Been looking at fencing videos for two hours, thinking I'd learn a new trick, and yours is the best I've seen. Don't grab the stretched barb wire with you hands, if it were to break, it'll tear you up! Remember the fence is only as good as it is tight. It is a lot of money and a lot of labor, so if you're not sure, make it stronger!
We found you just in time!!😅 My wife and I started putting up a fence on some property we are caretakers for. Your advice about the “H” post and “planning, planning planning” saved us from completely botching this project. I’ll definitely be coming back for more tips. Thanks
My grandfather used to say the same quote !! We have fence issues at our gate. The people we bought the house from went cheap on the H braces. We're in the planning mode for pipe fence in an L shape to run on our road, and then down old highway 59. The rest of our fencing will be 5 strands of barbed wire on T posts. Our boy is a welder, he's offered his services, we just need to purchase the pipe, and concrete. Plenty of projects to work here on the homestead, and I don't have farm animals yet. Good post Daniel!
Hi Daniel, Great information about the corner post to withstand the pull of the wire. You sure helped me with those 6 things to do with fencing. Stay safe, and will be looking for more great ideas in the future. Great job as always.
Great advice!! Dad would always plan and draw out where he was gonna put up gates and fencing, and ya property lines!! Also great tip, if you do have a neighbor tell them your putting up a new fence. I know dad and our neighbor had a agreement to keep the fences up together and usually would go in half on cost and repair. Great fences makes great neighbors is what he always said lol.
Mr. Arms, Daniel, you put out a lot of good information, thank you Sir. This is helpful. You're pretty cool and your dogs are also. Have a good day, and again, thank you.
perfect time for the video because i am researching fencing. I am clearing about 2 acre this spring and want to fence it in. One to keep predators out and possible animals in. Goats in the future and i will run an electric fence to hold the chickens in closer to the coop. Thanks Arms!!
I always used a 10 foot corner in a 5 inch diameter and never used an H brace as they are useless on a corner, I used what we call the dead man brace. An H brace you can make them work on a straight pull but I just decided not to use them at all. Other than that I do all of my fencing pretty much the same way.
Great tips!! The proper set up of the corner posts and H-braces are crucial. It is obvious that the people who lived at our place before us, and put up all of our fencing, did a very poor job of making sure all the corner posts and braces were set up right. Now our fence is paying for it. 🙄 Thanks for the great tips! Have a great day! 😃
Spotted that Indiana sweatshirt! I live in Bloomington and I really enjoy this channel. I'm looking at building fences right now to hopefully get some goats soon.
It all makes sense to me and do KNOW where your property line is! As a former Land Surveyor nothing is worse than showing up to do a survey with neighbors fighting over 3 tenths of property. I have seen guns drawn and law called. Underground utility knowledge is especially important also. If you have a Survey of your property and add some utilities underground, mark them with measurements for future reference. Thanks for the tips Daniel. Stay Safe Okie
My Grand Dad told me that Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Projects. There is another say that works more for competitive competitions it goes, Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Sounds like you guys are trying to combine the two. LOL No harm in that, but I rather like these sayings. They are awesome. In an attempt to preserve them I thought some edutainment was needed in the mix. I hope no one gets offended by me correcting anyone not my intention.
As many trees as you have i would have tried to use some say 10" as the strong posts, some kind of protection painted on.. I like to bury em deep and pound the dirt back little by little. 4 ft down you good.plus if you decide to move it theres no cement to break up. I got to build a cow fence using some kind of petrified tree pieces split logs 8 feet long sliced like a pizza but 1 side 6 inch the other 3 to 4 inches . my brother in law said the wood was from 50 years ago. I was just in awe.. Great videos.
O.k., I will admit it, my fence is NOT straight. But, it is single strand electric and I am using the "lay of the land" (and existing trees) as fence posts, at least for now. This works for horses, but I don't know about any other livestock. I am still in the process of clearing land and checking for dangers (i.e. trash heaps, rusty barbed wire under piles of leaves, etc.) to the horses. But yeah, what you said. I've seen all of the "not so good" fencing being done. I hope to do better when I start putting up permanent fencing.
