attaching panels to post

[schamblee]

what is the best way to attach 10 ft long working panels to round post in the ground.. Im leaning towards just really short ratchet straps but open to any suggestions.. The post are 8 inch diameter wood set in the ground and the panels are the heavy duty working panels similar to the one below..

 

[chaded]

Chain

 

[schamblee]

Chain

id like something that you can get tighter than a chain to keep the panels from moving??

 

[coachg]

Something like this but heavier made/ stronger . Local cowboy has a roping arena built like that

 

[Travlr]

id like something that you can get tighter than a chain to keep the panels from moving??

I'd say baling wire, but those days are long gone. You could still use baling twine and if you need it really tight secure it with a beekeeper's knot. How many panels/posts are you using?

 

[chaded]

id like something that you can get tighter than a chain to keep the panels from moving??

I’m probably not the one to give advice on this. Lol. I have some chained up and a couple that i used rope as a “temporary” solution.

 

[Silver]

Number 9 wire twisted with fencing pliers holds most of this place together.

 

[Brute 23]

I'm probably not the one to give advice on this. Lol. I have some chained up and a couple that i used rope as a "temporary" solution.

Same here. I have them wired, roped and ratchet strapped.

Actually, with panels like that I don't like to attach them to firmly to posts. Their "strength" is in moving. If you attach them solid you will find out they bend really easy.

We re-do old pens with panels like that. We will gut the old boards or rotten sections, especially on the interior, for more modern handling designs. Ill leave an old post if they are solid to tie off to here and there.

 

[clarkmorefarm]

Galvanized eye bolts.

That's what I installed my waterer gates that divide my pastures with.

 

[Silver]

That’s too high class for this outfit

 

[schamblee]

Here is a picture of the post and panels.. the ends of the panels are square tubing so I don’t think the clips posted earlier will work..

 

[kenny thomas]

Heavy zip ties.

 

[Warren Allison]

what is the best way to attach 10 ft long working panels to round post in the ground.. Im leaning towards just really short ratchet straps but open to any suggestions.. The post are 8 inch diameter wood set in the ground and the panels are the heavy duty working panels similar to the one below..

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I made an arena once with panels like these, only 8' not 10'. Put a 4x4 post in every 8'4". As in your picture, use 2 on the 4x4 on the right side of it, screwed in to fit between the two brackets, and use the eyebolts to drop the locking pin through. The 4x4 on the left side would have 4 eye bolts, one just above and one just below the one bracket, and we'd use a bent piece of rebar as the pin for that side. So 6 eye bolts per panel, or per post, however you want to look at it. Used the eye bolts that were screw in, not the kind with a nut on them.

 

[Pnw Farmer]

I'd say baling wire, but those days are long gone. You could still use baling twine and if you need it really tight secure it with a beekeeper's knot. How many panels/posts are you using?

I once mentioned to my uncle, whose place we run our little herd at, about throwing out a couple of the feed bags full of baling wire that my grandpa kept and passed on with the place. I don't think I've ever seen him turn so serious about keeping something. You'da thought he had diamonds hiding in those bags. That stuff brought back bad memories of the baler I ran it through, 224W with a 4 cylinder Wisconsin.

 

[RDFF]

Brute's comment is appropriate... these panels are lightweight, and if attached to an "immovable post", they're gonna bend, whereas, if they're installed in a circle and just tied to each other, they have some "give"... therefore, they're "more" forgiving that way. But ultimately, they're still going to get bent up. But that's how they're designed to be used, as "freestanding" and "tied together to make a circle to support them. Obviously you "can" attach them to solid posts, to make a more rigid fence, and to allow a fence in a straight line, like you've done in your picture. But they're only as strong as they are.

I'd recommend chain, nylon ratchet straps won't last very long outside in the sun. You could always make up a clamp shaped kind of like a "W", with a carriage bolt in that center point to bolt through the post, and with each vertical of the panel in the two "V's" on each side. The problem with this is the panels will have to align pretty close to perfectly at each joint. How accurately are your posts placed? Another way would be to simply lock the panels together using their "pin system" as designed, and then wherever a panel crosses a post, drill through the panel and the post... and run a long carriage bolt through. The panel with the bolts run in through the post is solid to the post then, and the "pin system" ties the end of the next panel rigidly to the first panel. Won't matter too much how accurately your posts have been installed then... but it would be "best" if your bolts went through an end vertical on one or the other panel.

 

[GoWyo]

Baling wire here. I have an old NH wire tie baler we make about 60 bales a year for "barn hay", so always have some around and keep several loops in every vehicle.

 

[EasTex]

I used barbed wire on mine.

 

[wbvs58]

2.5mm plain wire and a Cobb & Co hitch, you people probably call it a Wells Fargo hitch.
https://rockfarming.com/2016/04/07/how-to-tie-a-cobb-and-co-hitch/
Ken

 

[Stonewall Joe]

I made an arena once with panels like these, only 8' not 10'. Put a 4x4 post in every 8'4". As in your picture, use 2 on the 4x4 on the right side of it, screwed in to fit between the two brackets, and use the eyebolts to drop the locking pin through. The 4x4 on the left side would have 4 eye bolts, one just above and one just below the one bracket, and we'd use a bent piece of rebar as the pin for that side. So 6 eye bolts per panel, or per post, however you want to look at it. Used the eye bolts that were screw in, not the kind with a nut on them.

we've used the eye bolts with a lot of success and it makes it easy to take up and down

 

[Mrcopier]

Wire here as well