We just bought property and I was going to get someone to build our fence as the old fence has had it. After watching your vid we are going to tackle it ourselves. We have about 2kms to do. Thanks for your video and you have a new subscriber. Hope to learn more.
Im not a farmer by any stretch of the imagination, this kind of know how is extremely helpful. My Dad did show me how to do this many years ago, but now he is gone, Ive been putting off straining and redoing the "Hinge lock" because I never thought to check youtube lol. thankyou so much for this video.
Hi Tim. Enjoyed the video and helped greatly with the fencing I did today. One thing I wanted to mention. No eye protection. As a doctor, I see this along with gloves as an essential component of work safety. Hope you take this on board and apply for future videos. A poke in the eye with wire can end sight in that eye.
Tim. You are an international adornment. A 70 plus year-old amateur here, in the UK. Using your videos for guidance I have done all my own fencing. Only about 300 metres in total, but properly done, with box ends and sheep mesh to contain (surprise) sheep. Alas, the deer just jump over the fence and eat all our roses, but two more stands of HT wire might stop that. My best investments - cheap Chinese copy strainers have been OK for my limited use, and a second-hand pair of Maun pliers/wire snips. More than anything, the work has kept me and wife active, and been great fun. My thanks to you, Tim. For limited use, the Chinese strainers aren't too bad if you take those stupid springs off. Lived in Australia for a few years. SO many bloody flies. How do you stand 'em?
Good afternoon Tim, I have been bingeing your videos while assembling steel garden beds, and I have to start taking notes as I am rewinding the video to watch your excellent demo and write down the names of tools I need to buy, cheers
Thanks Tim. I tackle this job in a different order to you, and come up with a quality long lasting and satisfying job. Not knocking your way of doing it, just reminds me of an old saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat!" Thanks again.
Hi Tim, we get a great deal of valuable advice from your clips, thanks. You refer to a twitcher for tieing the star tickets to your fence. I have heard of the "twitcher" being called a "wire key", from a few sources. I have a funny story of my late mothers experience with same, as an apprentice fencer with her father-in-law, (my grand father), she would often find her self frustratingly sliping from her grip & flying a few feet away. So my grandfather, being a practical joker, said to her, "Why don't you tie it to your wrist with a piece of string, that way you can't loose it?" My naive mother thought that sounded like a good idea. You what happened with the very next tie....
When you said if I ever used staples to strain wire you'd find me I did have a quick glance around the room. But I won't do it again now I know better. Thanks for sharing the info to help with doing it correctly.
Thank you so much for uploading this! Years ago I started my Certificate 3 in Agriculture but was unable to finish it. The teacher was a bully who never should’ve been employed, and I was forced to quit after 2 months into the course, so I never got the chance to learn how to properly fence.
Tim, my wife and I are starting our new business in farming. Thank you so much for your very very informative video. I wish we had the extra money to get the fencing done professionally but the budget is not allowing that. So you have given us a massive help. Cheers mate.
Hi Tim, just discovered your videos after doing a few months' paid and volunteer fence work around Batlow and Corryong. Always good to see the million different ways of doing fences, tying knots, etc, and learn a few new skills. Also there's something reassuring about your screen presence that says "I'm a decent bloke". Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your videos! I'm a Dutch fencing contractor and I learned so much from it. I'm having a hard time finding European retailers for the tools you use in your videos. Like the tensioning clamp and crimp sleeves, there aren't even similar alternative producers. I'm gonna weld my own netting tensioning clamp this weekend.
These are great, thanks. . I've got a bit of fencing to do, having just finally realised a lifelong dream of owning my own patch of dirt. Now, just need see if you have a video of you doing similar with some netting.
Hey Tim I would like to thank you for your ringloc run,I'm only a real novice at fencing but with your videos,they have been a real help and of course yourself.
