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At 10:19 PM 11/2/2009, vjhogen@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I need
> to get some opinions on fencing.  We bought our house 4 yrs ago, it
> was fenced with 4 strand barb wire.  We ran a two strand hot wire
> fence around to make two  dry lot areas.  This has worked
> fairly well, but I noticed last winter that the white tape was stretching
> and not holding a charge very well.  We are ready to redo the
> fencing.  I don't like the white tape, so I am ready to change
> materials.. My horse shoer was telling me about high tensile and he
> swears by it.  What are peoples opinions of it.  We are ripping
> out old barb wire fence lines and replacing those with whatever we go
> with.  Our place is ten acres 9 of which is pasture.  We
> currently have an 8 acre pasture and two seperate dry lots plus a large
> corral off of the barn with no climb fencing.  The corral is in good
> shape, so it doesn't need any help.  What kind of luck have people
> had with fencing options.  I love the look of vinyl, but that isn't
> an option right now..  Our entire place is fenced in with barb wire,
> we have a gate on the drive way.  Should we keep that the way it is,
> and just run new fencing lines where we want them inside?  
>  
> Thanks, you guys are always full of good info..

We used hi-tensile for years and had a good number of cuts and two
complete de-glovings which cost a lot of time and money.  They
both
recovered completely much to the total surprise of the vet
school.

Here we use the poly rope with thin wire running through it.  We
have
the tape for the top mostly so the horses can see the perimeter but
a few flaps in the wind annoyingly causes shorts in it.  In order
to
keep it charged we have to run jumper wires from the next strand
down to keep it hot.  This can be time consuming.

We do occasionally have some escapes but it is because our horses
are fence-wise (most of the time) so we don't do too much upkeep
on it and they just worm out of it when it needs repair.  Plus
the
deer hit it and tear a strand loose now and again but it is simple
to
fix.

Using it as an inner perimeter to your barb wire sounds like a plan.
Tearing that stuff out can be nasty.

I have had barbed wire at a number of places in the past and only
had one cut when the mares ran a new gelding into it.  That cut
was
clean so I doubt any barbs came into contact with the horse.

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