Fencing

[terracore]

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Originally posted by MarkP

Terracore:

How did you do the corner posts? Were they wood? Steel? What diameter? Diagonally braced or cantilevered? I assume that a hole was jackhammered first.

Thanks

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Our corner posts are like any of the others, though the fence isn't pulled as tight as it should be, but is working fine thus far. We have some diagonally braced posts at the fence on either side of the livestock gates because they push on the fence there and can compromise the fence by bending the posts. This is on a temporary fence line and it will eventually fail. Our newer gate doesn't use T-posts but regular pipe-like fence posts less likely to bend and they are in concrete. Our next livestock fence gate will use regular security fence posts. Our gate posts go into land that has been ripped so we don't have to jackhammer anything, its just a matter of using an o'o bar and elbow grease to move stuff around enough to make a crater to set the posts. Diagonal bracing does work with T-posts when its done right. I am suprised that my temporary measure (I used 10' conduit and hose clamps) works as long as it has on the temporary fence.