Thank you so much for the detailed information you’re literally the best fence guy on the Internet! Why do you suggest not making my own fence stretcher out of carriage bolts And a 2x6?
the amount of pressure you put on a wire is like a tank trying to move a high rise building.. we use to strain every third post with a hoop made out of 32mm steam pipe about the same as the full length at once but never did ring lock but that was in Australia and maybe it was called different and my boss told me to do it that way
Well produced. Down to earth. Would have liked to have seen information on using gripples as an alternative to knots. As this has the advantage of easily being able to retention as necessary over time.
Great content Tim. I live on my wife's family farm in SA, the recent Cudlee Creek fire damaged almost all the fences and pasture. Big rebuild coming hopefully with some support from blazeaid. My father in law has taught me a little bit of fencing but your videos are helping greatly too. When it rains, it pours though, he had a bad fall loading wool bales on Monday doing a serious knee injury, so we'll all be stretched getting it back up and running with him down for at least 12 months.
I've done some relief work after some of the large Kansas and Montana fires. Once for a week in Kansas, with 8 of us, and a day in Montana with 250 to 300 people that was something to see. Both were amazing experience
@@trackmader unfortunately I don't have much time to spare to volunteer with a full time groundskeeper job and young family, but hopefully I can get out for a day or two in the area and help.
Brilliant Tim as usual! I've often wondered how do some farmers get their fences looking so good.Absolutely loved this presentation, and loved the music with a little mandolin doing a little bit of chopping.
Thanks for sharing Tim, lots of great tips that are often overlooked. What you explained is pretty much what DPI recommend. The only difference I did with my fencing is only using a single chain tensioner without a tension bar or board. I just took my time, started at the bottom, then pulled every second line, and tied off one line above each time, and only put enough tension as you explained, then lined up the uprights. I'm, keeping Goats and Sheep, and while the Sheep rub on the fence, the Goats really lean in the mesh, so far it just bounces back just like you explained, so allowing for that movement is really important. Now off to do some harrowing, lol.
Love your channel Tim. You list all the painful shortcuts my father takes and buggering the strainer heads on the post by passing the chain through is my pet hate!!!!
Hiya Tim loved the video, I’m very excited to be putting up some sheep mesh this weekend for my paddock to stop the dogs getting in from my neighbours. I bought one of those £30 generic monkey strainers (the yellow and blue one…) and I actually found it worked quite well for my top wires. I’ve just bought another one so i can tighten both my top and bottom wires of the sheep mesh. Haven’t quite got the funds for a proper straining clamp but for now i suppose ill just hook my strainers up to my top and bottom wires.
Hey mate. Glad you are looking forward to getting your fencing done. I know some people make do with 2x4 timber and coach bolts to make their own strainer bars. But I cannot recommend this as timber is not load rated for this purpose
So much great advice, best fencing video I've seen. I used Whites stiffstay which has high tensile as the top and bottom wires eliminating the need to run out those two extra lengths.
Hi Tim. As always your are resource of knowledge re fencing and thank you for sharing. I hope you don’t mind me saying , you were abnormally breathless in a few of the video clips. Maybe get a blood test to rule out any problems that might be developing. Some one suggested this to me for the same reason and it turned out I had way to much iron in the blood. Be safe and keep it up
I have a question tim, that probably doesnt relate to THIS video but i cant find the one i was watching, you were saying about not going through the working end of your chain strainers with the chain and to use a D shackle instead, what size shackle as I have one that was given to me but i think its too small (the thing is tiny like) any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Good vid mate. Have run a fair few hundred metres of hinge joint but I run my three or four support wires first then lift the mesh up and run a c-clip between pickets to hold in place then I strain the mesh. I will try not doing this next time and seeing how I go. Cheers.
Hey Tim, those pliers you use to cut the wire look great, where can I find some, also your videos have been very helpful in improving my own fencing, keep it up.
Hi Tim, Great video. Why don't you run the wires through the holes in the star posts? I've always been taught to do it this way, what is the benefit of either way. Thanks. Corey
My neighbor thought tightening the fence meant driving the staple in hard. The wire is still floppy and forget trying to remove the staples. City people move to the country and cause all kinds of headaches.
