mtncows":3g7vcwsp said:I like the hi tensile barbed wire although it can be hard to work.You can unroll it alone with a little gadgit sold at TSC.A couple years ago,I put up a new road fence with 8 strands of hi-tensile smooth wire.No cattle through it yet and the deer don't tear it up like they do woven wire.The hi-tensile barbed Dad and I put up after a flood 22 years ago is still grey with little or no rusty spots.Can't say that for the conventional wire put up the same year.
me too I hate it (the barbed, no electric esperience)kaneranch":1p3vdaou said:It is a pain to put up and fix. I think that the new stuff has improoved from what it used to be. I accidentally took a role of it when I fixed fence about six months ago and I was very sorry I did.
I cheated and used the origional (and still good) posts which were set 10'-11' apart.I think you could go 12' but not over without a spacer.Next time your in Staunton at the stockyard,ask one of the owners about their fence.They use a lot along the roads and it looks good.7strand,I think.cfpinz":u1g4aivd said:mtncows":u1g4aivd said:I like the hi tensile barbed wire although it can be hard to work.You can unroll it alone with a little gadgit sold at TSC.A couple years ago,I put up a new road fence with 8 strands of hi-tensile smooth wire.No cattle through it yet and the deer don't tear it up like they do woven wire.The hi-tensile barbed Dad and I put up after a flood 22 years ago is still grey with little or no rusty spots.Can't say that for the conventional wire put up the same year.
I've got a jag on a main road that needs replacing, been thinking about putting up 7 or 8 strands of H-T with one or two hot. Never used HT as a perimeter fence, just internal. How far did you space your posts?
cfpinz