anybody use these open top twisted wire fence stays?

[Hippie Rancher]

I don't understand them. never saw them before, just got a bunch of new fencing and wasn't sure what kind of stays to get. they look like maybe they can use some kind of special tool? what the heck is going on? why?

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[GoWyo]

Twist them onto the top wire and keep twisting to the second wire at appropriate space until twisted into all wires. They look nice for a while and eventually become a bent up mess.

 

[greybeard]

Twist them onto the top wire and keep twisting to the second wire at appropriate space until twisted into all wires. They look nice for a while and eventually become a bent up mess.

exactly! You might have trouble bending one but a cow can put a 90 in one without blinking.

$70/bundle last time I bought any...at McCoys I think it was.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

Twist them onto the top wire and keep twisting to the second wire at appropriate space until twisted into all wires. They look nice for a while and eventually become a bent up mess.

I am totally familiar with twisted wire stays, but these are weird. I am used to the ones that are a single "wire" bent in half and then twisted. you can sometomes just drop them or lightly hammer them down on your fence wires if newish, if old and rusty you sometimes really have to hand twist the dang things. but these in the image are two separate wires that are kind of loose twisted for the main length like the regular ones and at the top they are twisted together much tighter. like they are meant to have some special tool. I don't know, they seemed strange to me and I have never seen them anywhere before. they are cheaper than the regular closed top stays but seems like they might fall apart.

 

[bird dog]

The dudes in the pictures don't look like they have any special tool.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

The dudes in the pictures don't look like they have any special tool.

it also kind of seems these are for smaller guage high tensile stuff. anyway they were new to me, wondered if anybody was familiar with them. (see we need ol' fence here! LOL)

 

[Brute 23]

I despise those things. I threw a whole bunch in the trash and handed 1 to a guy with some tposts. I told him here, every time you get the urge to use that 1, set it to the side and drive a tpost and actually fix the problem.

 

[Hippie Rancher]

I despise those things. I threw a whole bunch in the trash and handed 1 to a guy with some tposts. I told him here, every time you get the urge to use that 1, set it to the side and drive a tpost and actually fix the problem.

are you talking about wire stays in general or the open top ones I am asking about? a tight pasture fence with wire stays is fine around here, but don't like them for more pressure areas like water lots around a pond or large holding areas. certainly not for working facilities.

 

[Brute 23]

I hate all stays... wire, wood, what ever... but especially the twist wire ones.