Would it not be easier to run the ht top wire first, then stand the mesh up so that you don’t have to strain agains the grass, rocks etc that are on the ground?
I love your content, I like to put my top wire on 1st and plumb bob the posts to get my line and I do put the flat of the posts against the wire, just the way I was taught but all in all exactly the same result. We never had those twist wire joiners either, how wonderful do they look, much easier than tieing against the strainers.
Hi Tim great informative video. How necessary is it to have the wire on the top and bottom of the mesh? Can you not just have the mesh tensioned enough on its own?
Hey mate. Thanks. There are some new meshes that have a top and bottom line wire made from high tensile, (like striffstay), lowering the need. However older style mesh, like hinge joints have all soft wire lines, as mesh is designed to work as a trampoline, requiring stretch and elasticity. So a traditional mesh fence will sag between posts over time without support. Hope that’s clear enough. Cheers.
Great videos by a gentleman rancher. I did get a kick out of the leaning fence line behind you in one segment. I'm new, so I'm trying to figure out the area you inhabit in Australia? Eaglegards...
Stupid question. But was wondering if you could do a video on removing the strainers. I just can't remove the tension and end up having to bash them off. Myles
I like some of the stuff you say but I was a contractor and erected over 400 kms of farm fencing, mostly galvanised steel posts, ringlock and barb. Also about 30 kms of pine posts and ringlock. I used a short post donger and never hurt myself once. If you can't erect posts by yourself in a straight line w/o a guide wire on the ground there's something wrong with your sighting skill. I employed one other bloke to help me and I was probably the first person to use hand held two way radios and binoculars with sighting over distance. On a good day and in good country like sandplain we'd put up a kilometre of 6 line ringlock, 2 barb and three posts to the chain, strainers and box sections. On a bad day in heavy clay, gravel or limestone we'd just dream of the good days. 😭😭
Brilliant video Tim; extremely clear and helpful thanks. In the absence of a straining clamp arrangement, what’s your view on straining the line wires individually using the chain straining tool?
I was told at the fodder store there are some brands of mesh that have high tensile top and bottom wires negating the need for stay wires. If this is the case could you put a strainer on the top and bottom wire and not use the straining board? Super helpful channel for an ameture farmer.
@@FarmLearningTim I've got about 2km of this stuff on my place - 11/90/15 2.5mm mesh with HT top and bottom wire. I still use straining boards because it tends to belly out vertically if you don't. Connect each end to strainers and do a 'gut' strain at some convenient place then fix with gripples. I also have two HT plain wires along the top, one at 1000 and one at 1100 (mesh is 900 high), for mounting offset ceramic insulators. This has proved to be a durable and effective (if somewhat expensive) fence configuration for my needs. One last thing, if you like fencing work and want to do it all over again sometime soon, use cheap imported wire products ;)
Really enjoying your video's on fencing and especially the knot tying. Here's my question: "Predator's", how do you keep digger's like Foxes, Badger and Coyote from getting into your paddock and decimating your herd? Would enjoy your thoughts and perhaps a video if you have any nuggets of wisdom.
I love how he is the most country bloke you could imagine but he still refers to his shades as “speed dealers” absolutely golden
Heheh.
Best complete wire fencing vid on TH-cam, by far.
We just bought property and I was going to get someone to build our fence as the old fence has had it. After watching your vid we are going to tackle it ourselves. We have about 2kms to do. Thanks for your video and you have a new subscriber. Hope to learn more.
Im not a farmer by any stretch of the imagination, this kind of know how is extremely helpful. My Dad did show me how to do this many years ago, but now he is gone, Ive been putting off straining and redoing the "Hinge lock" because I never thought to check youtube lol. thankyou so much for this video.
What a first class presentation. So clear and concise. Same is true for the knot tying video. Thank you very much.
Hi Tim.
Enjoyed the video and helped greatly with the fencing I did today. One thing I wanted to mention. No eye protection.
As a doctor, I see this along with gloves as an essential component of work safety.