One more tip is to always stretch from the corner posts. This might seem obvious but I've seen people hook the stretcher onto a truck or tractor and pull the wire tight then tie it to the corner post. By stretching from the corner posts you pull any give or slack out of the corner as you are stretching the wire.
My dad hired his masseuse's husband, who was apparently a licensed home builder in Mexico, but had issues getting work in Texas (which I can totally understand). He did a horrible job on my horse fence (4 T post, one wood post, repeat.) Maybe fence building wasn't really in his bailiwick, but I'm still kinda PO'd that I had to pay someone that much $$$ for a fence that looked like I did it myself, with my lack of skills and knowledge. The corner posts were done right, but they did a horrible job at getting the fence property stretched out, attached and getting the t-posts even. The fence is a wave! And, fyi, I know you just tossed out "Horse" as an example, but NEVER put a horse on a fence that has barbed wire. Sure, someone out there has the perfect horse that never tests a fence, but barbed wire and the thin skin of horses is a recipe for a HUGE vet bill, and maybe the life of the horse. Just sayin'
Man I can't thank you enough for the fence videos sir. I'm about to fence 5 acres and I have zero experience. This video really drove home. My property has a road down two sides. That road has a curve instead of a 90 corner. How do you keep fence tight on a curve like this. I'm starting to sweat bullets on this project now. The curve is around 150 feet long. Am I gonna have to do an octagon type shape to keep my straight line points? My other head scratcher is how far do you go before you need to put a h brace? I am going 500 plus feet from corner to corner. If anyone has a link to a video that explains I would so so appreciate it. Thank you so much for these fence videos. Funny how you did these videos right as I'm about to try and tackle this.
You will be more than fine if you stretch 500 feet. As far as the curve goes you will need to make short straight runs. If you are using t-posts you will need a steel pipe or wood post every so often to make the curve.
Love your P's!!! It's Perfect! Yes, 8' is average. I have a city lot with your average "Property line" fence you speak of. I bend right over tiny rickety chain link-funny! Funnier-crooked leanin' fence!🤣👍
Thanks for the tips. I'm getting ready to have dinner neighbors hello me put up some metal fencing but in the future expanding as I can afford it. That means nice of the corners will be staying in the place we put them this time. I'm watching my daughter's 55lb dog and need fencing so he can run free of the leash. He wants to be outside more than inside also. I love the dog interruptions. It reminds me of Killian.
Hi Dan. Looked like Bear tried to have The Bear show over yours. My grandpa used to use turnbuckles in the fence lines longer than 100 ft. 5 strand barbwire fences. He said because it allowed him replace posts and then restretch easier. Not all the corners were braced but they usually had telephone pole and larger corners. Those big dairy cows sometimes were hell on posts.
Good tips, great video. I purchased all my fence supplies a couple years ago to fence off my 9 acre 1915 Family Homestead, we fenced it one time in the 1960s/70s, it's that time again. 50 Crosstie corner post, 410 t-post, 22 roles barbed wire and 8 rolls of goat fencing, I planned it out. You doing anything this summer? just joking. Did it once I can do it again. Drill stem fencing does not do well down here, my neighbor did his whole front pasture, 10 years ago with it, it is rusting off even with the ground.
The wood net wire clamp is right on. Only difference, was we used 2x4 & 4 bolts. Did eventually add hole & top & bottom for cable to hook pullung chain to.
Always put a gate between yourself and your neighbors in every single pasture. Because at some point somebody WILL get out. It might be something of your neighbor's or something of yours. Either way, you want to be able to move easily back and forth.
