4 inch fence post bracket strength

deadlybuzzman

Although it's a while off I'm planning on building a fairly sizeable dog run, approx 20m x 20m and approx 6ft high.
I was thinking of just setting the posts in concrete in the individual post holes. I'm only after finding out that post brackets are a thing. I like the idea of these as they would keep the posts up off what is fairly wet land and would enable me to swap out rotten or damaged posts in the future.
What I'm wondering is are the likes of these brackets strong enough to keep a 6ft high fence rock solid in the long term in a semi exposed area?

deadlybuzzman

Bump?

fred funk }{

They're only as good as their fixing to the ground. Bolted into concrete and posts well screwed on - they ain't going anywhere.

The Continental Op

The trick I have found is to put in a top rail at say 6 foot that holds the posts inline. This massively reduces the load on any one post from a dog jumping against it by reducing the leverage at the base from a post moving out of true. However the top rail will aid some "monkey" dogs climbing out.

Calahonda52

It depends which ones u have in mind
If you make it a bit higher you could put s/steel wire stays across, like cross bracing against wind load

policarp

Why not use concrete posts?

deadlybuzzman

Yes I was going to put a top rail across as I figured it would help brace each post, tighten the wire and look a bit nicer too.
Rather than set the posts in concrete I thought keeping the posts up out of the ground would keep them dryer so slower to rot and also much much easier to replace individual posts should a post get damaged

GreeBo

What will your fence itself be made out of?

The force on the posts will hugely depend on the fence construction, e.g wooden panels vs wire mesh.
The posts wont be under any real strain with wire mesh compares to panels catching the wind.

deadlybuzzman

GreeBo wrote: »

What will your fence itself be made out of?

The force on the posts will hugely depend on the fence construction, e.g wooden panels vs wire mesh.
The posts wont be under any real strain with wire mesh compares to panels catching the wind.

It would definitely be mesh, there isn't any real upsides to using panels.
I was also thinking I could hammer 4 short lengths of rebar into the soil in the hole prior to filling with concrete to anchor it even more