Howdy all,

I have a section of my ranch that I need to partition off because it is where a road is and also where all the hay is stacked and I want to be able the release the cattle into the field without risk of them getting into the hay or road. Eventually I will put in a permanent 5 wire fence but for now, due to budget, I am going to use electric fence.

I have used a mix of 1' and 1/2" powertape in the past on small sections and on the most part it was pretty good, but the wind (we have regular high winds) blows is all over and even unhooks it from the posts sometimes.

I have decided to use the fiberglass step in posts instead of the regular plastic ones because the cows have broken probably 1/4-1/3 of the posts and i dont get to check the ranch daily and I dont want to worry about them getting through.

So I am debating on using more powertape again or switching to 8mm powerrope. Its my understanding its a lot stronger and obviously being rope and not tape it will be less impacted by wind.

Running a small herd of baldies, 17-25 typically. Any help and advice would be appreciated

I did a section of one of our horse pastures a couple of years ago as I was building a new stock tank.
My neighbor, who is a cattlemen, suggested the polyrope. It worked really well for us.
The horses never pushed enough to break it.
That's my only experience other than one of my hillbilly neighbors uses it for damn near his whole place as he is to cheap to build a real fence. He does use regular t-post though.

yeah I put up over 3500' of high fence and 2000' of 5 wire in 2024 so my fencing budget is a little blown atm

I will eventually put this in as well, but for the next 6-12 month I would like to have an inexpensive option.

Wow. No kidding.
I was not digging at you on using the polyrope at all. Hope you didn't take it that way.
My neighbor down the road about 6 miles is a young guy that inherited his place. True hillbilly. His fences are crap, his truck barely runs, but he has more rifles than Ukraine and all kinds of night vision stuff, and a nice bass boat.
But he keeps all his cattle in with the polyrope so it must work good!