I have never built or maintained a wire fence but have seen many in my travels and wondered what tools were used to make them. This video helps me understand. Thanks.
Simple and straight to the point, awesome video and thank you. I knew a carpenter who used these but he could never explain them in any way. I tried using them for carpentry myself but they didn't seem to fit the seen. This tool has done some odd stuff for work in many odd ways but now I know thanks to you and few other youtubers. This video was the best out of the 3-7 intel videos I watched. Yours being the last and the best so 1 in 7 in my life as a youtuber. Again, thank you for this.
I have only recently found out about this tool, and have been stretching fences (on my own land) for only about a year. One thing your video showed that I found most enlightening was that the pliers can be used to hold a fencing staple. I have been using regular pliers, and not very successfully. Thanks for showing this feature.
That china copy has quite a blunt hook that may not do what older pliers do. I have 2 pliers from the 60-70's and are slightly different from each other but both work great. That long hook is also used to wrap the long end of a T post clip around barb wire strand or doing the same attaching woven cattle fence to T post.
Good video! I too grew up with these and some days you hate them. There are several designs out there but the Diamond Tool design is most common. What you were showing us was a Chinese copy. The tool was invented in the late 1870's when the open ranges of the west were being fenced. The tool evolved with the various patterns of barbed and woven wire. It was light and incorporated the function of several other tools so that a man on horse could carry it and ride miles of fence making repairs. Usually two such tools were used in tandem to make the long wire splice or telegraph splice as it was called. As you point out you can drive and pull staples, cut wire, twist wire and hold a staple. You missed the jaws up in the crotch of the handles which can grasp two wires together allowing a second tool to twist one around the other like a vice. You can grasp the end of a wire in the two openings of the jaws as a loop but close to a post then roll the rounded pick around the post to pull a wire tight. Your partner with his tool then drives a staple to hold the wire you pulled. So, it replaces a hammer, bypass cutters, crowbar, vicegrips, staple pick, and more. When I am working from a truck today I carry about 30 pounds of fence tools, but if I am on foot walking fence I just take two pair of these tools which weigh about 3 pounds. You trade tool functionality for weight.
I’ve had pair of these for over 30 years and used to use them on the job almost every day as an electrician. They’re kind of like a Dremel tool, once you have them for awhile you start to wonder how you ever got anything done without them lol. Many times I’ve been in a situation where I could only take a few tools with me and these were always the first tool I would grab. They’re super useful and can do so many different things. I’d choose these over my leatherman any time. Cheers mate and happy trails
I am a 3rd year apprentice and I just bought a pair of these pliers for home use. Watching this video I was just thinking how useful these would be for a pre wire. I have recently changed from residential to industrial though so I don't think they would be very useful for me at work any more.
Have an old pair that once belonged to my great grandfather in 1940s. Always come in handy mending fence. Never thought of starting a staple that way. Makes it a lot easier. Thanks!
I grew up on a dairy farm and used these A Lot during pasture season. Still use them to this day tying forms for concrete, etc. The original and best multi tool.
The hammer side has another function, which is to serving as a hitting surface when using a standard hammer to drive the horn under a buried staple. You often cannot grip a driven staple nor swing the horn into the buried staple, but you can aim the horn behind the fence and staple and drive it through with a hammer. This is why old fence pliers generally have flattened and even mushroomed hammer sides; they've been beaten to death with hammers for decades ;).
even better, for an embedded staple, instead of trying to swing the pointy nose into the staple like a carnival game, set the nose of the horn into the hoop of the staple and with your hammer, tap on the hammer face of the pliers forcing to nose under the staple and pulling the staple up.
I didn’t have a fence pliers the last time I worked on a barbed wire fence. Had to use my trusty old Knipex Alligator pipe pliers but got the job done. Stopped by Tractor Supply Co in Albuquerque this morning to get a fence pliers because, guess what? I have to do MORE fence work at the same farm...an hour east of Superior, Wis-CAHHN-sin. The nearest Mills Fleet Farm is... in Superior! Not too handy. Best to have all I need NOW! 😄😄
Thanks for the video. I build concrete swimming pools and just bought a pair cuz they looked useful. Now i realize they will be really useful for some applications with my work.
