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<blockquote data-quote="Kell-inKY" data-source="post: 1262646" data-attributes="member: 23511"><p>X2</p><p></p><p>I use 4 strand electric on T-posts because that is what came with the place. It took a long time to repair it but now when a tree falls on it or a strand breaks it's really easy to fix. I can't imagine needing 5 strands, and I have a section that is only 3 strand with no trouble. Some places only have 1 hot wire in the middle as well with no trouble out of well mannered and well fed cattle, your results may vary.</p><p></p><p>This will be your cheapest and easiest fencing solution, I rarely see people putting up much else these days, though I would actually rather have field fencing or barb wire myself, don't have the funds or time. I can move an electric fence in nothing flat with my homemade spinning jenny and a simple hand t-post puller.</p><p></p><p>I would not try to pull through a corner or all the way around, you need to isolate broken sections, I would make each side separate with separate tensioners on each end. On long sides, I would even break it in the middle if needed so you can isolate. I've only got a couple of sections with springs myself, there is a lot of spring in the wire already if a limb goes down, or those idiot deer run through it too many times. Only time I don't break the line for corners is for temporary fences.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kell-inKY, post: 1262646, member: 23511"] X2 I use 4 strand electric on T-posts because that is what came with the place. It took a long time to repair it but now when a tree falls on it or a strand breaks it's really easy to fix. I can't imagine needing 5 strands, and I have a section that is only 3 strand with no trouble. Some places only have 1 hot wire in the middle as well with no trouble out of well mannered and well fed cattle, your results may vary. This will be your cheapest and easiest fencing solution, I rarely see people putting up much else these days, though I would actually rather have field fencing or barb wire myself, don't have the funds or time. I can move an electric fence in nothing flat with my homemade spinning jenny and a simple hand t-post puller. I would not try to pull through a corner or all the way around, you need to isolate broken sections, I would make each side separate with separate tensioners on each end. On long sides, I would even break it in the middle if needed so you can isolate. I've only got a couple of sections with springs myself, there is a lot of spring in the wire already if a limb goes down, or those idiot deer run through it too many times. Only time I don't break the line for corners is for temporary fences. [/QUOTE]
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