Fencing-posts inside-or out?

I am keeping in goats & fencing with cattle panels. Mine is going on the outside of the posts. We have had board fence up, before putting up the panels & at one time had 5 horses in it. We have never had an animal get out of our fence or even come close to tearing it down. So, I guess I am the oddball as all of our fence will be on the outside of the posts.

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I can not think of one place in the whole area around me where the fence is on the inside. My neighbor runs 1000's of head of cattle & the fence is on the outside of the posts with no barbed wire or electric fence on the inside.

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Well for one good reason for putting Posts on the outside Even With a Board fence. Say you are riding your horse in his Pen and training him against the Rail.. I sure as heck would rather have my leg Brush Up against The RAIL instead of my Knee slamming into a Post~!

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Yeah, even for things like round pens and training your dog on sheep, you need the posts to be on the outside to avoid injury. I think posts look better on the outside anyway. It would look weird any other way. What is right looks good.

If your wire is on the inside of the posts. What do you do when you come to the corner? Same question with a wood fence. How do you make the corner if the wood is on the inside?

Run the woven wire on the inside of the line post, then when you come to the corner brace post, run it on the outside. With barb wire, it doesn't matter, you should be tying of each corner and wrap it around the corner or end, post.

Ok which side do ya put the posts on when Ya run stock on both sides?
Or like when ya have sheep and what the fence is really there for is to keep the nastyies out?
LOL one mans in is anothers Out!
Seems like either would work ya just might take more care if you are putting the posts on the outside.

I was wondering the same thing. What about cross fencing?

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With cattle it is not so important, but goats will rub against a fence and push the staples right off. I run a couple of barb wires on the opposite side of the fence, about "goat" high and a little lower, that will keep the rascals off.

Depends on the loads the fence will see.

Along the road, I've got it strung on the outside of the posts, so the snow plows and cars that hit it won't knock it down. The critters don't put nearly the same load against it trying to get out.

On the back side, it's reversed, wire on the inside, as the critters do put the most load on it in this location.

EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!! That's the way to do it. After you've built some fence you'll find it interesting to see how others build theirs. I think you could write a book about the different types of fencing used around Texas.

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