Hope you take this on board and apply for future videos. A poke in the eye with wire can end sight in that eye.
I’ve gone over the top lately with ohs. Point well taken. This was an older video.
Don't be a mincer
Great video mate, really clear and easy to follow. Much appreciated 👍
We owe you a beer for this Tim - just doing the mesh now - thanks so much...
I have watched this video many times and learnt a great deal. The simplicity and accuracy of instruction is much appreciated.
Tim. You are an international adornment. A 70 plus year-old amateur here, in the UK. Using your videos for guidance I have done all my own fencing. Only about 300 metres in total, but properly done, with box ends and sheep mesh to contain (surprise) sheep. Alas, the deer just jump over the fence and eat all our roses, but two more stands of HT wire might stop that. My best investments - cheap Chinese copy strainers have been OK for my limited use, and a second-hand pair of Maun pliers/wire snips. More than anything, the work has kept me and wife active, and been great fun. My thanks to you, Tim.
For limited use, the Chinese strainers aren't too bad if you take those stupid springs off.
Lived in Australia for a few years. SO many bloody flies. How do you stand 'em?
Yeah there’s a couple of flies about…. Glad you like the videos and great to hear that they helped!
Good afternoon Tim, I have been bingeing your videos while assembling steel garden beds, and I have to start taking notes as I am rewinding the video to watch your excellent demo and write down the names of tools I need to buy, cheers
Thanks mate. I'm new to hobby farming and fencing. Great tips, helped me out and given me some confidence.
Thanks Tim. I tackle this job in a different order to you, and come up with a quality long lasting and satisfying job. Not knocking your way of doing it, just reminds me of an old saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat!" Thanks again.
Very informative. Who would have guessed that watching a bloke put up a fence could be this interesting@
Really useful and informative video. Thanks Tim. Smallholder in Devon, England
Hi Tim, we get a great deal of valuable advice from your clips, thanks. You refer to a twitcher for tieing the star tickets to your fence. I have heard of the "twitcher" being called a "wire key", from a few sources. I have a funny story of my late mothers experience with same, as an apprentice fencer with her father-in-law, (my grand father), she would often find her self frustratingly sliping from her grip & flying a few feet away. So my grandfather, being a practical joker, said to her, "Why don't you tie it to your wrist with a piece of string, that way you can't loose it?" My naive mother thought that sounded like a good idea. You what happened with the very next tie....
🤣😁🤪😳
dad gum Tim, if that wasn't the best fencing tutorial out there
TX m8
Showing your clip to all my students b4 AND after a days fencing. Great informative video
TX
Your tutorials are superb. Going to need all this info to fix my fence.
Brilliant video! I learnt a lot!
When you said if I ever used staples to strain wire you'd find me I did have a quick glance around the room. But I won't do it again now I know better. Thanks for sharing the info to help with doing it correctly.
😂
Well presented easy to understand.
In that he communicates on a level that the average bloke can relate to 👍
Thanks ,really appreciated.
Thanks mate.
A very helpful video. Now I need to go and fix all my errors :( Thank you.
Thank you so much for uploading this! Years ago I started my Certificate 3 in Agriculture but was unable to finish it. The teacher was a bully who never should’ve been employed, and I was forced to quit after 2 months into the course, so I never got the chance to learn how to properly fence.
Hopefully you can practice your skills in your own time now. There are lots more tutorials in my fencing playlist
Have only recently found your channel Tim. You do a great job. Thank you
Great video Tim. You're the gun! Greetings from England.
Well done, great video. It will help out many.
Oh thank goodness for your fencing vids! So helpful to have as a resource. THANKS AGAIN.
Very interesting. I never knew there was so much to fencing. Thanks for taking the time to film this 👍
Great videos Tim. Invaluable tips! Thank you.
Glad you liked it. My full course is here tim-s-site-552c.thinkific.com/courses/basic-fencing
Tim, my wife and I are starting our new business in farming. Thank you so much for your very very informative video. I wish we had the extra money to get the fencing done professionally but the budget is not allowing that. So you have given us a massive help. Cheers mate.
