We don't bother bracing the corners. The last bunch I put down were old power poles set at 4-5' in an auger hole just slightly larger than the pole and tamped in with gravel. Thus far they haven't started leaning. All of our wire, springs, tensioners and a lot of the insulators are Gallagher. Avoid single nail insulators. They arc across the nail when you have a big energizer. 2 nail are better and the pin type are the best that I've found. We ran mostly 2 wire but I'd suggest going with 3 wire if you've got calves. They can either go under it if it's too high or through it if it's too far apart... With a good three wire setup you can then partition off blocks for them with poly wire as needed. All I ever do with posts, either wood or portable is space them to keep the wire off the ground or keep the sag out. I'm not big on adding extra. The wire doesn't meen a damn to the cows. It's the heat on the wire that stops them... Remember... Big energizer and get it grounded VERY well with several ground rods. The energizer should send out 10-20 joules. If you're not committed to spending the bucks on a good energizer, grounding it right and keeping the growth down somewhat on the fence rows, go with some form of non-energized fence.
I rather like electric myself. I ran down most of the pagewire with the dozer 7 or 8 years ago. We spent a few years of trying to maintain electric over top of bad pagewire too because the old man couldn't part with the pagewire... That just doesn't work. Go one way or the other.
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