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<blockquote data-quote="Lucky_P" data-source="post: 1266402" data-attributes="member: 12607"><p>Almost everything here is electrified HT wire - all but one 10 acre bull lot is just 2 strands; bull lot is 4. Most of it 20 years old, and looks as good as the day it went up. </p><p>No issues with the cows getting out - but I 'm also well off the road; if I had road frontage, I'd probably have something a bit 'tighter', at least along the road. </p><p>Ends/corners pretty important - but on long straight flat runs... post spacings are out around 100 ft. </p><p>Guess if the grid goes down, I could be in trouble... but until then, I ain't changing. </p><p></p><p>Aaron...I've got the money. I'm not putting up barbed wire. </p><p>Grew up with barbed wire - mostly through the woods or at the edge of the woods; road frontage...a constant battle with kudzu pulling the fence down. It was a never-ending battle keeping the fence fixed. LIke SD said, with HT...I can cruise the lines, remove any limbs/trees, wire pops right back into place... might spend half a day 2 or 3 times a year cruising fence, replacing an insulator once in a while when a deer hits the wire and breaks 'em. Can count on one hand the injuries I've sustained working with HT... barbed wire...can't even begin to count the scars...</p><p>That said, I've only got ~110 acres enclosed, cross-fenced into nineteen 5-acre paddocks and two 10-acre bull/sacrifice lots.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lucky_P, post: 1266402, member: 12607"] Almost everything here is electrified HT wire - all but one 10 acre bull lot is just 2 strands; bull lot is 4. Most of it 20 years old, and looks as good as the day it went up. No issues with the cows getting out - but I 'm also well off the road; if I had road frontage, I'd probably have something a bit 'tighter', at least along the road. Ends/corners pretty important - but on long straight flat runs... post spacings are out around 100 ft. Guess if the grid goes down, I could be in trouble... but until then, I ain't changing. Aaron...I've got the money. I'm not putting up barbed wire. Grew up with barbed wire - mostly through the woods or at the edge of the woods; road frontage...a constant battle with kudzu pulling the fence down. It was a never-ending battle keeping the fence fixed. LIke SD said, with HT...I can cruise the lines, remove any limbs/trees, wire pops right back into place... might spend half a day 2 or 3 times a year cruising fence, replacing an insulator once in a while when a deer hits the wire and breaks 'em. Can count on one hand the injuries I've sustained working with HT... barbed wire...can't even begin to count the scars... That said, I've only got ~110 acres enclosed, cross-fenced into nineteen 5-acre paddocks and two 10-acre bull/sacrifice lots. [/QUOTE]
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