rant about Bechaert wire...

ben there · Apr 17, 2013

tip for you agricultural folks...don't bother buying Bechaert brand hog wire...4 years and bottom 3 wires already rusted off as in gone...rep called and told me it cant be in contact with soil at all...HELLOOOOOO!!!!! my family raised hogs for years on Galveston Island...i helped my grandfather put wire around a 2 acre pen in 1959...we bent roll in half and buried half so hogs couldn't root under...in 2006 i pulled some of that wire up...good as the day it was put in...screw Bechaert...they wont get another dime from me EVER!
this is tractor related as i have to use my tractor to level field after hogs come thru.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 17, 2013

Buy Red Brand, actually for hogs I've been using hog panels from TSC cost a little more but hold the hogs better and can be moved easily

ben there · Apr 17, 2013

thats what we used in '59
i been going to high tensile wire to keep from having to re stretch wire every year...trying to keep feral hogs out this time...i seriously thot about hog panels but using them for perimeter of ranch is cost prohibitive.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 17, 2013

Regular cattle panels will hold all but small pigs and aren't too bad in price with the steel posts and the panels from TSC it costs less than $2/ft which isn't much more than good wire,posts etc, plus they go up in a hurry so labor costs are way down.

JD Seller · Apr 17, 2013

The new Red Brand is not like the old stuff. This new stuff will rust and sags real quick.

I have been using Continental woven wire fence the last 10-15 years. It is getting harder to find as it is higher than Red Brand but it lasts much longer. I have some of it that is 30-40 years old and still looks good.

mkirsch · Apr 17, 2013

For barbed wire, we won't use anything but Bechaert. The wire we put up 25 years ago is still like new.

Dad bought two balls of it last week. Looking from across the barn last Sunday he says, "you can't tell me that there's the same amount of wire on those two..."

One ball was significantly larger than the other. I walk over and see the labels are different too... Turns out one is 15.5ga wire and the other is 18ga.... Gonna find out if he paid for two balls of the heavy wire, two balls of the light wire, or one of each...

ben there · Apr 17, 2013

never heard of Continental Wire in Texas...where did you get it?

ben there · Apr 17, 2013

i got no problem with their barb wire...its the cocknbullcrap the rep tried to lay on me is why i posted and will never buy their product again...i got some barb wire from Argentina about 20 years ago called Supremo...15ga high tensile and its held up fine...same thing tho...length varied...i got it for 12.99 a roll on clearance...wish i woulda bought every roll they had...cant find it anymore.

JD Seller · Apr 17, 2013

I get it through a fence company in Des Moines. They build a lot of state right of way fence. The stuff I get has a lot more galvanize on it. It is not cheap usually about double what Red Brand is. The Red Brand stuff is junk any more.

JD Seller · Apr 17, 2013

I just thought about it. Check with your local farm supply store. They maybe able to get a better grade of Red Brand fence than what they usually carry. Most places only stock the cheapest stuff they can get as too many people just shop price only. They maybe able to order better grades of fence.

It is based on wire size and amount of galvanize. Look at the weight per rod of the fence. The heavier the better.

Good fence will not be cheap. It easily may cost double what the cheap stuff sells for.

Bret4207 · Apr 18, 2013

Fencing is like anything else be it chainsaws, lawn mowers or hand tools. There is the consumer level stuff and the commercial level stuff. A neighbor works at a big roofing company and he built me a new chute for my gutter cleaner out of "scrap" flashing they had. I thought it was stainless, but he told me it was "just good galvanized". 3 years and even on the cut edges there isn't a sign of rust. Same thing with the commercial fencing the State uses along out controlled access hiways. That stuff goes 30-40 years before it even starts to discolor. If you could afford it, IF, then buying the top grade stuff would be the smart investment for permanent fences.

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