Winner, winner, chicken, dinner! Very few people know about holding the staple with the two holes on the head. And I didn’t know for the very long time. My fingers cursed me out for that great video.
Hi, I've used these pliers for years and have used most aspects of the pliers except one great one I've never seen before, holding a staple with the pliers whilst hitting a staple with a hammer. It was worth the time just to see that one. I've hit my fingers so many times whilst banging in staples. Thanks very much. Cheers, John.
You are welcome. I must admit that I still have a hard time using them to hold the staple when I also have to hold the wire up on the fence at the same time. Leaning against the wire can help. I wish you the best on your coming projects.
Hi, I generally work as a volunteer with our local council, most of our work is actually taking fences down now that the trees are big enough and no longer need the protection of fencing. When we do put up pieces of fencing there is usually another old pensioner helping me!! Nice to see good educational videos. Cheers, John.
good video I've had one of these for many years but never knew about the staple holding bit got some fencing to do that will save fingers thanks also you can get tight staples out by hitting hammer end.
That is right Roy. I was taught never to hit yhe hammer face with another tool to drive the pick under a staple but to use a hardwood stave or stick. The staple trick is even better. You use your stave to pull a wire tight with one hand by wrapping the wire around it and using it as a lever on a post. Put the staple in the tool jaw as shown then hold the pliers side on and strike the wire on the post with the staple. With skill you straddle the wire with the staple sinking it into the wood deep enough to stand on its own. Release the staple and use the hammer face face to drive it home. All with one hand.
I have my daddys first pair he bought about 60 years ago. the horned end is deformed with use. I of course have bought several pair since then and it was one of the first tools I bought my son. This past week we use one on the fence we were building, the same way my dad and I use to work together. Fathers, build memories with your sons, one day that is all they will have. Tommy
Have been using the lower grips (between the handles) to grip the wire next to a post, and then pry it taught so my buddy can put a staple into it to hold it.
When I was a kid, I found these in our workshop(we don't live on a ranch, instead the suburbs, which makes it odd to have one) and had no idea what they were, but I did figure out the cutters. Then one day when I WAS helping someone on a ranch, one said to the other, "Can you get the fencing pliers?" And here he comes with the same thing in my workshop. "Oh! that's what those are!"
I was thinking of adding a pair of these or plammers to my trapline toolkit, however your video has convinced me that I will still need both my trusty hammer and pliers on the line and likely if I were fixing/running a fence also. I think this one is better left as an "interesting keepsake." All the same, thanks for the video.
+Rusty Shackleford I'm really glad I could help. There are almost as many different tools as there are people different people. It is sure nice to have a demo before you buy a tool. Best of luck to you.
You are missing one more function: you grab the wire with the pliers and the curve sit on the post allows to pull the wire to have it tense when you staple.
By reading the comments you definitely won everybody over by how this pair of pliers is used for holding a staple! lol! I agree with the guy who said, MY fingers thank u! lol,
I've been useibg fencing pliers for years. I did not know you can hold fencing staples like that. That would of saved me a lot of time and smashing of the fingers. Thanks
I bought one today and this is where it brought me so thank you for the informative upload. And I've just subscribed aswell I can learn a lot from you👍
I’ve been putting a lot of fence up since we started a small farm. I just got this tool after my hands were killing me from using needle nose and dull wire cutters lol
A bit late, but you can also use that top closer where you first grabbed the staple to fasten J-clips if you're in a pinch without actual J-clip pliers.
Thanks, I was doing some fencing and lost my linesman pliers. My mother, whom I was doing the fencing for went to the store to buy me pliers. She came back with this thing and I was like wth is this thing. I find it a little big and bulky to be cutting wires close to fence posts and in between the holes in the fence. Thanks for the video
I always had one while fixing fence, but only used for weird situations. A 10 inch pliers, small vise grip, and mini bolt cutter or large diag cutter were the most used. Oh, and a real hammer. The hammer on fencing pliers is aggravating,.
