Fence post spacing for non animal enclosure

[bcp]

When you add ht lines to the top or bottom do you weave it through the field fence or do you use hog rings to attach it? Is it attached at all to the field fence?

Hog rings or a couple of wire wraps.

Bruce

 

[NVBigBlue]

Greetings!

I just put up about 850' of fencing a couple of months ago. I don't remember the brand of fencing, but it was about the least expensive stuff they had. Just standard field fencing. Came in rolls 330' long and 48" high. HT wire top and bottom, with woven wire on 4"X6" squares (I think). Anyways, I sank 4"X7' treated poles on 24' centers. Then I drove T posts at the 8' and 16' marks, using clips to secure the fence to the T posts. The T posts are mainly to stop sagging and 'wobble' in the winds. I probably could have done it with 1 T post at the 12' mark though. (as a side note, I got the clips that take a special little tool......easiest time I've ever had attaching fence to T posts :thumbsup: )
For my H braces, I used 6"X1/4" steel rods for pins (cut from 48" sticks..... cheaper than the actual bracing pins...), and went with the aluminum tensioners. Get the tool that goes with the tensioners. Made tensioning very easy, and there's no worrying about winding sticks catching people, livestock, dogs, etc. Plus the fence doesn't get in the way of tightening them.
I also got a couple of wire pulling clamps to pull things tight using the winch on my quad. I pulled about 225' tight at a time. I pulled the tracter up to the fence line and put the top of the bucket at the top wire height. Then parked my quad behind the tractor, ran the winch cable out and over the top of the bucket and out to the cable clamp. Made it way easy to pull the fence tight and keep things at the right height while pulling. For the bottom wire, I just put the bucket on the ground and ran the winch cable under it. Kept the wire from being pulled up to winch height.
Good luck!
NV

 

[Mace Canute]

A nice distance apart for the posts is eleven cubits.

 

[AGRIMAN]

Here my earlier post on some of our new fence.

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/268044-new-fence-finally-going-up-1.html

 

[whistlepig]

The way I was taught. Ten foot spacing of poles regardless:

Best- A wood post every ten feet.

Next Best- A wood post every twenty feet and a metal T-post between.

Third best- A wood post every thirty feet and two metal T-posts between.

I do next best for woven wire. If you plan to weed eat your fence line keep the bottom a couple of inches off the ground.

 

[forgeblast]

Thanks Bruce!

 

[ben2go]

Thanks all.I think I am getting my plan together.I'll be checking post prices and then finalizing the fencing plan.

 

[Dr Dave]

We always spaced at 10 ft, wood every 30ft, 2 steel T post between. This is the way the DOT does it on the interstate also.

Also like said before keep it off the ground a few inches.

Dave

 

[gwdixon]

Have you considered electric fence? A strand at 15", 30", and 45" would be a real deterrent. Buy the highly visible stuff or the ribbon to make sure all can see it. It is quite inexpensive and needs no elaborate fence posts.

We had a creepy guy that kept cutting across our back pasture. Just climbed through the space between the field fencing and the first strand of barbed. He had even worn a path though my neighbor's pasture to the crossing point and then the path picked up in mine. I ran a strand of electric just above the field fencing and then another strand across the very top of top strand of barbed.

One evening I heard a loud YELP and my dogs were barking at a separating cross fence. Never saw the guy or evidence of crossing again.

 

[NVBigBlue]

One evening I heard a loud YELP and my dogs were barking at a separating cross fence. Never saw the guy or evidence of crossing again.

:applause:

Sometimes the best lessons hurt.