Need help from experienced fence builders.

[fox1]

I am going to put up 660' of barbwire across the south side of my pasture. I have never put up that long of a fence. Im using 6" schedule 40 pipe ( Making L brackets )for my corners and i need to know how far i can run the fence before i need to put up a 6" pipe for tensioning ?

Every 200' or do it in half and put it in at 330'. Hope that makes sense.

it will be a 5 strand fence.

[cripsol]

If you do this, how are the drug cartels supposed to use your property to grow their product?

[fox1]

If you do this, how are the drug cartels supposed to use your property to grow their product?

I have moved to Oklahoma so I'm not worried about that, the meth cookers keep the growers run off.

[Atfulldraw]

unless you have an elevation change to contend with, I would just stretch the whole thing.

how deep are you planning on burying your corners?

[txnduckhntr]

I don't use pipe so this probably won't help

I build cedar h-braces and use 9 t posts the a cedar line post. All on 10' spacing

[doghouse]

When we put in fence we concrete the h-braces in and then put 7 steel post 10 feet apart and then a 6" metal post. Just remember your fence is only as good as your corners. Depending on the soil but corners in out country need to be at least 3 feet deep.

[westtexducks]

unless you have an elevation change to contend with, I would just stretch the whole thing.

how deep are you planning on burying your corners?

X2 we have a lot of fence up on our place and we always ran the entire length of the roll and then put the stretch post in and then continued on so one stretch pole every 1300 feet.

[fox1]

unless you have an elevation change to contend with, I would just stretch the whole thing.

how deep are you planning on burying your corners?

Have one elevation change at 200' and I'm planning on going 3 to 4 feet deep on my corners and then using concrete. I don't know if its the freeze line doing it but every corner brace i see around here with out concrete is pulling out.

[TX_H-F]

Never used barb wire so how do yall stretch it?

[westtexducks]

Have one elevation change at 200' and I'm planning on going 3 to 4 feet deep on my corners and then using concrete. I don't know if its the freeze line doing it but every corner brace i see around here with out concrete is pulling out.

Something one of the local yahoos did recently near our place was put up his fence in the dead middle 110 degree heat in august and then strung it tight enough to get a chord off it if you plucked it. Needless to say first good hard freeze that winter his corners popped up.

String it tight in the winter and relatively loose in the summer.

[westtexducks]

Never used barb wire so how do yall stretch it?

Fence stretcher, come-a-long, high lift jack, and for repair work or really short stretches fencing pliers. Any of these can be used to stretch it but the fence stretcher is the easiest and most convenient.

[fox1]

Something one of the local yahoos did recently near our place was put up his fence in the dead middle 110 degree heat in august and then strung it tight enough to get a chord off it if you plucked it. Needless to say first good hard freeze that winter his corners popped up.

String it tight in the winter and relatively loose in the winter.

Thats some good info to have. Ive put up alot of fence but mainly nothing over 300 foot in a single run so i wasn't sure on tensing posts.

One other question i can get a good deal on 4 barb gaucho wire , do they make any thing better ? Gaucho is class 3

[westtexducks]

Thats some good info to have. Ive put up alot of fence but mainly nothing over 300 foot in a single run so i wasn't sure on tensing posts.

One other question i can get a good deal on 4 barb gaucho wire , do they make any thing better ? Gaucho is class 3

No idea haven't bought wire, I am always just the one that helped string it after the uncle, friend or my dad bought it. And I should have said tight in winter loose in summer Still tight but don't get it so tight you can strum it. Also like said above if you go in a dip or over a hill put in a solid post, on flats it really isn't needed.

[60 Deluxe]

I am now building my fences, barb or net with corner posts as above, 15' spacing on posts, 4 ts then a 2" pipe, at about 330' I put in a tensioning post. I try to build fence in the winter or at least put the wire up in the winter and get it tight enough to play a tune on.

[ASBOW]

Don't use gaucho wire, that stuff is no good. You get what you pay for.