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<blockquote data-quote="Farm Fence Solutions" data-source="post: 1479264" data-attributes="member: 26621"><p>Drive a post, and don't brace it....then stretch some fence from it. The post leans. The corners that you see popping out, are from having the strut too high, or too narrow of a brace. A good wide H brace combats the vertical lifting forces. In short, there are two problems to combat here..... The first one, the lean, is resolved by setting longer posts deeper in the ground. It's a simple lever and fulcrum equation. </p><p>FWIW, I do dozens of fencing demonstrations a year, and my only rule is the host isn't allowed to build the braces. 100% of the time, they break my rule, and 100% of the time I have to waste half a day rebuilding braces after I pull them out of the ground trying to stretch wire. All of that said, it usually doesn't matter, because 95% of fence is never properly tensioned to begin with. Funny thing is, I'm driving the backroads of Central Texas......taking pictures of failed braces. I know I'm a tick weird, but it's my hobby. lol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farm Fence Solutions, post: 1479264, member: 26621"] Drive a post, and don't brace it....then stretch some fence from it. The post leans. The corners that you see popping out, are from having the strut too high, or too narrow of a brace. A good wide H brace combats the vertical lifting forces. In short, there are two problems to combat here..... The first one, the lean, is resolved by setting longer posts deeper in the ground. It's a simple lever and fulcrum equation. FWIW, I do dozens of fencing demonstrations a year, and my only rule is the host isn't allowed to build the braces. 100% of the time, they break my rule, and 100% of the time I have to waste half a day rebuilding braces after I pull them out of the ground trying to stretch wire. All of that said, it usually doesn't matter, because 95% of fence is never properly tensioned to begin with. Funny thing is, I'm driving the backroads of Central Texas......taking pictures of failed braces. I know I'm a tick weird, but it's my hobby. lol [/QUOTE]
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