Fencing

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-----Original Message-----
From: Marlene Moss <marlene.moss@wcom.com>

>>Just don't go buy that electric tape that's a nylon woven material about an
inch or so wide with wire strands going through it.  There's varying quality
levels out there, meaning some may last a week or two and some up to a year.
Certainly not sufficient for a horse product!  We bought the stuff because
we thought it would add some visibility to the fence.  Yep, it was pretty
visible after it broke and was floating around like a kite, scaring the crap
out of the horses!<<

>     Not true of Safe Fence 
>     which is approx. 2" wide, has 15 strands of stainless steel wire woven 
>     thru it and has the tensile strength of barbed 
> wire. 
>      I recently had a 
>     horse hit a 3 strand  Safe Fence running full speed when a dirt bike 
>     scared him.  The top strand pulled loose from the corner post and the 
>     next 2 strands stretched to where he got thru it to the next pasture.  
>     It did not break and the horse didn't have a mark on him, despite a little 
>     brown fuzz that was deposited on the Safe Fence strands.   I 
>     reattached the top strand to the tensioner and tightened the other two 
>     strands and the fence was fixed in less than 5 
> minutes.
> This fencing has been up for 
>     9 years and is none the worst for wear.  I have 100 degree temps in 
>     summer and in the teens in the winter, occasionally in the single digits. I 
>     was told it should last at least 15 years.
> I've 
>     been very happy with Safe Fence.  Only problem is the pressure treated 
>     posts which started rotting way too soon.  Wish I'd started out with 
>     their plastic posts.
> Betty 
>     Edgar
>