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Woven wire field fence construction
Joel,
Good job in finding the example you posted. That is exactly what I was trying to explain verbally. In my earlier post, I even tried to put together some X's and O's to show the picture but that didn't work.
I grew up on a cattle ranch and we built miles and miles of 4 strand barb-wire fences with the exact corner post set up as pictured in your link. If anyone is interested in stringing 4 strands spanning over a hill or over a valley, I can bore you with how that is done too!
Brian
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Brian,
My uncle put me to work building a permanent fence, back in 1976. We finally finished it in 1979, just before I left for the Army. It's still standing, and it looks as good as the day we finished it.
If you have Google Earth, here's directions to the farm I grew up on, and the fence we built. You can see it in the satellite photo.
Type in Glenburn, North Dakota. Go south 1/2 mile to Glenburn Road. Travel east 2-1/2 miles, to 21st Ave. Northwest. The farm is located on the south side of Glenburn Road, and immediately to the east of 21st Ave.
Or....go to these coordinates.....
48 degrees 30 minutes North
101 degrees 10 minutes West
Now there's a fence!
Posts are set 8 feet apart, and are made of 4" steel pipe.
The Top Rail is made of 2-1/2" pipe, welded into saddles cut into the top of each vertical post. The saddle ears were then heated with a torch and hammered over to cover the top rail.
There are four smaller rungs, each made of steel oil-well sucker-rod, 7/8" in diameter.
Each sucker-rod is run through three pipes, joined in the middle, and welded on the outside of both sides of each vertical post.
There are a total of 9 welds on each post. There are 8 holes burned into each post, as well as a saddle cut into the top of each vertical post. All of this was done with a jig that we moved from post to post as we cut the holes and the saddle.
The fence is over 5 feet high, and each post was set into the ground using a surveying instrument to locate them. Every post is set in a perfect line with the others. All vertical posts are sunk in concrete. They are EXACTLY 8 feet apart, as the sucker rod is 24 feet long, and must join exactly in the middle of every third post.
The corners are made at 45 degree angles, and are 24 feet long.
The entire fence was then painted white, by hand.....by Guess Who? hehehe. Well, OK, my brother did about half of the work. He painted on one side of the fence, as I painted on the other. Total length is about 1 mile....maybe a bit longer.
Joel
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Casey,
Back in the day my grandfather in SD told me that a rod is the distance between fence posts (16.5'). That makes it easy to calculate fence materials. As a Professional Land Surveyor I learned that there are 4 rods in 1 chain, 80 chains in 1 mile, 80 chains x 80 chains = 640 acres or 40 chains x 40 chains would be 160 acres or a quarter section.
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