+jjhedder Juggling the staple, wire, pliers and hammer can be tricky. Holding the wire at the right height on the post by leaning on it with your non dominant side can help. Best of luck to you.
спасибо, а то как то увидел ролик в ютубе, посмотрел и забыл. А вчера на рынке увидел этот инструмент очень дёшево, потому что у нас никто не знает, как им пользоваться. Купил , а потом с большим трудом нашёл инструкцию)) Очень полезный инструмент!
The hammer part and the pointy part go together if you have staples that need to come out that are in there good you put the sharp tip in between the staple and post and hit the hammer part with a real hammer hope this clears it up I'd know own 1700 acre ranch
Question. I have some fence staples (and some old wire fence itself) very much embedded in an old tree. Need to dig them out to have access to allow for a chainsaw to cut it down. Can you use the spike end plus a regular hammer to strike the hammer end to dig deep enough to pry out these embedded staples? Its not a big job but I don't want to buy one that falls apart when I strike with a hammer. Any recommendations? Thanks
They are excellent for camping bang in tent steak's and pulling them out camp fire grill mover useing the hook end countless uses for camping and backpacking I use them when trapping veary Handy tool not just for fencing great to have in your bug out bag many others uses God bless
If you have a pair of the old Diamond's you have something useful. Most of the newer Chinesium stuff out there now are pure worthless. Thanks for the video!
Always have a can to catch all the bits and pieces of metal. Cattle and all other ruminant animals can pick up bits of metal when they're grazing and it gets lodged in their stomachs and it's called Hardware disease and it can kill them. A lot of people around farms and ranches don't know that you have to police up every bit of metal. Also a fencing tool is is wonderful for a lot of wire fence but not a good tool to use when working with high-tensile electric fence wire. They will scratch the protective coating on the wire and the wire will fail prematurely wherever you've been bending or twisting it. You need to learn a whole different technique for joining and attaching high-tensile electric wire.
Any brand will work: Milwaukee, Dewalt, Crescent, Performance, Premier, Moore Maker, Irwin, Allied, Tekton, Channellock, Ironton, King, Vulcan, Olympia, Draper, Westward, Barn Star, Fence Rangler, Valley, Great Neck, and even Pittsburg (HarborFreight).
Oh how I learned to hate those things, ours never had a nice padded grip to them either. ot introduced to the joy of help with the fencing when I was 6. Also learned about holding the staple with them but the only time you carried thee hammer in the car or truck was if you were putting in all new wire, the pliers on the other hand was always in thee vehicle. as a matter off fact as i remember their was only one car that didn't have a pair and that was grandpas 'for good' car and he would never take that to go check cattle. As a matter of fact I probably have 3 or 4 pairs off those things our im my garage that are 60 years old or more.
I actually find the side makes a better hammer than the front hammer piece. maybe if staple is all the way in, it would make a good strike plate for starting with a hammer.
Gabe Cook Thank you, and no I have never even heard of them. I looked them up and they look really cool. The hammer head on it looks like it would be a little more effective. I personally think that they look pretty sweet. Thanks for passing it along.
Terry H. Works in a pinch but it is a very bad practice. Twisting the wire in this way causes a weak point in the wire that will surely break . At least you will know where to look first when the fence does break. It is best to tighten it at a corner or brace, if you can. If you must tighten your wire in the middle of a long run, it is better cut the fence and add a proper splice, than it is to give you're wire a half turn with your fence pliers.
