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Low $ Upgrading from 4 to 3 strand fences ?
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<blockquote data-quote="fence_it" data-source="post: 1509840" data-attributes="member: 30068"><p>My advice with fence is always to have something that's good enough for you to sleep at night. That being said there are plenty of 3 strand fences holding cattle in. I would not mixed barbed and electric. I would recommend taking all the old wire down, and assuming your posts and braces are still good, put up minimum 4 new strands of barb or HT electric. If your just looking for something temporary you could try just adding a strand or two of electric like your doing. Some of the guys who lease pastures around here with old decrepit fences will actually put out fiberglass rods with a couple strands of polywire to keep pressure off the old fence. It seems to work okay. </p><p></p><p></p><p>A couple weeks ago we "upgraded" a 5 strand barb fence that was just not working for a ladies sheep. While not that old, the principle is the same. We just stretched 949-6 fixed knot right over the top of the barb. No more sheep getting out and relatively inexpensive compared to putting in a whole new fence. Plus it is a true physical barrier, not a pain barrier like an electric smooth wire fence would be. A new fence would just not work with her budget. So this is what we came up with. </p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/image/zez990tcd/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s22.postimg.cc/zez990tcd/20180510_140855_resized.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/image/llawjz8gt/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s22.postimg.cc/llawjz8gt/20180511_110845_resized.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/image/d31gfnhdp/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s22.postimg.cc/d31gfnhdp/20180511_111005_resized.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.cc/image/zez9918rx/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s22.postimg.cc/zez9918rx/20180511_111055_resized.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fence_it, post: 1509840, member: 30068"] My advice with fence is always to have something that's good enough for you to sleep at night. That being said there are plenty of 3 strand fences holding cattle in. I would not mixed barbed and electric. I would recommend taking all the old wire down, and assuming your posts and braces are still good, put up minimum 4 new strands of barb or HT electric. If your just looking for something temporary you could try just adding a strand or two of electric like your doing. Some of the guys who lease pastures around here with old decrepit fences will actually put out fiberglass rods with a couple strands of polywire to keep pressure off the old fence. It seems to work okay. A couple weeks ago we "upgraded" a 5 strand barb fence that was just not working for a ladies sheep. While not that old, the principle is the same. We just stretched 949-6 fixed knot right over the top of the barb. No more sheep getting out and relatively inexpensive compared to putting in a whole new fence. Plus it is a true physical barrier, not a pain barrier like an electric smooth wire fence would be. A new fence would just not work with her budget. So this is what we came up with. [url=https://postimg.cc/image/zez990tcd/][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/zez990tcd/20180510_140855_resized.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.cc/image/llawjz8gt/][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/llawjz8gt/20180511_110845_resized.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.cc/image/d31gfnhdp/][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/d31gfnhdp/20180511_111005_resized.jpg[/img][/url] [url=https://postimg.cc/image/zez9918rx/][img]https://s22.postimg.cc/zez9918rx/20180511_111055_resized.jpg[/img][/url] [/QUOTE]
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