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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 756272" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>Don't try running water lines across the ground if you're in an area that gets heavy frosts - there's a few exposed lines on this farm, and we get maybe a month's worth of frosts a year, mostly mild ones. </p><p>Otherwise, you can get away with it, they just don't last so many years if they're above ground rather than buried.</p><p></p><p>As Agman said - you can run a fair length of high tensile between two wooden posts, with just T's or pigtails in between (I haven't used fiberglass). If you're planning having a decent tension on the wire, I'd be tempted to put a strong post either end rather than relying on just the T-posts.</p><p>If you try it, let us know how it works.</p><p></p><p>I'm thinking those lengths of PVC pipe could surely be adapted to slip over a pigtail post. What about using the 50mm (that's the size I use for effluent, there's heaps of it lying around because it eventually wears out) for the height of a pigtail standard, then the smaller gauge pipe slipped inside with a nail or two to hold it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 756272, member: 9267"] Don't try running water lines across the ground if you're in an area that gets heavy frosts - there's a few exposed lines on this farm, and we get maybe a month's worth of frosts a year, mostly mild ones. Otherwise, you can get away with it, they just don't last so many years if they're above ground rather than buried. As Agman said - you can run a fair length of high tensile between two wooden posts, with just T's or pigtails in between (I haven't used fiberglass). If you're planning having a decent tension on the wire, I'd be tempted to put a strong post either end rather than relying on just the T-posts. If you try it, let us know how it works. I'm thinking those lengths of PVC pipe could surely be adapted to slip over a pigtail post. What about using the 50mm (that's the size I use for effluent, there's heaps of it lying around because it eventually wears out) for the height of a pigtail standard, then the smaller gauge pipe slipped inside with a nail or two to hold it. [/QUOTE]
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