I spend the 1970's using these tools. Welcome to every Saturday morning of my childhood (well, maybe it just seemed that way). The usual way is to put the pointed end of the tool under the staple, next to the barbed wire, and then hammer the point under the staple by hitting the flat head of the tool with a real hammer. Then you can pull the staple partway out without damaging the barbed wire. You do this to the staples all along the loose section of wire. Then at the corner or brace, you use the claw end of a hammer to grab the barbed wire, and pull the wire tight (the top of the hammer is against the brace post, so you use the hammer like a lever to pull the wire around the brace post, through the staples). Then since your hammer is in use, you use the hammer side of the fence pliers to hammer the nearest staple all the way in which then holds the wire tight. Then you go down the line and hammer the rest of the staples all the way in. Of course, this is usually a two person operation, just like most fence making/mending. Its just safer dealing with barbed wire if you have a second set of hands. So, I was the second set of hands...
I've used these things before and they're just about only good for wrecking fence. A beefy pair of linesman pliers seem to work better at building fence for me.
I have my Dad’s fencing plaits. I’m told that he bought them when he was 24. That means they were bought in 1934. “Were they bought new, Uncle?” “That was 1935, kid. No they weren’t new. If they was, your daddy couldn’t have afforded them.” I have no idea how old they are. But when you need them, they’re the only tool to use.
I have never built or maintained a wire fence but have seen many in my travels and wondered what tools were used to make them. This video helps me understand. Thanks.
You should buy one
As informative as it is concise. In so many ways, the epitome of what a TH-cam video should be (but so rarely is).
Simple and straight to the point, awesome video and thank you. I knew a carpenter who used these but he could never explain them in any way. I tried using them for carpentry myself but they didn't seem to fit the seen. This tool has done some odd stuff for work in many odd ways but now I know thanks to you and few other youtubers. This video was the best out of the 3-7 intel videos I watched. Yours being the last and the best so 1 in 7 in my life as a youtuber. Again, thank you for this.
High praise, thank you!
I have only recently found out about this tool, and have been stretching fences (on my own land) for only about a year.
One thing your video showed that I found most enlightening was that the pliers can be used to hold a fencing staple. I have been using regular pliers, and not very successfully. Thanks for showing this feature.
That china copy has quite a blunt hook that may not do what older pliers do. I have 2 pliers from the 60-70's and are slightly different from each other but both work great. That long hook is also used to wrap the long end of a T post clip around barb wire strand or doing the same attaching woven cattle fence to T post.
Good video! I too grew up with these and some days you hate them. There are several designs out there but the Diamond Tool design is most common. What you were showing us was a Chinese copy. The tool was invented in the late 1870's when the open ranges of the west were being fenced. The tool evolved with the various patterns of barbed and woven wire. It was light and incorporated the function of several other tools so that a man on horse could carry it and ride miles of fence making repairs. Usually two such tools were used in tandem to make the long wire splice or telegraph splice as it was called. As you point out you can drive and pull staples, cut wire, twist wire and hold a staple. You missed the jaws up in the crotch of the handles which can grasp two wires together allowing a second tool to twist one around the other like a vice. You can grasp the end of a wire in the two openings of the jaws as a loop but close to a post then roll the rounded pick around the post to pull a wire tight. Your partner with his tool then drives a staple to hold the wire you pulled. So, it replaces a hammer, bypass cutters, crowbar, vicegrips, staple pick, and more. When I am working from a truck today I carry about 30 pounds of fence tools, but if I am on foot walking fence I just take two pair of these tools which weigh about 3 pounds. You trade tool functionality for weight.
I’ve had pair of these for over 30 years and used to use them on the job almost every day as an electrician. They’re kind of like a Dremel tool, once you have them for awhile you start to wonder how you ever got anything done without them lol. Many times I’ve been in a situation where I could only take a few tools with me and these were always the first tool I would grab. They’re super useful and can do so many different things. I’d choose these over my leatherman any time.
Cheers mate and happy trails
I am a 3rd year apprentice and I just bought a pair of these pliers for home use. Watching this video I was just thinking how useful these would be for a pre wire. I have recently changed from residential to industrial though so I don't think they would be very useful for me at work any more.
Have an old pair that once belonged to my great grandfather in 1940s. Always come in handy mending fence. Never thought of starting a staple that way. Makes it a lot easier. Thanks!
My search is done!!! Thanks for describing all of the functions! Spent years away from some of my tools and needed a good refresher, thanks very much.
