OK I give up! What is the secret to having a really nicely pulled STRAIGHT wire fence. I have put up and taken down the wire about 8 zillion times and I am going to kick someone or something. Looks like it was built by a blind, drunk person. This is my first wire horse fence. It's that "v" mesh stuff. What a pain in the bum. You see all of these lovely straight fence in the brochures AAAARRRRGGGG> HELP!!!!!
!@#$% Fencing!!!!
- Thread starter Judith
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Sounds like you and I are on the same page today...kinda. Cows broke into feed stack 
,got them out twice before I could get the piece of crap wire back up guess what,went around me,back to the stack. Daughters BF's here hes moving cattle to north pasture,bales are getting moved and NEW wire getting put on....and guess what don't give a darn if its straight :!:
Oh ya....of course Gregs working today :evil:
,got them out twice before I could get the piece of crap wire back up guess what,went around me,back to the stack. Daughters BF's here hes moving cattle to north pasture,bales are getting moved and NEW wire getting put on....and guess what don't give a darn if its straight :!: Oh ya....of course Gregs working today :evil:
Dontcha just love the fact that the rolls of wire out weight us by like 30 pounds I think they are about 180 each. I love hauling 6 foot high wire through 12 inches of mud. (gosh am I ever a whiner today 
) Good luck getting the girls back where they are supposed to be . Naughty cows....
I think they are about 180 each. I love hauling 6 foot high wire through 12 inches of mud. (gosh am I ever a whiner today ) Good luck getting the girls back where they are supposed to be . Naughty cows....IL Rancher
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My adivce on horse mesh fence.
Step 1) Drive corner fences. Run a wire between the two and than drive your other posts along that wire. run fence. Voila... Step back, notice it is all screwed up. Curse and scream and walk into house and complain to your wife about her crazy idea that we needed new fence. Sit down on couch and watch baseball/football game or anyhting s you don't have to go back outside. Pick up phone, call fence contractor. Write check. You are done.
Step 1) Drive corner fences. Run a wire between the two and than drive your other posts along that wire. run fence. Voila... Step back, notice it is all screwed up. Curse and scream and walk into house and complain to your wife about her crazy idea that we needed new fence. Sit down on couch and watch baseball/football game or anyhting s you don't have to go back outside. Pick up phone, call fence contractor. Write check. You are done.
Jinglebob
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IL Rancher said:
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"fence contracter" :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Oh stop! My sides are hurting! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
IL Rancher
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I'll do barbwire, I'll do field fence.. I'll do HT vence. I will do post and rail.. Have done them all.. I will not do high tensile woven wire ever, ever, ever again JB... I can't stress this enough. NEVER.
Only two flaws with the plan there IL. One : I don't have a wife. Two : fence contractors (wait for it, drumroll) Won't work in the (BAHAHAHA)rain..... (this is only funny cuz it rains almost every single day here this time of year.) Good ideas in theory though 
Jinglebob
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IL Rancher said:
Yup. Jingles Jr got in on some of that stuff. Seemed to be very impressed with it.
NOT! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
IL Rancher
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Judith, fence contractors are a blast...lol.. The boss had one do a great deal of fence when we moved here.. He said that I didn't know what the heck I as doing (Probably right) and he wanted it done yesterday so we had someone come in and do it.. Cost a small fortune but got it done FAST.. I would probably still be doing it. I got to help put it up, which was fun, and about 1/2 mile was done in this 60 inch tall HT horse wire from premier fence. This was 5 years ago I think..... I still have vivid memories and half a roll left over.
Without the wife to blame I think maybe... Katrina.. Blame her... :wink: :shock:
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Without the wife to blame I think maybe... Katrina.. Blame her... :wink: :shock:
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okay listen up..... Wire a piece of pipe to woven wire end and use that to pull the wire taunt. Any where it is dragging or sagging put a piece of pipe through the woven part and pull to tighten... We have tore out millions of miles of hog wire and replace with barb wire....
Trust me this kind of crappy fencing is strictly for the TB breeders. I put up 10 jillion 2X6 planks last year and this year I am replacing absolutley everything for the couple months I will be here. Damn horses eat up every board and post in the place. (of course it's always the mares in for breeding the destroy every square inch of the place! Lovely free choice hay and they would rather chew the wood....grrr... The first mares arrive on the 15th and there is nothing fussier or crazier that TB owners. They inspect the paddocks with a magnifying glass and if there is anything sticking out yikes! I always find this amusing but bite my tongue. Have you ever seen the stables they are kept in at the tracks!!!! Doors falling off, dirty water tubs, pitchforks laying around! :shock: I had a woman pull a mare last year because my stalls are too small :shock: Umm they are 12X12 or 12X20 for mares with foal. When I asked her about it she said they looked small and her mare was unhappy... OK so now that you know what I deal with hopefully you will understand. Back in the old days we used to throw the horses behind two strands of barbed wire and never even worry about them..... Remind me again why I cater to TB folk.... i seem to have forgotten... LOL
angus guy
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Heck Judith just put up guardrail if them dang old horses eat that they deserve what ever they get from steel.
Shorthornguy
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:lol: 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. :lol:
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. :lol:
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. :lol:
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
Takes alot to get me this grumpy. I still want to kick something angus guy
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Now you be careful how you kick something. You could end up in worse shape (I know $5000 later)
Northern Rancher
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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.