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I'm planning on fencing in about 9 acres in the near future. I'm not sure what will end up inside the fence, I know for certain there will be up to 4 cows and think we'll probably end up with some goats and maybe a couple of horses at some point. I'm going to use 49" woven wire field fence (image attached below) with steel T-Posts and I'm going to build my own corner posts, brace post and H posts out of 2" galvanized steel pipe.
Our land has a gentle roll to it, there will be some elevation change but no undulation along the fence line. It's a smooth slope.
I have a few questions that I hope you guys can help me with.
1 - I'm planning on spacing the T-Posts 12' apart and using 7' T-Posts driven 2.5' into the ground. This will leave me about 6" of post above the fence to install a hot wire or a barbed wire strand. Anything wrong with this plan?
2 - I'm getting the fence in 660' rolls, what spacing should I have for brace post and H posts? I'm thinking about every 330'.
3 - My big question, how do I attach the fence to galvanized corner, brace and H posts? It's not like I can hammer fence staples into them. Is there something available that will make this easy? The only thing I've come up with so far is to wrap the fencing around the end posts and secure it to itself and to use wire to attach it to the H posts like I would a T-Post.
What don't I know to ask about? We've used welded wire field fence to create a yard for the dog and chickens but, it's only fencing in about 4,000 sq/ft so the stresses on the posts and such aren't nearly the same. We also used wood corner and end posts so attaching the fencing to those was no problem.

Our land has a gentle roll to it, there will be some elevation change but no undulation along the fence line. It's a smooth slope.
I have a few questions that I hope you guys can help me with.
1 - I'm planning on spacing the T-Posts 12' apart and using 7' T-Posts driven 2.5' into the ground. This will leave me about 6" of post above the fence to install a hot wire or a barbed wire strand. Anything wrong with this plan?
2 - I'm getting the fence in 660' rolls, what spacing should I have for brace post and H posts? I'm thinking about every 330'.
3 - My big question, how do I attach the fence to galvanized corner, brace and H posts? It's not like I can hammer fence staples into them. Is there something available that will make this easy? The only thing I've come up with so far is to wrap the fencing around the end posts and secure it to itself and to use wire to attach it to the H posts like I would a T-Post.
What don't I know to ask about? We've used welded wire field fence to create a yard for the dog and chickens but, it's only fencing in about 4,000 sq/ft so the stresses on the posts and such aren't nearly the same. We also used wood corner and end posts so attaching the fencing to those was no problem.

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