I've never seen a formal video on these but I learned about starting a staple from you. Thanks for posing. July 19 2021
I grew up on a dairy farm and used these A Lot during pasture season. Still use them to this day tying forms for concrete, etc. The original and best multi tool.
Using top to hold staple = mind blown. Thanks for this!
+Laura Cook Blond it can be tricky when you are trying to hold the wire up too but it has saved me many smashed fingers.
The hammer side has another function, which is to serving as a hitting surface when using a standard hammer to drive the horn under a buried staple. You often cannot grip a driven staple nor swing the horn into the buried staple, but you can aim the horn behind the fence and staple and drive it through with a hammer. This is why old fence pliers generally have flattened and even mushroomed hammer sides; they've been beaten to death with hammers for decades ;).
I have used it many times this way.. Tommy
I've had pairs of these for years and never figured out the trick for starting staples. Thanks
+Quaderben So happy I could help.
yes never knew that either, but for the most part it is quicker to use your hands only
even better, for an embedded staple, instead of trying to swing the pointy nose into the staple like a carnival game, set the nose of the horn into the hoop of the staple and with your hammer, tap on the hammer face of the pliers forcing to nose under the staple and pulling the staple up.
Just bought one of these pliers today. Thanks for the useful tips.
I didn’t have a fence pliers the last time I worked on a barbed wire fence. Had to use my trusty old Knipex Alligator pipe pliers but got the job done. Stopped by Tractor Supply Co in Albuquerque this morning to get a fence pliers because, guess what? I have to do MORE fence work at the same farm...an hour east of Superior, Wis-CAHHN-sin. The nearest Mills Fleet Farm is... in Superior! Not too handy. Best to have all I need NOW! 😄😄
The notch closest to the end is used to make tight turns around the standing part of the wire. Some folks refer to this as a twitch or twicher.
Thanks for the video. I build concrete swimming pools and just bought a pair cuz they looked useful. Now i realize they will be really useful for some applications with my work.
Winner, winner, chicken, dinner! Very few people know about holding the staple with the two holes on the head. And I didn’t know for the very long time. My fingers cursed me out for that great video.
Excellent video. Excellent information. Many thanks.
Hi, I've used these pliers for years and have used most aspects of the pliers except one great one I've never seen before, holding a staple with the pliers whilst hitting a staple with a hammer. It was worth the time just to see that one. I've hit my fingers so many times whilst banging in staples. Thanks very much. Cheers, John.
You are welcome. I must admit that I still have a hard time using them to hold the staple when I also have to hold the wire up on the fence at the same time. Leaning against the wire can help. I wish you the best on your coming projects.
Hi, I generally work as a volunteer with our local council, most of our work is actually taking fences down now that the trees are big enough and no longer need the protection of fencing. When we do put up pieces of fencing there is usually another old pensioner helping me!! Nice to see good educational videos. Cheers, John.
Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to create this video.
Excellent. I just ordered one for demolition work. I have a serious pliers addiction.
TIL. Have been using such pliers for years, but never knew all the features till today. Thx OP. : )
good video I've had one of these for many years but never knew about the staple holding bit got some fencing to do that will save fingers thanks also you can get tight staples out by hitting hammer end.
That is right Roy. I was taught never to hit yhe hammer face with another tool to drive the pick under a staple but to use a hardwood stave or stick. The staple trick is even better. You use your stave to pull a wire tight with one hand by wrapping the wire around it and using it as a lever on a post. Put the staple in the tool jaw as shown then hold the pliers side on and strike the wire on the post with the staple. With skill you straddle the wire with the staple sinking it into the wood deep enough to stand on its own. Release the staple and use the hammer face face to drive it home. All with one hand.
I have my daddys first pair he bought about 60 years ago. the horned end is deformed with use. I of course have bought several pair since then and it was one of the first tools I bought my son. This past week we use one on the fence we were building, the same way my dad and I use to work together. Fathers, build memories with your sons, one day that is all they will have. Tommy
Awesome explanation. Simple, concise and to the point!
