Thanks for this post. I am redoing my corner braces on my fences. Love the baby, she is too sweet. And the cats remind me of mine, always helping in the yard. have a great evening.

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you Val. Good luck with the fencing.

I love your assistant! 😊

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Great and simple job. Thanks

@CountryLivingExperience

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Helpful video and great Dad !

@CountryLivingExperience

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Have done lot of this.... But I still enjoyed watching your video. Thanks

@CountryLivingExperience

7 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thanks.

That re-bar used in the brace to tension the wire is extremely dangerous. I have found if anything is left to chance, it will happen. I got anxiety seeing your little girl near it. A better approach is a wooden stay that when tensioned on that brace wire is sticking up at least 6 inches over the wood cross brace. If the fence wire is going over the top of that tensioner piece then a lot better. I have built miles of fencing contracts for the government and that's how we do it. Wood, and never metal because you never know who will be touching it in your brace system. The contracts also stipulated to never have spikes sticking out on the ends of the post for the brace wood because someone could be climbing over the fence, slip and could hit a body part on the spike sticking out. Everything flush driven.

good job on the brace, I like it. Your daughter adds a great lesson as well.

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Thanks for sharing...good video!

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Great video, thanks for sharing!

@CountryLivingExperience

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks man!

@TheSoloAsylum

6 жыл бұрын

Your brace wire is done backwards. Leverage is now pulling your corner post over..

Great job

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

Very helpful and informative, and you have a cute little daughter!

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Thank you, she is a great helper.

Very easy. Good

@CountryLivingExperience

4 жыл бұрын

Great

I have the same red handled claw hammer. Had it for over 25 years now.

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Very cool, thank you

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Hope it helped. Thanks for watching.

Great video. Moving my property fence back 18 feet to where it belongs and this will help out when I have to redo the corner. big help as it cleared up all my concerns.

@CountryLivingExperience

5 жыл бұрын

Glad the video was helpful. Thanks for watching

What is the bracing for? I just did a similar fence for my friend's property and I used 8" ledger lags.

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Cross bracing solidifies the frame. It provides rigidity against racking. The single cross brace creates a triangle which will transfer and distribute loads on the fence across all members of the frame evenly. This is a structural engineering basic. Thanks for your question.

great thank

@CountryLivingExperience

4 жыл бұрын

You are welcome

its a good idea to have eye protection any time you work with wire...personal experience

@CountryLivingExperience

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you and Yes. They were sitting on the ground next to the camera. I always wear them. Years ago making this video, I was more worried about setting up the camera and kept forgetting the glasses.

Did you use 6" or 8" post on the corner post.

Hedge post set in sack Crete and an 8’ piece of 1 1/4” pipe or bigger is what I use for brace

@CountryLivingExperience

4 жыл бұрын

That works too.

your little girl throwing her toys in the background , so funny 😂😂😂

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

She is a trip.

From a city slicker with no farm experience who just bought one, many thanks! Does spacing matter? Maybe I missed that

@CountryLivingExperience

5 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Very excited for you to get out into the country. Are you talking about spacing at the corners? or along the actual straight run fence line? etc? Spacing of the corner posts is somewhat important but if you have too great a spacing you will not get the stability needed if the ratio of post thickness is smaller. Say if you have 4" posts, you need them closer to each other than if you have 8" posts to gain the same stability. You can see that I had 6" posts and I spaced them about 8' apart. Hope that helps.

@777ZEETAL

5 жыл бұрын

Country Living Experience: A Homesteading Journey Yeah, we’re excited. Traded the Viper pictured for a ‘63 Ford 4000 tractor😂. All in bro! I was asking about the spacing of the two vertical posts. Is there a certain space they need to be for the brace to go in between? Thanks man!

@777ZEETAL

5 жыл бұрын

Country Living Experience: A Homesteading Journey okay, just saw your complete answer. Many thanks

what gauge wire did you use for the bracing on the corner post.

@CountryLivingExperience

5 жыл бұрын

Hello. We used 6" posts and 10ga wire. Thanks for watching.

I couldn’t find any 6in diameter posts in my location. Could I make a H brace fence with 4in diameter posts?

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Sure

How deep did you bury your posts for the fence? My male goat is pretty strong and he bent my fence at another location. Please respond. I need to make it strong enough to withstand the weight of a herd

@CountryLivingExperience

3 жыл бұрын

They are 2ft in the ground.

@coryvann9631

3 жыл бұрын

The best recommendation is 80% the height of the fence. I did a 52" fence for my goats and horses, so the posts were in the ground 41". Along with the proper bracing, your fence will hold up for a long time.

@timothybint4960

3 жыл бұрын

@@coryvann9631 didn’t your goats just step Over your 11”high fence ?

