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Location: Missouri | Ok horse friends, I am putting in new fence and was wondering what everyone prefers. Price isn't too much of an issue, no pipe fencing, it is great fencing but too far out of the price range. Everything else is open to consideration. Wanting something that looks nice and will hold up. Thanks. |
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Location: Nebraska | We have cable. On ours, the 3rd wire is the hot one. I'm not sure about the price, though. The only thing we've had to do with it in the 8 years we've had it is replace the insulators on the hotwire. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | We have the Ramm Flex fence and I love it! It is expensive and a pain in the rear to put up but it looks nice and is much lower maintenance than the wood fences everyone around here has. We have had babies hit it, get hung up in it and even run thru it and only knock some hair off.
I will say that if you use this fence, do not use thier directions for the end and corner braces, they won't hold up. You need to use solid built H-braces just like you would on any other high tension fence. We also ran a hot wire across the top to keep horses from leaning over it, you can't even see it from a distance so it doesn't detract from the look of the fence. |
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| Use 48 inch 2x4 grid wire with two strands of smooth and can cap the tposts off with hot wire if needed .....
wire is in 330ft rolls and runs less than $1 per foot ....
put pipe H's at end of each roll and do tposts 8 ft apart ...
end of fencing problems for life ..
to make it even more sturdy .... concrete in a single pipe post every 110 ft for additional support to keep weight of fence from tilting a section of fencing ... that is only 2 pipe posts located between 5 post pipe corner H's and the H's at end of each 330' roll ..
GOOD LUCK ... |
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Location: The Great West | Our corrals/runs are continuous fence and love it. It goes for about $120-135 for 20' plus posts. Pastures are either 4-5 strand hi-tensile electric on 4"x6 1/2' plastic posts so no insulators required or old fashioned barb wire. |
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Location: Missouri | Thank you all for the replies! I was curious about the high tinsel fencing that has the white covering on it...Anyone know what it is called? |
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Location: mi | I have the 2" wide mesh tape fencing. I have smaller paddocks and this works great because it is hot and will poke them if they are playing over the top or will pull off and or break if they get tangled up in it. Just replace insulator and put it back up. We have replaced some as it got worn looking after 10 years up. But it was simply pull the old down. Replace some insulators and roll out new. Easy peasy done in a day.
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| Hi! We actually just put up RAMM Hotcote fencing this weekend (the high tensile coated electric wire) and I absolutely LOVE it already. It looks so nice and clean! We used white recycled PVC posts with a white vinyl coating from Plastic Innovations. No insulators to buy, because the posts are self insulating! We installed the fence by ourselves and it only took us Friday evening to Sunday afternoon to do. |
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Location: South Georgia | mlh0972 - 2014-04-07 10:13 AM Thank you all for the replies! I was curious about the high tinsel fencing that has the white covering on it...Anyone know what it is called?
RAMM makes it. It is vinyl coated high tensile. It is not electric, though. We had it and loved it. |
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Location: Four Corners Colorado | BARRELHORSE USA - 2014-04-06 1:01 PM Use 48 inch 2x4 grid wire with two strands of smooth and can cap the tposts off with hot wire if needed ..... wire is in 330ft rolls and runs less than $1 per foot .... put pipe H's at end of each roll and do tposts 8 ft apart ... end of fencing problems for life .. to make it even more sturdy .... concrete in a single pipe post every 110 ft for additional support to keep weight of fence from tilting a section of fencing ... that is only 2 pipe posts located between 5 post pipe corner H's and the H's at end of each 330' roll .. GOOD LUCK ...
I am already in the processing of doing this! But I'm using 60 " wire and hot wires on top. I really don't want the neighbors stallions coming over to visit! I went with treated posts every 32 feet t-posts every 8. |
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| ajs2002 - 2014-04-07 9:18 AM I have the 2" wide mesh tape fencing. I have smaller paddocks and this works great because it is hot and will poke them if they are playing over the top or will pull off and or break if they get tangled up in it. Just replace insulator and put it back up. We have replaced some as it got worn looking after 10 years up. But it was simply pull the old down. Replace some insulators and roll out new. Easy peasy done in a day.
This is what I have too - I couldn't be happier with it - they don't lean on it and it is SO easy to put up. Somebody on here told me to twist it before putting it up so the wind doesn't catch it as bad - that really helped since we only have about 5 days a year here in Kansas with no wind! |
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| horsegirl - 2014-04-07 9:49 AM mlh0972 - 2014-04-07 10:13 AM Thank you all for the replies! I was curious about the high tinsel fencing that has the white covering on it...Anyone know what it is called? RAMM makes it. It is vinyl coated high tensile. It is not electric, though. We had it and loved it.
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Location: Too far from home | We have pipe, BUT found some great fiberglass pipe fencing that will be what we use in the future. It's lighter weight, but not flimsy and was pretty simple to put up. You can also bend it to eliminate corners. We used it to put up our warm up arena this year and did it with us and an 11 year old to run errands. Not sure where to get it in your area, but we used Bechen Fencing in Rapid City, SD. Their website is http://www.bechenfencing.com/ if you want to chat with Travis about getting some. |
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| I have a 30 acre pasture that is 12 gauge high tensile. Very durable fencing and have used it before. We are getting ready to build more pastures this summer and I have researched RAMM coated wire but I also believe there is a similar product that you can buy at places like Fleet Farm called white lighting that are probably cheaper. |
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Location: Sunny California | I have the generic version of the polycoated high tensile fence. I love it! The top and third wire are hot. My friend had it installed first and loved it (she's got 6 strands with t-posts). When I moved into my current house the property was fenced with uncoated high tensile and peeler core posts and I had one pasture replaced with the polycoated. My donkey spooked awhile back and went right through the top and second wires without a scratch on her. I've got 4 strands right now, but would like to add one or two more. I don't think a horse would be able to get through the wires like my small donkey did. |
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Location: Not in Texas where I should be! | mlh0972 - 2014-04-06 1:00 PM
Ok horse friends, I am putting in new fence and was wondering what everyone prefers. Price isn't too much of an issue, no pipe fencing, it is great fencing but too far out of the price range. Everything else is open to consideration. Wanting something that looks nice and will hold up. Thanks.
OK, I JUST posted a new thread about the same thing after searching 4857356 different times using all kinds of terms INCLUDING the exact title of this thread, "Fencing" and this thread didn't ever pop up on the results!! LOL what gives?! Now I feel like an idiot. lol |
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