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Southern Alberta | Looking to make it easier to splice and tighten barb wire fence. Is there any good tools to do this or system. Use a stretcher like this http://toolmonger.com/2008/05/23/mend-your-fences-with-a-fence-stre... |
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Livingston County, MO | Have seen this advertised on RFD TV -- http://livestockshed.com/p-130-the-original-texas-fence-fixer.aspx
Currently use the type of fence stretcher you have shown. |
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east tenn | have used 1 like that for years but hard to tie fence tight, mite work better with the clamp fasteners i want to get 1 of the texas ones think itll help tie fence tighter |
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Driftless SW Wisconsin | I have tightened and repaired sections of a lot of old barb wire fence using Gripples and their tensioner. Much easier and faster than older methods. The barb wire Gripple is good for joining broken sections of barb in a way that doesn't stretch or loosen. When I need to tighten a sagging run I will use 2 Gripples to put a short section of 11 Ga smooth wire in the middle of the run so I can pull it tight in both directions with the Gripple tensioner. And you can always go back and retighten it easily with their tensioner tool if needed. If the posts etc are weak I run a 14 ga steel smooth hot wire on Premier long standoffs around the inside to keep cattle from pushing on it. Jim
Edited by Jim 12/1/2012 10:36
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Between Omaha and Des Moines, 7 miles South of I80 | That style is all we have ever used. It will get a fence plenty tight.
I have always wanted to try some of those tools, with clamps and their own crimper, but buying the crimper and knowing we would have to constantly be purchasing the "clamps" ; has kept us from trying them.
We always have spare "good used rolls" of barb wire around(saved from where we built a NEW fence), that were still too good to go to recycle wagon. So, we use them on repairs.
I area that I see would benefit nicely, for the clamp and special crimper repair, would be when the heavy snow has broken the wire, AND I could tighten it enough to get the ends to overlap a little, for the clamp to be installed. (Note: I should spend the money and try that other style, someday)
Currently, we just add a short chunk of barbed wire and slice= actually end up with two splices.(one to lenghten wire, 2nd is actual one during tightening process)
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Alabama, Land of the Absurd. | Gripples. |
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| Thats what we have used for years. |
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WY, OK | Probably have 6 of those stretchers, only thing we will use, no need for the other gimmicks. Only thing I don't like about the one you linked is the self catch latch, I like the style that has the spring loaded latch. |
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N.C. Oregon | Only thing better than a golden rod is someone else fixing the fence. |
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North central, IA | These things work great
http://www.enasco.com/product/C08840N
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| http://www.jakeswiretighteners.com/
These things are the cats meow and cheaper than reel tites. |
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Driftless SW Wisconsin | I've had good luck using those on newer runs of barb wire that got loose somehow.. However I have not had good luck with them trying to tighten very old rusty, brittle wire that seems to break due to the sharp bends the tightener puts in old wire. Sometimes it breaks some time after you just finished tightening it and left. They do work well on newer fences. The straight pull of the Gripples and its tool seems to not be as likely to break old barb wire as anything that winds it tightly. Jim
Edited by Jim 12/1/2012 14:03
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SESD | +1 |
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Central Texas |
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WY, OK | As long as you have no interest in the fence in the coming years those wrap things would be great. Wait a few years when the wire starts breaking everywhere that was used and you aren't going to think they were that wonderful. Twisting wire like that to tighten is absolute last resort "here". I cuss every time I see it because I know it will just need to be fixed sooner rather than later, usually cut them out if I see them still complete. There is even a derogatory term that refers to those twists. |
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Alma NE | Galaxie64 - 12/1/2012 14:27 As long as you have no interest in the fence in the coming years those wrap things would be great. Wait a few years when the wire starts breaking everywhere that was used and you aren't going to think they were that wonderful. Twisting wire like that to tighten is absolute last resort "here". I cuss every time I see it because I know it will just need to be fixed sooner rather than later, usually cut them out if I see them still complete. There is even a derogatory term that refers to those twists.
+1 If your going to fix it might as well do it right the first time ,imo thats the lazy easy way out of tightening up a fence . |
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North Cental Mo. | I use the stretchers pictured, clamps and crimped. Works well for me
Roy
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Washington Co Ks | I rented a pasture for a while that probably had a couple hundred Reel-Tights in the fence. It was easy to tighten the wire but I had to be careful not to break the old rusty wire. I thought they were kind of pricey so I never used them at home. I also hate to start twisting good wire but they were handy. |
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Central Missouri | I have a few pair of goldenrod stretchers, with the handle extended about 8". They work well unless you over stretch then the jaws can break one or both strands of wire. Use on new fence and patching.
The Texas fence fixer is great for loose and stretched wire. If the wire slips they will smash your finger tips. I usually use a 6-8" piece of barbed wire to twist with.
Not sure about the other stuff.
I have a neighbor that drives me nuts, he will kink the wire with a pair of pliers in little "Zs" to make it almost slightly snug, then a cow will reach across it and the wire will be loose again.
Tommy |
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Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot | Spend the little extra and buy the ones with three hooks. Handy when you need to pull more, rather than having to rehook. I thought I really had a great idea when I welded an extra hook onto mine, only to see one with three hooks not long after at the farm store.
When pulling new fence, I much prefer to use the little grabber thing with a couple loops on it, that uses a come a long to pull it tight. Not only do you have much longer travel, but you can get it tighter as well. |
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Casey IL. ( I -70 ) then south on rt.49 | I have one would not be with out it . RFD tv. |
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North Central Kansas | Those stretchers are most common and work fine to fix fence. I have a strainer which is probably a New Zealand design since they seem to be always ahead of us which I like more to go 'fix' fence Maybe this is because I build some fence commercially. Those things that go in the fence line to tighten wire I have to ask why it got loose in the first place? No corner? Corners make your fence and the best way to solve that is get 10 foot hedge posts, bury them 5 1/2 feet in the ground, tamp them in with a hydraulic tamper, put a 3/8 galvanized lag in the corner at about 2' 6" high, put the brace post in the hole same size post, same depth hole and get a 7-8 foot piece of 2 3/8 oilfield pipe, level it and put a lag in the brace post, tamp it in. Now put a lag at the top of the brace and bottom of the corner post. Get no.9 or barbless horse cable and double it around the corner and brace using those lags to hold it in place. Use stretchers to get it a little tight, then get a piece of steel and twist it tight and leave the twister in, tie it to the brace pipe.
Now you can stretch wire until it breaks and that will be there a long time. Problem solved. |
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| We've used that type for several years. Dad and Grandpa probably wore several out.
I prefer a come along with jaws, as it always seems like the wires are too far apart after it breaks. And I can wrap the cable around a corner post to get a better pull without feeling like the stretcher will slide or get bumped off. |
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fixing and tightening barbed wire fence?