You can put in two t posts or as they are called in australia Star pickets and run a string from one to the other then use that string line as you line to follow and measure out the distances between postsready to dig your post holes
They ran a ad program here in australia called dial before you dig to Tory to get people to do just that because of the costs of people disrupting power and gas lines by going through them using movable electric fencing where you think you want the fences to be and then use it for a few weeks or even months if you can spare the time it’s worth it to figure out where is going to turn into a muddie bog and not put a gate that is going to have a lot of animal or vehicle traffic going through it as tractors atvs and even hooves will quickly churn up some areas at Crete’s times of year but not be a problem for the rest of the year at least with temporary electric fences you can change your mind ten times and it won’t have cost you any extra and the electric energiser and solar panel are still usable in other applications on your farm or homestead
Building a pen now and I asked my wife "don't you think we needs more than 4 foot wide gate". She said no so I bought another 4 footer and a 12 footer lol. Future proofing.
Long fence line leaning over: You said it's because the fence line isn't straight. But, it some parts of the country, this is due to the shifting nature of the "expansive" clay soils. This is a HUGE issue in Texas. The clay heats/cools with the changing of the weather, and can literally crack foundations. There are a TON of leaning fences throughout Texas (due to soil expansion/contraction.)
He had 1 big tree trumk burried in the center of the coral to tie animals to.. He had bulls he said over 1500 lbs. When i was there the one he had was as tall or hair taller than I. He took to me fine, but didn't care for cars had to walk up.
Tip....don't pay someone to put up a fence until the job is done properly. We pointed out all the issues with ours but the guy literally believed the way he was "taught" to do it was the correct way. The sad part was realizing he didn't know how to fix what he thought wasn't broke. We will be fixing it all this year. So thanks for all the fence videos...Mike said he feels he can fix it the right way your advice. Smh...we got other stuff to do...I'm just saying. It is what it is.
So fencing in the Mojave Desert has it's own issues. Recently trying to dig post hole for H bracing I ran into huge boulders. I couldn't dig down more than 18 inches for one post and the hole ended up being about a 2 ft. square. I screwed a couple of 3/8" lag screws sticking out of the treated post a few inches hoping this will will tie the post to to the 2' x 2' 18" concrete footing. So far it's seems to be holding. I really had no other option.
I need to build a straight section of fence about 50 ft across the yard from the corner of my house across the yard to my chain link fence. I'm sectioning of a part for my dogs bear and roxy. At the chain link fence side I have a slight uphill pitch, rest of the yard is flat. It's about 2 foot higher on that end. I'm using a welded wire fence and t post.they will try to dig out the bottom. I guess my question is this. How far down should I dig my trench and on the slope side do I go deeper? I pretty much know what to do other than that part. It's just to have them their own area without fear of them getting out again. Thank You Thank You
Corner braces; can be either H or diagonal, doesn't make any difference, As long as built right, which means if Corner Post isn't big enough & deep enough, it will probably fail. Built & helped build miles of pasture fencing, still have fences that my dad I bulit in 60s still holding. Mistake i see lots making, is not putting corner post deep enough & pouring cement around a shallow post is recipe fot disaster.
Question please. How short of a run does not need bracing for this type of fence? I’ve got a 28’ run from the corner of a building to the non-hinge side of a gate. Do I need to add bracing posts? No livestock, 2 dogs only in the fenced area.
Daniel I did hear you right and choked on my sandwich when you said "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance" I never heard that before it has a ring to it. Now we're both going to hell for saying piss. The blind leading the blind here. I never knew anyone that could talk 14 minutes on how to build a fence. Great Plains Daniel Arms is your man!!
Curious how to stretch fencing up and over and down a hill and around a corner on a hill. Say up a hill to a corner and down another side.... Gotta cut it at the corner huh?
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Pulheeze…let those dogs love on you! We don’t mind! Love your channel…just found it today. You’re so knowledgeable!
I love the interaction with your dogs! thanks for the info too! LOL😄
Enjoy going back through the older videos and seeing the progress of the channel.
Been looking at fencing videos for two hours, thinking I'd learn a new trick, and yours is the best I've seen.
Don't grab the stretched barb wire with you hands, if it were to break, it'll tear you up!
