How to Install an Orange Snow Fence With T-Post Clips
Before the ground freezes and the snowflakes start falling it's time to put up the orange plastic snow fencing. Drifting snow is a big headache if you have to shovel it off the driveway. Snow fencing can hold snow at bay. It's functional, especially during a blizzard, and easy to install using metal T-posts and T-post clips
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Pound in a T-post where the fence is to begin. Pound in T-posts every 6 to 8 feet the full length of the fence along a predetermined fence line. Keep the flat sides of the T-post in line, as the orange snow fencing will be laying against the flat sides of the posts.
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Line the end of the roll of snow fence up with the first stake, leaving a 2- to 3-inch overlap.
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Holding the orange fencing against the flat side of the stake and with 2 to 3 inches of the fence overshooting the stake, place the T-clip against the convex side of the T-post, and pull a horizontal strip of fencing over one end of the T-clip. Take your pliers and bend the T-clip wire up and over the strip of fencing to lock it into the T-clip.
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Loop the other end of the T-clip wire over the horizontal strip of orange plastic and with a pliers bend the wire down and around so the fencing can't slip out of the T-clip.
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Repeat Steps 3 and 4 in the middle of the post and again towards the bottom of the post.
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Move to the next T-post, unrolling the orange fencing as you walk along. Repeat Steps 4 and 5 with each consecutive post. Pull the orange fencing as tight as possible when you are attaching the T-clips. For the T-clips to stay in place they must be under pressure, and a tightly stretched fence will keep them firmly in place.
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- Because the fence must be pulled and held tight while the T-clips are being tightened, this job is best done with two people.
- T-posts have intermittent holes drilled into them the full length of the post. If you can't install the T-clips so they remain under pressure, purchase a bag of plastic zip ties, thread them through the stake holes and around the fencing and tie them off to secure the orange fencing to the T-post.
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B. Ellen von Oostenburg became a full-time writer a decade ago. She has written features for local and state newspapers, as well as magazines, including Milwaukee Magazine, Wisconsin Trails and German Magazine. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin - Madison, von Oostenburg holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in fine art.
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