Thread: Ag Fencing

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.