Railroad ties, high-tinsile wire, and one run of bridge rail seems to work really well. You don't need to put the ties nearly as close together with that setup as you do with sucker rod. With sucker rod you pretty much have to run a hot wire inside of it when you're done to keep them from tearing it up if you'd rather go that way. We've got some of both, but don't use sucker rod or continuous fencing as much as we used to. Matter of fact, the only places we have it now are the sick pen and the corral.

When they re-surfaced the highway going through here they put up all new bridge rail. Dad called the state and wound up buying like 2500' of it for a very good price and the only detail was that we had to pick it up out of the ditches.