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Originally Posted by John Doe
I have always done it with a small pickup and a fence puller tied to the trailer ball. Multiple strand just spread them out with a 2x4  |
The latest project was about 900ft of 5-strand that had to cross two gullies, one with permanent water (Sassy Creek). I opted to do one wire at a time lest a pair of them decide to mate for life.
Sassy Creek
The fence runs left to right just at the edge of the clearing (you can see a pair of the old pull posts in this picture).
We run the wire using a Mule (you can see it above, next to the hi-tension pylon) with a pipe across the bed holding the spools. There's enough difference in elevation here that you can simply snug the wire with a jack-style stretcher and then go to the high points and steeple it to the wood posts at the right place then go to the low areas and step on the wire to hold it down where you want it and steeple there. Next, go back and clip it in the right places on the intermediate t-posts.
Believe me, you can get it tight enough that way to play a tune or shoot the occasional shallow t-post.
In a couple of years, I'm going to cross fence two of my big pastures. Those will be new fence in wide open terrain. I may try running more than one wire at a time then.