@Mrsournotes

2 жыл бұрын

@@timothybint4960 😂

nice video. Have seen this rebar method a bunch of times now, but wondering why not just drill a hole in the bottom of your lateral member and pull down and slide it into the hole, leaving it no chance of "lettin go"

@CountryLivingExperience

3 жыл бұрын

Good idea. They never have let go. If they did, they are twisted toward the fence. So, if one slips, it will just spring out 3 inches and hit the fencing.

The cats are having a good time also. Where are your safety glasses

@arno7303

4 жыл бұрын

dont forget gloves, mouthguard, full body protective suit and constant disclaimers lol

@CountryLivingExperience

4 жыл бұрын

Lol

Your staples are left cut, and will hold better if they are clocked to left about 11 oclock.

@CountryLivingExperience

4 жыл бұрын

ok

@F479999999999

Жыл бұрын

Right cut at 1 o clock?

what size posts? how many times did you wrap the wire? what gauge wire ?

@CountryLivingExperience

7 жыл бұрын

6 inch posts minimum, 10 gauge wire, wrap around at least once.

@tre2472

7 жыл бұрын

Country Living Experience cool thanks, you make it look easy

@CountryLivingExperience

7 жыл бұрын

No problem. Good luck building your fence.

So, does the rebar stay there permanently?

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it does. It remains to hold tension on the wire.

@yassinouchnan9838

5 жыл бұрын

I'm not at all an expert but I think that this little thing rebar could be dangerous at her low part .

Gripples

Cat is boss.

I have put up a lot of fence in my life so I know what I am talking about, Your brace rail ( on top) is good ,BUT you should have run your brace wire from the bottom of your corner post to the top of your line post to have a more solid corner post.

@CountryLivingExperience

6 жыл бұрын

I may be misunderstanding you brother. That it what I did. The wire is run from the bottom of the corner around the top of the line post.

@RexySmith

6 жыл бұрын

I thought that's what he did ?

@shaneb.3982

6 жыл бұрын

Rick Hicks That's what he did!

@Rspartan

6 жыл бұрын

See colliefarm.wordpress.com/2008/06/07/the-case-for-the-h-brace The correct implementation: fig. 3, incorrect: fig. 6 which it looks like you're doing to Rick and myself. Great video otherwise.

How do you make a TIGHT chicken wire fence?

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

Chicken wire is too think to really tighten well. It just stretches.

@sloanehodge6065

2 жыл бұрын

@@CountryLivingExperience How do you stretch it? Mine is floppy! I have it nailed to wood posts but between each post, the wire is floppy! Thank you for any suggestions.

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

@@sloanehodge6065 Take two 2x4's and sandwich them together over the fencing. Bolt them together. Attach a chain at the top and bottom and pull it tight with your tractor or truck.

No Concrete?

@CountryLivingExperience

4 жыл бұрын

We did a different video on setting fence posts. This vid is about bracing. Thanks for watching

@coryvann9631

3 жыл бұрын

If your corner posts are in the ground the proper length and the backfill material is tamped properly, the ground support will be stronger than concrete.

Beautiful little girl you have there.

@CountryLivingExperience

7 жыл бұрын

Praise God she looks like her mother.

Dude, get your daughter! She’s in dangerous space.

@CountryLivingExperience

3 жыл бұрын

She's fine but thanks for your concern.

wear your eye glass sir

Hammering that spike so close to your face. Consider some eye protection.

Where are your safety glasses?

@pipernoodle

6 жыл бұрын

What does he need glasses for ?

@planreview

4 жыл бұрын

At the safety glass store

From a engineering point of view tthis is not the best way to brace a post the cross brace should be angled from the bottom of the inside post to the top of the corner post then a wire in tension using a turnbuckle from the top of the inside post to the bottom of corner post. Doing it the way in the video causes racking which can allow the fence wire to sag and loosen the posts. This may be good for a garden.but it would never be any good for livestock

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

If that is the case, then every single rancher in the whole of East Texas is doing it wrong. There is no racking and we have sandy soil. There is no fence lag here nor on any ranch that I drive by.

@jmcd9936

2 жыл бұрын

force pulling on them. By using a crossbeam on a slant as i suggested you create a triangle which is a much stronger structure.

@CountryLivingExperience

2 жыл бұрын

I am an Architect. I understand force and load distribution through triangles. The cable completes the triangle and the load is distributed properly. You didn't address my rancher comment. Come out here and tell them they are wrong too...lol.

Please dont smack your gum!

@AJ-eg3yr

6 жыл бұрын

Evie DeChant I’ll smack my gum whenever I want

@CountryLivingExperience

5 жыл бұрын

@@AJ-eg3yr lol