At 11:59 AM 11/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > Does any one have plans for a way to re-wind high tensile wire with
> > out having it all over the pasture? Would like to fence in
> > some areas of corn stalks in an area with out a good perimeter fence.
> > I had good success with 14 ga. wire and ribbon or tape
> > But the last couple years the deer have gotten so bad, the will break
> > it 3 or 4 times a day. I am planning on trying a strand or two
> > of 12 1/2 ga. high tensile, but would like an easy way to role it up in
> > the spring.
I've done this in the past - fenced in a cornfield with a single strand of
12.5 ga. HT wire at about 30" height. Works OK for adult cows. Deer don't
tear it down like they do with polywire or tape. They can break insulators
when they hit it, but it's a whole lot easier to replace insulators, or
even the pins in those pinlock insulators than to have them demolish long
stretches of polywire/tape fence.
I just roll the HT wire back onto the same spinning jenny I used to unreel it.
Lucky Pittman
USDA Zone 6
Hopkinsville, KY
