Originally posted by Reschke
The old fashioned way and the only ways I had available.
#1 set the posts in the ground 6 feet apart.
#2Then came back and started unrolling the "fabric" (funny how they call metal fabric to me).
#3At each post used Ye Ole Hammer and a 2 foot piece of steel 2 inch post to get tension then quickly cinched up the fencing with my wire ties.
I checked it by feel but its been many years since I put up a chain link fence.
Besides that Storch the mileage to get you guys up here would have killed me; being all budget wise and such now. 
If I have to go back over it and redo the tension its not going to be all that bad. The worst part was getting the posts in the ground with all the roots and stumps in the yard.
You Sir, are a Cuban Redneck
Let me see your passport. Or maybe redneck is universal and knows no national boundaries.
As soon as you are settled in but before your fabric (It's called fabric correctly, it's a woven product) is ruined go to home depot and invest in a tool called a "Maasdam Powr Puller" (I didn't mis-spell power) In my industry it's called a come-along.
I'm going to assume that your fence is either a 4 or 5 footer. If you have welding skills fabricate a set of "fingers" this is a piece of 1- 3/8" top rail 42" long with 3 hooks bent from 3/8" steel rod welded perpendicularly to the 1-3/8" x 42" top rail then take a "U" bolt and weld it on the opposite side of the middle "finger" (no, not that one). The hooks should be about 3" long with a 1" bent part.
take an extra tension bar (the 48" x 1/4" galvanized flat bar that you use to fasten the fabric to the tension bands on the posts) about 5 feet away from your terminal post. slide it through the groove in the fabric. hook the fingers to the fabric. hook the come along body to the fingers the clevis hook to the middle tension band on the terminal post (leave the carriage bolt as loose as possible and stretch while lifting the fabric. every few pulls on the comealong stop and walk the fence line lifting the fabric into the air, this will allow the fabric to travel in the direction of the tension.
for pounding the posts in, get a piece of 3" S-40 (ASTM-53) pipe about 30" long, weld a piece of 3" solid steel on one end and you have a "bazooka" It's a one man pile driver. If you used 16ga. posts the bazooka doesn't believe in stone or root. they will pound down. simply trim the post tops with a grinder and a cutting disc (SAIT .045 is my fav cutting disc) and you're good to go.
Or.......not and just have a beer.
Congratulations you probably saved yourself $12.00 per foot, You can probably afford to do it again in 3 years.
The come along and fingers are always useful if you hunt and field dress your game. The fingers are great for hanging your deer/pig by the hind leg tendons and the come-along easily lifts it up from a low stout branch. Great tool combination for gutting while standing.
If you can't weld I could make you one up (fingers) in the shop and you just pay for the shipping. I make them all the time because we lose them occasionally and I make them from scraps. I will gladly do this as a courtesy for the great set ups you have provided me in the last year and half.
Feel free to ask any questions regarding your fence.
