Farm Fence Installation in Berryton, KS
Topeka Farm Fence builds farm fence in Berryton, Kansas: field fence, high-tensile wire, barbed wire, board and rail fence, welded pipe corrals, and farm gates. We are licensed and insured in Kansas. Berryton sits southeast of the capital, east of Forbes Field.
Berryton never incorporated. It has a post office, a school, a couple of churches, and then open farm country starts at the edge of the pavement. That is the whole job here. There is no town grid to work around and no city inspector waiting on a permit. There is a property line, a hedgerow, and cattle on the other side of it.
The uplands here are Shawnee County clay. Clay swells when it takes on water and shrinks back when it dries, and it does that twice a year. A post set two feet down rides that movement until it leans. Frost in this part of the state reaches down toward three feet in a hard winter, which is why the county sets footings at that depth for buildings. We use the same logic on fence. Line posts go down two and a half to three feet, brace posts three and a half to four, and the working rule holds: a post should sit as deep in the ground as the top wire stands above it.
Hedge posts came out of these fence rows for a century and the good ones are still sound. Osage orange is dense enough to stand untreated about as long as steel. Where we need new wood we use pressure treated southern pine at ground contact retention, because wood rots at the ground line where air and water meet, not at the tip.
Call (785) 555-0184 for a free estimate on farm fence in Berryton.