Boone/Hendricks Counties, IN | Jake, I use the PowerWizard polyrope for my rotational grazing paddocks... http://www.agratronix.com/images/PW_Catalog.pdf
It has worked rather well and you can get it at http://www.balesupply.com ...beats the heck out of high tensile for the paddocks.
I tie into the high tensile I have on the perimeter...I just hook up to some pigtails I have at every paddock point. I have at most two polyrope fences up as I move through the paddocks. This will be year two for the polyrope. I use the plastic step-in poly posts with no trouble for my cross posts. Adding a second pasture down the road and setting it up the same way over the next month to expand the herd.
I try to keep everything pretty square, with a water pipe that takes water from a spring to a water trough that moves to each paddock. When winter rolls around I move them to single feedlot where I feed them and keep them off most of the pasture and split this with high tensile for the winter, with steel T-Posts, so I cannot comment on the ice issue. But I am thinking of using the polyrope in setting up a bale grazing feed program this winter, which will be the first time I have tried it. So that will have to deal with ice and snow. My paddocks move every 7 days with 5 paddocks a pasture. Know it is a bit more info but at least you see how I use the PolyRope.
Edited by downtownjr 4/8/2011 15:52
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