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jon f mn

jon f mn

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Going to Put up a 4 Barb wire fence soon. The corners will have 3 wood posts with a brace between. The Rest will be steel T posts. What should the spacing be for the T posts?
 
5 feet for the corner wood post and 10 feet for the metal T post is common around here.
Some put a wire stay between the post on line fence.
4 wires is about as cheep as I would go and on a large area.
For a small area you need 5 or 6 wires or better yet field fence.
 
In Northern Indiana we put a 8 foot rail road rail 1/2 way into the ground for a corner. Then 8' away each direction another (same) post. A compression 2" used pipe from bottom of second posts at ground level, set in notches to the top of the corner post, then a tension wire fron the top of the secondary posts to the bottom of the corner post Set in notches to prevent them from pulling down or up. The T posts were at 15 ft apart. Jim
 
I use 8 foot to set posts. I also use a jack post to keep the corner post from being pulled up out of the ground.

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(quoted from post at 15:53:49 10/24/19) Going to Put up a 4 Barb wire fence soon. The corners will have 3 wood posts with a brace between. The Rest will be steel T posts. What should the spacing be for the T posts?
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I put up 1300 feet of field fence...used galvanized 2" posts with 1 1/2" braces with clamps, set at 45 deg., everything set in quick crete...at every 330 foot splice...48" field fence.."t" posts 12 feet apart...
 
10' at most, but that's here. 3 Tposts between every real wooden post. On your flat ground, may get away w longer spans.
 
TF said, "One of the best days on my farm when the last of the barb wire fences was replaced."

Same here. The barbed wire on this place is now totally gone.

High tensile wire allows 50' post spacing in flat terrain.
 
For corner posts we always just set a deadhead like the guy wires for the power poles. Only if you don't want them to stick out past the corner of the fence put it back on the second post then just set a post to hold the wire at the corner. The deadhead will hold the best with no give if done right. We used a post piece about 2-3 feet long and buried it laying down cross ways of the post then wrap a wire or rod around it to tie to. Have also put the rod through the middle for the wire to fasten to going to the top of the post. dig the hole at an angle against the pull then just a wee notch for the wire/rod going to the post. With wire tight and post tamped in good it stays put and will not pull up with frost.
 
growing up dad always set posts at 16' i worked for a professional fence builder a couple times and he put posts 12' apart. when you string the wire he use to pull it up and we would pull it away from the posts to stretch it then pull it tight so it wouldnt sag.
 
I use railroad ties and 2x12 for the corners to make an H brace and one H brace on the half way point of the fence
 
Missouri has fence laws posts 12 ft apart 5 barb wire. And woven wire 42 inches 1 barb 6 inches above woven wire.never enforced but if livestock gets out causes a wreck ,POKE EM STAB EM N FLEECE EM atorneys at law will definatly show you the fence law.
 
Line fence between your property and neighboring property? Minnesota has a statute that covers that. Dividing fences can be anything you want. I like to see a fence with railroad ties for corners, either 3 or 5 post per corner, then 2 steel, then a treated wood post. Cattle will love to reach under, through, or over a fence to get that last blade of grass and will bend steel posts. The wood post will add a lot of strength to the fence.
 
Around here 8 to 10 feet, also we do our corners with 2 3/8 drill stem pipe welded h braces seems to last longer than wood posts.
 
I have to question just how many miles of fence you guys have with posts less than 16 feet apart as well as the high tensile wire, have?
Best day of my life was when I got away from high tensile wire. To each their own.

To answer your question Jon, I always went 16.5 feet. A roll of Red Brand barb wire is 80 rods and that is how many posts I need.
 
I have mostly 48" woven wire and the last few years have gone to 16ft stock panels with posts 8ft apart.A little pricey in a way but no braced corner or stretch posts to put in,no stretching and fighting the wire once its unrolled.Ends up costing $1.85 a ft for materials and easy to install,plus panels can be easily contoured to irregular ground.Nothing gets thru either including goats,calves,LGD,geese etc.
 

I put in five conductor high tensile. At that time it was galvanized steel, and you really sucked it up tight. It took some very strong insulators to hold it up or down. In some low places I installed 2x2 battens held into the ground with auger type retainers. I used utility poles for ends and corners.
 
(quoted from post at 19:53:49 10/24/19) Going to Put up a 4 Barb wire fence soon. The corners will have 3 wood posts with a brace between. The Rest will be steel T posts. What should the spacing be for the T posts?
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I think the first questions should be what kind of stock are you fencing in or out, what kind of ground do you have (clay, sand, rock) and is it level or hills and ditches?
 

I'd want some serious corners with at least 8x8's sunk well below frost line. I've tried posts at 10 and 12 foot spacing. My next fence will be 8' just because on clay the frost heaves the posts a little each year and when it's wet and the cows push on the fence the posts move. If at all possible I'd run a hot wire inside the fence at chest height.
 

For years we ran 4 strand barb wire on border fence and 3 strand interior fencing but seems like cows push thru a fence more today.
All new fences we built now are 6 strand border and 5 strand interior.
Corners and gates are double wood post 8 ft apart with a 4" post pined between them just below the top strand, then brace wire ran diagonally on corners and double braced at gates.
The rest of the fence is 6 1/2' T post every 10 ft with a wood post set every 100 ft.
We were having issues with 6' T post getting loose over time and switched to 6 1/2'
Around barn lots and corralling areas we use 6-7" wood post on 8' centers and cattle panels.
 
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