fence tips and tricks

[midTN_Brangusman]

Fence I use the same contraption on a hay spear on my flatbed. The disc works great!

Love the sticker btw

 

[greybeard]

That's my one complaint about Bakeart ht barbwire. No real spool on their rolls. Those 2 little plastic things ain't worth a crap when you get down close to the end of the roll.

 

[Farm Fence Solutions]

That's my one complaint about Bakeart ht barbwire. No real spool on their rolls. Those 2 little plastic things ain't worth a crap when you get down close to the end of the roll.

We need to get you some Tornado barb wire so you can develop more complaints for Bekaert products.

 

[Farm Fence Solutions]

A Hoosier, a New Yorker, and a Texan show up on a fence job......

 

[callmefence]

A Hoosier, a New Yorker, and a Texan show up on a fence job......

:cowboy:

Reckon the guy from Georgia got it...

 

[dieselbeef]

yeah when it gets to the end that roll makes a friggin mess. and jams up turning..its a real pita. that wire wont do that with the metal frame like that?

 

[greybeard]

that wire wont do that with the metal frame like that?

Every once in awhile, but not nearly as bad.
Years ago, decades..all wire I used came on a spool frame like that, but the wire itself had it's own problems. Stretch and stretch and stretch, then get loose again just on it's own and it rusted all the heck. It's why I started using Bekeart ht. A little harder to work with according to some, but in 5 years, it don't look like it was put up in the late 1800s.

 

[callmefence]

that wire wont do that with the metal frame like that?

Every once in awhile, but not nearly as bad.
Years ago, decades..all wire I used came on a spool frame like that, but the wire itself had it's own problems. Stretch and stretch and stretch, then get loose again just on it's own and it rusted all the heck. It's why I started using Bekeart ht. A little harder to work with according to some, but in 5 years, it don't look like it was put up in the late 1800s.

Y'all are rolling it out in the wrong direction. North rolls have to rolled to the north. East to the east etc.
It'll be stamped on there somewhere. Sometimes it's pretty small, you gotta look hard.

 

[dieselbeef]

well duh...that don't matter....I always check that and it still wads up at the small end of the roll

 

[greybeard]

Y'all are rolling it out in the wrong direction. North rolls have to rolled to the north. East to the east etc

Says the guy that's rolling wire out from the wrong side. You have the roll on upside down. Everyone knows that in this hemisphere, you have to unroll it off the other (right) side and if the roll is sitting horizontal, it has to come off from the top of the roll and not the bottom...

 

[callmefence]

Y'all are rolling it out in the wrong direction. North rolls have to rolled to the north. East to the east etc

Says the guy that's rolling wire out from the wrong side. You have the roll on upside down. Everyone knows that in this hemisphere, you have to unroll it off the other (right) side and if the roll is sitting horizontal, it has to come off from the top of the roll and not the bottom...

Good eye Greybeard.. :clap:
It does make a slight difference. Agreed. Not as big a difference as toilet paper. I just threw a partial roll up there for the photo and didn't pay attention. You caught me..

 

[Farm Fence Solutions]

Y'all are rolling it out in the wrong direction. North rolls have to rolled to the north. East to the east etc

Says the guy that's rolling wire out from the wrong side. You have the roll on upside down. Everyone knows that in this hemisphere, you have to unroll it off the other (right) side and if the roll is sitting horizontal, it has to come off from the top of the roll and not the bottom...

Good eye Greybeard.. :clap:
It does make a slight difference. Agreed. Not as big a difference as toilet paper. I just threw a partial roll up there for the photo and didn't pay attention. You caught me..

But then, if you were going south, the barbs would be upside down....wouldn't they? :???:

 

[greybeard]

But then, if you were going south, the barbs would be upside down....wouldn't they? :???:

Just 1/2 of them...

 

[Farm Fence Solutions]

But then, if you were going south, the barbs would be upside down....wouldn't they? :???:

Just 1/2 of them...

Seems like twice as many would be upside down if it was 4 point instead of 2 point??? You sure it's just half?

 

[callmefence]

We always roll out the bottom wire backwards on purpose so the barbs point down.
Makes the pigs squeak.

 

[Farm Fence Solutions]

We always roll out the bottom wire backwards on purpose so the barbs point down.
Makes the pigs squeak.

That's why they call you Fence....You think of everything. ;-)

 

[greybeard]

But then, if you were going south, the barbs would be upside down....wouldn't they? :???:

Just 1/2 of them...

Seems like twice as many would be upside down if it was 4 point instead of 2 point??? You sure it's just half?

Yes, I'm sure. The other 1/2 would be downside up.

 

[Tbrake]

I wouldn't use high tensle wire if it was free. Hate that crap. 100% Oklahoma brand 12.5 gauge here. More expensive, but 100x better. Lasts longer, stronger, easier to work with.

 

[Bigfoot]

Anybody ever intentionally put a Jakes wire tightener in a strand of electrified barbed wire, to be able to add tension as the need arises? Better solution available? Soon as snakes go in, I'm going to overhaul my bull pen.

 

[greybeard]

No. I've used them recently to effect quick repairs after the flood, but from what I've seen, they are good for one or 2 twists at the most, but I wouldn't try to use one as a permanent fixture to continually tighten with another twist every 6 months or so..asking for the wire to break.

Now, a gripple, should fit the bill just fine. You'd just have to loosen or remove a barb as you pulled 'fresh' wire into the gripple.