Installing Fence braces for field fencing
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- To start our pasture fencing project, we are fencing in behind the livestock first. Today I am building 4 wooden fence braces for the field fencing we plan install. These are single-H braces since these are short runs of fence. I am using high tensil wire for the brace wire and using a gripple to tension it.
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I admire you guys who still use those ole gems of farm equipment. Me, it has to be less than 10 years old. When I am ready to work. I want my machines to work as well. God Love you, bless you and always be in His Great Graces.
Evan, Good job on the fence bracing! This is one of your best videos! With the fencing, homestead updates, and a shout out to a new homesteader. Excellent!
Good job Evan, the fencing is going up really good. Yes it’s a great deal of work but each day you can pat yourself on the back by reminding yourself that you built !! 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks for sharing and taking us along.
I use slick wire for my H braces and just stretch them tight using my fence stretcher then I use rebar to twist it even tighter then use a staple to nail off the rebar on my cross member. Less tools I have to carry and less expense in buying mechanical tighteners!
Field fence is definitely the way to go. Grew up on a sheep Farm and we had sheep crawling through tight 9 strand barbed fences until we switched it all over. Two things we found for cows and goats: 1) the electric or barbed top strand is a must as the cows ALWAYS reach over the fence and can really crush the field fence.
2) we had a lot of trouble with horned goats reaching through the squares and getting stuck or pushing through and stretching them out. Would recommend an electric strand 8ish inches from the ground standing off to the inside of the pasture to keep the goats/sheep off the fences.
Denny, same on the farms in our area of Western New York State, with most of the farmers keeping the outside perimeter mowed a strip to take away the desire to reach over.
It's a shame that I can't share this post, a gentleman at Owl Creek Homestead was just asking how to fence in hilly areas. This sounds like great advice.
Douglas Drew our solution was eventually to sell the cows haha.
Great job! Looks like it went well. Love to watch you do your work and explain your thoughts.
Very much injoy watching your channel Evan! Fence posts look great! Looking forward till the next one! God bless!
Fencing is definitely hard work.
I was fortunate on my rotational grazing Minnesota dairy farm to have few deer right where I lived so I had NO permanent fencing. All electric.
But, I admire those who do build permanent fence and make the effort to do it correctly.
Very impressed with the effort you are taking to do it RIGHT !
I've never seen those things to tighten fence with. I've been taught to use a stick and twist the wires
Gripple's a great company - 100% employee owned!
thank you Evan another great video
Evan you are getting to be a pro a so much stuff . Good for you ,it is nice to see a young man learning how to do stuff that older people use to do on a daily basis
Good job with the fence H posts. Rebecca will be impressed.
I was just out here looking for your, and at the same time, it showed up in my notification. coincidence. Looking forward to watching.
We fenced and cross fenced 211 acres and some of it was cost shared with the NRCS which required us to build fence according to government spec which surprisingly, made for very good fences, braces, gates and corners. They have specs for every aspect of fence construction. You should have a good fence when you are done.
Looking really good.
Nice work!👍🏻
Thanx a lot for the video! 😊
Good lesson on fence post and H braces, Mike is getting ready to fence our pasture soom for goats and sheep and I wanted to learn so I can help out when the time comes. Thanks..
Look forward to all the projects you and Rebekah do!
I like how you do some of your work on the farm and you have a nice place
Looks awesome.
Well Evan, other than those pesky holes, I think the project is advancing quite nicely. You did good!!! Thanks for the other updates both good and bad (rabbits)!!! Peace!!!
Bill
Should of just used some of that bailing wire you found in the bailer.
Yes FOUND. LOL
Something I learned some time ago. Always keep a bucket near you for the garbage you create.
I do not remember who told me that.
great job today!
Awesome video and stay safe
Good job as usual. 👍 👍
..the hole drilling looks much easier, good job, stay safe..
Sorry 😐 missed a few episodes but I’m back , good job as always
Fence is looking good.
Here's a trick to drill straight....Put a ring (or something round) on you drill bit. As you are drilling you want to keep it in the same place. If you do then you will drill a straight hole through you fence post
Please explain.
@@jphickory522 Yeah, does make much sense as stated.
This doesn’t make sense, please explain more clearly
^How is this not self-explanatory? If you have a ring or wrench or anything hanging off, it may act as a plumb bob. If you tilt the drill up or down the object will slide along the shaft of the bit. If you drill generally straight and level it will hardly move. Simple?
Fence looks good. I am thinking about using the Gripple myself
Good video. Good information thanks
Enjoy watching your video
Really like how your doing your fence, especially the electric fence on the top. Cows like to check the height of a fence with their nose sometimes.
