Sagging Posts Suggestions?

BillyP · Jan 7, 2007

NY_Yankees_Fan said:
Billy,

Thanks for taking the pictures. It is best to put the brace at the top or middle? I have scene it both ways, which is better?

The T Post is 13' away, do u think just a 2x4 across the top with X wire will work? Trying to make this cheap and easy. , but work. I could move the T post closer to the wood post and use a 2x4 by 8'.

The garden is not very large, 50' 75'.

The brace at the top is better, to me anyway. And as Weldingisfun said, don't use a 2x4 for bracing. Set another post 8' from the corner post and use an 8' landscape timber for the brace.

But since you've already got your fence built, I'd try running a 45 degree brace from the upper part of the corner post to the ground on both sides. It would cost very little and just might work. Since it's just an electric fence, it wouldn't take much to keep the corner posts from being pulled in.

Something like this

NY_Yankees_Fan · Jan 8, 2007

Billy,

Interesting idea, the end that is on the ground, is it in the ground or on a block? If in the ground how deep? What size lumber, 4"x4?

BillyP · Jan 8, 2007

I'd use either 4x4 treated or landscape timbers, whichever figures out to be the cheapest. I'd drive a sharpened block in the ground to hold this brace in place. I guess you could even drive some type of metal rod in to hold it. That might be easier.