I started out with Red Brand 2x4 horse fence in 200 foot rolls. I was getting them from Lowes for $240 a roll, plus 10% off for my military discount. It's good fencing. Then when everything became hard to find in 2020, I bought whatever I could find, wherever it was sold. Tractor Supply and Atwood's would get a roll or two, and I would buy it as fast as I could. Prices shot up to $330 a roll for OK Brand, which I paid. In the last year, supply has gotten better, but it's still hit or miss if it's in stock at my local stores, or if I have to drive half an hour to an hour to get what I want. Lowes hasn't had much for fencing until recently, and their prices went up to $360 a roll for 200 feet of Red Brand, but OK Brand is down to $299 at Atwood's and Tractor Supply. I just looked online and Tractor Supply is on sale for $269 a roll. I'm buying OK Brand, and except for the red paint, it's the same thing as Red Brand.
I stretch 4 point high tensile barbed wire from corner post to corner post to lay out my wood posts every 100 feet, and my T posts every ten feet. I set all my wood posts in concrete. I've pulled enough wood posts out of the ground with and without concrete to know there is a significant difference with concrete.
I'm not a fan of H bracing. Every H brace is only as strong as it's diagonal bracing. I'm using 2 inch galvanized pipe set in concrete for my diagonal bracing. On long runs, I'll put diagonal braces on my wood posts every 200 feet.
I'm using a Man Saver T post pounder to get all my T posts in the ground. It's really impressed me, and at the end of the day, I'm not dead tired or sore.
If you don't have one, be sure to buy a Clip Bender. I wore my first one out and bought another right away. When I wear this one out, I'll buy another. Nothing works like it does, and once you've used it, you wont' use anything else.
