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<blockquote data-quote="Darhawk" data-source="post: 502811" data-attributes="member: 7766"><p>You're getting excellent advice here, especially on the corner bracing. Also remember that on those H-braces to which a gate is attached, use two brace wires, X-fashion top to bottom, between your posts because the gate weight will also put pressure on the H-post to which it is attached.</p><p></p><p>I string five wire, with the bottom wire 12-inches above the ground, with remaining four wires 10-inches apart (handle length of your fencing tool). This puts you top wire at 52 inches, with my 6 1/2 ft t-posts driven down to 55 inches, leaving 3-inches from top wire to top of t-post. All corner and H-posts are 6-inch treated, set 3-ft in the ground, 12-inch post hole, in quikcrete. Every 20 t-posts I drill and set a 4-inch wood post in quikcrete (have sandy to sandy-red clay soil mix here). I too string the bottom wire corner post to corner post as my gui-wire to run a straight post line. One time hired a guy to build fence and he used a string line. That particular fence line looks like it was run by a drunken sailor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darhawk, post: 502811, member: 7766"] You're getting excellent advice here, especially on the corner bracing. Also remember that on those H-braces to which a gate is attached, use two brace wires, X-fashion top to bottom, between your posts because the gate weight will also put pressure on the H-post to which it is attached. I string five wire, with the bottom wire 12-inches above the ground, with remaining four wires 10-inches apart (handle length of your fencing tool). This puts you top wire at 52 inches, with my 6 1/2 ft t-posts driven down to 55 inches, leaving 3-inches from top wire to top of t-post. All corner and H-posts are 6-inch treated, set 3-ft in the ground, 12-inch post hole, in quikcrete. Every 20 t-posts I drill and set a 4-inch wood post in quikcrete (have sandy to sandy-red clay soil mix here). I too string the bottom wire corner post to corner post as my gui-wire to run a straight post line. One time hired a guy to build fence and he used a string line. That particular fence line looks like it was run by a drunken sailor. [/QUOTE]
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