Just a thought, to keep out the rabbits, overlay the current fencing with chicken wire.
Or weed membrane.
Hubby loves learning from you, because he knows you have studied and researched how to each project! Your a great teacher!
Wow that looks great! I've never tried the cripples, you make it look easy! Keep up the great work.
Hidden Heights Farm Gripples. Its a trademark.
I like u episode very much and also presenting..
Man, you do great work! I’ve got some fencing I HAVE to do. I’m 60 years old and in horrible health. I hope I can make mine mine go as smooth as you.
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Great Job
Thank you for sharing. I miss the just regular sharing of your Homestead. How are the goats? And the pigs, and the dogs... Can we plz have an update? 😁❤️😁
Next step without a corner post is to be sure to tie off your fence to the close post, not to the far post. That way you can center it so there is no post twisting which of course loosens the fence.
I've been fencing, and still need to fence more area, but it's surprisingly enjoyable watching someone else do the work while I sit here in the A/C. I do my fencing almost identical to how you are doing yours. Enjoyed the video.
I found that adding an additional 18 inch high, 1/2 inch opening, chicken wire, at the base of my regular fence works pretty well at keeping rabbits out of the garden. A low, electric strand also works but it is difficult to keep the grass from shorting it to ground. By the way, a good way to check for activity on an electric fence is to use a blade of green Johnson grass. The shorter the distance between you and the fence, the stronger the shock that you feel, so start long and as you reduce the distance, you can tell if it is active with minimal shock.
Nice demonstration
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Rebecca Stanley I think you may have been our first!
Hidden Creek Homestead I believe I was the first 🍀
when you strain the brace pull on the wire you have the gripple on and that will make the wire tighter and easier to strain with the tool
I have been using 14 gauge wire from TSC with good effect and for tension, I use a piece of rebar (small, 1/2" diameter) and I twist it and anchor that bar to the crossbrace with staples. In the end, same result as using a mechanical tensioner, but sharing because the 14 gauge is easier still to work with and inexpensive. I have no issues with the tension, which I will check with a hammer and the top and bottom of the angle, to confirm both runs (I go around twice as well) are in tension. We plan on focusing on Nigerian Dwarfs, but our first two goats were larger and test my fencing more than I care to see. The wife will not let me energize it, so I guess I have been pretty proud of how durable they have proven to be to this point. Good job sticking with getting the holes dug. I mentioned it before, but a big difference in my soil installing posts in the spring vs. the summer/fall. Fall does seem to require a little more effort.
@Paul Cox My goat paddocks range in size, but I found those smaller paddocks take as much work as the larger ones. Lol. Maybe less t-posts and fencing, but the corners and bracing are often the same. A lot of good videos out there on tensioning by twisting the brace wire if my description is confusing at all. Best of luck to you.
Looks like you solved the problems with the auger!
That gripple worked on the brace wire pretty good but I think you over thought it. My grandad taught me to use no. 9 fence wire then use the handle of my fencing tool to twist it in the middle until it was as tight as you need it, no special tools needed. I’ve never seen those “brace pins” before, interesting. We just toenail the brace with large spikes. Another tool that might help is a heavy bar with a sharp blade on one end ( forgot what they’re called) you can buy at any tractor or farm supply store. Use it to bust up rock, roots and hard ground in the bottom of holes plus use the butt end to pack soil back into the hole around the fence.
we too used a twist rod (old piece of t post or even a hedge apple branch (osage orange)) but i did like the way the grippe pulled it up tight!
Spud bar.
You should build an awesome dog house for them too thats a replica of your house that's heated and cooled.. I know they are dogs but its kinda fun to build. Great video. Hope the garden does well.
I like seeing the goats Evan
Great job on the fencing. This will be a nice pasture for your goats and chickens. Happy you were able to get those post holes dug. I'll bet it felt you were trying to go through boulders at times. Enjoyed this video, love your dogs. I don't know much about the cost of wood and cattle panels, but would cattle panels be cheap enough to build the kennel and then you would always have them to use else where if you needed to. Just a thought. Have a Blessed day.
👍 Smart dog! 😊👏👏
If you can fit them for a harness you can go the cheaper dog run using a cable strung between a post/tree with a pulley and chain clipped to the harness giving them a good amount of room to run. It is very important you only do this with a harness on them as it will put too much stress on the neck if you try to use a collar and they go to chase something. Used/surplus cable is much easier to find then cheap wood for fencing.
G 'Day hey evan l think you may need a cutting edges on the post hole digger auger maybe some Pengo bits and ends for 3pl phdiggers ,just a ideal...
