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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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fixing and tightening barbed wire fence?
