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<blockquote data-quote="Rafter S" data-source="post: 1117649" data-attributes="member: 21194"><p>The floating braces may be good, I've never tried one but it looks like it should be fine. If you do decide to go the traditional route, with two posts, there are 3 mistakes that I see a lot of people make.</p><p></p><p>1. If it's at a corner, as you said, do not brace with wire in both directions (to make an X). That's fine in the middle of a long fence where you'll be stretching the wire in both directions, but it's no good at a corner. Put your rigid brace (4" round, 4x4, pipe, etc.) in horizontally between the two main posts, at waist high or higher, then put the brace wire that you will tighten running from the bottom of the end post to near the top of the second post. I see a lot of people run the brace wire in both directions, but the second wire is a waste of time, effort, and material, and is actually working against you. Go back to any fence built this way and after a few weeks (or days) there will be slack in the brace wire that's running the wrong way. It's pulling in the same direction as your barbed wires.</p><p></p><p>2. Now that I got that pet peeve off my chest, make sure the brace posts are in the ground deep enough. 3-1/2' is a bare minimum, but 4' is better. If you're tamping back with soil, it needs to be very well tamped, in small lifts. If you're setting them in concrete, then put a few inches of dirt around the bottom of the post first. That will allow moisture to leach away from the post and it will last longer. If you don't do this, and get concrete under the post, it works like a bowl to hold moisture around the post so it can't dry out.</p><p></p><p>3. Don't put the brace posts too close together. I recommend at least 8'. This is because the closer the brace wire is to horizontal the better it works. If it's closer to vertical it will put vertical lift on the corner post, and you don't want that. I've seen some of them pulled almost completely out of the ground.</p><p></p><p>I apologize if this is all stuff that you already know, but if so it might help someone else who sees it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rafter S, post: 1117649, member: 21194"] The floating braces may be good, I've never tried one but it looks like it should be fine. If you do decide to go the traditional route, with two posts, there are 3 mistakes that I see a lot of people make. 1. If it's at a corner, as you said, do not brace with wire in both directions (to make an X). That's fine in the middle of a long fence where you'll be stretching the wire in both directions, but it's no good at a corner. Put your rigid brace (4" round, 4x4, pipe, etc.) in horizontally between the two main posts, at waist high or higher, then put the brace wire that you will tighten running from the bottom of the end post to near the top of the second post. I see a lot of people run the brace wire in both directions, but the second wire is a waste of time, effort, and material, and is actually working against you. Go back to any fence built this way and after a few weeks (or days) there will be slack in the brace wire that's running the wrong way. It's pulling in the same direction as your barbed wires. 2. Now that I got that pet peeve off my chest, make sure the brace posts are in the ground deep enough. 3-1/2' is a bare minimum, but 4' is better. If you're tamping back with soil, it needs to be very well tamped, in small lifts. If you're setting them in concrete, then put a few inches of dirt around the bottom of the post first. That will allow moisture to leach away from the post and it will last longer. If you don't do this, and get concrete under the post, it works like a bowl to hold moisture around the post so it can't dry out. 3. Don't put the brace posts too close together. I recommend at least 8'. This is because the closer the brace wire is to horizontal the better it works. If it's closer to vertical it will put vertical lift on the corner post, and you don't want that. I've seen some of them pulled almost completely out of the ground. I apologize if this is all stuff that you already know, but if so it might help someone else who sees it. [/QUOTE]
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