Fencing advice

[Willydeutz]

A couple of questions, firstly how are people stopping straining posts twisting round in the ground when the wire is being tensioned? Secondly how is best to tension long runs of wire, strainers will be at every 50m using 150m rolls of wire, would it be best to work in 100m sections pull from both ends to the middle post so it has tension being pulled from both sides?

 

[neilo]

Are you hard stapling the wire to the strainers? If you tie it off round the post properly (which might take slightly longer of course) the strainers shouldn’t twist at all as the tension is spread on both sides of the post.

Personally, i’ve never understood the idea of having a strainer every 50m, which are normally just hard stapled anyway. Set a proper strainer at each end of a run, a good turning post a5 each bend (strutted if more than a slight angle), and crack on.

You might be better posting in the livestock section, or in ‘buildings & infrastructure’.

 

[ploughman1963]

Good posts (pref 8') at ends of runs with proper strut assemblies, turners where required not regimented 50m distances, wire wrapped around the post rather than hard stapled - you can pull 400m + of well tensioned high tensile stocknet without posts moving that way

 

[Post Driver]

Tie your netting on to the strainer so it pull from nearer the centre, rather than off the side. Drive a 6ft angle iron into the ground at 45° pitch and opposite direction to twist and fix with a 5inch nail.

Pull your netting to one end if it will go around all the bends. If it wont, then put a clamp at each and end pull both directions. Or pull to the centre and splice togther

 

[Bobthebuilder]

Firstly you don’t say weather it’s a square or round strainer, plain wire or net which will all make a difference

 

[Mouser]

Just put one or 2 wires onto other side of strainer to balance or very tight tie round stay/strut post where its driven into ground.

 

[Willydeutz]

Firstly you don’t say weather it’s a square or round strainer, plain wire or net which will all make a difference

Round posts and high tensile netting with two strands of barbed

 

[Willydeutz]

Are you hard stapling the wire to the strainers? If you tie it off round the post properly (which might take slightly longer of course) the strainers shouldn’t twist at all as the tension is spread on both sides of the post.

Personally, i’ve never understood the idea of having a strainer every 50m, which are normally just hard stapled anyway. Set a proper strainer at each end of a run, a good turning post a5 each bend (strutted if more than a slight angle), and crack on.

You might be better posting in the livestock section, or in ‘buildings & infrastructure’.

Yes have been stapling the wire to the strainers as well as wrapping round, clearly there’s no reason to staple if it’s wrapped round properly, this would explain the twisting ?

 

[Willydeutz]

Good posts (pref 8') at ends of runs with proper strut assemblies, turners where required not regimented 50m distances, wire wrapped around the post rather than hard stapled - you can pull 400m + of well tensioned high tensile stocknet without posts moving that way

It’s for my boss who wants strainers every 50 metres although I’ve already said there’s no need but at the end of the day he’s the boss?‍ Thanks for the advice.

 

[ploughman1963]

It’s for my boss who wants strainers every 50 metres although I’ve already said there’s no need but at the end of the day he’s the boss?‍ Thanks for the advice.

No problem, just highlighting something we come up against all the while. I thnk it stems from when most wire came in 50m rolls and was pulled a roll at a time.

 

[Matt]

if you are struggling to tie off, you can get the gripple T joiners. saves a bit of time and better than hard stapling.
you should be able to do as others said up to 400m between strainers depending on run

 

[ARW]

Twisting strainers can be a problem if they are smooth, if your pulling past strainers then hard stapling to then pull again then when you strut the strainer make the best job possible. Knock a post in all the way as deep as possible for your strut post to go to, when you have set the strut plain wire round in a figure of 8 the bottom of the strainer and the post you knocked all the way in, tighten wire effing tight with a gripple (if you have any) then hard staple The wire to counteract the twist
We don’t like strainers been to smooth, if you have had a strainer twist a strut off then set a box strut over your normal strut to take the load and remove the old one

 

[Rocket54]

Hi
Don't suppose any of you North Yorks Farmers have any old straining wire laying about do you?

 

[Lazy-Farmer]

Round posts and high tensile netting with two strands of barbed

I often slightly offset the stays to the side with the netting. I second the don’t put the stapes in to hard and tie it off to the net. You are usually joining another net to it so make sure you connect both to the same side so the pull equally. If it’s a gate post or something without another tension on it try to bring the net more to the centre of the post. If you tack the strands in place light so the don’t drop, then tie them off to themselves. Then tension and that will allow it to move a bit of needed. Once it’s all at tension tap the staples home.