anybody use these open top twisted wire fence stays?

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I don't understand them. never saw them before, just got a bunch of new fencing and wasn't sure what kind of stays to get. they look like maybe they can use some kind of special tool? what the heck is going on? why?
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Twist them onto the top wire and keep twisting to the second wire at appropriate space until twisted into all wires. They look nice for a while and eventually become a bent up mess.
exactly! You might have trouble bending one but a cow can put a 90 in one without blinking.

$70/bundle last time I bought any...at McCoys I think it was.
 
Twist them onto the top wire and keep twisting to the second wire at appropriate space until twisted into all wires. They look nice for a while and eventually become a bent up mess.
I am totally familiar with twisted wire stays, but these are weird. I am used to the ones that are a single "wire" bent in half and then twisted. you can sometomes just drop them or lightly hammer them down on your fence wires if newish, if old and rusty you sometimes really have to hand twist the dang things. but these in the image are two separate wires that are kind of loose twisted for the main length like the regular ones and at the top they are twisted together much tighter. like they are meant to have some special tool. I don't know, they seemed strange to me and I have never seen them anywhere before. they are cheaper than the regular closed top stays but seems like they might fall apart.
 
I despise those things. I threw a whole bunch in the trash and handed 1 to a guy with some tposts. I told him here, every time you get the urge to use that 1, set it to the side and drive a tpost and actually fix the problem.
are you talking about wire stays in general or the open top ones I am asking about? a tight pasture fence with wire stays is fine around here, but don't like them for more pressure areas like water lots around a pond or large holding areas. certainly not for working facilities.
 
The most common thing to use for stays here is wood. There are several guys with small saw mills. They saw up 2x2 or 2x3 juniper stays that are 4 feet long. Then cordless staple guns are used to connect them to the wire. It can be some distance between posts where the rock doesn't allow for a T post to be driven.
 
There are some fencing in this area that holds up very nice and looks good where they put the T-posts on 12' centers and tie up a wooden ash juniper (cedar) stay on 4' centers in between. They usually put a steel line post every 9 or 10 spaces and a H with braces every 400' or so. With 6 lines of wire run, it is a pretty stout fence and its used along some busy roads.
 
There are some fencing in this area that holds up very nice and looks good where they put the T-posts on 12' centers and tie up a wooden ash juniper (cedar) stay on 4' centers in between. They usually put a steel line post every 9 or 10 spaces and a H with braces every 400' or so. With 6 lines of wire run, it is a pretty stout fence and its used along some busy roads.
I've seen quite a few of those type fences out around Llano. Some of them, look really really nice. (I don't know if they go all the way around the properties or just along the 'front pasture' )
 

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