farmerjan
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A couple of things about high tensile. First off, I hate it. It comes from many bad experiences with it and there are lots of people who love it and would do it every time.
For things like the flooding that greybeard had to deal with and survive, it worked just the way it was supposed to. It does work good in woods if trees etc fall on it.
Here, unless you KEEP IT hot the cows will put their heads through to get the grass that is always better on the other side and they can just push their way through. It stretches/gives. Calves regularly will go through it unless HOT.
We have to take deer out of it that will jump it and get it caught and twisted around their hind leg and hang until they are dead because they can't get out.
With the coyote problems we have had, we have also lost several calves that panicked and tried to run through it and got caught with a hind leg and hung upside down until it killed them. Even hot, the coyotes will sneak through and then the cattle can panic. Especially the calves. How the wire manages to get twisted around a hind leg or two I don't know but have seen it too many times. It's sickening to go find a calf hanging upside down and see where they dug into the dirt with their front legs trying to get out with no chance of it ever happening.
It won't keep out any predator animals; like good woven wire type fence will help to keep them out or at least discourage their getting in.
It's a pain to work with and will hurt you if it should come loose or get cut or broken and the whiplash of it is terrible, because it is stretched and will spring when the tension is gone. All fence gets stretched, but high tensile is like a rubber band in a sling shot and snaps back.
It is good for cross fencing as a 1 or 2 strand electric fence to divide fields if you want to graze it in sections, but you can't move it for rotational grazing.
It won't keep our White Texas Dall sheep in, hot or not, and wouldn't contain the babados black belly sheep we had in the past either.
Woven wire is the pits when there is a tree fallen on it, and it ruins it where it is squashed down. But we will take the negatives every time over the high tensile.
For things like the flooding that greybeard had to deal with and survive, it worked just the way it was supposed to. It does work good in woods if trees etc fall on it.
Here, unless you KEEP IT hot the cows will put their heads through to get the grass that is always better on the other side and they can just push their way through. It stretches/gives. Calves regularly will go through it unless HOT.
We have to take deer out of it that will jump it and get it caught and twisted around their hind leg and hang until they are dead because they can't get out.
With the coyote problems we have had, we have also lost several calves that panicked and tried to run through it and got caught with a hind leg and hung upside down until it killed them. Even hot, the coyotes will sneak through and then the cattle can panic. Especially the calves. How the wire manages to get twisted around a hind leg or two I don't know but have seen it too many times. It's sickening to go find a calf hanging upside down and see where they dug into the dirt with their front legs trying to get out with no chance of it ever happening.
It won't keep out any predator animals; like good woven wire type fence will help to keep them out or at least discourage their getting in.
It's a pain to work with and will hurt you if it should come loose or get cut or broken and the whiplash of it is terrible, because it is stretched and will spring when the tension is gone. All fence gets stretched, but high tensile is like a rubber band in a sling shot and snaps back.
It is good for cross fencing as a 1 or 2 strand electric fence to divide fields if you want to graze it in sections, but you can't move it for rotational grazing.
It won't keep our White Texas Dall sheep in, hot or not, and wouldn't contain the babados black belly sheep we had in the past either.
Woven wire is the pits when there is a tree fallen on it, and it ruins it where it is squashed down. But we will take the negatives every time over the high tensile.
