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My grandfather uses cut strips from plastic soda bottles instead of the
fibreglass insulators...........cheaper, and he just folds the plastic over
the wire and nails it to the post.

Adam P
Charleston,SC     Coburn, WV

"Mountaineers are always free"
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Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2004 12:31 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] inexpensive 10' posts


> Randall:
>
> Schedule 40 galv pipe would indeed be expensive, mostly because it's new.
> If you were lucky enough, you might find scrap post (of varying lengths)
at
> a scrap yard.  The "Cadillac" fence that one of my neighbors installed was
> all welded from salvaged steam pipe and at least 8' above the ground.
> Apparently tough to work with, but he need a good fence since he has
> variously raised elk, zebras, camels, and some type of donkey.
>
> When I constructed my 8' fence, I used pressure treated 4x4 posts that
were
> also dipped/brushed with a thick coating of foundation sealer.  They were
> spaced fairly far apart because originally it was an electric fence (used
> fiberglass spacers between.)
>
> Two inexpensive options come to mind for 10' posts.  One is the horizonal
> post used for chain link fence.  They are about 10' 6" in length.  These
can
> be found at home improvement stores and run under $10 (~6-7 bucks if I
> remember correctly.)
>
> The other option (that I went with) was 6' HEAVY GAUGE T-posts, to which I
> wire tied 10' reinforcing bar.  If you are really cheap, the 20' are often
> less expensive and cutting them (abrasive blade in chop saw) is pretty
easy.
>   I pounded the rebar 2' into the ground and used wire ties (the kind used
> to secure reinforcing bar in concrete walls and floors.)  Woven fence has
> some stability of its own, so no sag with that system.
>
> I have to admit that 10' t-posts would definitely do the job, but pounding
> them in sounds like a challenge.  Maybe dig a post hole and set with
> concrete?
>
>
> On 13 Sep 2004 at 22:04, RW Spalinger wrote:
>
> >I have to special order 10' T-posts as well as the field fence.
> >T-posts are the most economical supports I can find. I wanted to use
> >10' schedule 40 galvanized pipe for the orchard fence, but the local
> >hardware store priced them at $97 per post. So, my orchard fence is
> >all T-posts and 85" field fence. I placed posts 6' apart at the
> >corners and put them in concrete, and contracted a local welder to
> >weld 6' T-posts between them for bracing.
>
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