Any fence-ing experts? Problems with no-climb

[FlaMtnBkr]

No I'm not talking about playing with pointy swords

I put up some no climb fence a few months ago and it was my first experience with it. I usually use field fence and chain link.

Well I stretched it real tight and nailed it off. My corner posts are braced as usual. The stuff is now very loose between posts.

Are there any tricks with this stuff? Field fence that I put up is fine years later. I used a come-a-long attached to my truck to stretch it and actually pulled the truck backwards so it should have been plenty tight.

Any suggestions? I would like to put up some more for the safety of the horses but not if it is going to do this.

Thanks!

Ryan

 

[Esav Benyamin]

How about we run this past Gadgets & Gear?

 

[yam]

I have put up pasture fence, but would not consider myself an expert or anything. It's 4 foot high with the top painted red, and have observed the following. When it is stretched and stapled (I use the big fencing staples not the smaller ones) to the posts it is tight. However, it will loosen over time. You'll notice differences in tightness due to temperature changes, hot will loosen it up a bit, in the cold it will tend to tighten a bit. One of the things that can help is to staple as many verticals, meaning the part of the fencing that goes up and down to a post. Stapling just the horizontal parts of the fence can slip a little over time as the staples pull out ever so slightly. How many verticals you get will just be the luck of the draw, depending on where they fall. But, the wire itself will physically stretch a little too, not much you can do about that I'm afraid.

What you can do, is take a pair of pliers and, find a saggy part, grab a horizontal and twist. This puts in a "Z" shape in the horizontals and tightens things up a bit. Makes a bit of a spring which helps compensate for temperature changes. I have a bunch of "Z's" in my fences. Do it where you feel it's needed, no limit on this.

Also, I put my posts on 8 foot centers, use round 4" diameter (the green copper chrome arsenic) posts, dug in a minimum 16 inches deep with a post hole digger (not a shovel), packed with -5/8 dirty crushed rock. Gives good drainage and believe me, they are solid if packed with a tamping bar.


This all works for me up here in Washington State, YMMV.
Mike

 

[Matt Shade]

Have you checked you're corner and brace posts? Did you just use an H brace with a chain or wire binder on it, or do you have an anchor in the ground too?
We've had at least one occasion where we put up new fence in the spring while the ground was soft, and after a few days the end post was working its way back out of the ground due to the tension from the wire. This was a 6" post set 36" deep and tamped, with an H brace. We ended up screwing a 6" anchor into the ground about 18" from the end of the post and chaining it to the top of the post with a turnbuckle, and a large eye-bolt. Drew it back down tight, and the wire tension came right back.