How to Install a Welded Wire Fence the Fast & Easy way with Elevation Changes, No Digging

Here's how to

install

a four-foot

fence

using five-foot stakes. The posts are called garden posts or T-posts and the

fence

material is called

welded

wire

. I'll talk more about all that after I show you the

install

ation. You can start. mark the line along which you want to place your fence, which of course assumes that you want to follow a property line or you want to keep your fence straight, if you don't care about either of those things then you can skip this step and you could head Straight to marking your fence posts every four to six feet apart, the instructions will tell you to do it every four feet, but you can get away with up to six feet, depending on how sturdy you need your fence to be. just keeps my dog ​​in this is more of a psychological barrier than anything else so initially I went every six feet you can place your post by hand and then you can drive it in using one of these things usually known as a garden post driver or a t- post driver and there are several of these available on the market, you basically need the cheapest and lightest version available and that is enough to drive your posts, especially when the ground is soft like it is during spring and you want to bury the pole with one foot. deep so the top of the flag is barely visible above the ground, don't do this, I can't even reach it, the point I'm trying to make is to go ahead and buy one of these pole drivers, they aren't that expensive and in In my case, they saved me a lot of time and potential embarrassment and injury, so here are all my poles spaced six feet apart and you'll notice that even though they're going up a slope, they're all perfectly straight and down, if you have two people working together , you can have one person holding the level and the other driving the pole and here I am proving a point that even just you yourself can do it, it's not perfect but it works. a level stake to unroll the fence material is the part I found most complicated.

I couldn't work more than two or three lengths at a time because the fence material becomes quite unwieldy and unwieldy once it is unrolled. It's easier to unroll it on the floor and then put it in place, but then once you put it in place you have to walk forward while you unroll it and these rolls are pretty heavy so you know you just have to do it. kind of working with this here I'm holding the fence material in place on the post temporarily before I can attach it permanently, which I'll show you in just a minute so you notice that the pickets have these tabs and theoretically these tabs would line up with all the cross

wire

s of the fence, you would slide the fence down on the tabs, close the tab and hold the fence in place, but that's not how it really works in the real world because you have

changes

in

elevation

or it's I may not have put all the stakes at exactly the right height and they're just not going to line up, so what I do is I take these are wire post clamps, they're called post clips and this is what they look like when they're on. installed.

I put the fence material on the back of the post and then the

fast

ener slides under the tab and then the

fast

ener itself has a couple of tabs, one slides around the back of the fence wire and then the another slides over the top of the fence wire. Some small pliers help do the job and then I crimp it into place so it stays secure. You want about three of these fasteners per post spread evenly across the top center and bottom basically as close as you are. You can get to the top and then the bottom wherever there is a tab near a crossover cable, these line up perfectly because they were right on the hook part of the bra, but sometimes you have to roll it up a couple of times. to make it a comfortable connection or if you don't want to mess with any of that, another option is zip ties, basically the same principle here on the top, middle and bottom, find the nearest tab, slide the zip tie on it, tie it as stronger than I can. around the back of the fence and then you may have to break that tab on the other side so the zip tie doesn't come off up or down.

The zip ties, of course, are not as strong and potentially prone to breaking. But this is not the type of fence that is going to hold a lot of weight anyway, when you are ready to stretch to the next post, just put a little tension on the fence to take out the slack and then you can put it back up. -Secure it with these temporary clamps before fixing it in place permanently when you get to a corner, you don't even have to make any cuts, you can basically just wrap the fence around it and then continue, this is called

welded

wire because each of these connections is actually a weld in all the places where the fence wire crosses and makes contact, there is a small spot weld there and I have to keep my finger on the socket otherwise it won't focus on it, while a fence of chain link or a chicken wire fence, this would actually wrap around itself or twist around itself, come in this direction, twist around and then come back down in this direction, the result is that this type of connection It is not that strong and will break if you pull it hard.

The reason I like this instead of chicken wire or chain is that I think chicken wire is easier to work with, it has a much smaller type of grid pattern and is much more complicated to put together, than which we will talk about on a tiny chain link is a heavier gauge and is harder to work with when you are a hobbyist, like me, and this is especially true when there is a change in terrain, if the terrain starts to slope you will get a wave. at the top of the fence, if the ground starts to slope down you will get a wave at the bottom of the fence, so what do you do when there is a change in the ground with welded wire?

