Our Blog - "The Fence Post"

How To Install Wood Fence Posts For Woven Wire Fence - Video

This video shows you how you can install wood fence posts like a pro. Typical applications are horse fence, field fence, garden fence, sheep and goat fence, deer fence - any fencing that needs strong wood posts. This video complements our "How to Build Strong Bracing for Fences", "How to Install Red Brand Woven Wire Horse Fence" and "How To Install Field Fence" blog articles. You can also download the eight page Red Brand horse fencing PDF instructional brochure PDF.

 

How To Build Strong Bracing For A Woven Wire Fence - Video

These videos will show you how to build bracing strong enough to ensure that your fence will last a long time. Watch the clearly shown step-by-step procedures for building an "H" brace assembly. You can also read the PDF of an article written by the University of Wisconsin about post bracing.

Information in the video complements our "How To Install Red Brand Woven Wire Horse Fence", "How To Install Wood Fence Posts" and "How To Install Field Fence" blog articles. You can also download the eight page Red Brand horse fencing instructional brochure PDF.

 

Hardware Cloth - Vinyl Coated Welded Wire Mesh

Vinyl Coated Hardware Cloth - small opening, galvanized after weld (GAW) wire mesh covered with a thick coating of black vinyl. There are two specifications available: 19 gauge - 1/2" x 1/2" mesh and 23 gauge - 1/4" x 1/4" mesh. The thick, flexible UV inhibited PVC coating is tightly bonded to the underlying wire. Black color blends with the background, becoming virtually invisible. This tough durable finish stands up to rough treatment and can be used in any situation where a long lasting small mesh is needed. Vinyl coated hardware cloth has the following features:

• black coating is unobtrusive - it blends with the background
• ideal for use in wet areas - underwater or underground applications
  
• thick, tough, black PVC coating over galvanized after weld (GAW) wire mesh
• double protection from rust and corrosion - outlasts galvanized hardware cloth
  
• excellent underground gopher barrier
• easy to see through window glass or screen protection
• prevents small rodents from gnawing the bark off young trees
• makes an effective, unobtrusive barrier to prevent small nuisance animals from entering an area around or in the home
• use as an apron attached to a fence or as a buried ground wire to keep animals from digging under a fence
  

19 gauge 1/2" x 1/2"	23 gauge 1/4" x 1/4"

How To Install Red Brand Woven Wire Horse Fence - Video

This is a two part video from Keystone Steel showing how to install their Red Brand 2"x4" non-climbable woven mesh horse fence. This mesh can also be used for emu and ostrich pens. These instructional videos contain information covered in the Red Brand Horse Fencing Guide PDF refered to in our February 10th blog. You can also watch the videos in our "How To Build Strong Bracing For Fences" and "How To Install Wood Fence Posts" blog articles.

 

 

The Shocking Truth About Electric Fence Wire! - Video

What's so shocking about electric fence wire? Watch this video:

How To Build a Woven Wire Horse Fence

Keystone Steel and Wire, makers of high quality Red Brand wire products, produces two types of galvanized woven wire mesh for horse fencing:

Keepsafe Diamond Mesh - heavy duty 12-1/2 gauge double strand horizontal wires woven with 14 gauge wires in a 2"x4" diamond mesh pattern; 50" and 58" x 165' rolls.

2"x4" Mesh Non-Climb - 10 gauge top and bottom wires, 12-1/2 gauge "filler" wires woven into 2" x 4" mesh; 36", 48", 60" and 72" x 100' rolls.

You can trust these products to safely contain your horses. Both of these fences share the following characteristics:

• fence meshes have spring and flexibility
• long lifetime, requiring little maintenance
• strong and safe woven mesh construction
• no sharp projecting wires to scratch animals or people
• openings in fence are too small to entangle legs or hooves
• easier to install on uneven ground than rigid welded meshes
• available with Class 1 or Class 3 (extra heavy) galvanized finish

Keepsafe Diamond Mesh	2" x 4" Non-Climb

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For installation instructions and other useful information specific to building a woven wire horse fence, download the eight page Red Brand horse fencing PDF.

Swimming Pool Safety Fence Barriers

 

Each year, thousands of drownings and near-drowning events occur in the U.S. - swimming pool tragedies that are preventable. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has studied this problem extensively. Their conclusion about the best way to reduce and hopefully eliminate these incidents:

Pool owners must install and maintain effective barriers to prevent young children from entering the pool area.

Swimming pool barriers, defined in the BOCA national building code requirements for both in ground and above ground pools, should be/have:

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    • at least 48" high
    • free of foot holds
    • self-closing gates
    • free of hand holds
    • self-latching gates
    • made with small openings:
    • horizontal - no wider than 1-3/4"
    • vertical - no higher than 4"
    • locking devices on all gates
    • less than 4" clearance from ground to bottom of barrier

It is very important to check your local codes before installing any swimming pool barrier, whether solid, with horizontal and vertical members, or made using welded or woven wire mesh fence. Local codes may vary.

For further information, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has a 32 page brochure available as a PDF: Guidelines for Entrapment Hazards: Making Pools and Spas Safer.