Ag Fencing

Numpty, get yourself a Donald strainer. They are top quality and will last a lifetime. My old one has strained hundreds of miles of fence.
You can make a strong spinning jenny out of timber, just give it some thought to be sure the wire doesn't rise above the short posts on the
jenny and come off !! Have NM put a foot on it so that it doesn't get out of control.
Also get yourself a good set of pliers, farmers and fencers use the ones about 13 inches long with no plastic or rubber grips on them.
For twisting the wire around itself to tie it off, cut a piece of flat steel
about 7 inches long, inch x eighth. Drill a hole a bit larger than the wire about an inch from one end. Fit it over the end of the strained
wire and wind it around and around like a tight coil. Easy. With a bit of practice you can make a similar tool to tie off barb as well.
For running barb the simplest and quickest way is to just tie off one end, put a crowbar thru it and the two of you just walk it out unrolling as you go.
You can do it this way on your own if you are fit enough.
Wear leather gloves.
Keep your canvas water bag topped up !!

Have fun.

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Originally Posted by numpty

Great timing for this thread, as I was going to ask some questions on fences.

An important one first, what is a good type of wire strainer to buy? This will be for plain and barbed wire. I have strained hinge joint before, using a straight bar and tying off with a truckies hitch to an immoveable object.

Thanks in anticipation.

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will check with ho har when he gets but I am sure we have the necessary bits you need including the wire spinner you can borrow:)...for the country property I guess;)


Mrs ho har:angel:

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Originally Posted by numpty

Great timing for this thread, as I was going to ask some questions on fences.

An important one first, what is a good type of wire strainer to buy? This will be for plain and barbed wire. I have strained hinge joint before, using a straight bar and tying off with a truckies hitch to an immoveable object.

Thanks in anticipation.

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Hey N & NM

On the farm we have Waratah wire strainers. Have been using them since 1981 and they are still going strong. I hate to think the amount of fences they have strained over the years. Miles and miles.

Cheers

Rich

I read a good fencing primer that I downloaded from one of the TAFE ag courses. Couple of years ago, so can't recall the site.

A lot of good advice handed down in the proceeding posts. I grew up on a sheep farm and spent many hours helping replace fences after fires I married a farmers, daughter from Wagga and about 12yr ago did 2ks of 5 strand barded for cattle by myself over 2 days with all the correct gear. For my last rural fence job I made up a wooden A frame out of 4x2 hard wood with a bit of pipe as an axle for the coil of wire and pulled it along in a wheelbarrow behind me to run the barded wire out, it did the job May be you could make up a lazy suzzane type wire spinner out of a bit of old ply and other timber And for the distance you are to cover a second pair of hands will save you a lot of blood sweat and tears.

Best oy luck
hodgo

I have used forked sticks Strainers and my landrover ute. To strain dog wire ( a necessity where I was because of those mongrel feral dogs) I made up from inch by inch square sufficient to go through the full height of the dog wire then strained it with the landy, tied and nailed etc to keep the strain

John ( disco 44 )

pattern wire can be clamped between two piece of metal to strain it.

I went to a demo put on by the farmers federation and Waratah fencing. A professional fencer demonstrated how to go about doing a number of fencing tasks. It all looked easy until you tried it for yourself. Even so most people with some aptitude for how things work will be able to do a reasonable job on a fence. It might just take a bit longer than someone who does it on a regular basis.

Fencing plyers are about $40.
I bough a pair last year before I headed down for the fire clean up. Just ask the local HRT guy at the hardware what was my best bet without spending lots. I use those plyers all the time now they are so good.

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Originally Posted by slug_burner

Farm fences do not hold dogs in when you are not there if your dog is adventurous. If you are going to be away for the day and leaving the dogs alone, build a dog run with 6 foot or better high fences. Even then there are escape artists that will require you put in a enclosing panel overhead.

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I agree. I had a boss who's huskie would get out of his 6' fence. It escaped from Brisbane and was picked up by the dog catcher on the Gold Coast a couple of weeks later. Probably too late now for this sort of advice though.

Matt.

For those of you with dog escapee problems those collars with the boundary wire pickup are the go.Unless the dog is a real no hoper it soon works out the audible warning it recieves before it gets the zap.After a while you can remove the collar and have no fences.Friends of ours trained their Dingoes this way,collars are left on all the time JUST IN CASE.
Andrew