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<blockquote data-quote="Farm Fence Solutions" data-source="post: 1386077" data-attributes="member: 26621"><p>Thanks for the welcome callmefence. I've read this thread cover to cover.....twice.....and I think I might have a thing or two to offer. I'm a good ways NE of you, so our material availability primarily consists of timber posts instead of pipe, so most of the techniques we use in this neck of the woods will be of little use to most on the forum. Of course, T posts are readily available, but don't seem to last long in our wet clay. Fixed knot high tensile net makes up the bulk of our business, but we still build our fair share of barb and board fence. The availability of mile long rolls of barbed wire and 1/4 mile rolls of net have really helped our efficiency along on the bigger projects. I'm a huge fan of modern materials and equipment, and I'm sure that my hatred for low carbon steel wire will be nearly impossible to hide. Pipe fence and working pen projects are few and far between, but I really enjoy those projects when we get them. </p><p>There was a request for pictures of H braces, or box struts as they are known everywhere else in the world. This pic is a double H with a total width of about 20'. The wire is 1775-6, and the fence was built for Bison. The strainers are 7-8"x12', with 4-5"x10' struts. The struts are pinned with 3/8' galvanized rod. We used two wraps of 180kpsi 12.5ga for brace wire, tensioned with a medium Gripple. On single braces, we generally use a single cable and large Gripple. Yes, I know that my wood posts and Gripples would burn up in a fire. lol It has already been addressed that a brace should be at least 2.5 times the height of the fence, but there seems to be a good debate on the height of the strut. We put ours at as close to 2/3 the height of the fence as we can, and we don't have brace failures. It works well for us. </p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/h1sf0ne3z/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s27.postimg.org/h1sf0ne3z/IMG_3815.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Farm Fence Solutions, post: 1386077, member: 26621"] Thanks for the welcome callmefence. I've read this thread cover to cover.....twice.....and I think I might have a thing or two to offer. I'm a good ways NE of you, so our material availability primarily consists of timber posts instead of pipe, so most of the techniques we use in this neck of the woods will be of little use to most on the forum. Of course, T posts are readily available, but don't seem to last long in our wet clay. Fixed knot high tensile net makes up the bulk of our business, but we still build our fair share of barb and board fence. The availability of mile long rolls of barbed wire and 1/4 mile rolls of net have really helped our efficiency along on the bigger projects. I'm a huge fan of modern materials and equipment, and I'm sure that my hatred for low carbon steel wire will be nearly impossible to hide. Pipe fence and working pen projects are few and far between, but I really enjoy those projects when we get them. There was a request for pictures of H braces, or box struts as they are known everywhere else in the world. This pic is a double H with a total width of about 20'. The wire is 1775-6, and the fence was built for Bison. The strainers are 7-8"x12', with 4-5"x10' struts. The struts are pinned with 3/8' galvanized rod. We used two wraps of 180kpsi 12.5ga for brace wire, tensioned with a medium Gripple. On single braces, we generally use a single cable and large Gripple. Yes, I know that my wood posts and Gripples would burn up in a fire. lol It has already been addressed that a brace should be at least 2.5 times the height of the fence, but there seems to be a good debate on the height of the strut. We put ours at as close to 2/3 the height of the fence as we can, and we don't have brace failures. It works well for us. [url=https://postimg.org/image/h1sf0ne3z/][img]https://s27.postimg.org/h1sf0ne3z/IMG_3815.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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