Have been using the lower grips (between the handles) to grip the wire next to a post, and then pry it taught so my buddy can put a staple into it to hold it.
When I was a kid, I found these in our workshop(we don't live on a ranch, instead the suburbs, which makes it odd to have one) and had no idea what they were, but I did figure out the cutters. Then one day when I WAS helping someone on a ranch, one said to the other, "Can you get the fencing pliers?" And here he comes with the same thing in my workshop. "Oh! that's what those are!"
I have a few of these and use them all the time. awesome tools. the second slots in the jaws are for crimping a clasp around a wire splice.
+Jamey Larrimore So true.
Thanks mate - I have always been a little confused about this tool.. You've helped a lot.
Awesome! I bought a tool just like that to pull staples not knowing its other many uses. Thanks.
I bought a pair of these years ago because they looked so interesting. Now, I can use them.
I was thinking of adding a pair of these or plammers to my trapline toolkit, however your video has convinced me that I will still need both my trusty hammer and pliers on the line and likely if I were fixing/running a fence also. I think this one is better left as an "interesting keepsake." All the same, thanks for the video.
+Rusty Shackleford I'm really glad I could help. There are almost as many different tools as there are people different people. It is sure nice to have a demo before you buy a tool. Best of luck to you.
Rusty Shackleford you'd be an idiot to do fencing without fencing pliers.
Plammers are nice so you don't have to carry multiple tools!
Fencing pliers is a must have if you live on a farm mine are the Channel Lock brand
You are missing one more function: you grab the wire with the pliers and the curve sit on the post allows to pull the wire to have it tense when you staple.
Sounds complicated.
It’s not.
That’s the best feature on them,
Paul Zúñiga yep done that a many times
@Cecil Shoemaker how easily can they cut barbed wire?
By reading the comments you definitely won everybody over by how this pair of pliers is used for holding a staple! lol! I agree with the guy who said, MY fingers thank u! lol,
I REALLY learnt something NEW today.... Thanks for the vid, sir !!!
Double thanks to you for watching. Is there any other tool that you would like to see?
Tool to cut corrugated metal?
+Kansaseq I have a video about using a circular saw with a revised blade. th-cam.com/video/icit0TdkaZc/w-d-xo.html
+Kansaseq I have a video about using a circular saw with a revised blade. th-cam.com/video/icit0TdkaZc/w-d-xo.html
+Kansaseq I have a video about using a circular saw with a revised blade. th-cam.com/video/icit0TdkaZc/w-d-xo.html
What's better for cutting chainlink wire, thhese or Lineman pliers?
I've been useibg fencing pliers for years. I did not know you can hold fencing staples like that. That would of saved me a lot of time and smashing of the fingers. Thanks
thx! i'm new to farm land and am finding a need to work with wire like this.
Cool! I was given a pair of these and did not have a clue what they were for!
I bought one today and this is where it brought me so thank you for the informative upload. And I've just subscribed aswell I can learn a lot from you👍
Would this work well cutting cattle panels?
Thank you, I will use my pliers now as they were intended to be used. Thanks again.
+Jose Jolapeno Glad to help.
I’ve been putting a lot of fence up since we started a small farm. I just got this tool after my hands were killing me from using needle nose and dull wire cutters lol
Thanks for the video, some functions I didn't know.
Ive seen these but never new the application. Great video thanks!
So interesting! I found a pair of these but had no idea what they were. Thanks to the wisdom of Twitter, I got your vid. Thanks!
They are a very handy tool,
I also use them to hold staples to get them started,
I enjoyed the Video Thank you.
A bit late, but you can also use that top closer where you first grabbed the staple to fasten J-clips if you're in a pinch without actual J-clip pliers.
great presentation, Thank you, Rod
Great video with helpful tips. Thanks
I do HVAC work and use 1 to nail in the floor boots its small enough to fit it tight spots unlike a normal hammer
Thanks a lot .Great video , had no idea on how to use this tool .