Good on you David. Glad to be of help
fantastic and simple explanation, anybody can follow Tim's instructions.
Thanks Tim, for putting out the great fencing tips and tools of the trade. Well explained, and put togather. Thanks, Richard u.s.a., state of alabama
Hi Tim, just discovered your videos after doing a few months' paid and volunteer fence work around Batlow and Corryong. Always good to see the million different ways of doing fences, tying knots, etc, and learn a few new skills. Also there's something reassuring about your screen presence that says "I'm a decent bloke". Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your videos! I'm a Dutch fencing contractor and I learned so much from it. I'm having a hard time finding European retailers for the tools you use in your videos. Like the tensioning clamp and crimp sleeves, there aren't even similar alternative producers. I'm gonna weld my own netting tensioning clamp this weekend.
Great to hear from you mate. Glad I’ve been of some help. Try Holden Fencing imports in England
I dont even do any fencing but found it very educational thanks
Thanks Tim! I'm going to make a go of sheep instead of cattle at my place. Means I need to fix up the woven wire and replace my back fence.
These are great, thanks. . I've got a bit of fencing to do, having just finally realised a lifelong dream of owning my own patch of dirt. Now, just need see if you have a video of you doing similar with some netting.
tim,,,just found your channel,love watching it,,you remind me of the leylands brothers !!! very informative
Hey Tim I would like to thank you for your ringloc run,I'm only a real novice at fencing but with your videos,they have been a real help and of course yourself.
Great vid, that Ringlock is circa 1980’s or prior, the rings on the uprights were later changed to have the tails pointing down instead of sideways.
Geez good eyes mate
Thank you so much for the detailed information you’re literally the best fence guy on the Internet!
Why do you suggest not making my own fence stretcher out of carriage bolts And a 2x6?
the amount of pressure you put on a wire is like a tank trying to move a high rise building..
we use to strain every third post with a hoop made out of 32mm steam pipe about the same as the full length at once but never did ring lock but that was in Australia and maybe it was called different and my boss told me to do it that way
A very comprehensive video. Learned a few things here. Thanks for posting.
Strangely therapeutic. Great video :)
Therapeutic..... that’s a new one. Glad you liked it!
Well produced. Down to earth. Would have liked to have seen information on using gripples as an alternative to knots. As this has the advantage of easily being able to retention as necessary over time.
Check out my other videos for these and more topics
Wy arnt you straining and tieing the plane wires to the straining post?
Thanks your videos are invaluable, so helpful.
Great content Tim. I live on my wife's family farm in SA, the recent Cudlee Creek fire damaged almost all the fences and pasture. Big rebuild coming hopefully with some support from blazeaid. My father in law has taught me a little bit of fencing but your videos are helping greatly too. When it rains, it pours though, he had a bad fall loading wool bales on Monday doing a serious knee injury, so we'll all be stretched getting it back up and running with him down for at least 12 months.
I've done some relief work after some of the large Kansas and Montana fires. Once for a week in Kansas, with 8 of us, and a day in Montana with 250 to 300 people that was something to see.
Both were amazing experience
@@trackmader unfortunately I don't have much time to spare to volunteer with a full time groundskeeper job and young family, but hopefully I can get out for a day or two in the area and help.
Thanks for the Video mate, very informative, well explained!
Tim Thompson what width is your sheep mesh ?and what height are your pickets?
Brilliant Tim as usual! I've often wondered how do some farmers get their fences looking so good.Absolutely loved this presentation, and loved the music with a little mandolin doing a little bit of chopping.
best ever and you’ve saved me a ton of time.
Thanks for sharing Tim, lots of great tips that are often overlooked. What you explained is pretty much what DPI recommend. The only difference I did with my fencing is only using a single chain tensioner without a tension bar or board. I just took my time, started at the bottom, then pulled every second line, and tied off one line above each time, and only put enough tension as you explained, then lined up the uprights. I'm, keeping Goats and Sheep, and while the Sheep rub on the fence, the Goats really lean in the mesh, so far it just bounces back just like you explained, so allowing for that movement is really important. Now off to do some harrowing, lol.
