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grandpa Love

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Got a fence job for our preacher. He is building a new home about 4 miles from us. Woven wire with 3 rails on top. Keeps grandkids in, neighbors dogs out. Raining almost every afternoon. When we leave work we have been running around doing estimates for more work. Need to cut hay but weather ain't gonna cooperate.
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On this fence we have to put temporary braces on the inside, then pull wire, then put rails up. With the fence stretcher if we don't brace it good we can snatch the post right out of 2 ft deep holes full of concrete! Old ford is a brute!
 
On the farm here in IOWA our fences used to be "hog tight"when we raised hogs the old fashioned way 26in woven wire with three barbs on top. The anchor posts were 14in or bigger three ft deep second post with the brace 40rods or more long tightened the web tight and you did not pull the posts out of the ground good fences lasted 40 yrs or so life but there just is not any of that type anymore things have changed
 
Gene, In the 20 years we have been in business the quality of the lumber has gone way down. 4x4 posts are so much weaker. Huge grain pattern. Not nice tight grain like years ago.
 
Old growth lumber was much better/stronger because it didn't grow so fast. Now everything is from tree farms, trees are thinned ect for optimal growth.
 
Is 2’ deep for a post normal in your area ? Generally posts here are at least 3’ in the ground usually deeper concrete or no concrete. I imagine the type of ground your putting posts into dictates the depth . With our freeze thaw up here a post down 2 foot wouldn’t be upright very long especially if it’s windy where the boards will catch the wind and want to push the fence over. Different methods work in different parts of the country I guess. Looks good !
 
2' is plenty deep. No frost line in Alabama. So no heave. Never had a fence blow over. Been in business 20+ years. Tornado got a couple one year, but the houses got torn up too.
 
We always put in a deadhead with a short guy wire to hold the post and could pull the wire tight without pulling the post out. The deadhead was about 2 feet long and dug in at an anglew so you would be pulling non-disturbed dirt then cut a slot for the wire. If you don't want it to stick past the end of the fence it can go on the second post. Dad only sets a post about a foot to 18 inches as long as they don't tip over he says.
 

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