Thanks, I was doing some fencing and lost my linesman pliers. My mother, whom I was doing the fencing for went to the store to buy me pliers. She came back with this thing and I was like wth is this thing. I find it a little big and bulky to be cutting wires close to fence posts and in between the holes in the fence. Thanks for the video
I always had one while fixing fence, but only used for weird situations. A 10 inch pliers, small vise grip, and mini bolt cutter or large diag cutter were the most used. Oh, and a real hammer. The hammer on fencing pliers is aggravating,.
Thank you for the tips. I learned.
using it to hold staples is gonna save me alot of hurt fingers! thank you
+jjhedder Juggling the staple, wire, pliers and hammer can be tricky. Holding the wire at the right height on the post by leaning on it with your non dominant side can help. Best of luck to you.
спасибо, а то как то увидел ролик в ютубе, посмотрел и забыл. А вчера на рынке увидел этот инструмент очень дёшево, потому что у нас никто не знает, как им пользоваться. Купил , а потом с большим трудом нашёл инструкцию)) Очень полезный инструмент!
I'm really glad my video could help. I hope they are useful to you and you can enjoy using them. I enjoy finding uncommon tools. Best wishes.
@@Simplegroundlife thank you sir)
Thanks for the informative video. Always good when you learn something about something you thought you knew pretty well.
Thank you for the comment. I'm really glad this rough old video has been so helpful for so many people.
great, simple and concise. greetings from Scotland.
Thanks and hello!
Works well also to place the loops which hold wire against T posts.......good video!!
To me installing wire clips on T posts is one of the best uses for this type of tool.
The hammer part and the pointy part go together if you have staples that need to come out that are in there good you put the sharp tip in between the staple and post and hit the hammer part with a real hammer hope this clears it up I'd know own 1700 acre ranch
Thank you Sir, very informative. I appreciate your time and training, you can teach an old dog new tricks.
Brought back a lot of childhood memories 👍🏼👍🏼
Good video, I just bought one of these tools and I knew most of the functions, but not all.
+Ray Duerksen Glad I could help a little. Good luck in your fencing endeavors.
Will you make a video to show us different techniques to fix fence?
I have some fence fixing videos in the works. I hope to have them up before the end of June.
Oooh... that is pretty nifty. :D I didn't know they had such a tool. Cheers! Thanks again for the informational episodes... Onto the next episode!!!
+Middle Way I'm glad to hold your interest. Thank you for plowing through. You've made my day.
Question. I have some fence staples (and some old wire fence itself) very much embedded in an old tree. Need to dig them out to have access to allow for a chainsaw to cut it down. Can you use the spike end plus a regular hammer to strike the hammer end to dig deep enough to pry out these embedded staples? Its not a big job but I don't want to buy one that falls apart when I strike with a hammer. Any recommendations? Thanks
Removing deeply embedded staples is what these fencing pliers excel at, in just the way you suggest.
They are excellent for camping bang in tent steak's and pulling them out camp fire grill mover useing the hook end countless uses for camping and backpacking I use them when trapping veary Handy tool not just for fencing great to have in your bug out bag many others uses God bless
Staple starting is one of the better uses, starting those rounded staples can be a real pain.
Thank you, this is really good info
If you have a pair of the old Diamond's you have something useful. Most of the newer Chinesium stuff out there now are pure worthless. Thanks for the video!
Agreed. Just found some diamond brand for my brother in law and I.
Glad you showed me how to hold the staples with those,,, beats taking your gloves off every time
Great video. Very helpful 👍
nice video, all uses clearly explained thanks..
Wow. I never knew that one tool could do so much!!! Thanks!
I'm glad the video helped.
These are a got to have tool, even if you don't do wire work.
Always have a can to catch all the bits and pieces of metal. Cattle and all other ruminant animals can pick up bits of metal when they're grazing and it gets lodged in their stomachs and it's called Hardware disease and it can kill them. A lot of people around farms and ranches don't know that you have to police up every bit of metal.
