Anthony Growe with North Carolina Cooperative Extension demonstrates how to construct an H-Brace. For more details, descriptions, and diagrams check out extension.tennessee.edu/publi...
Man your doing it the hard way. I set my post to where the horizontal piece fits snug between the 2 post then drill all the way through the vertical post and into the horizontal post then drive my pin in.
It's always amazed me how different people build fences so differently. And every one of them is convinced that their way is the correct way.😁....... Example: Those size of posts you are using for corner posts, my family would have used as line posts. The posts we always used for corner posts, were twice that diameter!.....I grew up on a farm. Cattle and horses. Over time, we wound up replacing every fence around every pasture, because the original fences were decades old when my parents bought the properties.
Smart fence builders learn to soak the bottom 4 feet of their wood posts in a 50/50 mixture of old motor oil and diesel fuel ! Those non treated wood posts will turn into cellulose over time ! Happy fencing !
Awesome video. Thanks! Just purchased my first property last winter, and have been gearing up to build a perimeter fence. Videos like yours help big time.
I am currently building a perimeter fence on a 1/2 acre lot with dimensions 127’ by 172’. I am using 8 foot by 6 in treated posts and set the corner posts about 24 inches in the ground. My plan is to build corner h brace fence and I am afraid I may have set the posts below the recommendation of 40 to 50% of the post for h brace. Looking back I should have at least set the posts 3.5 feet to 4 feet into the ground. Also, when I set my corner posts I set them in commercial grade concrete/cement at 24 in. My question is will this affect the way my h brace will hold up? My next step is to set the brace posts and cross bars but I am sort of at a standstill because the more I read into it it looks like I should have set them at 3.5 feet to 4 feet deep. Since it is such a short run I am thinking it might not impact it much. I plan on running 4 strands of 14.5-15 gauge barbless wire and I don’t plan on putting too much tension on it. I would like to get your thoughts on this. Thanks!
Next step is to be sure to tie off your fence to the close post, not the far post. That way you can center it so there is no post twisting which of course loosens the fence.
When this guy put in the second vertical post in the hole he had it on the wrong side of the wire was pretty bright even though he corrected his mistake he never admitted it.
Man your doing it the hard way. I set my post to where the horizontal piece fits snug between the 2 post then drill all the way through the vertical post and into the horizontal post then drive my pin in.
It's always amazed me how different people build fences so differently. And every one of them is convinced that their way is the correct way.😁....... Example: Those size of posts you are using for corner posts, my family would have used as line posts. The posts we always used for corner posts, were twice that diameter!.....I grew up on a farm. Cattle and horses. Over time, we wound up replacing every fence around every pasture, because the original fences were decades old when my parents bought the properties.
We always stapled the wire and put a stick in it and twist it
Smart fence builders learn to soak the bottom 4 feet of their wood posts in a 50/50 mixture of old motor oil and diesel fuel ! Those non treated wood posts will turn into cellulose over time ! Happy fencing !
Y'alls dirt looks a heck of a lot better than ours does! If we could dig holes that easy we would have been done a week ago. :)
Ah... posts aren't "level." They are plumb.
Many places that sell those gas powered augers, also sell an extension, for it, as well. (Including harbor freight.)
Wife pick the shirt out for you bro?
Wait do you guys don’t concrete it ?
Awesome video. Thanks! Just purchased my first property last winter, and have been gearing up to build a perimeter fence. Videos like yours help big time.
awesome video, very clear. going to be doing this in the spring. thank you!
thank you for this. Planning my fence and these tips will be helpful.
Very helpful video!
Thank you; well done. Nice-looking assistant too : )
Great vid mate
I am currently building a perimeter fence on a 1/2 acre lot with dimensions 127’ by 172’. I am using 8 foot by 6 in treated posts and set the corner posts about 24 inches in the ground. My plan is to build corner h brace fence and I am afraid I may have set the posts below the recommendation of 40 to 50% of the post for h brace. Looking back I should have at least set the posts 3.5 feet to 4 feet into the ground. Also, when I set my corner posts I set them in commercial grade concrete/cement at 24 in. My question is will this affect the way my h brace will hold up? My next step is to set the brace posts and cross bars but I am sort of at a standstill because the more I read into it it looks like I should have set them at 3.5 feet to 4 feet deep. Since it is such a short run I am thinking it might not impact it much. I plan on running 4 strands of 14.5-15 gauge barbless wire and I don’t plan on putting too much tension on it. I would like to get your thoughts on this. Thanks!
Very informative!
Really like the H braces. Makes a good tite fence.
Next step is to be sure to tie off your fence to the close post, not the far post. That way you can center it so there is no post twisting which of course loosens the fence.
When this guy put in the second vertical post in the hole he had it on the wrong side of the wire was pretty bright even though he corrected his mistake he never admitted it.