Make sure you use your string line to dig the hole in the right direction.Stand it up straight and move it back a bit to know where to dig your hole.Put your brace post at a 45 degree angle with the top about 44" from the ground.Take a small piece of Timeless t-post, cut into the hole, mount to the face of the vertical post, and run a string from corner to corner.Install your corner post 2-3 feet down using 1 bag of concrete.Turns out you use less wood and create a much stronger corner anchor so that sounded good to us! Moses highly recommended we go with a triangular or "A" brace style instead of "H" bracing. Triangular or "A" BracingĮach vertical corner post also needed bracing. This was pretty back breaking work, even with our gas powered auger and 8" auger bit. The first major step in finishing our fence was to install all the corner posts and t-posts. Corner Posts, Triangular Bracing, Timeless T-Posts, & Gates We're working on a full cost breakdown, and will be sharing soon. Usually electric fencing can get expensive, but since the Timeless T-Posts act as insulators, we actually ended up saving money over a traditional barbed wire fence. This will allow us to keep out large animals like cows, but also smaller ones like coyotes or javelina. That being said, we opted for a nine strand high tensile electric fence. We have an irregular shaped 6 acre parcel that has 8 corners, so our fence project will likely be a little more complicated than most. Oh wait, we should probably tell you what kind of fence we're building! ![]() ![]() So what was the process exactly? Read on to find out. ![]() It was a gargantuan task, and looking back I couldn't be more proud of our little family, and how we pulled together to make it happen. One of those weeks I took off work so we had more time, and the kids helped in rotating shifts (someone had to keep an eye on the puppy). That doesn't mean it wasn't hard, though! We spent two weeks working around the clock installing posts, running wire, and hanging gates. Thankfully, we had great teachers in Moses & Polly from High Desert Homestead, and felt like we had a good handle on the process. The last two weeks may be the hardest we've ever worked! As the fencing workshop came to a close, we had a sobering revelation: there was still about 2/3 left of this fence to build - and it was all up to us!
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