Just finished setting a bunch of fence posts. First time for me. I found these videos very informative. I set the posts without concrete, just gravel and dirt. Tamping is the key. Posts are solid. My H braces also came out perfect. Really appreciate this videos. From Hawaii.
firmly tamping small amounts of dirt at a time = exactly! This is the secret to a well set post. Don't need concrete at all if you do it right. Great video.
Thank you for this informative video giving clear and concise instruction on how to install an H brace which, I definitely need as a first time, DIY fence assembler (from the UK)! I'm also doing this project by myself so Wish me luck guys, I have a feeling I'm gonna need it, lol😁
Well I use three on it starting the fence 5 on the corner in the ground fence will stay tighter longer the post will not lean then but to each their own
I've found this vid and part 2 invaluable while building my braces, but I have to say....what planet do you live on where you can actually dig a hole so deep with post hole diggers?! I had to use shovels and an 18 pound rock breaking iron. Might have been easier just to move to where you guys are...lol. All moaning aside, great vids and very glad I found them.
Thank you for the video. Is the H brace stronger than the diagonal brace using a U Brace? Under which circumstance would you use one over the other? Thanks.
What was not clear was you said the brace needed to be level, but then a level was never sat on it and you merely measured down from the top of the post. I'm building a fence for the first time by myself (helped on some before) and I am on a slope so I'm not sure whether my brace should be level or simply attached the same distance from the top or bottom on the post!
I would love if your video was up close to 12" from you hands. I have watched many and everyone is far back. I am doing a fence soon. But the actual footage of work versus a wide shot would be so nice.
That's true, but only because they are terminating the fence to the corner post instead of to the second post. We should distribute the ground pull equally between the two posts, not have almost all the pull on only the corner post.
I've watched a few of these videos. I can't figure out why they dig the post holes by hand. they always have machinery handy. As an interesting aside: Height versus Heighth. I hear the second version a lot in rural locales. The second word (heighth) doesn't exist in modern English. There was a word like that in Middle English in the 1800s. It has an e on the end like so: heighthe. That doesn't exist anymore either
I want you to come out to where we live. We don't have nice soil like you have we would be lucky to dig down six inches before you hit rock you ither have to have a rock drill or a Pneumatic driver to get the steel post in. We use rock bucks for our corners or in the middle for pullers. So you need to remember that not all of us can just Simply dig out a hole with a post hole digger.
Tyler Szabo I'm getting ready to build fence and I'm certainly not gonna make it twice the length of the fence hight. Also I'm gonna put the brace a little lower for better leverage.
You aren't going to wanna put your brace that high as it has no power... The distance the the brace up to the where the brace wire goes around the post should be evened out ... The way they are doing it it will leave the brace wire very long on the bottom side and which will make it easy to stretch the wire .... And it doesn't have as much leverage on the top of the second post ... I'm a farmer and I have learned this from personal experience
Wrong.. Its all about the leverage of the wire on the post, the post is just transferring the force backwards.. I am a fence installer. The way shown in the video is the correct way to do it running a single wire
such crap timber all the posts on every single property around here are cypress pine or bloodwood iron bark basically anything extremely hard theres fences posts around here from 1880 still
That concrete makes no sense at all. Frost will heave it up, eventually ratcheting your post out of the ground! You might get by with it if you live in the south, but I would not recommend that for everyone.
Just finished setting a bunch of fence posts. First time for me. I found these videos very informative. I set the posts without concrete, just gravel and dirt. Tamping is the key. Posts are solid. My H braces also came out perfect. Really appreciate this videos. From Hawaii.
firmly tamping small amounts of dirt at a time = exactly! This is the secret to a well set post. Don't need concrete at all if you do it right. Great video.
Great job,...it looks like it was some easy digging. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for this informative video giving clear and concise instruction on how to install an H brace which, I definitely need as a first time, DIY fence assembler (from the UK)! I'm also doing this project by myself so Wish me luck guys, I have a feeling I'm gonna need it, lol😁
LOOKING GOOD!
Well I use three on it starting the fence 5 on the corner in the ground fence will stay tighter longer the post will not lean then but to each their own
Most people are now using a metal pole with a diagonal metal brace now. Installed in 15 minutes.
how many feet apart should the fence be for a riding ring if installing it you're self?
