Re: Another electric fence question
- From: Don Bruder <dakidd@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:56:43 -0700
In article <t38iv3dkofnl617bda5ou8idd9mm9o6l30@xxxxxxx>,
letterman@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
By the way, how do people prevent t-posts from pulling out of the soil
on hills, when using barb or barbless wire? I've fought with that for
years on about 5 posts. I even added posts on both sides of the
trouble makers, which helped but not 100% guaranteed.
THere must be a way to fix this problem.
If you're talking about "down into a valley, then back up the other
side", read on. Otherwise ignore me :)
(And sorry in advance, but this one takes more to describe than it takes
to actually DO it, so this will get a bit "windy"... Definitely one of
those "A picture is worth a thousand words" concepts.)
Run down the slope to the bottom, then right at the bottom of the slope,
either right where the downhill levels out, or where it starts going
back up, sink a post. Now sink a post about halfway between where that
last post is at the bottom of the slope, and the point where you start
going back up-slope. And one more, right where you start going back
up-slope. What you want to end up with is three posts close together.
(if you plant 'em about 2 feet apart, that's probably about as good as
you can get) One post right at where the slope stops going down, Another
right where the slope starts going back up, and one halfway between the
two. Now, working from the "coming down the slope" side, hook your wires
to the "bottom-of-the-down-slope" and "middle" posts, just like normal.
Then, run your wires to the third, "bottom-of-the-up-slope" post, but
instead of spacing them normally, tie them all off solid to that post as
low as possible, and cut your strands after that tie-off. Strain that
run from the other end.
Now, starting from the post at the bottom of the down-slope run, tie all
your wires as low as possible, then run to the "middle" post, spacing
properly there, and continuing (with proper spacing) to the "going up"
post, and continue the run as usual. You end up with the middle post
carrying two complete sets of wires, properly spaced, and the two posts
on either side of it having one properly spaced set, and one "tied off
at the bottom of the post" set. Strain at the far end of that run.
That breaks the "lift force" that comes from the wires trying to assume
the straightest path between the two highest posts on the sides of the
slope - when you strain the wires, they want to pull as straight and
short as possible - It's kind of like having a man down in a hole, and
dropping the middle of a rope to him, then having two people each grab
one of the ends and back away from the hole and each other in order to
to lift him out.
By breaking the wires at the bottom, the "straightest path" is from the
tie-off post at the bottom to the highest post on the slope, rather than
a straight line between the two highest posts.
Don't forget to use insulators for any hot wires at the tie-offs, and
jumper the hot-wires together on the middle post...
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