Remember the fence is only as good as it is tight. It is a lot of money and a lot of labor, so if you're not sure, make it stronger!
We found you just in time!!😅 My wife and I started putting up a fence on some property we are caretakers for. Your advice about the “H” post and “planning, planning planning” saved us from completely botching this project. I’ll definitely be coming back for more tips. Thanks
I like your attitude, concerning design of a fence
You really do know your stuff when it comes to fence building. Looks really nice, straight and strong
My grandfather used to say the same quote !! We have fence issues at our gate. The people we bought the house from went cheap on the H braces. We're in the planning mode for pipe fence in an L shape to run on our road, and then down old highway 59. The rest of our fencing will be 5 strands of barbed wire on T posts. Our boy is a welder, he's offered his services, we just need to purchase the pipe, and concrete. Plenty of projects to work here on the homestead, and I don't have farm animals yet.
Good post Daniel!
Hi Daniel, Great information about the corner post to withstand the pull of the wire. You sure helped me with those 6 things to do with fencing. Stay safe, and will be looking for more great ideas in the future. Great job as always.
Great advice!! Dad would always plan and draw out where he was gonna put up gates and fencing, and ya property lines!! Also great tip, if you do have a neighbor tell them your putting up a new fence. I know dad and our neighbor had a agreement to keep the fences up together and usually would go in half on cost and repair. Great fences makes great neighbors is what he always said lol.
Mr. Arms, Daniel, you put out a lot of good information, thank you Sir. This is helpful. You're pretty cool and your dogs are also. Have a good day, and again, thank you.
Your dad was very smart. Great video
perfect time for the video because i am researching fencing. I am clearing about 2 acre this spring and want to fence it in. One to keep predators out and possible animals in. Goats in the future and i will run an electric fence to hold the chickens in closer to the coop.
Thanks Arms!!
REALLY GOOD ADVICE since I have to add fencing on my land and I did get servay done
I always used a 10 foot corner in a 5 inch diameter and never used an H brace as they are useless on a corner, I used what we call the dead man brace. An H brace you can make them work on a straight pull but I just decided not to use them at all. Other than that I do all of my fencing pretty much the same way.
Great tips!! The proper set up of the corner posts and H-braces are crucial. It is obvious that the people who lived at our place before us, and put up all of our fencing, did a very poor job of making sure all the corner posts and braces were set up right. Now our fence is paying for it. 🙄
Thanks for the great tips!
Have a great day! 😃
Spotted that Indiana sweatshirt! I live in Bloomington and I really enjoy this channel. I'm looking at building fences right now to hopefully get some goats soon.
It all makes sense to me and do KNOW where your property line is! As a former Land Surveyor nothing is worse than showing up to do a survey with neighbors fighting over 3 tenths of property. I have seen guns drawn and law called. Underground utility knowledge is especially important also. If you have a Survey of your property and add some utilities underground, mark them with measurements for future reference. Thanks for the tips Daniel. Stay Safe Okie
Another fence video for my hip pocket. Gonna be building one soon
Great video!
We always said
Proper
Planning
Prevents
Piss-Poor
Performance
That was in the Army though.
Thank you. I was going to short cut and make some of these mistakes.
Me and my family love watching your videos
Good information. I'm learning over time. My BIL thank God knows how to put up fence and has done some for us.
My Grand Dad told me that Proper Planning Prevents Piss Poor Projects. There is another say that works more for competitive competitions it goes, Perfect Practice Prevents Piss Poor Performance. Sounds like you guys are trying to combine the two. LOL No harm in that, but I rather like these sayings. They are awesome. In an attempt to preserve them I thought some edutainment was needed in the mix. I hope no one gets offended by me correcting anyone not my intention.
As many trees as you have i would have tried to use some say 10" as the strong posts, some kind of protection painted on.. I like to bury em deep and pound the dirt back little by little. 4 ft down you good.plus if you decide to move it theres no cement to break up.
