Farm Fence Solutions":26pl89kx said:
Three strands of HT ain't fence, but I'll play along. What do you figure for annual maintenance?
Maintenance is very minimal, but we do check voltage sometimes. The deer will wrap the hot wire in my barbed wire fence and ground the fence out. I have had to change my circuit board and a couple of fuses out twice in my fence charger because of lighting. And every so often a deer will tear up an insulator. I bought a few bags of the cheap snap on insulators that are junk, you have to use the insulators that screw on the T post. I put springs and ratchets on both ends of a run. I definitely spend some money on herbicides, I mix a stiff batch of Element 3, Roundup and diesel fuel and spray the fence lines every other year. I've never had a HT wire break yet, even after two hurricanes and some terrible straight line winds. All I do is cut the trees off the wire and put a new insulator or two on the T post.
How can you not call a 3 wire HT fence not a fence?
fence
fens/Submit
noun
1.
a barrier, railing, or other upright structure, typically of wood or wire, enclosing an area of ground to mark a boundary, control access, or prevent escape.
synonyms: barrier, fencing, enclosure, barricade, stockade, palisade, fenceline; railing
"a gap in the fence"