Love your channel Tim. You list all the painful shortcuts my father takes and buggering the strainer heads on the post by passing the chain through is my pet hate!!!!
Hiya Tim loved the video, I’m very excited to be putting up some sheep mesh this weekend for my paddock to stop the dogs getting in from my neighbours. I bought one of those £30 generic monkey strainers (the yellow and blue one…) and I actually found it worked quite well for my top wires. I’ve just bought another one so i can tighten both my top and bottom wires of the sheep mesh. Haven’t quite got the funds for a proper straining clamp but for now i suppose ill just hook my strainers up to my top and bottom wires.
Hey mate. Glad you are looking forward to getting your fencing done. I know some people make do with 2x4 timber and coach bolts to make their own strainer bars. But I cannot recommend this as timber is not load rated for this purpose
So much great advice, best fencing video I've seen. I used Whites stiffstay which has high tensile as the top and bottom wires eliminating the need to run out those two extra lengths.
Hi Tim. As always your are resource of knowledge re fencing and thank you for sharing.
I hope you don’t mind me saying , you were abnormally breathless in a few of the video clips. Maybe get a blood test to rule out any problems that might be developing. Some one suggested this to me for the same reason and it turned out I had way to much iron in the blood. Be safe and keep it up
I have a question tim, that probably doesnt relate to THIS video but i cant find the one i was watching, you were saying about not going through the working end of your chain strainers with the chain and to use a D shackle instead, what size shackle as I have one that was given to me but i think its too small (the thing is tiny like) any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Gee I’d love to come and work on your farm as an apprentice!
16:28 I saw what you did there with the strainer chain.
Tim great job explaining the finer details and art of fencing. Looking forward to now to tidying up our fencing thanks to youtube video. cheers
Any advice on joining two or more rolls for one fence line
Hi, excellent video, thanks, so can you join the 100meter lengths of sheep wire net on the run and then strain up 200 or 300 meters at a time?
Best video on sheep fencing out there!!!!!
You got a link for those cable cutters you're using? They cut much better than mine!
amazing tips! Thanks for putting all the effort in to share all your experience
Great tips, good instruction
Tim is the best❤
Awww shucks.
Doing huge fence project , thanks this real helpful
I used wd40 to help slip the ring lock ties off the end wires. Surprised at how well it worked.
I have to agree with L.A. Gibson I like my Manuel post driver rusty and unused. Gas t post driver for the win, paid for itself within a mile of fence
Great stuff Tim. Looking forward to the next one.
Which knot did he use to tie off the tensioned fence?
How do you do the end knot on the strained end of the bottom wire as it is close to the ground and tje diagonal strainer wire?
Excellent video thanks very much .
Good vid mate. Have run a fair few hundred metres of hinge joint but I run my three or four support wires first then lift the mesh up and run a c-clip between pickets to hold in place then I strain the mesh. I will try not doing this next time and seeing how I go. Cheers.
Hey Tim, those pliers you use to cut the wire look great, where can I find some, also your videos have been very helpful in improving my own fencing, keep it up.
Hey mate. My go-to is Knipex now. Flat out best.
I love your safety advise
Hi Tim, Great video. Why don't you run the wires through the holes in the star posts? I've always been taught to do it this way, what is the benefit of either way. Thanks. Corey
I did a whole video on this just a few weeks ago. Check it out on my channel if you like.
My neighbor thought tightening the fence meant driving the staple in hard.
The wire is still floppy and forget trying to remove the staples.
City people move to the country and cause all kinds of headaches.
Would it not be easier to run the ht top wire first, then stand the mesh up so that you don’t have to strain agains the grass, rocks etc that are on the ground?
What wire are you using 8/90/30? and would you ever consider non-Australian product?
very thorough, nice job. Btw, what kind of truck is that?....don't recognize the badge here in the states.