I got to build a cow fence using some kind of petrified tree pieces split logs 8 feet long sliced like a pizza but 1 side 6 inch the other 3 to 4 inches . my brother in law said the wood was from 50 years ago. I was just in awe..
Great videos.
Very good advice no matter the size you want to enclose.
Hi...... Thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
O.k., I will admit it, my fence is NOT straight. But, it is single strand electric and I am using the "lay of the land" (and existing trees) as fence posts, at least for now. This works for horses, but I don't know about any other livestock. I am still in the process of clearing land and checking for dangers (i.e. trash heaps, rusty barbed wire under piles of leaves, etc.) to the horses. But yeah, what you said. I've seen all of the "not so good" fencing being done. I hope to do better when I start putting up permanent fencing.
Tip number one hire Daniel from Arms Family Homestead LOL thanks again for sharing your family and as always be safe on the interstate
One more tip is to always stretch from the corner posts. This might seem obvious but I've seen people hook the stretcher onto a truck or tractor and pull the wire tight then tie it to the corner post. By stretching from the corner posts you pull any give or slack out of the corner as you are stretching the wire.
My dad hired his masseuse's husband, who was apparently a licensed home builder in Mexico, but had issues getting work in Texas (which I can totally understand). He did a horrible job on my horse fence (4 T post, one wood post, repeat.) Maybe fence building wasn't really in his bailiwick, but I'm still kinda PO'd that I had to pay someone that much $$$ for a fence that looked like I did it myself, with my lack of skills and knowledge. The corner posts were done right, but they did a horrible job at getting the fence property stretched out, attached and getting the t-posts even. The fence is a wave!
And, fyi, I know you just tossed out "Horse" as an example, but NEVER put a horse on a fence that has barbed wire. Sure, someone out there has the perfect horse that never tests a fence, but barbed wire and the thin skin of horses is a recipe for a HUGE vet bill, and maybe the life of the horse. Just sayin'
Thanks for sharing your tips on fence building---everyone didn't have a great dad to teach them this stuff.
Excellent advice ! Bella and Bear are awesome !!!
Great advise Daniel. Thank you.
Good stuff as always....love the dogs, cant wait for our dogs to have room to open up....an American Akita and Siberian Husky...they are spastic.
Man I can't thank you enough for the fence videos sir. I'm about to fence 5 acres and I have zero experience. This video really drove home. My property has a road down two sides. That road has a curve instead of a 90 corner. How do you keep fence tight on a curve like this. I'm starting to sweat bullets on this project now. The curve is around 150 feet long. Am I gonna have to do an octagon type shape to keep my straight line points? My other head scratcher is how far do you go before you need to put a h brace? I am going 500 plus feet from corner to corner. If anyone has a link to a video that explains I would so so appreciate it. Thank you so much for these fence videos. Funny how you did these videos right as I'm about to try and tackle this.
You will be more than fine if you stretch 500 feet. As far as the curve goes you will need to make short straight runs. If you are using t-posts you will need a steel pipe or wood post every so often to make the curve.
Love your P's!!! It's Perfect!
Yes, 8' is average. I have a city lot with your average "Property line" fence you speak of. I bend right over tiny rickety chain link-funny! Funnier-crooked leanin' fence!🤣👍
Thanks for the tips. I'm getting ready to have dinner neighbors hello me put up some metal fencing but in the future expanding as I can afford it. That means nice of the corners will be staying in the place we put them this time. I'm watching my daughter's 55lb dog and need fencing so he can run free of the leash. He wants to be outside more than inside also.
I love the dog interruptions. It reminds me of Killian.
I love those dogs, they’re just like my needy Catahoula!
very helpful video, thanks for posting.
Thanks Daniel, this is a very informative video!
I have enjoyed your fence building series. Allot of good tips,
Hi Dan. Looked like Bear tried to have The Bear show over yours. My grandpa used to use turnbuckles in the fence lines longer than 100 ft. 5 strand barbwire fences. He said because it allowed him replace posts and then restretch easier. Not all the corners were braced but they usually had telephone pole and larger corners. Those big dairy cows sometimes were hell on posts.
