FENCES ALONG ROADS

[backhoeboogie]

I have about 5 miles of 4 lane frontage and I like to overkill. I put up 48" field fence with 1 Barb wire on the bottom and 3 on the top. I space the fence post at 10' and put a stretch corner at least every 300' or as needed. My motto is all steel b/c I do not want to go back and work on it. ever. My main problem is idiots wrecking and running through it. The way we strech our field fence is take 2 2by6 boards 54" long and drill 4 holes through them. Put them on opposite sides of the fence and bolt them together TIGHT and pull. As 4 barb wire I agree use a fence stretcher not a come-along. Also remember if u use cheap materials u wil get a cheap fence.

Yep. You're done. Find a chair in the shade and sip some ice tea; you're not going to be repairing fence day in and day out.

 

[Jake]

When you stretch with the truck or the come along we've never had the wire break near the stretch point but down along the line somewhere. The best fence builders will tell you to break it 3 times but we've found it unnecessary.

The guy asked what for suggestions on how to build the best fence. This will be the tightest fence you can build and will last. You have to be careful whenever your building fence and if your wreckless you will get hurt. Sorry but I do not feel I gave bad advice.

 

[Fred]

You can pull wire plenty tight without pulling it till it breaks. Plus you have to splice the broken ends together leaving a weak point in your fence, plus cutting out the weak wire on each end of the break.

 

[Wewild]

When you stretch with the truck or the come along we've never had the wire break near the stretch point but down along the line somewhere. The best fence builders will tell you to break it 3 times but we've found it unnecessary.

The guy asked what for suggestions on how to build the best fence. This will be the tightest fence you can build and will last. You have to be careful whenever your building fence and if your wreckless you will get hurt. Sorry but I do not feel I gave bad advice.

I've never done it that way.... but if you say it works I'll try it next time.

Thanks.

 

[moocow]

Part of my fence is on a busy road and we have had cattle get out. Talk about panic mode, cows out, corn crops full grown (lots of places to hide) and dark. We run 7 strands of HT with 3 hot on the road, but it does'nt mean squat if you have cows that are jumpers, they will go over anything. No matter how stong the fence, the temperment of the cows is what matters.

 

[backhoeboogie]

When you stretch with the truck or the come along we've never had the wire break near the stretch point but down along the line somewhere. The best fence builders will tell you to break it 3 times but we've found it unnecessary.

"The best fence builders" must be buying cheap wire.

 

[Wewild]

must be buying cheap wire.

We buy cheap wire.

 

[Wewild]

Part of my fence is on a busy road and we have had cattle get out. Talk about panic mode, cows out, corn crops full grown (lots of places to hide) and dark. We run 7 strands of HT with 3 hot on the road, but it does'nt mean squat if you have cows that are jumpers, they will go over anything. No matter how stong the fence, the temperment of the cows is what matters.

Seen some cow wrecks on a 60+ mph road in the last month near about one of our places.

Never seen them in all my 40 years ... but 2 in 1 month.

I hope the occupants where ok.

Thank God they weren't ours.

 

[Scottish Lass]

Hi RichardL,

I'm a newbie to the site and I hope you don't mind me putting my penny's worth in?

My husband is a fencing contractor in Scotland, we use 7 line Rylock High Tensile with three High Tensile plain wires running bottom, middle and top, we put an extra line wire about 4 to 5" above the Rylock then a line of Barbed Wire 4 to 5" above that.

That even keeps the big Charly off.

At the moment over here the cost of wire has gone through the roof last year we were paying approx £19.00 for a roll, now it's close to the £28.00 mark.

This is making the fencing market very cut throat, work is getting harder to find because nobody wants to pay over £3.50 a mtr for the stock fencing.

Wooden fencing is okay but our cattle just luv to scratch the heck out of them.

 

[TxSimbrahShower]

Just remember field fence is more of a pain in the back side to fix after the car runs through it than the barb wire is.

Luckly we don't have any fence left along roads anymore. We use to have several miles along roads and once a month someone would run through it somewhere. We never had any cattle get out though, everybody knows us, so we usually got a phone call or knock on the door within 30 minutes or less of the accident.

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[Tod Dague]

We have 5-6 strands of barbed wire all the way around with a strand of electrified high tensile about half way up. It keeps the cows from pushing on the fence so it last much longer. Plus if you ever need to fence off an area just hook to the high tensile and your good to go.

We used to pull the hound out of barbed wire to. We put up a fence in the middle of a heat wave, and I was fixing fence in the winter.

 

[Dusty Britches]

RichardL - My point was it doesn't really matter what type of fence you have - just build it right.

What types of fencing is common in your area? How much are you willing to spend will be your deciding factors. Remember - it takes just as much time to build a fence the wrong way as the right way. If build right, you won't have to build it again.

Our perimeter fences are 5 strand barbed wire. Interior fences are 3 strand or single electric wire.

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

Also depends on what it is you want to keep in.If you have goats better make it field wire,cows barbed or electric. ;-) :cboy:

 

[MrGale]

How do you keep a row of high tensile attached AND electrified? What type of insulators do you use?

 

[Tod Dague]

I use the six inch insulators that attach to the t-post for down the line. At the corners I use the insulators that look like a lag bolt dent into a L. I take the tension spring apart and wrap it around the insulator and put it back together again. I have also used the wrap around insulators at other places, it goes up much faster but is to close to the barbed wire for my comfort.

 

[Beefy]

WHAT'S THE BEST TYPE & HEIGHT OF A FENCE ALONG A ROAD? ITS NOT A HIGH TRAFFIC ROAD BUT ITS DOES HAVE LIGHT TO MODERATE TRAFFIC ON IT. SHOULD I USE 5-6 STRAND BARBED WIRE? FIELD FENCE OR WOODED???? OR COMBO OF ?

if you have plenty of money you could build a nice wooden fence and maybe even put some wire panels nailed to the inside or something. You could paint it white or stain it black. maybe purple if you are a LSU fan.

 

[windwalker]

5 strand will work 3 low and 2 hi.

 

[sandblaster]

I have recently built new fence around the entire property setting all my posts 10' apart placing two 6'6" steel posts and one 6'6" 4-5" wooden post every 30' at a height of 52".

I then place seven strands of barb wire (15 1/2 gauge - three inch spacing) every seven inches. I set brace posts using 10-inch diameter 9-foot long electric line posts (cut to length by me) that were recently removed from along my road and provided by the rural electric company here.

I use a 2-ton come-a-long and an electric wire dog to clamp and stretch the wire tight.

I have just over 2,600 feet of road frontage and I wanted a fence that would keep the livestock in.