Gonna do this in three sections, I'll post some post examples of the posts I cut, like I said, then I'll show you the current project, then I'll fetch up a scattergun for the hogs and walk to other side of the way and show you about how mine would typically look. Before you make fun of me, my first comment was about how much of a making-do jerry-rigging fella I am. I also had fun getting ant-bitten dragging these out of their piles
First up is what I use for hasty corner or heavy support posts. Eight to ten feet at least, oak or another hard wood when I can get it. I brace these with shorter sections and stilts and have also sometimes quickcreted them in.
Second up is an example of what I consider my standard support posts, six to eight feet, I'll use any wood.
Third is my brace posts for gap gates or corner repairs out in the dense woods. Five to eight feet in length, harder woods preferred but I'm lenient.
Fourth is my "stint" pieces that I use between support posts or to stint up sags out in the wooly stuff.
I know you're gonna poke fun at me
@callmefence but do remember that I grew up in a place where folks lean poorer and wood is essentially free between the storms and the logging chuckaways and the brush that always needs to be cleared. When you grow up on a shoestring cow-calf, you just kinda grow up making do.
I didn't use it as a example simply because it doesn't fit the conversation of stretching wire. You know if you gonna talk the talk.