That was a great video clip you put up there about bulging a fence 👍👍🐕🐕
Good advise. NRCS requires MIN 42" on corner post and every 120' a wooden post at MIN 42'' deep. Make a pair of post hole diggers disappear.
What is NRCS?
Keep putting the bloopers at the end of the video, that's cool.
That was perfect spectacular awesome now that’s a video my friend awesome it was talking about a serious subject and had a hilarious ending loved it
Good tips, great video. I purchased all my fence supplies a couple years ago to fence off my 9 acre 1915 Family Homestead, we fenced it one time in the 1960s/70s, it's that time again. 50 Crosstie corner post, 410 t-post, 22 roles barbed wire and 8 rolls of goat fencing, I planned it out. You doing anything this summer? just joking. Did it once I can do it again. Drill stem fencing does not do well down here, my neighbor did his whole front pasture, 10 years ago with it, it is rusting off even with the ground.
Useful tips , Thanks for sharing the video.
Great advice I will be saving this video for later. I have to agree with some other comments. The dogs want to be the star of the show. lol To funny.
Good tips for a new fence builder. Tip 7 should be to put the fence on the inside (animal side.)
Crap . . . . .
The wood net wire clamp is right on. Only difference, was we used 2x4 & 4 bolts. Did eventually add hole & top & bottom for cable to hook pullung chain to.
Always put a gate between yourself and your neighbors in every single pasture. Because at some point somebody WILL get out. It might be something of your neighbor's or something of yours. Either way, you want to be able to move easily back and forth.
Thanks for all the learnings. 😋
You can put in two t posts or as they are called in australia Star pickets and run a string from one to the other then use that string line as you line to follow and measure out the distances between postsready to dig your post holes
Gracias por la enseñanza, porque en el futuro quiero cercar una propiedad y e aprendido mucho con este video. Thankyou!
Don’t Bear and Bella make your day? 😆🤣😂 they sure make mine. Great info Daniel 👍😎😎😎!!!
They ran a ad program here in australia called dial before you dig to Tory to get people to do just that because of the costs of people disrupting power and gas lines by going through them using movable electric fencing where you think you want the fences to be and then use it for a few weeks or even months if you can spare the time it’s worth it to figure out where is going to turn into a muddie bog and not put a gate that is going to have a lot of animal or vehicle traffic going through it as tractors atvs and even hooves will quickly churn up some areas at Crete’s times of year but not be a problem for the rest of the year at least with temporary electric fences you can change your mind ten times and it won’t have cost you any extra and the electric energiser and solar panel are still usable in other applications on your farm or homestead
Love how at the end of trip 1 you said it takes more than 1 is my Point.
Rule of thumb for corner or stress post is equal amount of post below the ground as above the ground
Awesome information thank you for sharing
This was so helpful to see what I've done wrong will help me with my next fencing project
we always enjoy watching you
We would always drive the pipe 4ft deep on the ranch I worked on when I was in school. It worked well for them
I've been planning my goat fence for a year and still don't know what to do! I need some assistance lol
Great information, thank you
Great vlog, Daniel. Bella has got some go power! Lol. God bless!
Great videos keep it up from massachusetts...have u ever been here great fishing down the cape
That's why two 8 footers. Left open & right open meeting and latching at the center. Nice 16' opening.
Love this Family, always great info!
Great information!
#7. Get Dutch and brother and son to build it while you sit and drink beer & supervise.
Excellent video
Good video. Thanks.
So now I'm letting the dang commercials play so you can pay off your truck.....you have no idea what a sacrifice this is!😰😂
So am I.
Same here.
Great advise.
I loved your opening statement! LOL😀😀😀😀🐴🐎🏇
Building a pen now and I asked my wife "don't you think we needs more than 4 foot wide gate". She said no so I bought another 4 footer and a 12 footer lol. Future proofing.
I had to write down the 7 P's, I love it !
