The dog has punched a hole in the fence trying to fight the neighbors dog, so it's fence time. It's a woven wire piece of junk, I've got about 300 feet of 4x2 mesh 4 foot welded wire to replace it (its a 220 foot run).
There's chain link up front, so I'm going to dead end into that, so no corner. back is going to be a corner post - will do back run later - have to take this in pieces as I can. I can't find anything I really just LIKE for ways to do the corner post. What's there is a telephone pole and it's completely rotted out. So I'm thinking - 6x6 buried 4 feet down, but everything I'm looking at shows round posts with an H bar, and a piece of wire stapled to it with a tensioner to make it diagonally stable. That seems REALLY cheesy to me. I've seen drill pipe fences where they diagonally brace a pipe and weld it. Is there an acceptable method to do this with square posts? Some sort of bracket kind of like a joist hangar maybe?
I'd really almost rather call my fence guy, but I don't think I can afford for him to do it yet. Probably just going to remove the broken line posts, and T post the field.
I just don't see high tensile wire wrapped around a post and stapled / tensioned really lasting all that long. I'd rather do something more like this - but with 6x6 and 4x4, with the "short" one being full height to attach fence, then continue with T posts:
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There's chain link up front, so I'm going to dead end into that, so no corner. back is going to be a corner post - will do back run later - have to take this in pieces as I can. I can't find anything I really just LIKE for ways to do the corner post. What's there is a telephone pole and it's completely rotted out. So I'm thinking - 6x6 buried 4 feet down, but everything I'm looking at shows round posts with an H bar, and a piece of wire stapled to it with a tensioner to make it diagonally stable. That seems REALLY cheesy to me. I've seen drill pipe fences where they diagonally brace a pipe and weld it. Is there an acceptable method to do this with square posts? Some sort of bracket kind of like a joist hangar maybe?
I'd really almost rather call my fence guy, but I don't think I can afford for him to do it yet. Probably just going to remove the broken line posts, and T post the field.
I just don't see high tensile wire wrapped around a post and stapled / tensioned really lasting all that long. I'd rather do something more like this - but with 6x6 and 4x4, with the "short" one being full height to attach fence, then continue with T posts:
LIttle bit of shoveling, hydro digging with a pressure washer, and beating up a brand new saw cuttting roots below grade.Tried to stay out of the sand as much as possible, was washing around roots where I needed to cut, but that stump was a gnarly knotted mess. Brazilian pepper.
