I'm putting a fence up that goes through a draw (see picture). I have the wire pulled to both ends but it's not tight. The pull is roughly 100 yards. When pulling the wire the tension pulls up and the bottom of wire is about 4ft above the ground in the draw.
The only option I can think of is cutting the wire and attaching it to the H brace on one end, then pulling from the other end and splicing it together.
I know physics and geography are against me here but I'm just trying to get the gears in my mind turning to see if there's a way to do this. I have a tractor, side by side with a winch, come alongs and chains at my disposal.
The only method I've come up with is putting some kind of weight through the bottom of the wire at the H brace to weigh it down.
by Typical_Item_6103
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I forgot to mention but the style of wire is good ole horse wire.
Wouldn’t pulling it down to your posts in the draw tension it?
And also, I’d be concerned about if you nailed it to the posts in the draw and then pulled tension, you’d lift the posts out of the ground if they aren’t in there super solid.
If it was me, I’d cement my posts in the draw with an elephant foot shaped hole. Then attach the wire on each end, and then use a come-along to pull the tension down to the posts in the draw and nail it off.
I’m no fencing expert but i think (if your draw is that steep as the picture indicates) you would want and “H” brace at the peak of either side and run sections of fencing from the bottom to the top. A lot of extra work but I believe that would do the trick.
I’ve seen some you tube videos where the fencing is laid flat and once tension is put on it they raise the fence and it naturally takes the curvature of the slopes. Not sure how that is achieved, but again your situation looks to be too steep for that approach.
If anything here’s my post so I can come back to see the solution
Deny physics make anchors on both sides of the draw then set an anchor in bottom and have split sections. Straight tensions on both sides.
Have you taken into account, that a big rain will likely turn that into a river? Maybe it doesn’t rain there, here it’d be an issue.