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<blockquote data-quote="johndeerefarmer" data-source="post: 810258" data-attributes="member: 2084"><p>Actually, that would be the logical place to put it, but if you think about standing between two post, firmly planted in the ground, with a hand on each post pulling them together toward you, the easiest place to pull them together is the top. I personally have never seen a 6" fence post with a 1 or 2 foot bend in the top because the brace was put lower.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Since we put the horizontal bracing in the center we use two wires forming an "X" from the top of one post to the bottom of the other. This way the bottom of the second post is keeping the top of the other post from leaning. Also the "x" made of barbwire helps to hold the cross brace in place in case a cow runs into or is knocked into it. Anyhow my grandpa and dad started making them that way in 1942 and we have been making them the same way ever since. Also, I was taught to not put wood posts in concrete, it would make them rot faster.</p><p></p><p>On a side note, in the forties and fifties all of our corner posts and line posts were bodark cut from our farm by hand- no chainsaw! Believe it or not, I can still show you some of those posts that are still not rotted. We also had a Katy railroad line run thru our property and some of the cross ties were also used as corner posts as well as posts in the barns. Some of these cresoted oak timbers are still holding our hay barn up today</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="johndeerefarmer, post: 810258, member: 2084"] Actually, that would be the logical place to put it, but if you think about standing between two post, firmly planted in the ground, with a hand on each post pulling them together toward you, the easiest place to pull them together is the top. I personally have never seen a 6" fence post with a 1 or 2 foot bend in the top because the brace was put lower.[/quote] Since we put the horizontal bracing in the center we use two wires forming an "X" from the top of one post to the bottom of the other. This way the bottom of the second post is keeping the top of the other post from leaning. Also the "x" made of barbwire helps to hold the cross brace in place in case a cow runs into or is knocked into it. Anyhow my grandpa and dad started making them that way in 1942 and we have been making them the same way ever since. Also, I was taught to not put wood posts in concrete, it would make them rot faster. On a side note, in the forties and fifties all of our corner posts and line posts were bodark cut from our farm by hand- no chainsaw! Believe it or not, I can still show you some of those posts that are still not rotted. We also had a Katy railroad line run thru our property and some of the cross ties were also used as corner posts as well as posts in the barns. Some of these cresoted oak timbers are still holding our hay barn up today [/QUOTE]
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