high tensile electric wire fencing?

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Anyone use this for horses.
We have stock fencing with an electric tape above it, having just renewed a large chunk, OH is keen to install high tensile wire instead of tape along the top
Anyone do this?
seems intrinsically dangerous to me, probably not, just the thought of fine wire really?
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My dad has recently been in contact with a company about some of this high tensile wire fencing. You can electrify it if needs be as well so sounds pretty good. The info they provided sounded like it was about as safe as you could get and the fencing (shown on their pics) was very visible. We have some sheep/stock fencing left in our field as our trying to remove most of it as we have had too many incidences of horses getting feet stuck in it. Best case scenario they stand and wait there till you free them (or they free themselves and remove their shoe) and worst case scenario..... well it doesn't bear thinking about.

The wire looks to be able to stretch to a certain degree but then will go back to its original tension (unlikes some other wires and sight wires you can get). I think it looks to be very good stuff to be honest and their reports seem to indicate there is much less chance of injuries than will other forms of fence.
 
It is just a type of steel wire, it is a begger to put up and unfortunately, there will be quite a bit of sagging occurring over time...
We have quite a bit of it around our cattle fields, IMO it's not worth the extra money as compared to ordinary wire.
 
This the the stuff we have been looking in to getting

http://www.hy-tex.co.uk/accessories_bayco_equine.html

I think it looks fine and I cannot see how it would cause injury. The thing is about minimising injury. I have known horses stake themselves and break their limbs on post and rail fencing, get stuck in stock fencing and get tangled and badly injured on barbed wire. I guess it depends what suits your individual circumstances and maybe what your horses are like.
 
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