On your corner post, it would be better to run a brace from the top of the corner post to the bottom of the adjacent post to brace it. After time the wire will stretch. On the gate post a post brace might work, maybe a wire too so it doesn't come apart. Cement might work, but with your sandy soil nothing is 100%.
I know I’m late to the show, but when you put your tension wires in you want a shallower angle. Usually 20 degrees is max. What happens if it’s too steep is it literally creates a lever and lifts instead of applies down force. I learned that myself the hard way.. had a corner lift and catapult nearly 16 feet to the t post down the line
@@MaynardFamilyHomestead easy mistake to make! I did many fences without a problem, but the first time I ever used tamped posts instead of big concrete footings and combined that with my first ever high tensile pull. It was a good field lesson lol.
Nearly 6 years ago had our 3 of our 4 property lines dozed and about 7,500' of 6 wire fencing put up. After a few days of placing posts it only took 2 men and a skid steer about a day and a half to put up the wire. I hoped to learn from them more about how they went about stringing it, and took off work early both days to be able to watch part of the process unfortunately I didn't get home early enough either day. I do know that they laid out all 6 wires at one time using a jig they built for the process but I am not sure if they strung/fastened the top or bottom wire first. Driving by other properties I have seen others fencing their own property and about half of them string the top wire first while the other half string the bottom wire first. My son in law who did a bit of fence work during his high school and college days tells me you have a lot less interference with the processing stringing the top wire first. Now I have about 3,000' that I plan to do myself (the 4th side of our property and some cross fencing. Curious as to your logic of doing the bottom wire first ?
Your stay should be higher and butted into both posts. Then run a double plain wire around the base of the corner post to the top of the front post and twist it off half way up. You obviously haven't done much fencing. In New Zealand we don't use barbed wire like you Americans, we use high tensile plain wire with great success. You could learn something from us.
