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I found a machine which will roll up old wire. Looks to be a good machine which can roll up a quarter mile of wire in just a matter of a few minutes compared the time doing it by hand. There is miles of fence needing to be replaced after the fires. I am wondering what it would be worth to have the wire rolled up. The machine isn't cheap. I don't know that I have enough wire to justify the expense. So I think I might consider doing it as a service or renting out the machine to reliable ranchers. Considering a price per foot.
 
A qtr of mile in a few minutes. That's fast on my best day that would take hours. Is it per strand or multiple strands?
 
Ya I think it would rentable but for how long before everyone has fences back up. Now you would really have a machine if it could lay out new also. 😂
 
Ya I think it would rentable but for how long before everyone has fences back up. Now you would really have a machine if it could lay out new also. 😂
Most of the ground they won't have cows back on it for 2 years. At least it will be that long before BLM will allow you back on their ground. No one is getting excited about building new fence yet. The educated guess is there is 1,000 miles of fence needed for the area of this fire.
It doesn't run the wire out. I have a little rig that mounts on back of a quad that rolls out a roll of wire. Ground too steep for the quad? And there is a lot of that. Two guys with a pipe through the middle of the roll? Young healthy men who are willing to work will have all the work they want over the next couple of years. The fire here burnt just under 300,000 acres. Fires in ranch land of eastern Oregon total about 1.4 million acres.
 
Ol fence used to do it with just a piece of 2" pipe on a post hole digger. Cut a hole it the top to mount tot he auger and 4 or 5 other hole down the pipe to run the wire through. When finished, take the hole mess to the scrap yard.
 
I needed some work years ago so helped a guy tear out a bunch of old fence. He had an old chevy Luv pickup as a fence truck. This guy backs up straight with the end of the fence and tells me to jack the truck up and take the driver side tire off. Then he bolted up a wheel he had made to the axle and wrapped the old wire around it. He put that pickup in gear and rolled up 4 strands of wire in a few minutes. I was amazed but always wondered how long that trucks rearend lasted.
 
Good ideas but they work on ground is lot flatter than a lot of what we are dealing with. I can go places with the quad that I wouldn't take a pickup or a tractor. There is a trail down to where that smoke is on the left side of the picture. But it is a little sketchy on a quad. Be suicide on a tractor or a pickup. The river is just the other side of the close up brush.

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This is what we use. I have rolled 4 wires at a time on it but shorter lengths.

i have one of those danuser intimidators.. i pull the entire fence, attached to t-posts and all.. pull it all, lay it down. then roll it up with it. never have to get out.. entire fence is rolled up really nice and neat and ready for the scrap yard. I can rip a lot of fence down in no time. pretty handy thing.
 
i have one of those danuser intimidators.. i pull the entire fence, attached to t-posts and all.. pull it all, lay it down. then roll it up with it. never have to get out.. entire fence is rolled up really nice and neat and ready for the scrap yard. I can rip a lot of fence down in no time. pretty handy thing.
I'd like to see that in action.
 
What powers it? Looks like hydraulic hoses running out to it. The one I am looking at is hydraulic but it has a Briggs and Stratton motor to run th Hydraulic pump.
You would need a small motor running a pump. Readily available piece of kit. This sort of thing :

A unit like this could be handy for all sorts of things besides powering a wire roller.
 
Very similar to the power unit on the one I am looking at. And priced about the same. I think if a person bought the wire roller you have, added that gas powered hydraulic pump you would be into it about the same amount of money as the one I am looking into.
 
i have one of those danuser intimidators.. i pull the entire fence, attached to t-posts and all.. pull it all, lay it down. then roll it up with it. never have to get out.. entire fence is rolled up really nice and neat and ready for the scrap yard. I can rip a lot of fence down in no time. pretty handy thing.
The wood posts all burned. The T-posts are going to stay right where they are and get used again. Fence is going back right where it was.
 
Dave, I am faceing the same issue, please let us know what you decide and how it works out.
I have 99% decided to go with this one made by Frenchglen Blacksmiths. The town (?) of Frenchglen is about 5 or 6 hours away so the closest thing to local that I can find. I am going with the trailer mounted pull behind the quad model. That can get to the steep places that I don't want to go with a tractor.
 

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