CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

We ran the Gaucho brand high tensile woven wire (from TSC) on about half of our place. It's not quite as tight as the sheep and goat wire but pretty close. It's cheaper than the Red Brand and about half the weight but you can stretch it a whole lot tighter and use less posts. All of those tree limbs that came down on our fence not long ago didn't even make a dent in the fence. It busted the top electric wires but the woven wire bounced right back.

Mike CHS said:

We ran the Gaucho brand high tensile woven wire (from TSC) on about half of our place. It's not quite as tight as the sheep and goat wire but pretty close. It's cheaper than the Red Brand and about half the weight but you can stretch it a whole lot tighter and use less posts. All of those tree limbs that came down on our fence not long ago didn't even make a dent in the fence. It busted the top electric wires but the woven wire bounced right back.

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HT, regardless of the brand or whether it is strand or net, is definitely the way to go.
Most HT is 200kpsi wire and they're able to do it with small wire diameter due to higher carbon content than low carbon wire (think traditional Red Brand that all the 'purists' scream for) , which makes the roll significantly lighter weight. Lighter weight with equal or better tensioning means less sag and give.

CPs are valuable to have on hand. We have 1.5 CPs we have use over and over for countless things, gates, hanging feeders, round bale feeder, quick pens, splitting a pen in half, livestock/loading shoot, etc.

greybeard said:

Lighter weight with equal or better tensioning means less sag and give.

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That alone is a major selling point for me. I could work with the Red Brand wire if I was running the wire downhill but I usually hired someone to help. The High Tensile I could easily work with by myself if needed.

In all my years, I've used exactly 1 cattle panel and all I've ever raised here was cattle. I used that one, as a permanent stop to keep cows from going around a gate on the pond dam, with about 5' of the cp being down in the water during most of the year.




I can't control market price but I can control my inputs and CPs are simply too cost ineffective for the coverage length I would get out of them. One 16' CP at TSC for instance, is $45. For only 3.5 X that amount, ($160) I can get 20X the coverage length from a 330' roll of good net wire, and I can get 4000' of HT slick wire for right at $100.

There are different "stock" panels at TSC. The 16' cattle panel I think most of us buy costs about $23. But the financials are still well in favor of the 330' roll of wire fencing.

If I struggled with the 2x4x5' welded wire.....just what makes ya think that 230' more on a roll will handle just as easy?.....not to mention digging the danged holes for the posts, and stretching it in 90°+ humid weather.....with a heart pumping at 45%......the CPs are fairly immediate and I'm not talking of doing the whole plot with them, just an area for Gabbie to run in....right at the house...so when it is raining she can go out without a lead.....yes it would be much better financially to do as ya say, but when it is my "behind" doing the work.....I prefer to not push it and wrestle with the roll....may look into the 100' rolls....that would be doable....just have to see how things go......

I can see why you are going that way for this project. Just for future reference though, the 330' rolls that @greybeard and I mentioned only weighs 120 pounds and has more strength that the heavy Red Brand wire.

Mike CHS said:

I can see why you are going that way for this project. Just for future reference though, the 330' rolls that @greybeard and I mentioned only weighs 120 pounds and has more strength that the heavy Red Brand wire.

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That is what has my interest....and bookmarked the reference to research and checkout.....I mean....I'll never have a cow, horse, or pig....so, it doesn't have to be a fortress, but would like to have a good portion of it fenced....and we sure know it ain't gonna be wrought iron.....I remember a post somewhere......it is GB that stated he no longer does things to last "forever".....just the rest of his "life"......it sounded good to me then.....and I just need to contain us and Gabbie...at this point.....just have to line it up to some of these "anchor" points, so stretching it won't be difficult.....I'd prefer to not use the van this time.....

Our first 1000' of fencing we used the Red Brand wire and for the rest we used the high tensile Gaucho brand wire. The Red Brand was hung tight but it has some sagging but the high tensile was used for the rest and shows zero sagging anywhere. You can have more space between T-posts also since it is so tight.