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<blockquote data-quote="Earl Thigpen" data-source="post: 549810" data-attributes="member: 3999"><p>It's absolutely amazing how mis-information gets spread around like this. Gaucho wire is the best product to ever hit the cattle business and it's also a little cheaper than anything else I have found. I use 15 1/2 ga. two point and have some thats been up for thirty years and its STILL not rusted. I've had 6 wt calves run into it at a full run and not break it. And as far as "stretching" it it's not required and it won't "stretch" anyway. </p><p></p><p>It is high tensil strength wire. If you let it go it will coil up on you. So will any high tensil strength wire. So I don't let it go and have absolutely no problem what-so-ever working with it. The ONLY thing I don't like about the wire is it is not wound on a form which means that when you get down close to the core you need to slow down a bit but thats easily fixed by putting a pipe (I use 4" PVC) and a couple of old dic blades turned out to unroll the wire.</p><p></p><p>The spring loaded "T" post drivers work OK. It keeps you from having to lift the driver after each down thrust but don't let go of it because it might come flying off the end of the post and hit you on the head. 700 "T" posts with a manual driver? Glad you're doing it and not me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Earl Thigpen, post: 549810, member: 3999"] It's absolutely amazing how mis-information gets spread around like this. Gaucho wire is the best product to ever hit the cattle business and it's also a little cheaper than anything else I have found. I use 15 1/2 ga. two point and have some thats been up for thirty years and its STILL not rusted. I've had 6 wt calves run into it at a full run and not break it. And as far as "stretching" it it's not required and it won't "stretch" anyway. It is high tensil strength wire. If you let it go it will coil up on you. So will any high tensil strength wire. So I don't let it go and have absolutely no problem what-so-ever working with it. The ONLY thing I don't like about the wire is it is not wound on a form which means that when you get down close to the core you need to slow down a bit but thats easily fixed by putting a pipe (I use 4" PVC) and a couple of old dic blades turned out to unroll the wire. The spring loaded "T" post drivers work OK. It keeps you from having to lift the driver after each down thrust but don't let go of it because it might come flying off the end of the post and hit you on the head. 700 "T" posts with a manual driver? Glad you're doing it and not me. [/QUOTE]
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