Might I suggest you do away with all the temporary bracing at the end of your stretch and simply park your truck or tractor there and stretch off your trailer hitch or tractor bucket. When the back of the truck or equipment starts to slide sideways you have plenty of tension on your wire. You can also just hook up your come-a-long to the center of the end post you will tie to, and place the stretcher bar about 8 ft down line. Pull till taught off the center of a chain hooked to top and bottom of the stretcher bar. Simply tie it off as shown. Disconnect the come-a-long and tie off the last wire where the cable was wrapped on the post. Time is money...you can speed this process up by eliminating all the "temporary bracing". Diamond Rim Fence, AZ Contractor
Michael Waterman that is exactly how we did it. Learnt from my great neighbors. Perhaps this video is by a commercial brand and they wanted to be legally correct lol
Okay, forgive my ignorance, I'm about to embark on building my very first fence once my home sale goes through... what are the diagonal metal wires for? Also, if you have your fencing going around a corner do you continue the same when tightening the come alongs?
I LOVE your farm. We are currently looking at a 4 acre place to build ours. Would your "cattle" fence hold horses alright too? We would put up an electric fence also to keep all of our naughty animals in the fence.
We absolutely do! We have many of install videos on our Red Brand RU-vid channel to help with your fence installation. Here is a link to the channel: ru-vid.com Here is a link to one video specifically on installing posts: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zd9d96gJbuA.html There are also others on bracing as well.
When you relieve the tension on the wire the fence is going to LOSE a lot of it's Tension , NOT GOOD ! YOU should have stretched beyond the end of the Corner brace and then stapled the wire to the post , THEN released the tension !!!! Then tie off each individual wire WITHOUT loosing any tightness of the fence !
I wish I would have used this rather than the no climb. Would have kept rabbits out of the yard. The rabbits can get through the No Climb. You got a $50,000 tractor there, just pull the wire with the tractor. Forget all that dummy bracing.
He addressed your comment in this video by saying that external anchor is not as good as the dummy allows the pull to set the permanent bracing. See 10:47.
Seems like a horse could kick that fence and break a wire and later another horse or the same one, would kick the same spot and get hung up. Less is more with horses. A two strand slick wire fence, I think, would be better than that fence.
Usually in any kind of livestock you dont expect "wild" or "unworked" animals to be turned into pasture or lots beforehand. So no, its not likely to happen unless some wild event stampede's them into it.
