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Corner posts for 5-strand ??
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<blockquote data-quote="cmjust0" data-source="post: 444964" data-attributes="member: 2882"><p>I don't do H-braces at true corners anymore.. Where the fence line begins or ends and there's a straightline pull, yes, but not corners.. For corners, I do what I believe Dun calls the "floating brace," which is basically a diagonal post with the upper end cut into the upright and the bottom resting on a flat rock.. I usually give the upright a little backward rake, just to give the brace a little more leverage against the fence.. Add a loop of hi-tensile around the bottoms, parallel to the ground, and it WILL NOT kick out.</p><p></p><p>I've got one like it holding back a 6-strand hi-tensile fence in soft ground, with 160lbs of concrete around the upright.. Instead of kicking the diagonal brace out under the load, it's trying to lift the whole corner out of the ground -- concrete and all -- as it wants to tip the entire brace over into the pasture.. It lifted out about three inches and held... </p><p></p><p>Kinda weird to walk past it and see the "lip" of the concrete out of the ground, but it's not going anywhere.. I added that brace there after every H-brace configuration I could think of failed <u>miserably and completely</u>..</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cmjust0, post: 444964, member: 2882"] I don't do H-braces at true corners anymore.. Where the fence line begins or ends and there's a straightline pull, yes, but not corners.. For corners, I do what I believe Dun calls the "floating brace," which is basically a diagonal post with the upper end cut into the upright and the bottom resting on a flat rock.. I usually give the upright a little backward rake, just to give the brace a little more leverage against the fence.. Add a loop of hi-tensile around the bottoms, parallel to the ground, and it WILL NOT kick out. I've got one like it holding back a 6-strand hi-tensile fence in soft ground, with 160lbs of concrete around the upright.. Instead of kicking the diagonal brace out under the load, it's trying to lift the whole corner out of the ground -- concrete and all -- as it wants to tip the entire brace over into the pasture.. It lifted out about three inches and held... Kinda weird to walk past it and see the "lip" of the concrete out of the ground, but it's not going anywhere.. I added that brace there after every H-brace configuration I could think of failed [u]miserably and completely[/u].. [/QUOTE]
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