Thread: Uses for fencing wire.

Originally Posted by Bearman

Nothing wrong with your imagination Dave

Imagination?........

Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

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A file cleaner using fencing wire ?

No, not the computer silly!

Take a handy offcut of 8 gauge wire, cut it to a length of approximately 6", put one end into a drill and bore into the end of a piece of wood or the short remains of a broom stick and this then becomes the handle for your 'do it yourself' file cleaner.

On the other end, flatten the wire by hitting it with a hammer against a lump of metal, fanning it out as much as possible, using the file that needs cleaning, to shape the fan into a flat edge to use as a scraper.

Note the way the teeth are arranged in parallel lines on the face of the file, looking at the teeth after the file has been used to file some soft metal, you will see residue of that metal caught in between the teeth.
The job now of your do it yourself file cleaner is to remove this unwanted material, pushing the blade across the file at the same angle of the teeth setting, gathers the waste out of the gully.
The impression showing the shape of rows soon becomes apparent in the edge of the blade, making the tool a lot more efficient each time it is used.

That is one use for only a short piece of fencing wire, imagination has no bounds to the use of the rest of a coil of fencing wire.
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Pulled up somewhere on the Duncan highway and I discovered to much alarm that i'd lost the corkscrew. No worries said I, I can push it in. Unfortunately upon removing the plastic bit on the top I discovered it had a plastic cork. Tried pushing it it. Not a snowball's chance in hell. OK, let's try digging it out. Again no joy.

I the end I got a small screwdriver and was able to bore a small hole in the cork centre. Then I found on a nearby fence the loose end of a wire which I bent one inch hard over at 180 degrees then pushed the point of the v all the way through the cork, until the short end popped out inside the bottle. Then it was merely a matter of pulling back (bloody hard mind you) on the bottle still connected to the fence.

t'was a fine drop

Geeez Stallie if ya that desperate for a drink...just knock the top of it...and spit the bits of glass out

Geeez Stallie if ya that desperate for a drink...just knock the top of it...and spit the bits of glass out

Like the style! I did consider trying the twine, metho, match and cold water trick to get the top off the bottle, but didn't have any cold water!

We bought an old holiday house a few years ago, as a rental. A mate of mine took one look at the rear patio setup and commented that a 'cocky must have made it '! It was constructed of old bore casings, corrugated iron ( rusty of course ) and fencing wire. Not a bolt, nail or screw in sight. It was solid though. When it came time to replace it with something more modern, it took us half a day to dig out the damn poles. They had almost as much in the ground as above !

Back in the 70s while living at Puckapunyal I would often take the family out for a picnic on a Sunday. one day miles away out the back of Seymour we came across a river with others enjoying the country side and swimming in the local river, There was a family with an automatic Holden with a valve radio fitted that had been entertaining us all during the day. When the bloke went to start it the battery was too flat to turn the motor over and no one had jumper leads he asked me to send the RACV out from Seymour.
Both our cars had chrome bumpers so I drove hard up against his bumper, Cut a length of 8 gauge wire from the bottom stand of an old fence placed it across the two positive terminals of the two batteries and presto his car started much to everybody's surprise.
It was just a little trick the army taught me, and received a case of beer later for being clever .
Hodgo