I wish I was a dog that someone owned and loved. lol. As a human, it's a lot harder getting people in your life who REALLY care.
My thoughts exactly. I've often thought how lucky my dogs are to have caretakers like my wife and I. They truly don't have a care in the world ☺️
You need to display the loyalty the dog demonstrates.
You need the thriftiness of a squirrel storing up food for the winter.
You need the self assurance of a cat.
I tell my dogs all the time I would switch lives with any time they want. LOL...
@@fhuber7507 you need to type less///
Really enjoying the channel. I’m about to move to 10 acres where we just finished building a house. Next spring there are plans for a pole barn. No plans for animals but definitely a large vegetable garden so I’ve been interested in the installation of you fence. A suggestion that other channels do is to include a link for the products they are using which is especially helpful for those of us that are less experienced. Looking forward to the next video. 👍
I agree this would be a great help like the tool you used to tighten the wire on the fence brace I don't know what any of those things are. Thanks for any help!
A lot of our fence building tools are on our Amazon Shop
www.amazon.com/shop/countryviewacres
An alternative, and imo better, than 4”x4” field fence is Stay Tuff brand 1348-12 fencing. Very strong and has fixed knots. I can’t remember the exact cost but a 660’ roll was cheaper than two 330’ rolls of red brand or gaucho sheep and goat wire.
Love how you eyeball your measurements. Close enough for government work.
You need to get a crowbar. Great for getting rocks out of post holes, and for ramming the soil around the post. Also you can save a bit of money by using wire strainers to tighen your brace and then just tie the wire ends together and wrap around both sides of the brace wires. As you pull the wires into the centre they will tighten as you wind. So no need for a gripple.
2 inch wire mesh 4 ft high will keep rabbits out but dig a small trench about 12inches deep 2inch diameter lay a small section of the wire in the trench turned out at the bottom in the way of directions of the rabbits coming from, staple your wire and fill in the trench you can also do the trench 18 inches deep as that prevents the the rabbits going deep
If you plan on continuing to use high tensile wire then either make or invest in a device known as a Spinning Jenny. It allows a coil of HT wire to be placed on it, fixed in place. When you pull the outside end the wire unwinds off and lays flat on the soil and not curl up like a giant coil spring that wants to recoil all the time! Incidentally if you fit a handle to one of the spokes it can be used to wind up into a coil any single strand of wire if for instance you are taking down a fence for some reason.
We watch several homestead channels and not one of them have to deal with the amount of rocks we have here in the ozarks. I'm always amazed at how much easier it is for them to dig postholes. 👍 Your fence is looking good.
Down pressure kit and rock bit may be the only way. May have to blast for corner posts.
@@davidmays2161 my brother actually made a bomb to blast one hole. It didn't break up the bedrock but it did expose a crack so I drove a section of grader blade in it and bolted a post to it.
@Paul Cox same here. My father, uncle and grandfather were all farmers so I grew up picking up rocks.
try 1x2 hardware cloth, a little cheaper but will do the job... 2 ft high will keep out chickens and rabbits...
Wow! Evan... I can’t even put into words what that means to us. Im glad to have found you my friend and It so reassuring to know there are still good people out there. No matter how long it takes, I pledge to one day get to Illinois and treat you and Rebekah to the biggest, no expense spared meal ever!
Sincerely....THANK YOU!
Man, I need to hop on finishing up some videos now lol
I subbed to your channel today from this vid. Love watching the homesteads grow and change.
Sherry 2 , I had mentioned to Evan that if even one person subscribed, Id be blown away. So from the bottom of my heart... THANK YOU!
@@HiddenCreekHomestead subbed as well, looking forward to the progress
Jay Grimm Thanks so much! Glad to have you on our journey
I also subbed a few minutes ago.
Stoney Ridge Farmer music is very nice
Very good work my friend.👍👏👏👏👏🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Can see the bend in the upper shaft of the auger...
Friend, remember safety glasses using wire on those corner braces🤓
Yea, no one telling you that you did something wrong today. Nice. Loved this video. But didn’t see the ducks. Talking about building a dog run, have you used all the lumber and wood left over from the house ? Sorry about the plants, but rabbits have to eat to. Lol Tell Rebecca hi, and hope all is well. God bless
Awesome videos like always. Have u ever tried putting brace on a hillside? I’m going to put up my first fence soon and it’s on a pretty steep hill. Lol gotta make it difficult on myself.
I am a little old school but I like to put a twist in my tension wire. Seems to handle the post shrinkage well. I was also curious what was the reason for the two fencing staples at the bottom of the poles. I assume it was spreading the wire load. Looking great and coming together well !!
