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Anyone use the lighter gauge wire?
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I have when I was going to electrify it, or use it around the horse pasture. Otherwise, I want something heavier.
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I use high tensile wire down here with good success.
Being a humid environment, that barbed wire lasts many times longer than standard barbed wire.
Usually the gaucho type high tensile wire will outlast the standard green T-Posts. The T-Posts will rust off at ground level before the wire even starts to show corrosion.
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I bought one roll of the light wire years back. It likes the shape it starts out in. A wire gate is a slinky of sorts. I am thinking of using some of the Gaucho wire on some rad fence, it's some cheaper, and as you said, the finish wears well.
Two barb, or four Barry?
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We used to call it "Got'ya" wire. Harder to handle that regular barbed wire. miles
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It looks as though I'd need to get to a Tractor Supply store to find the Bekaert brand.
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I use high tensile wire down here with good success.
Being a humid environment, that barbed wire lasts many times longer than standard barbed wire.
Usually the gaucho type high tensile wire will outlast the standard green T-Posts. The T-Posts will rust off at ground level before the wire even starts to show corrosion. ^^^^This! Old Son says same thing. Only wire you can get 30 years out of that wont rot away!
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I bought one roll of the light wire years back. It likes the shape it starts out in. A wire gate is a slinky of sorts. I am thinking of using some of the Gaucho wire on some rad fence, it's some cheaper, and as you said, the finish wears well.
Two barb, or four Barry? I get either at the same price per roll. But, I like the two barb wire. One good thing about that wire is that you can stretch the piss out of it. And it's not as susceptible to breaking with temperature swings. The ranch I had in the mountains in NM had regular barbed wire, and I would spend the summers fixing broken wire that happened when temps dropped, and the wire contracted and the weak spots broke.... Well, the elk weren't helping ether... They just plow through the fence anywhere they want to go.
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I've used the 4 point Gaucho for a top strand (super nasty). Put it up 5 years ago, and still tight as a drum. I also used another Bekaert product that was 14 gauge, that had the higher quality galvanizing, that has also stayed very tight, for the lower 4 strands. Gaucho is like 15-1/2 gauge (smaller). The "standard" barbed wire is like 12 to 12-1/2 gauge, and the galvanizing is nowhere near as good. Not as much of a problem in my dry climate, but certainly a problem in moist ones.
The main reason "fence guys" don't like Gaucho is because it has more "memory" (will coil back up and get ya) and the fact that it will break more readily when stretching. That's NOT because it is weaker. It's simply because it's not as "stretchy". Standard 12 gauge will stretch and stretch. Gaucho will stretch, get super tight, and then, with a little more tension, it will snap. The key with Gaucho is knowing when to stop stretching.
The stuff I put up 5 years ago is just as tight as the day I put it up, and the galvanized looks almost like new.
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dont catch a strand of gaucho in the shredder.. you aint cutting it out with pliers
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dont catch a strand of gaucho in the shredder.. you aint cutting it out with pliers Now and then I do get some of that. But I shred a lot.. I've not had the shredder do anything but turn it and regular barbwire into little sections of barbwire. Did get a mess of it in my tractor tiller when putting in a guy's food plot though. Stopped it dead. Killed the tractor before I could get the PTO off. About 2 hours with wire cutters later, I was back in business. I hate running over bull panels that have grown over with grass... That'll get your attention when shredding. But, it's more noise than anything. Sure rolls up those bull panels into a jumble of twisted metal though.
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What is a bull panel Barry?
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panels are as much fun to cut out as a tire.
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My only knowledge about barb wire involves catching my butt on it when crawling under as a kid and catching my crotch on it when climbing over when I was growed. That and the fact that it can be hard on bird dogs.
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That is what I thought Barry, we talked about those on your cool weather project thread. We use lots of those, and many have become scrap. If a 2x6 is put at the top, and middle, they last a lot longer.
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A 4 1/2" angle grinder and a cutting wheel is the best way to get a cattle panel out of a brush hog, that I have found. Better to not run over one. miles
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I bought one roll of the light wire years back. It likes the shape it starts out in. A wire gate is a slinky of sorts. I am thinking of using some of the Gaucho wire on some rad fence, it's some cheaper, and as you said, the finish wears well.
Two barb, or four Barry? A wire gate is not a gate at all! It is a death trap awaiting the unwary. To compare it to a slinky is unfair; a slinky, while one of the most totally useless objects ever devised by man, at least isn't malevolent.
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