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HT elec fence question.
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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 1190111" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>"Tight as banjo strings" increases the likelihood of wire breakage and may bend your end posts if they're too light... so I've heard. I'm quite sure I've NEVER actually bent an end post by overtightening HT :cowboy: </p><p></p><p>I wouldn't tie electric HT straight off to wooden posts - they can carry a surprising amount of electricity even when dry and will crackle when wet. A lot of the old fences here have the hot wire passed through plastic pipe - like water pipe, but 1/4 inch - wrapped around the end post as an insulator. I've seen it done with 3/4 inch as well. For poly wire the cheat way to do it is just tie a piece of string to the end of the polywire & use the string to hook on to stuff.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 1190111, member: 9267"] "Tight as banjo strings" increases the likelihood of wire breakage and may bend your end posts if they're too light... so I've heard. I'm quite sure I've NEVER actually bent an end post by overtightening HT :cowboy: I wouldn't tie electric HT straight off to wooden posts - they can carry a surprising amount of electricity even when dry and will crackle when wet. A lot of the old fences here have the hot wire passed through plastic pipe - like water pipe, but 1/4 inch - wrapped around the end post as an insulator. I've seen it done with 3/4 inch as well. For poly wire the cheat way to do it is just tie a piece of string to the end of the polywire & use the string to hook on to stuff. [/QUOTE]
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