SE Manitoba | Notofthisworld - 9/28/2024 15:49
i rented a pasture from a neighbor. it had a trash 50 year old fence, hasnt had cows on it in 30 years. guys not old and he wont ever sell. Rent is bottom of what stuff goes for but i have to build fence.
i called in a favor from a friend with a dozer and he cleared the fence lines.
I want to put in a hot wire with a ground below it. if i just have 2 7/8 pipe driven 5' in the ground. can i stretch a hot wire waist high and a ground wire below it about 6"? that would be easy and cheap and works great for me. wires dont have to be guitar tight, but tight enough deer hitting it doesnt wrap them up. its good heavy black dirt with small rocks in it longest run is about 1/4 mile down one edge. its L shaped and would have a gate in the other long side i would have to put a kicker on the gate post or an H.
Dunno what other guys are doing that also have deer pressure but I'd not tighten as much even as you're talking about.
I kept my posts 50' or sometimes even more apart and the wire just tight enough so that it didn't sag much (1/2" I didn't care about) between posts.
(Posts were just often enough to keep pretty even ground to wire distance!)
Tight wires means that when the deer hit the wire it might break. Looser wire means that the wire can stretch.
Fixing either is a royal pita but I hate repairing breaks int he wire most.
HTH |
How much can you pull on a 2 7/8 pipe?
