ANGLE-IRON POST ACCESSORIES AND TOOLS

Corner and End Braces

Earth anchors (item 16-11) are less expensive and easier to install than corner and end braces (items 15-06 and 15-07 below). However, where earth anchors won’t do (because the fence is right on a property line or for any other reason) use our corner and end braces to set up strong deer fence corners and ends able to resist the sideways stress created by wind, snow, falling tree branches, or running deer. For corner and end brace (and also earth anchor) installation instructions see Deer Fence Installation: Deer Fence Corners.

Digging Bar

This useful tool (item 15-03PB below) saves lots of time and effort and is a must if you have rocky soil. Use it to make a preliminary post hole, and then easily drive the post into this hole with the manual post driver (item 15-05 below). Start by putting a piece of tape on the digging bar to mark your hole’s desired depth. Then push or tap the pry bar a few inches into the ground, rotate it, tap it in a few more inches, rotate it, and repeat the process until you reach the desired depth. Then rotate the bar a bit more until the hole is wide enough, and guide the post down the hole with the post driver, using the driver’s might and a carpenter’s level to ensure that the post winds up standing straight.

Manual Post Driver

Whether or not your have a pry bar, use this driver (item 15-05 below) to pound or guide your angle-iron posts into the ground. However, be sure that anyone helping to steady the post does NOT put his or her hands within reach of the driver, because the descending driver can seriously injure hands.

Rust-preventive Paint

Angle-iron posts are not galvanized, so they can corrode and if not maintained they will corrode. This corrosion can be severe enough to destroy the post in a few years. Fortunately, the maintenance needed to prevent this is simple. Just spray the occasional places where the black paint has been chipped (during installation or by other events) with an industrial grade rust-preventing paint (item 15-08 below). This should be done once the posts are installed and at intervals of 6 months to a year thereafter.

PRODUCT NO.	PRODUCT	COST	QTY
15-06	Two corner brace kits, each containing a nine-foot corner post with cap and two brace posts with connectors	$148.49
15-07	Two end brace kits, each containing a nine-foot end post with cap and a brace post with connector	$133.95
15-03PB	Pry bar, 4 feet	$29.95
15-05	Post driver, manual, 2-1/4 inch opening, 17 pounds	$36.49
15-081	Special glossy industrial grade black rust-preventive paint, 15 oz. spray can	$6.49

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