Staytight Fence Strainer Assemblies

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Download the free StayTight End Assembly Selection Guide from the Rotech Rural website. It matches the right kit to your fencing job.

Yes. Every StayTight end assembly is hot dipped galvanised and run with a stainless steel cable, making it one of the most rust-resistant assemblies on the market and built to last in tough rural conditions. The Premium Stainless Steel Kits go a step further with a stainless eyebolt, so any future adjustments stay easy even in highly corrosive environments. The thread will last. Want a hand matching a kit to your conditions? Call the office or jump on the web chat.

LokDown Lugs are a ground anchorage accessory that give StayTight posts up to 8 times the holding power of a standard post. They earn their keep in deep black soils, flood-prone country, and soft reactive soils, where post movement is a real risk.

StayTight and MULTI-STAY kits come in a range of types to suit whatever you’re straining off: steel, timber, pine or concrete posts, depending on what you’d rather use for your strainer posts. They run from fitting kits, if you’ve already got your own posts and stays, right through to complete kits that include a steel straddle post in a range of sizes for standard farm fencing and exclusion fencing.

A StayTight end assembly kit includes everything you need to build a strong, fully adjustable fence strainer assembly. Depending on the kit, that means a strainer post, cap, stay, TWIST-TIGHT stay connectors, footplate, and tension assembly.

The StayTight system handles it with four things working together: the floating footplate spreads the load, the tension cable lifts most of the weight off the footplate, Mud Plates add surface area where it’s still not enough, and LokDown Lugs give the post eight times more grip in the ground than a regular post.

For the full breakdown, read how end assemblies work.

A fence starts losing tension within 24 hours of going up. It keeps losing tension for the rest of its life. Adjusting the tension cable lets you put it back.

Timber assemblies, welded steel, and stays concreted into the ground can’t be adjusted. Once they’re set, they’re set.

No. The tension cable does the work. It takes as much as two-thirds of the fence’s weight off the footplate and pushes it back down through the strainer post. That’s what keeps the footplate up AND what keeps the strainer post in the ground.

The Mud Plate is for the few paddocks where the ground still can’t carry the remaining third.

Because the ground moves. The strainer post is the only part of an end assembly that should be fixed in place. Everything else has to be free to move with the seasons.

Pin the footplate down, whether that’s concreting it in, welding it to a stake or driving a pin through it, and the whole weight of the fence ends up sitting on the footplate. That’s how end assemblies fail.

Yes. Concrete pads are expensive, heavy, and slow to install. They also pin the footplate down, which kills the floating design the whole assembly relies on. A pair of Mud Plates adds 66% more surface area, screws on in minutes, and keeps the footplate doing its job.

Yes. The plates screw onto the existing footplate with Tek screws. No welding, no drilling, no flame.

That’s also how you reset a failed post without rebuilding the whole assembly. Take the pressure off with a winch or loader, straighten the post, fit the plates, and reset it properly.

No. The standard floating footplate handles normal ground on its own. That’s what it’s built for. Fit Mud Plates only where the ground needs more: wet corners, boggy patches, flood country, irrigation bays.