Best way to mount garden wire for climbing plants, concrete fence posts wooden panels

danlightbulb

danlightbulb

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Hi all,

Just trying to figure this out.

I have a standard slotted concrete fence post with 6ft wooden panels, spaced 6ft apart.

I want to mount a galvanised wire framework to a length eventually spanning 6 panels long, i.e starting on post 1 and ending on post 7. But to start with I only need it to span two panels, three posts.

Im aware that basically I need some galvanised wire, vine eyes (or similar), turnbuckle (or similar) for tensioning.

But Im not sure how to mount it. The wire and turnbuckles are relatively cheap, but the mounting options aren't.

Initially I considered these metal brackets at £18 for 6 pieces. https://www.rivelinglenproducts.com/wire-anchor-size-1-132-p.asp They will fit my posts, and is a no drill solution. But Im not sure how strong the metal will be once tensioned and there's no information on whether I need to run intermediate brackets, or just one at either end of my short or even eventually long runs of wire.

An alternative is mounting a wooden treated post 4x2 to the existing concrete post, requiring drilling the concrete post probably in three places and screwing together. Then I could use a standard screw in vine eye easily, but a wooden post 2x4x1.8m is not cheap either and I would presumably need one per concrete post or would I only need one at each end of my run?

Third option is drilling and screwing in vine eyes directly to the concrete post but this doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

Or option 4, screw in vine eyes into the wooden panels themselves, near the edges where there is framing? I could reinforce the framing of the panel with some 22mmx38mm treated timber batten (my panel design allows for this quite easily), but even then a pack of timber is around £40.

Any one got any better ideas?
 
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I have a SDS breaker/drill which makes short work of concrete. I ran spans of around 2m. The wire is pulled tight enough to hold the plants, but has enough slack to allow for contraction in cold weather.
 
Concrete fence posts usually have galvanised steel wire reinforcement running longitudinally through them. Masonry drill bits don't like drilling steel wire, so be aware of that if the drill suddenly doesn't drill freely.

I would drill the edges of the wooden fence panels right by the posts and put a loop of heavy wire or a stainless steel tie wrap through and around each end post as an anchor point I think.
 
@danlightbulb did you land on a solution? I’m in a similar quandary. I want to run some wire 5m along my fence, all the way to the final fence post that is attached to a dividing brick wall between my property and the garden of a parallel property. I don’t think I will be able to attach the Rivelin Glen anchor to the final fence post, as the post is tight to the brick wall and the bracket will not fit.

I think the best option is to drill into the concrete posts and use Rawlbolt anchors, but I’ve read mixed opinions on drilling into them…
 
I’d just screw into the fence panels and wrap the wire around the screw. Just just some climbing plants, no need to go overkill or over think it.

In fact, that is exactly what I’ve done in my own garden and it’s fine.
 
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Those Riveling Glen brackets will be fine for light climbing plants. Roses are another matter entirely, the heavy swines.

Fit one bracket to each post with a separate wire between as you go. Unless you run something like 3 mm braided steel wire with the threaded hook tensioners and 8mm rawbolt eyelets, you’ll be struggling to maintain tension and support the weight of 7 metres worth of wire and plants.
 
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