In fact, you can make a partial cut in the middle of the fence, change the angle, and then sew it back together. Now these types of arrangements won't withstand an 800 pound pig or the zombie apocalypse, but again, that's not what this type of fence is designed for, they will fence in your dog or your pool or your wandering child, so here's a part of my close with a pretty steep wave where the ground

changes

direction, so we'll cut it about three quarters of the way down and then we'll rejoin it to take Take that wave out and you can see I'm cutting right in the middle of the wire, so I leave a little wire on each side so I can sew it back on.

I am not cutting right at the intersection of the two cables and this is essentially the same process whether you are changing the angle of your fence to eliminate a wave or you have reached the end of a roll and are trying to attach it to a new roll of close, basically I'll make little hooks on the end of the wire that I just cut and then I'll put it back together and see where they make contact and then I'll start crimping them again and now here at the bottom I left four wires uncut and I'm bending them a little so that when you put this together there isn't a lump at the bottom and it just comes together more easily, it's by no means an exact science. of having to see where everything naturally contacts and find the closest vertical to wind the horizontal wire and the important thing here is to pay attention to where the welds are located because you don't want to stray away from a weld that you always want.

If possible, move towards a weld so as not to separate it, so here is the progress so far. I've got these two top webbing things and we move on to the next two good contacts and now when we get to the number. four, this is where some of the drawbacks of this soldered wire come into play because I actually lost my solder here, it actually broke, which can happen, but anyway I was having trouble expanding that space so I just did it. I retreated and wrapped it against one. Of the cables that went vertically is one that Wang jingled a little bit because those two loops, those hooks were floating in no man's land and they didn't have a vertical cable to connect to, so it just kind of went along the horizontal, There's my solder and I don't want to break it, so I'm being careful not to wrap this one too tightly.

Here I have an ideal scenario. I can wrap both inwards. wrap this one this way and this one this way and they will both go towards the solder when you grab the wire and then twist it, you use the vertical as a lever so you have something to twist against otherwise you're just grabbing and pulling in space and it's quite difficult. I'm going to get one probably not the other and this one is coming up a little short so we'll just wrap it down. The most important thing here is me. I don't want to break that weld, so it's by no means perfect, but this is what it looked like before and this is what it looks like now.

Another good thing about welded wire or chicken wire is that you can place it next to a split rail fence, all you need is. They are these galvanized staples and you can just nail them into the fence posts at the same time, my entire garden was surrounded by a split rail fence and now this is all that is left, which is why I have gone with this hybrid solution for the moment , this is pretty much a temporary fence that my wife and I basically installed in the middle of winter. We wanted something that was quick and

easy

to set up when it was cold and we had quite a bit of success with this.

We were able to execute it. Over 300 feet of fence and in less than two days the ground was soft so it went pretty fast, but at some point we'll come back and make this look a lot better. We will replace these stakes with permanent posts. Let's make some nice wooden ornaments. We'll still use the exact same material that's here now, but we'll make it look much better. Another thing we didn't cover today is a door. Currently there is no way to enter. or out of my backyard unless you have really long legs or can jump really high, that's another thing I have some ideas for and I hope to cover that in an upcoming video as well, so if you want to subscribe you'll be able to see those videos more all the other things I'm working on and it'll also make me feel really good because that's the only reason I'm doing this to post the videos, it's just to hope that other people can enjoy them and maybe learn something from them talking about which I don't do a lot of how-to videos because most of my projects are more adventures than instruction manuals.

I don't consider myself an expert on many things, including this, but we had quite a bit of success and I thought other people could benefit from it. One thing I can promise you is that when I do a how-to video or a how-to type video, I will try to get right to the meat and potatoes or the plant. protein based or whatever is important to you, I'm not going to waste a lot of time talking from the beginning, I'll say it to the end, like now, I like to keep it as short and concise as possible so that you, um, get to know yourself.

You can continue with your project, talking about that, good luck, happy fencing and I'll see you next time, oh gosh, okay, that's how to install a four-foot fence using five-foot stakes. You keep doing this to me. Am I frowning every time? Making things worse, okay, this is as long as it's going to be.