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Tire chain side bar chain, the "T", welded to keep cattle from rubbing the chain off.

Richard, that there is awfully fancy stuff. I am more used to a loop of wire attached to the last of a series of "posts" (either old weathered boards or lengths of dead branches) that have three strands of barbed wire attached to them that you have to strain (after untwisting the whole damned mess after it was unhooked and lost tension) to hook over an end post.

I'll try to post a picture of one our "uptown" wire gates.

Fine example of Southern Engineering!

We call it something else sometimes...

But it Works!

I have used to light a pipe in the past, and they bent. The welded loops keep the wire from sliding. The cheater pipe lets us keep a tighter gate, and still be able t open. and close by hand.

Those are good for a tight, wire gap gate... Unless a big ranch uses that setup for all the damn gates on the ranch, and you have to open and close about 10-12 of them to get to the back of the ranch.

(I used to have to hunt ranches like that..)

I just missed out on 150 creosote Dierks line posts. $4 each. Sold before I could call. Sour grapes?

Well, you could go out back and have a nice, quiet cry if that would help.

Coming back from South Texas earlier this week I passed a place selling 8' cedar line posts for $4.00 each and corner/H-posts for $6.00 each. Fella had a pile of line posts probably 30' long and 6'-8' tall. Corner/H-posts were about half that many.
Line posts were ~ 4" in diameter and the corner/H-posts were ~ 6"- 8" in diameter. Best price I've seen in a while.

Ed

We also need to deal with things like this. Broke off rotted post. I pulled out nicely, a lag bolt through a chain. The hole was too big for the first post we tried for a replacement.

Hmmmm............Afro-engineering?

Around here everyone just uses hedge(Osage Orange) for wooden posts. I've got more than a few acres of cedar I've been wanting to clear, many of them well over 15ft tall, 8-10" bases. Never heard of anyone around here using it for anything but woodworking.

Most "cedar posts" down here are actually mountain juniper. That stuff last a long while as fence posts. Some cedar posts don't last quite as long, but are still pretty good. Better than some treated posts.

I know those KS cedars burn like they was soaked in gasoline when burning a pasture!

If you need chain, PM me your address and I’ll send you a flat rate box full of chain.

I like making useful items from the scrap pile. Thanks any whey. Perhaps another time?

As long as I can remember White oak and Black and Honey locust posts were used in line fences, but city folks started moving in and they insist on treated posts when they pay. In fact, one city guy got on the town board and wanted a town ordinance to mandate treated posts.