Woven wire fencing question

[Runestone]

We are in the midst of building a paddock for 6 Shetland sheep. One roll of woven wire is 330 ft long so we've constructed the paddock using one roll.
This may be a rather dumb question but here goes...

Everything we've read says to leave the staples loose enough for the wire to move up/down - Does this apply at the corner posts? If so, how do we maintain the tension...or do we need to cut each section at the corners - tie it off (as shown on some websites) and start a new section?

Thanks for your help!

[dlskidmore]

Run the fence around the outside of the corner posts. Staples can be loose, the post itself holds the fence.

[bergere]

We have always made sure the staples were tight. From what I have seen loose staples just cause all manner of problems.
And we try to keep the length of woven wire whole... unless we need a gate.

Not sure you can see the camel backs/H braces?
We stretch, from brace to brace, keeping the wire whole, then staple the wire tight to the H braces. Then go back and put the U clips on the fence, making sure it is snug.
We have built a lot of fence over the years.

[Bret4207]

Tight staples, leave the fence as whole a possible, run inside your line posts, outside corners. I suppose loose staples might work but it just makes tightening the fence back up every spring that much harder.

[bergere]

Personally I have found, if you properly stretched a woven fence up the first time. You won't have to do it again.
Last place we did this... were there 8 years, fence never needed to be tightened.

More likely have to replace the wooden pressure treated posts, before you even need to tightened one of DH's fences.

[Bret4207]

Originally Posted by bergere

Personally I have found, if you properly stretched a woven fence up the first time. You won't have to do it again.
Last place we did this... were there 8 years, fence never needed to be tightened.

More likely have to replace the wooden pressure treated posts, before you even need to tightened one of DH's fences.

Obviously you don't live in heavy snow country. Trust me, fence tightening is an annual or bi-annual event.

[bergere]

Start of snow storm.... got about half way up the fence by the time it was done...
Not unusual where I lived in Oregon.
Glad I did not mind being snowed in for two weeks at a time.

But you are right... wasn't like where my parents had a Cabin at Donner Lake, CA. Snow there got to the 2nd story door a few months out of the year. And the reason why people had doors to get out of the cabins that high.

[Bret4207]

We have snow and ice from roughly Nov through April, at least. Between drifts and rain and freezes and thaws it's inevitable that the fences will stretch. A field will flood in a thaw and them freeze. I've seen 100 yards of new fence pulled down by ice. If you've lived where that isn't an annual thing, fine. Where I live every spring you go out and pound posts back in and tighten sections of fence. It's unending and a giant pain in the keester.

[bergere]

We got a lot of heavy wet snow and freezing rain/heavy Ice in that area of Oregon.

Have also lived in NH.... so ya. I do know what you are talking about.
At most, we would have to tighten the hot wire.
DH has lots of years under his belt, building good fences.