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<blockquote data-quote="greybeard" data-source="post: 1459057" data-attributes="member: 18945"><p>That's one of the reasons I always put a couple staples in the wire at the brace post before I begin the tie off. Learned it when I was a kid after seeing my father get his glove ripped off and the top of one hand ripped open when the fixture holding the comealong to the wire failed just as he was starting to tie off. This was 1965-'66 just to give you an idea how much I was impressed with how dangerous it could be. </p><p>That 'fixture' was the only way I knew how to pull wire for years. A long 5/8" eye bolt with a cable clamp on it. Tie the wire to one end of the fence, unroll the wire till yya got to the other end (carrying the roll on a piece of pipe between brother and I).Dad had one old ancient rollerchain coffing hoist/comealong he had bought at a gov military auction after ww2, and that's we used to tension the wire. It was a cantankerous piece of equipment, but it would pull the world. Get to the other end, chain the comealong off to the end of the corner, pull the roller chain out to near the end of it's travel diassemble the clamp and put the strand of barbed wire between the clamp body and the eye bolt, and hook the eye in the hook in the end of the roller chain and start ratcheting. One of us would have to walk back along the wire, making sure it wasn't kinked or hung up on any brush or sump, picking it up and shaking it to make sure it got stretched good and tight. If that clamp let go or slipped, it was ugly. When we got it tight, we would then pull the end of the wire around the end post and get as much slack out with a big pair of channel lock pliers. (we was poor and couldn't afford real fencing pliers) One day making a long pull, my dad was on the pliers, starting to make his tie, and about that time one of us shook the wire back down the strand and that ancient hook pulled clean out of the end of the roller chain, the wire recoiled back with the barbs giving him that cut. That's when we started driving staples right behind a barb in the brace post before we tied off and I've done it that way ever since. Something goes amok, the only tension is whatever the pliers created. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://postimg.org/image/4hpf0uxxyz/" target="_blank"><img src="https://s1.postimg.org/4hpf0uxxyz/1966.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p>Ours looked way more like this one (or worse) than the fine shiny one in the picture above)</p><p><img src="https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0311/15/vintage-coffing-roller-chain-hoist_1_281f96f8d5c9edf078857b37e86e04bd.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="greybeard, post: 1459057, member: 18945"] That's one of the reasons I always put a couple staples in the wire at the brace post before I begin the tie off. Learned it when I was a kid after seeing my father get his glove ripped off and the top of one hand ripped open when the fixture holding the comealong to the wire failed just as he was starting to tie off. This was 1965-'66 just to give you an idea how much I was impressed with how dangerous it could be. That 'fixture' was the only way I knew how to pull wire for years. A long 5/8" eye bolt with a cable clamp on it. Tie the wire to one end of the fence, unroll the wire till yya got to the other end (carrying the roll on a piece of pipe between brother and I).Dad had one old ancient rollerchain coffing hoist/comealong he had bought at a gov military auction after ww2, and that's we used to tension the wire. It was a cantankerous piece of equipment, but it would pull the world. Get to the other end, chain the comealong off to the end of the corner, pull the roller chain out to near the end of it's travel diassemble the clamp and put the strand of barbed wire between the clamp body and the eye bolt, and hook the eye in the hook in the end of the roller chain and start ratcheting. One of us would have to walk back along the wire, making sure it wasn't kinked or hung up on any brush or sump, picking it up and shaking it to make sure it got stretched good and tight. If that clamp let go or slipped, it was ugly. When we got it tight, we would then pull the end of the wire around the end post and get as much slack out with a big pair of channel lock pliers. (we was poor and couldn't afford real fencing pliers) One day making a long pull, my dad was on the pliers, starting to make his tie, and about that time one of us shook the wire back down the strand and that ancient hook pulled clean out of the end of the roller chain, the wire recoiled back with the barbs giving him that cut. That's when we started driving staples right behind a barb in the brace post before we tied off and I've done it that way ever since. Something goes amok, the only tension is whatever the pliers created. [url=https://postimg.org/image/4hpf0uxxyz/][img]https://s1.postimg.org/4hpf0uxxyz/1966.jpg[/img][/url] Ours looked way more like this one (or worse) than the fine shiny one in the picture above) [img]https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0311/15/vintage-coffing-roller-chain-hoist_1_281f96f8d5c9edf078857b37e86e04bd.jpg[/img] [/QUOTE]
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