Great video. Puppy love
Stretching that wire is so important, and the corner post, that's my 2 cents worth, good job Daniel
Nice video sir like always
Also, do not stretch your fence while the ground is wet, you'll pull over your H brace.
Long fence line leaning over: You said it's because the fence line isn't straight. But, it some parts of the country, this is due to the shifting nature of the "expansive" clay soils. This is a HUGE issue in Texas. The clay heats/cools with the changing of the weather, and can literally crack foundations. There are a TON of leaning fences throughout Texas (due to soil expansion/contraction.)
Hey Daniel. Very informative .. Dutch would be proud Lol thank you. Craig. Pa. Guy
He had 1 big tree trumk burried in the center of the coral to tie animals to.. He had bulls he said over 1500 lbs. When i was there the one he had was as tall or hair taller than I. He took to me fine, but didn't care for cars had to walk up.
I love the 7 P's. What do you think about cattle or hog panels? I'm looking to get a couple of pigs to grow out and stock the freezer.
Tip....don't pay someone to put up a fence until the job is done properly. We pointed out all the issues with ours but the guy literally believed the way he was "taught" to do it was the correct way. The sad part was realizing he didn't know how to fix what he thought wasn't broke. We will be fixing it all this year. So thanks for all the fence videos...Mike said he feels he can fix it the right way your advice. Smh...we got other stuff to do...I'm just saying. It is what it is.
Omg Daniel I spit my water out when you said Piss Idk why just wasn't expecting that 😂😂
Lots of great advice here . How did you attach the fence to the end posts ? Great video as always . Love your dogs .
I clipped the vertical wires which makes long tag ends. Then wrap around the post and twist it tight.
Thanks
So fencing in the Mojave Desert has it's own issues. Recently trying to dig post hole for H bracing I ran into huge boulders. I couldn't dig down more than 18 inches for one post and the hole ended up being about a 2 ft. square. I screwed a couple of 3/8" lag screws sticking out of the treated post a few inches hoping this will will tie the post to to the 2' x 2' 18" concrete footing. So far it's seems to be holding. I really had no other option.
Great tips!
Thank You , So much. Great Advice and information. Like and will remember PPPPPP
I need to build a straight section of fence about 50 ft across the yard from the corner of my house across the yard to my chain link fence. I'm sectioning of a part for my dogs bear and roxy. At the chain link fence side I have a slight uphill pitch, rest of the yard is flat. It's about 2 foot higher on that end. I'm using a welded wire fence and t post.they will try to dig out the bottom. I guess my question is this. How far down should I dig my trench and on the slope side do I go deeper? I pretty much know what to do other than that part. It's just to have them their own area without fear of them getting out again. Thank You
Thank You
We're lucky if we can get a post 12 inches in the ground here
H braces shouldn't be used on corners...yeah a diagonal
@soaringtractorback in the day we called the diagonal a corner brace and the H a cross brace
Corner braces; can be either H or diagonal, doesn't make any difference, As long as built right, which means if Corner Post isn't big enough & deep enough, it will probably fail. Built & helped build miles of pasture fencing, still have fences that my dad I bulit in 60s still holding.
Mistake i see lots making, is not putting corner post deep enough & pouring cement around a shallow post is recipe fot disaster.
Question please.
How short of a run does not need bracing for this type of fence? I’ve got a 28’ run from the corner of a building to the non-hinge side of a gate. Do I need to add bracing posts? No livestock, 2 dogs only in the fenced area.
Daniel I did hear you right and choked on my sandwich when you said "Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance" I never heard that before it has a ring to it. Now we're both going to hell for saying piss. The blind leading the blind here. I never knew anyone that could talk 14 minutes on how to build a fence. Great Plains Daniel Arms is your man!!
Great tips
Curious how to stretch fencing up and over and down a hill and around a corner on a hill. Say up a hill to a corner and down another side.... Gotta cut it at the corner huh?
I would tie it off at the top of the hill and then run another stretch.