Yeah stops the wire cutting into the post keeps it tighter
You referenced fencing manuals that you’ve read, can you please list those? There are a number of things that you have done differently than earlier fencing videos, for instance, drilling off center on the cross brace. In the future would you please give more background information why you are doing something specific. As you well know....the devil is in the (all important) details.
Country view acres sent me to you
To my channel? Thank you for checking us out!
It would be magical if my auger just melted into to ground like that.
I'm curious why you use H braces vs diagonal braces. I don't know anything about fencing but I see both kinds.
There's a simple cure to rabbit's eating your garden! That's eat more rabbits!
Fine video as usual!
I heard you mention that wood prices are high. Consider building your kennel out of pallet wood which you can get for free. There are many CZcams channels dedicated to pallet wood projects.
Maybe do more research on fences and what you need to keep in and out- you would have learned rabbits can go thru fairly small holes. Chicken wire will not keep out voles and moles though. So Hardware cloth up to 18 inches high, shouldkeep out most anything- and dont forget to put some up to 12” away on the ground, to help keep critters from crawling under
I don't know anything about ratchet or gribble but the gribble looks better.
Looking good that gripple is an awesome tool ant looks to really simplify fencing. Thanks for sharing!! Edit. What I do is put electrical tape on the handle of my post hole digger at the depth I want my hole so I don’t have to use a tape measure to check the depth.
JudithB I put meaurements on one handle of my post hole digger with paint and on a shovel too. Saves me time!!
The staple you put in the bottom of the post, does the high tensile wire loop through or go around it before strapping
We need a tree update. How are the trees in the tubes doing?
Good job on fencing,
Music I would like to put that song that’s playing on my phone so I could listen to it when driving,
Would u let me know the name of the song
Thanks Fred
Your D17 doesn't have power down on the 3 point? I did not know that.
You should use Pallet Wood for the Dog Kennel
To drill accurately all the way thru a post, drill from your 38" mark half way from each side. Be sure to sharpen or replace the auger tip, not just the cutters. If the tip doesn't bite, sharp cutters will not cut well.
Bob Grier but if he is measuring from the ground, if he’s on a hill the hole on one side would be higher than the other.
@@cathiwim Thank you , BC, for bringing up a valid point. My comments were addressed to Evan's project where he seemed to have leveled the ground around the posts. In the case you bring up, which happens often, the solution is to measure DOWN from the top of the post to locate the off side mark, assuming the post has a flat top. I've also used a torpedo level atop the drill to help keep it level, and I've used a speed square to draw a witness line around teh side of teh post to the off side. I once even taped the torpedo level to teh top of the drill, which had little metal, while doing multiple posts, another use of our friend duct tape.
7:40 I thought you going to say that you were using the baling wire that got messed up.
For those rabbits, put some of that delicious broccoli and lettus around the outside of your fence. Then buy or make some spicy pickled whatever (the hotter the better) and sprits those outside vegetables with that pickle juice. Those rabbits will be dragging their faces on the ground so quick they'll never come back. Works like a charm at my parents cabin.
Is there any specific reason for drilling slightly off center for the horizontal post , or just preference ?
I read it in installation guide. I think it is so when you are assembling it, it less likely to spin, since the majority of the weight is under the pin.
What you doing with that red soil? I thought Illinois had black soil, I'm from Plainfield Illinois we had good black soil.
Pretty sure he’s from OKLAHOMA
Your chickens do not climb through the 4-inch holes. Wow, mine do. I want to go to 2-inch x 4 inch welded wire 6 feet tall. Maybe then I can keep them in.
Why do you put the 2 staples in the first one you hammered into the post?
A nice thing to have is an iron (steel) bar you can find at big box and ag stores. There are several types, but the one with a circular mostly flat 2 or so inch head on one end is great for pounding earth around a post is the most helpful for setting posts. www.lowes.com/pd/Truper-Tru-Pro-69-in-Post-hole-Digging-Bar/3055437
Dummy question... what are the 2 loose staples dropped in the hammered staple for?
I'm having trouble finding the video where you talk about your materials in the beginning. The bolts you used to secure the braces to the posts? Can you direct me to the right video? Thanks
I am not for sure. But that may be in the barn renovation Playlist. Where we built the barnyard fence.
How’s the pond?
If twisted properly HT wire will just snap
what gauge is the wire you used for the brace? I got a gripple tool and it doesn't seem to grab the wire that i'm using
He is using 12 ¹/² GA high tensile wire.
I know your question is 8 months old, but there's the answer lol