Re: Most cost effective cattle/horse fence
[Re: Trappercass]
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07/06/22 07:16 PM
07/06/22 07:16 PM
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New posts are just awful these days. The big fence company and post dealer around this part of the country sells treated posts and puts hedge posts in on his own ranch. That should tell a guy something. Steel is too expensive for any “considerable amount”. Those hedge posts sure are ugly though! We also have untreated Eastern red cedar posts on the family ranch that have been in the ground longer than a lot of the newer treated cca and creasote posts that we have already been replacing. We have a considerable amount of cedar around here that need cleared and those are easy to come by if you are willing to put in the time and labor for them We make pressure treat and sell fence post by the many hundreds of thousands, If not in not millions by now. Custumers sure keep buying them "awful" posts. Matter of fact every un milled log on my 30 acre stock yard is sold or spoke for by brokers. Our posts are perfect dowel shape end to end.
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Re: Most cost effective cattle/horse fence
[Re: Donnersurvivor]
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07/06/22 07:16 PM
07/06/22 07:16 PM
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Gene Dziza
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Maybe smooth wire, since horses and barbed wire don't mix well, IMO. But I'm a firm believer in some electric wire to keep them off the fence. The fencing guys are doing steel braces now, which seems like the ticket to me. For cost effective, I think I would look at steel braces, pounded wood posts, smooth wire and a couple of strands of electric wire to keep them off the fence. I've done wood rail, barbed wire, smooth wire, vinyl rail, and all electric. That's my .02. I don't have a lot of experience with steel T-posts, other than to remove them.
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Re: Most cost effective cattle/horse fence
[Re: Feedinggrounds]
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07/06/22 07:51 PM
07/06/22 07:51 PM
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Yes sir
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New posts are just awful these days. The big fence company and post dealer around this part of the country sells treated posts and puts hedge posts in on his own ranch. That should tell a guy something. Steel is too expensive for any “considerable amount”. Those hedge posts sure are ugly though! We also have untreated Eastern red cedar posts on the family ranch that have been in the ground longer than a lot of the newer treated cca and creasote posts that we have already been replacing. We have a considerable amount of cedar around here that need cleared and those are easy to come by if you are willing to put in the time and labor for them We make pressure treat and sell fence post by the many hundreds of thousands, If not in not millions by now. Custumers sure keep buying them "awful" posts. Matter of fact every un milled log on my 30 acre stock yard is sold or spoke for by brokers. Our posts are perfect dowel shape end to end. We get enough moisture here your post would be doing good to last 20 years a good hedge post maybe 80 to a 100. But yes a lot of people who move out to the country buy them.
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Re: Most cost effective cattle/horse fence
[Re: TurkeyTime]
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07/06/22 09:25 PM
07/06/22 09:25 PM
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Need to do a couple miles. If you have any black locust trees around, they make excellent long term, low rot fence posts. Very few Cattle or horses or both? Both, mainly cattle though, just a pair of horses.
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