions on building a barbwire fence

[Dusty Britches]

If I didn't have a barn full of 12g Red Brand wire, I'd go with the 15g high tinsel. Cheaper and easier to install. I've been to 2 day classes on fencing types and building methods.

[Shiner]

H braces might not be enough if you pull the wire as tight as designed. Add that dead man. In our sand, we need to run double H's with the deadman

[JeffJ]

Upping it to 4 strand and a larger gate. I dont like 5 strad because half my deer like to go through vs over the fence to get to my feeders and plots.

[JeffJ]

H braces might not be enough if you pull the wire as tight as designed. Add that dead man. In our sand, we need to run double H's with the deadman

We are in rocky country. If I can get them 4ft in the ground they arent going anywhere. Found a guy in GT that prefabs H braces and corners. When I price the steel out it only cost me about $30-40 per brace to get them from him. Huge time saver.

[Palmetto]

How to build corners/H-Braces. Pick your wire height, and open the file. StayTuff is netwire, but their corner design is solid.

http://www.staytuff.com/designs/

Dont go all T-Posts. You need some posts every now and then to hole the wire up. A fence thats all T-posts will eventually "push over" from pressure. They arent deep enough, and they bend easy.

[JunxMan]

If I didn't have a barn full of 12g Red Brand wire, I'd go with the 15g high tinsel. Cheaper and easier to install. I've been to 2 day classes on fencing types and building methods.

The concept of 2 days of a fencing class is one of those things where I'm glad someone did it, but glad it wasn't me!!

With a lot of fencing to do (Young County) I am searching the wise GS and came across this thread. Has any new wisdom emerged?
I'm sold on 5 wire, t-posts every 12ft, the need to add line posts where it's sandy, and good H braces (although they are already in place and in good shape.)
I have tons of busted wire on an old suspension fence and with it being over-grown, the cheapest answer is to replace it.

My current uncertainty is high tensile wire vs not.....

[Jay-J]

I've kept many cattle and horses in/out using a single strand hotwire. Just buy you a solar charger. Be a hellova lot easier than building a permanent fence.

[rut-ro]

We use red brand just because we got 10 pallets of it in a trade. We sink a wooden 4 T Post then wooden post repeat. Spacing between post are 8'-10' depending. H-post every 300 yards and 16 foot gates and we run 5 wires

[brokeno]

5 wires
every 5 th post a wood or metal post
t post every 12-14 foot
Double h braces on each end
single h braces every 250 ft.
16 ft gates.
set your corners and run wire on ground to drive in straight t posts.
my personal preference is net wire instead of barb wire.