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west central Iowa | My neighbor that wouldn't consider high tensile fence had a new five barb fence on his end next to my temporary single hot high tensile wire. We had bulls on both sides of the fence, guess what they tore up completely, the five barb fence 50 feet from the high tensile. I've also seen a lot of guys that have to have barb wire put up a single hot wire inside of it. If the barb wire is so good how come they put a smooth hot wire inside it to protect it from the cattle. I've been using high tensile for 20 years in about every situation possible from one temporary hot wire to a 7 wire feed lot fence from calving to weaning to finishing and you couldn't pay me to go back to barb wire. I've seen barb wire fences completely wrecked by snow drifts and replaced with high tensile after the snow melts you just crank the ratchets and you are good to go again. Twenty year old high tensile still looks like new and some twenty year old red brand woven wire and barb is already getting pretty rusty. The two biggest feedlots near me and a lot of them in eastern NE use high tensile for feedlot fence if if will stand up to that it should work for a pasture. Edited to add, a guy I buy bulls from thought he had to have barb wire, the guy he was hiring to put in the fence wanted to put in high tensile. They decided to put in 5 strands of the high tensile 4 point barb wire. Bulls were turned in against the brand new fence and one of them gradually kept reaching and stepping until he was through the brand new 5 barb fence. After that all they put in was high tensile with every other one hot.
Edited by 801486 7/29/2010 04:15
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barb wire or high tensile?
