Does anyone use this type of fencing for their pastures? Do you electrify it or leave it cold? How well does it keep bulls in? Good? Bad? Ugly? I only have a few head and am thinking about using it for the front acreage, possibly for a large drylot area as well. Did some google-ing and figured I'd go with the six strand. What do you all think?
High Tensile fencing
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If you're talking about that accursed gaucho barbed wire stuff it doesn;t need (and shouldn;t be) electrified. If you're talking about smooth high tensile like 12 1/2 gauge it needs to be electrified.
dun
dun
I use four strands, all electric. I use more line posts so there isn't as much sag between posts. I also run several stays between posts. Even if I lose power to the charger, fence will hold cattle. Because of the snow here, fence has been down two months, cattle haven't been through fence. One day after I first put it up, a car went airborne off the road through the fence. Broke a post, but none of the wires broke. Probably saved her life. Kept her car from rolling.
jkwilson
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Great stuff. Make sure your corner and brace posts are set deep and solid. I use 6 wires for normal fence, with two of them grounded and the rest hot. Our ground gets so dry in the summer that you can't get a good shock some years. I use seven wires around the heifer pen, alternating hot and ground to keep the bull out.
bigbull338
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im building a high tensile fence right now.an im going 6 wires high.all of them are cold wires.spacing my line posts 25ft apart.i installed maybe 150ft of high tensile fence in less than 2hrs.including driving the t posts.so far the cows respect the wire.ive seen 1 or 2 babies go though it.if it had of been hot theyd gotten hurt.TripleB":2g6eaqbd said:
john250
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Assume you are talking about 12.5 ga smooth hi-tensile.
Electrify 2 wires.
When it's hot, bulls won't mess with it.
I use 6 strands on property lines, 3 for divisions.
Spend money on good corners and a 100 mile fencer.
Works for me.
Electrify 2 wires.
When it's hot, bulls won't mess with it.
I use 6 strands on property lines, 3 for divisions.
Spend money on good corners and a 100 mile fencer.
Works for me.
john250
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tncattle":1hijdd2d said:
100 miles isn't really a useful measure of a fencer, but that is what I read on the box. Instead of technical measurements like "joules" they tend to put miles of fence on the box.
Use at least two ground rods.
shorty
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I have 6 wire high tensil fence , older line has 2 electric wires and we had some trouble with little calves getting out, last summer we fenced a field next to the road so we made 3 wires electric , so far we had no trouble.