Also a fencing tool is is wonderful for a lot of wire fence but not a good tool to use when working with high-tensile electric fence wire. They will scratch the protective coating on the wire and the wire will fail prematurely wherever you've been bending or twisting it. You need to learn a whole different technique for joining and attaching high-tensile electric wire.
Thank you! I learned something new today.
where can i get these..I have been using a strong nutpick as my favorite tool..
ROSE CUPELLI You can buy them from Amazon. I have a listed a few of the best that I could find in the description of this video. Best wishes.
thank you...
Stumbled onto this on accident… couldn’t stop watching. Cool vid 😎
Thanks.
This is just the tool I need! Thank you so much for sharing!!
What brand is that I need a pair
Any brand will work: Milwaukee, Dewalt, Crescent, Performance, Premier, Moore Maker, Irwin, Allied, Tekton, Channellock, Ironton, King, Vulcan, Olympia, Draper, Westward, Barn Star, Fence Rangler, Valley, Great Neck, and even Pittsburg (HarborFreight).
Oh how I learned to hate those things, ours never had a nice padded grip to them either. ot introduced to the joy of help with the fencing when I was 6. Also learned about holding the staple with them but the only time you carried thee hammer in the car or truck was if you were putting in all new wire, the pliers on the other hand was always in thee vehicle. as a matter off fact as i remember their was only one car that didn't have a pair and that was grandpas 'for good' car and he would never take that to go check cattle. As a matter of fact I probably have 3 or 4 pairs off those things our im my garage that are 60 years old or more.
Excellent video. Thank you.
I use the same ones in electrical put Staples in pull them out Inked Up wire especially when I'm in a tight spot
I actually find the side makes a better hammer than the front hammer piece. maybe if staple is all the way in, it would make a good strike plate for starting with a hammer.
Thank you learn something today.
Good job!
Thanks, ever tried plammers?
Gabe Cook Thank you, and no I have never even heard of them. I looked them up and they look really cool. The hammer head on it looks like it would be a little more effective. I personally think that they look pretty sweet. Thanks for passing it along.
place the inner hole on a horizontal strand on field fence and twist up to 90degees. vertically do each horizontal run to tighten your fence
Terry H. Works in a pinch but it is a very bad practice. Twisting the wire in this way causes a weak point in the wire that will surely break . At least you will know where to look first when the fence does break. It is best to tighten it at a corner or brace, if you can. If you must tighten your wire in the middle of a long run, it is better cut the fence and add a proper splice, than it is to give you're wire a half turn with your fence pliers.
I spend the 1970's using these tools. Welcome to every Saturday morning of my childhood (well, maybe it just seemed that way).
The usual way is to put the pointed end of the tool under the staple, next to the barbed wire, and then hammer the point under the staple by hitting the flat head of the tool with a real hammer. Then you can pull the staple partway out without damaging the barbed wire. You do this to the staples all along the loose section of wire.
Then at the corner or brace, you use the claw end of a hammer to grab the barbed wire, and pull the wire tight (the top of the hammer is against the brace post, so you use the hammer like a lever to pull the wire around the brace post, through the staples). Then since your hammer is in use, you use the hammer side of the fence pliers to hammer the nearest staple all the way in which then holds the wire tight. Then you go down the line and hammer the rest of the staples all the way in.
Of course, this is usually a two person operation, just like most fence making/mending. Its just safer dealing with barbed wire if you have a second set of hands. So, I was the second set of hands...
I've used these things before and they're just about only good for wrecking fence. A beefy pair of linesman pliers seem to work better at building fence for me.
I agree with you 100 % they are only good if you are using wood post and Staples lineman plyers are the way to go
I have my Dad’s fencing plaits. I’m told that he bought them when he was 24. That means they were bought in 1934.
“Were they bought new, Uncle?”
“That was 1935, kid. No they weren’t new. If they was, your daddy couldn’t have afforded them.”
I have no idea how old they are. But when you need them, they’re the only tool to use.
Excellent! Thanks.
Can these cut barbed wire?
Great video- Thanks for sharing! 😊👍
Outstanding Sir. Thank you.