Fence post spacing

craigco · Feb 27, 2019

How far do most space tee posts for a 4 wire barb wire fence with one or two wire stays in between?

Michael Soldan · Feb 27, 2019

I always used 8' as a standard. With web fence I put in a wooden post , them a steel post , then a wooden post etc. 8 feet apart . For two or three strands , every 8'

JMOR · Feb 27, 2019

(quoted from post at 18:02:29 02/27/19) How far do most space tee posts for a 4 wire barb wire fence with one or two wire stays in between?

have seen them up to 18-20 feet by people who try to skimp. Then they get to do it over in a few short years! That is at least twice too far. Stays are NWAS.....just future trouble. I have over 5 miles of fence done by different people and when I replace crappy work, I drop to 8 feet and use NO stays. The labor is worth more than the materials, to me. That's my 2 c.

rrlund · Feb 27, 2019

Mine are 18 feet,but 12 would be better I believe now that I've done it. I used 6 foot posts and just drove them three post lengths apart.

Texasmark1 · Feb 27, 2019

Local BTO had 6 strand barbed wire, 30' spacing between posts, 6' between stays. Called it a swinging fence. Must have worked as they were on a major FM-Mkt (545) Valdasta area and I never saw a bovine lying in the ditch with it's feet straight up.

I built fence for 40 years on my place and I guarantee you not one was like another. Just didn't happen...one reason was resources, another time line, other terrain, other usage, how I felt at the time.

Biggest problem I had was calves that bedded at the (barbed wire) fence line while mama was grazing nearby, getting up on the wrong side. The old axiom about if they got over there they will get back just didn't hold water on this farm. So field fencing where I had calves solved that problem.

MJMJ · Feb 27, 2019

Terrain plays a part, but in my hilly country I’ve settled on four steps between posts, six strands of HT barbed wire. All my trouble with calves getting on the wrong side went away. I can see stays helping spread posts out in flat country, but they don’t help much here.

cole in mo. · Feb 27, 2019

We always went 9ft between 7ft steel posts, 5 steels then a wooden one, 5 barbs.

jeffcat · Feb 27, 2019

One of the funniest things that I ever saw. When I was in my teens we were down by the bridge fixing on a little approach. The corner of the calf lot comes right up to the road. There were maybe half a dozen heifers laying in the shade of a sweet gum. Well they deside it is time to go somewhere else and everybody starts to get up. Now all of you know how a cow gets up. The rear end goes up first and then the front end. You also know where that tickle spot is along their spine just in front of the tail. Same as dogs and cats. Well.....one girl starts to get up and that spot makes perfect contact with the bottom wire. ZAP.. BAWWWWWW!!!!! ZAP BAWWWWWW!! ZAP BAWWWW! ZAP.. She is totally paralyzed. After me and dad laugh just a little I grab a nice dry stick and pulled the wire away. When she finnaly could get up she wobble all over the place for awhile.

redforlife · Feb 27, 2019

I usually put them in about 4 or 5 steps apart. 4 steel, and then a wood. I always put in 6 1/2 foot post. And drive them in 3 nobs above the spade. Just a point of advice, put up 5 wires and not 4. A 4 wire fence is just going to cause problems in the long run. If you put the top wire at a reasonable height, then your wire spacing is to far apart. If you lower the top wire to accommodate the wire spacing, then your top wire is not high enough. It's a lose lose situation if you have problems. My 2 cents.

Lazy WP · Feb 27, 2019

I was taught a rod apart. 16.5 feet. In the sand hills you use very few steel posts. I don?t like stays but do use a number of dead men as the terrain requires. Sand won?t hold a post down either.

Bret4207 · Feb 28, 2019

I tried 10 feet, too far apart, the snow and ice do a lot of damage. I will go 8 feet this time for barb. For Paige wire, I'm thinking 8 max and 6 in tough spots.

Destroked 450 · Feb 28, 2019

All of the fence we've put up for the last several year has post on 10 ft spacing with a wood post every 100 ft, 6 1/2' steel drove deep, tired of 6 footer pulling up or getting loose in wet weather.
All interior fence is 5 strand ht barb wire and perimeter fence is 6 strand.
Sorting lots are all wood post, 8 ft centers with ht woven wire and barb on top, or cattle panels.

stonerock · Feb 28, 2019

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