How long are your fence posts and how deep are your holes?
nice property
I've found this vid and part 2 invaluable while building my braces, but I have to say....what planet do you live on where you can actually dig a hole so deep with post hole diggers?! I had to use shovels and an 18 pound rock breaking iron. Might have been easier just to move to where you guys are...lol. All moaning aside, great vids and very glad I found them.
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THATS THE WAY IT IS IN ROCKY GROUND
You have real nice soil.
Thank you for the video. Is the H brace stronger than the diagonal brace using a U Brace? Under which circumstance would you use one over the other? Thanks.
Most people are now using a metal pole with a diagonal metal brace now. Installed in 15 minutes.
H BRACE IS JUST FINE AND IT LOOKS BETTER
That looks like some easy digging dirt
Can you help me understand leaving the concrete four to six inches below surface?
What was not clear was you said the brace needed to be level, but then a level was never sat on it and you merely measured down from the top of the post. I'm building a fence for the first time by myself (helped on some before) and I am on a slope so I'm not sure whether my brace should be level or simply attached the same distance from the top or bottom on the post!
robineggblue bu , Brace rail goes between the top two line wires of the fence, follows the contour of the ground just like the wires.
I would love if your video was up close to 12" from you hands. I have watched many and everyone is far back. I am doing a fence soon. But the actual footage of work versus a wide shot would be so nice.
That's true, but only because they are terminating the fence to the corner post instead of to the second post. We should distribute the ground pull equally between the two posts, not have almost all the pull on only the corner post.
I live in North East, how does one do it with terrain going up or down? and lots of stones?
I've watched a few of these videos. I can't figure out why they dig the post holes by hand. they always have machinery handy.
As an interesting aside:
Height versus Heighth.
I hear the second version a lot in rural locales. The second word (heighth) doesn't exist in modern English.
There was a word like that in Middle English in the 1800s. It has an e on the end like so: heighthe. That doesn't exist anymore either
when doing a 12g barbed wire fence about how far should you put an H-Brace?? and does it include up and down hills? mountains?
I want you to come out to where we live. We don't have nice soil like you have we would be lucky to dig down six inches before you hit rock you ither have to have a rock drill or a Pneumatic driver to get the steel post in. We use rock bucks for our corners or in the middle for pullers. So you need to remember that not all of us can just Simply dig out a hole with a post hole digger.
There's a hundred HP tractor sitting 50 feet behind them , and they're digging post holes by hand !
Real men.
To not intimidate people about the job.
Videos like this are for folk like most of us that dont have an auger to drill post holes.
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All the videos I see are in flat country with no rock in the dirt,no creek's or ravens to deal with,but still good videos.
post are NOT supposed to be 'level!' Posts are Plumb!
Why does the length of the H brace cross member need to be 2 x the height of the fence?
Tyler Szabo I'm getting ready to build fence and I'm certainly not gonna make it twice the length of the fence hight. Also I'm gonna put the brace a little lower for better leverage.
Physics.
If I get a 16’ gate how far apart do I set the 2 post???
That's too wide. It's going to sag.
We see a tractor! Buy that man a auger!!! LOL
Wow! They have a three acres lots.
@EDB0223 even better buy that man a post driver and pumping stereo system for the tractor
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This is the most popular H-Brace video on UA-cam. Here is another video that shows the way we do it. ua-cam.com/video/iB79QFMOmb4/v-deo.html
You aren't going to wanna put your brace that high as it has no power... The distance the the brace up to the where the brace wire goes around the post should be evened out ... The way they are doing it it will leave the brace wire very long on the bottom side and which will make it easy to stretch the wire .... And it doesn't have as much leverage on the top of the second post ... I'm a farmer and I have learned this from personal experience
Wrong.. Its all about the leverage of the wire on the post, the post is just transferring the force backwards..
I am a fence installer. The way shown in the video is the correct way to do it running a single wire
everyone has an opinion.....
ricemiddalumni that doesn't mean everyone is right.
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Height-th?
such crap timber all the posts on every single property around here are cypress pine or bloodwood iron bark basically anything extremely hard theres fences posts around here from 1880 still
The post is not level at all it is to be plumb get it right!!
That concrete makes no sense at all. Frost will heave it up, eventually ratcheting your post out of the ground! You might get by with it if you live in the south, but I would not recommend that for everyone.
they really over-complicate the whole process. IMO...
Not level ...PLUMB !