I love your content, I like to put my top wire on 1st and plumb bob the posts to get my line and I do put the flat of the posts against the wire, just the way I was taught but all in all exactly the same result. We never had those twist wire joiners either, how wonderful do they look, much easier than tieing against the strainers.
Hi Tim, love your fencing videos. If I only have 2 fence strainers. What can I use instead of a strainer plate.
Some people just use two pieces of 4X2 bolted together but I don’t recommend this as can cause accidents
Hi Tim great informative video. How necessary is it to have the wire on the top and bottom of the mesh? Can you not just have the mesh tensioned enough on its own?
Hey mate. Thanks. There are some new meshes that have a top and bottom line wire made from high tensile, (like striffstay), lowering the need. However older style mesh, like hinge joints have all soft wire lines, as mesh is designed to work as a trampoline, requiring stretch and elasticity. So a traditional mesh fence will sag between posts over time without support. Hope that’s clear enough. Cheers.
Hi Tim, Another great video, thankyou once again.
Medium tensile vs high tensile wire and when to use which would be a good video
Always use ht wire
Great videos by a gentleman rancher. I did get a kick out of the leaning fence line behind you in one segment. I'm new, so I'm trying to figure out the area you inhabit in Australia? Eaglegards...
Awesome video mate, great information. Thankyou.
Sensational video mate
You’re bloody marvellous mate!
How do I apply sheep mesh on an existing wire fence.
Stupid question. But was wondering if you could do a video on removing the strainers. I just can't remove the tension and end up having to bash them off.
Myles
Hi very helpful. Do you rerun your bottom wire through the picket or do you just tie it off?. Thanks
I like some of the stuff you say but I was a contractor and erected over 400 kms of farm fencing, mostly galvanised steel posts, ringlock and barb. Also about 30 kms of pine posts and ringlock. I used a short post donger and never hurt myself once. If you can't erect posts by yourself in a straight line w/o a guide wire on the ground there's something wrong with your sighting skill.
I employed one other bloke to help me and I was probably the first person to use hand held two way radios and binoculars with sighting over distance. On a good day and in good country like sandplain we'd put up a kilometre of 6 line ringlock, 2 barb and three posts to the chain, strainers and box sections. On a bad day in heavy clay, gravel or limestone we'd just dream of the good days. 😭😭
Brilliant video Tim; extremely clear and helpful thanks. In the absence of a straining clamp arrangement, what’s your view on straining the line wires individually using the chain straining tool?
Difficult. The Whites strainer board is cheap (comparatively) safe and easy. It’s my go-to..... although I just got a Walters board... hmmmm sexy.....
I was told at the fodder store there are some brands of mesh that have high tensile top and bottom wires negating the need for stay wires. If this is the case could you put a strainer on the top and bottom wire and not use the straining board? Super helpful channel for an ameture farmer.
@@FarmLearningTim I've got about 2km of this stuff on my place - 11/90/15 2.5mm mesh with HT top and bottom wire. I still use straining boards because it tends to belly out vertically if you don't. Connect each end to strainers and do a 'gut' strain at some convenient place then fix with gripples. I also have two HT plain wires along the top, one at 1000 and one at 1100 (mesh is 900 high), for mounting offset ceramic insulators. This has proved to be a durable and effective (if somewhat expensive) fence configuration for my needs. One last thing, if you like fencing work and want to do it all over again sometime soon, use cheap imported wire products ;)
Tim, this is great! What is the best way to connect 2 rolls or more of sheep mesh together? For a fence that reqyures severy rolls.
New Tricks and Tools to Tie and Crimp Mesh Fencing
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Really enjoying your video's on fencing and especially the knot tying. Here's my question: "Predator's", how do you keep digger's like Foxes, Badger and Coyote from getting into your paddock and decimating your herd? Would enjoy your thoughts and perhaps a video if you have any nuggets of wisdom.
G'day Don. Working on that one. Will take some travel so not sure when. Some awesome exclusion work being done up north.