Wire Fencing

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 102, 6 February 1886, Page 3

Wire Fencing

• . A -coiresponti-ent of Home and Farm • (Sjdney^) " tfj*iics : f siend you a f«?w .. hint?, on wire fencing that, you may think worth insortiny in ytmr valuable litt.lt* piper for the benefit of, your subscribers. 4; ■ First ti? to, tjauue, I find, that f.»r a sevt>n wir<* feuci. 1 (six wire can never b« '. ' ' made? fcheep proof) the following is the l*st gauge :—• 6.jin. f ri>nv ground- -t« Ist wire. 4fin. to 2nd wire, 4fin. to 3rd wire, 4fin. to 4th "Wire: 6i*. v to sih wire (all of No. 8 wire) ; 7f to 6th wire (p10.6 wire), und 10£ia to 7th i^ire {to_p_ wire, wire). " ; Making .fence 3ft. 9iri."high, which, when erected, look* a hi«h... fence, at any rate quite /bi%\i enough to keep cattle and lil>istf/, irtid iis sheep-proof if the wire* ' are kVpt tjjjlit — and without the latter a wire fvrice* is unelesa...? I consider the new patent v wir« strainers, put in, say, 'ererj ;2Q ejiaius* will be a. great improve' xaent, and-^rell wortli the little extra cost p»r. mrle, as with them the fence can always be kept evenly strained amd tißift. :; One of the chief things to be obserred tm erecting wire fences is to see that th« .« fttrainin jj posts are /wetrput in and stayed. ; . -The jrtraining posts should be at least three' ie»t ln the erbandi hare good large butt'«, r and 'be well stayed, with the stay motlised into the straining ppst, just binder the second wire from the r &op, and - alao mortised into the back ,^t'at least three inches clear of the ground, This is mach preferable to putting one end of the stay injto the ground at foot of . opposite post, as it sooa rots »nd allows the. straining pbsts to give, and slacken the 'wird; At the angles the straining post mofst be stayed by stays mortised into the straining post about opposite third wire from top, and also mortised <t&to. a short post at back ; put three feet t^e ground «to be mortised in about one foot from the ground). . All stays that are put high up on the •trainers and near top of posts only form ; « le»er td lift the posts out of the ground . when the strain is put on the wire A :. moment's thought ion the subject will ;'' show, that fhas* miist'be the '.case, when the stays ar^lput htgK up at tap of posts, .. , v ,and is one. of tthe . mttst common faults or J ' mistakes made in' ttfff great part of the erected through the v y country^- '\ ; "■.-■■'•'■■ '' : '.' ■•'. • ''■'# lii atf'feflfce? t^tiTrulate for posts to b» ./■ two feet iii itie j^cou nd, and ' frdm nine to ten feet apart 7' straining posts to bo three. ; £«et in ground, ahff gdod large butts. .;■.;. Lone straihs varey quitch Hie best ; it is. '.' quite impossjib^ftf keep short»x)pes tight. Btrainin^ ; popts /oniy r^uir^ staying one waj (not'.a'staj O^each sibte of the posts^ : " a^f6taneriJif:'_;'--5: ; ;- y./ . ..*;. ' ; ; laboring holes 'lor wire a f-au%er is. •nough_; a larger auger allow? toonjfuch pky^orfhe wiyef.- •■- . . ' ; : ' • •' ' :>; - #ire carinot • i: beHtob' strdnigiy. con<Jemn'e4,; the top faftl - is dnly T a^o"ui i c# of 'weifchesf t^ the..fertcfej -•• tfte fail*ars Woken; and then ■le^e^lo^.'plaire through which . . j^i^ji^^ : hriro^6,^^r^ i '~ ■■;'■ ■',■ ■'* ''