!@#$% Fencing!!!!

[angus guy]

Heck Judith just put up guardrail if them dang old horses eat that they deserve what ever they get from steel.

[Shorthornguy]

Sounds like yer having fun. Just relax and have a couple cold beers and take a fresh look at it. I have fought every kind of fence there is. The most fun is when it is 40 below and the old rusty barb wire keeps breaking every time ya try to strech it.

Replaced all my fence when I retired. I cut back to a 14 hr day. I use 6 ft
T- posts with 5 high tensile wires all hot. I put the biggest best fencer I could afford on it. 150 mile. Cows don't go near it. Deer hunters don't either.

[Judith]

There are a couple of folk on here that have the guard rail fencing up, it looks real slick from the photos I have seen. The big problem is these dopes doing reining slides into fence that doesnt flex. A really good buddy of mine lost 3 yearlings on a pipe fence last year (AQHA) broken necks. Man horses are dumb!!!! As for the beer, After wrestling with the stoopid wire for over 10 hours now, I am going to sit down and watch a movie and have some wine. If I am still cranky after wine therapy. I will switch to ice cream Takes alot to get me this grumpy. I still want to kick something

[Judith]

the nicest looking fence I've seen in a long time is Northern's electric. Looks sharp and perdy. I'll be doing all of the fence in saskabush that way. I don't have to deal with the hunter/jumper crowd there.

[angus guy]

Now you be careful how you kick something. You could end up in worse shape (I know $5000 later)

[jigs]

[Northern Rancher]

So when is the E.T.A of your arrival to the have-not province lol. I'll build you some fence-as long as you don't need it straight lol. You can ride some young horses. My back takes fencing better than buckoffs lol.

[Mrs.Greg]

[Northern Rancher]

I'll send Megan and Ty lol. I'll make great time if the posts are already pounded-hint hint.

[sandhiller]

1 set the corner post
2 stretch some wire or string betweenthe corners.
3 if it is a long stretch, set one or two post in the middle of the span being careful to not push the wire over with the post, keep the post a tiny bit away from the wire.
4 set all the rest of the post but keep them like 1/2 inch away from the wire. (if any of them touch the wire, you will end up with a bow in the fence)(IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT TO KEEP THE POST AWAY FROM THE WIRE).
5 roll up the wire you used to set the post to.
6 unroll the horse fence
7 start practicing !@#$%^&*+ new words
8 lean the wire up against the post
9 fasten one end of the wire to the fence corner. possibly wrap the wire around a piece of pipe or a short post and then fasten that to the corner with #9 wire out a foot or more from the corner. More if you want to come back and tighten the wire from both ends.
10 fasten the other end of the wire as you did in stip 9, but do it far enough back from the corner that when you get the wire tight, it does not quit reach the corner post. (other wise you may have to re set the pipe/post on the horse fence are streatch it again.
11 use a fence stretcher near the top of the pipe/post fastened to the wire, and another stretcher near the bottom.
12 walk along wire and raise it up and let it back down to make sure it isn't stuck in the ground and not moving.
13 Tighten the wire some more.
14 TIP if the fence is short or for all barbed wire, I use a goldenrod stretcher. before I ever use on of those, I take it to the shop and weld about 5 inches of pipe or flat iron on the end of the stretcher to keep the movable end from trying to slip over the stop and also give me a place for my hand that don't get pinched. then I find a thin pipe that will slip over the handle when flattened a bit and weld on a piece about 10 inches to a foot longer than the original handle. This allows even a weak srimp like myself to get the wire tight.
15 If you have a long stretch you would probbly want to use a come along or rope stretcher or possily hook it to a tractor / pickup with a old car tire between two chains (for a bit of a coushin) to get the slack out of the wire.
16 fyi I really don't know what I am talking about, so don't blame me if it looks like you had some crown royal before you started the fence insetad of useing it (the Crown) after you built the fence and before you inspected the finished fence.

[Mrs.Greg]

Sandhiller