warhammer
Gold Member
I pulled three 1250 foot strands of high tensile wire for a fence today and came up 35 feet short on the last strand. I guess 4000 foot spools of wire are kind of arbitrary in how much wire you actually get.
Each wire goes from an end post 240 feet to a braced corner makes a 90 deg turn and then 1000 feet to the other end post.
From what I have read you can use 2-3 crimps to splice the wire together and it should be about 80% as strong as unbroken wire. Is that actually strong enough for use when tensioned?
If the splice is a bad idea how about seperate wire going from each end post to the corner? I really do not want to pull 1215 feet of wire out of the fence and repull it.
Each wire goes from an end post 240 feet to a braced corner makes a 90 deg turn and then 1000 feet to the other end post.
From what I have read you can use 2-3 crimps to splice the wire together and it should be about 80% as strong as unbroken wire. Is that actually strong enough for use when tensioned?
If the splice is a bad idea how about seperate wire going from each end post to the corner? I really do not want to pull 1215 feet of wire out of the fence and repull it.