Final Judging and Fence Analysis

What happens here

With all teams finished, judging commences. The host highlights the winning team, Sloop Fence, and proceeds to analyze their fence and others. Key aspects of good fence building are demonstrated using a 'judge's stick,' which has marked lines for post height, barb wire, and net wire placement. The winning fence exhibits perfectly level post tops, straight fence lines, a 'ramps brace' construction on corner posts, excellent termination knots, and correctly spaced and tensioned wire. Examples of common errors, such as posts driven too deep, incorrect staple patterns (hard stapling), and crooked stays, are also shown, along with a 'blow-out' on a post top that could have been prevented with a chamfered edge.

Goal: Evaluate the constructed fences against competition criteria.