Lol yet another fencing thread

[secuono]

I guess I should of specified perimeter fence, sorry about that.

I'm seriously considering Timeless Fence with 12.5ga high tensile electric wire for the perimeter. I have zero issues with using electric fencing. I know how to install it, I know how to test it and I know how to repair it. I could also use battery powered solar chargers or just regular AC chargers, or a combination of the two.

My problem is I have like a gazillion 6' steel tee-posts already set and spaced 10' apart. I reckon I could pull them up and sell my steel tee-posts, but man what a pain it would be to replace them all with Timeless tee-posts. Plus timeless posts are pretty high priced.

Those little yellow plastic electric wire tee-post thingies are basicly chinese crap, short/long it doesn't matter 1 year in the sun and being frozen in the winter and they start breaking or bending.

I may consider using Lock-Jawz also with my existing tee-posts. but They also look like they could break pretty easily by an animal or branch or...

Timeless Fence System | This Post IS the Insulator!

timelessfencesystem.com

I'm going to order a free sample from timeless so I can see what it's all about.

I got the Timeless Fence free sample kit, it feels very nice and sturdy!

 

[Baymule]

@Mike CHS the link you posted is for field fencing with 6" holes. The link he posted for the gaucho fence is for sheep and goats and has 4"x4" holes. Just thought I'd point that out. LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

I copied the wrong link

 

[Farmer6255]

Looking at fencing for sheep, goats and cows 4"x4" squares woven wire 4'x330' The options are so confusing... I wished there was a companion guide or something. I've decided that I will buy my fencing from Tractor Supply, I have a Love/Hate relationship with Rural King, currently the needle is leaning towards hate.

Option #1 $220.00
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/hinge-joint-sheep-goat-fence

Pros
Thick wire, made in USA, $120.00
Cons
Hinge joint, No warranty info, No breaking weight listed. No coating mentioned so I assume highly subject to rusting, Only available in my area as special order.

Option #2 $240.00
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/red-brand-goat-fence-48-in-x-330-ft?cm_vc=-10005

Pros
Made in USA Class 1 galvanization, heavy wire 10ga Upper & Lower / 12ga Filler, Square Deal® Knot. Available (in stock) at the store.

Cons
No warranty information, No weight Breakage weighting, High Tinsel wire, highly subject to rusting.

Option #3 $250.00
https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/p...ence-330-ft-1348-4-125-ga-213412?cm_vc=-10005

Pros Made in USA, "S" knot, Bezinal coating on the metal wire fence lasts at least 30 years.

Cons 12.5ga stay wire 14ga filler wires, 805 lbs breaking strength. Only available as special order.

Other options... (less desirable)
Field fence
Cattle panels

i'm so flipping confused...

You also need to consider the posts you are putting the wire on. If it's all new stuff (posts and wire) then I'd go with the one with best longevity. If you are putting it on old posts then a 10-20 year mesh life might be ok if that's all the posts will last.

Hinge joint is good among trees where there fence might get something fall on it, but I find stock can stretch hinge joint easier than the wire mesh designs with one solid vertical wire.

Tim Thomson has done some good wire fencing reviews on yt.

 

[Mike CHS]

I think I already said that half our place is the Gaucho and half is Red Brand. I like the Gaucho better, it stays tighter than Red Brand under animal pressure, requires fewer posts since you can stretch it tighter and in spite of it's light appearance, it is stronger Red Brand.

 

[Baymule]

We put up the Red Brand, good thick wire, right? Uhhhh...... POS. Didn't stretch worth a durn, I pulled on it until the tractor front tires were off the ground. It is wavy at the top. It is not tight. We worked our a$$es off on that fence!

 

[farmerjan]

There is a different method to putting up, and stretching the high tensile fencing, like gaucho, and red brand fence that is a different type of wire.
We put up mostly all red brand or another type of wire. I personally don't care for high tensile fencing that is single wire, and don't have much experience with the high tensile woven wire fencing.

So some of it has to do with your experience in putting up fence. I can tell you, contrary to what I would think was common sense.... fencing should be stretched from both ends to the middle to get proper tensile strength, then attached at the junction point. I went to a fencing school and watched the professionals and really got some new insight on fence building. I am not going to try to do any woven wire fencing myself anymore. I will help with the post driver, I will "nail off" the fencing at the posts with staples, but the actual building/stretching I will leave to my son or an expert. It takes some expertise to get the right stretch, and to get it to stay tight after.
The best thing about high tensile fence is it's ability to "bounce back" after a tree or other thing falls on it. Even the woven wire fence will come back to a semblance of normal after a tree or something falls on it.

 

[Mike CHS]

I think you will like that fence. I have one run that had a tree fall down on it and packed down about the top 18 inches. I cleared it off and only the top couple of inches were bent down and I was able to straighten that out. I do have hot and ground on top that held a lot of the weight. It wasn't a big tree and was only around 6 inches at the base and of course less at the point that came down.

 

[Mike CHS]

The hot wires aren't attached to the fence but are ran above the fence. If an animal touches both a hot and ground wire at the same time, they close the circuit and receive a shock.

 

[Kusanar]

We have x braces made of wire on all of our corners. We only have boards going across on gate posts and those are both x braced and have another post going across the top to brace the 2 posts together.