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I use at least 9 foot post and put top wire 5 1/2 feet above ground. I also buy stainless steel dog bowls (Walmart $5) , paint them brown to stop shine and screw upside down on post tops to keep out water. Posts will last a lot longer. The horizontal brace between post is a 8 foot piece of 2 inch used oil well pipe. All wires are #9 galvanized with T-posts down the rows. Univ. of Missouri says put T-post 8 apart, but I think that is too close. I now place post 10 feet apart and like the results.
My main crop is Concord but I also grow a few table grapes- Somerset

Last year, the grapes leafed and bloomed, then got hit with that two days of killing frost. Everything green on the vines died and fell off. A week or more later, the vines sprouted new leaves, re-bloomed and I harvested a very nice yield of grapes. An aside, that frost killed every peach and apricot bloom on our seven trees; we did not even get one. mid-Missouri zone 6a-b

<blockquote data-quote="Charles DeVier" data-source="post: 881863" data-attributes="member: 53077">I use at least 9 foot post and put top wire 5 1/2 feet above ground.&nbsp; I also buy stainless steel dog bowls (Walmart $5) , paint them brown to stop shine and screw upside down on post tops to keep out water.&nbsp; Posts will last a lot longer.&nbsp; The horizontal brace between post is a 8 foot piece of 2 inch used oil well pipe.&nbsp; All wires are #9 galvanized with T-posts down the rows.&nbsp; Univ. of Missouri says put T-post 8 apart, but I think that is too close.&nbsp; I now place post 10 feet apart and like the results. &nbsp; My main crop is Concord but I also grow a few table grapes- Somerset&nbsp; Last year, the grapes leafed and bloomed, then got hit with that two days of killing frost.&nbsp; Everything green on the vines died and fell off.&nbsp; A week or more later, the vines sprouted new leaves, re-bloomed and I harvested a very nice yield of grapes.&nbsp; An aside, that frost killed every peach and apricot bloom on our seven trees; we did not even get one.&nbsp; mid-Missouri&nbsp; zone 6a-b</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charles DeVier, post: 881863, member: 53077"] I use at least 9 foot post and put top wire 5 1/2 feet above ground. I also buy stainless steel dog bowls (Walmart $5) , paint them brown to stop shine and screw upside down on post tops to keep out water. Posts will last a lot longer. The horizontal brace between post is a 8 foot piece of 2 inch used oil well pipe. All wires are #9 galvanized with T-posts down the rows. Univ. of Missouri says put T-post 8 apart, but I think that is too close. I now place post 10 feet apart and like the results. My main crop is Concord but I also grow a few table grapes- Somerset Last year, the grapes leafed and bloomed, then got hit with that two days of killing frost. Everything green on the vines died and fell off. A week or more later, the vines sprouted new leaves, re-bloomed and I harvested a very nice yield of grapes. An aside, that frost killed every peach and apricot bloom on our seven trees; we did not even get one. mid-Missouri zone 6a-b [/QUOTE]

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