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<blockquote data-quote="fasttommy" data-source="post: 1534566" data-attributes="member: 22999"><p>The wire you are looking at is great. It will last a really, really long time. Just do not monkey with knotting it, make all connections with crimp sleeves. The 200ksi is too stiff for easy knotting. But it is quite a bit stronger than 170ksi. It is super cheap for what you are getting and it goes up really fast. Plus you are only doing it once, instead of putting up and taking down all the time (i.e. doing everything with polywire). One strand should work fine, unless in your soil you need to run a ground wire for electric functionality, then use two. If it were me, I would use diagonal braces rather than a single post brace, but maybe your soil is more stable than mine. I'd probably put 3 permanent cross fences in (2 more parallel to the one in your drawing so you have four roughly equal size pastures that are 660' wide. This is much a more manageable distance for setting up/taking down polywire. Gates on the ends. The trouble with that would be water, you'd have to run two waterlines (one down each of the outside fencelines) rather than one. Yes, portable tanks would be great if you can pump water from the pond so that you can keep the tank full when cattle are drinking. Otherwise put in about 6 or 8 tire tanks (several along each waterline) with float valves and gravity flow if you can. I have no clue if you have enough elevation drop for gravity flow though, maybe that won't work. No need for "hole" style waterers, just use either portable or tires. Portable tanks take a bit more time to move around though. With the tire tank setup, just run out your polywire break, let the cows through, and go home.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fasttommy, post: 1534566, member: 22999"] The wire you are looking at is great. It will last a really, really long time. Just do not monkey with knotting it, make all connections with crimp sleeves. The 200ksi is too stiff for easy knotting. But it is quite a bit stronger than 170ksi. It is super cheap for what you are getting and it goes up really fast. Plus you are only doing it once, instead of putting up and taking down all the time (i.e. doing everything with polywire). One strand should work fine, unless in your soil you need to run a ground wire for electric functionality, then use two. If it were me, I would use diagonal braces rather than a single post brace, but maybe your soil is more stable than mine. I'd probably put 3 permanent cross fences in (2 more parallel to the one in your drawing so you have four roughly equal size pastures that are 660' wide. This is much a more manageable distance for setting up/taking down polywire. Gates on the ends. The trouble with that would be water, you'd have to run two waterlines (one down each of the outside fencelines) rather than one. Yes, portable tanks would be great if you can pump water from the pond so that you can keep the tank full when cattle are drinking. Otherwise put in about 6 or 8 tire tanks (several along each waterline) with float valves and gravity flow if you can. I have no clue if you have enough elevation drop for gravity flow though, maybe that won't work. No need for "hole" style waterers, just use either portable or tires. Portable tanks take a bit more time to move around though. With the tire tank setup, just run out your polywire break, let the cows through, and go home. [/QUOTE]
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