HOW TO PULL FENCE WIRE TIGHT - Woven wire field fence install
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- Опубліковано 6 лип 2024
- TITLE: HOW TO PULL FENCE WIRE TIGHT - Woven wire field fence install
In this video we show you how to pull woven wire field fence tightt. If you like the video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe, and mash the notification bell to make sure you receive updates in the future as new videos are released from LaLa Farm.
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Its great having the right tool for the job. Nice work! At my job they use large come-a-longs to pull and hold up traffic signal span wires. 👍
Right on!!! Having the right tool or a multi-purpose tool can make all the difference in how long a job takes or costs you. I try really hard not to be single purpose tools. The more dual or multi-purpose a tool is - the lower the cost of ownership. It killed me to buy that pulling bar, but I exhausted my other options before buying it. It saved us a lot of time once we had it. - Rick
The tension wire is wrong. That's why the post was lifting and leaning when y'all were tightening on it
You are correct. I did not notice until we were done. I have since adding an opposing wire to that h-brace. - Rick
Yep, they pulled from the wrong direction, I noticed that too Upppssss 😄
Tractor supply has the stretcher bar for 64.99 right now. Worth every penny
I tried not to buy it, but in the end I could not build one that worked as well as the store bought one. That concave bar makes all the difference. Thanks for watching. - Rick
2' in the ground corner Post. My min. Corner is 4' in the ground.
done just a lot of regular fence posts with just two feet in the ground and they're all pushed over.
Thanks - have had that problem yet after 2 years. For some reason I didn't see this on my feed until this morning - makes no sense. So thanks for stopping by and commenting. - Rick
We bury our8ft stretch posts 4ft on the ground or you could or will pull the H brace over in time. Cross wire the H brace up too! It’s gotta be an anchor
Nice demonstration
Awesome job y’all! I’ve tried it a million times and it always loosens up on me lol. Looks like that clamp is the real deal! 😁👌👏👏👏
Thanks 👍
I do kinda the same thing except I use my tractor and 1 come along with chain going through the bottom and top of your clamp down bar. It evens itself out. No need to take turns ratcheting two. Never seen it done without tractor or truck though. Good to know different ways.
Same, but they said they are experts :)
Fantastic 👏
Thank you and thanks for watching. - Rick
Good video. Good info
This just showed up in my comments feed today along with about 20 or so others from multiple channels. Thanks for watching! - Rick
Ah stretching fence...... I need to put up some in the next few years
This just showed up in my comments feed today along with about 20 or so others from multiple channels. Not fun but it gets the job done!! Thanks for watching! - Rick
Great video guys💯💯💯
Thank you!! Thanks for visiting the farm! - Rick
Can you please make a list of the tools I need to purchase in order to do this? I have a dead man post already from an old fence. I only need to do about 100 ft of no climb, but I have no idea how to make it tight and can't seem to find the tools you're using online. Dumb it down for me please!
Cool. Question, would it not be easier to use a tractor to hook that rig too, instead of using the extra "dead-man" post?
Good question! In certain applications you could probably do that. In fact, we tried it by vertically strapping a post to bucket of the tractor. What happened was that as we tensioned the wire, the actual post would bend and it was tough to get the same level of tension we wanted and were able to get by using the dead man post. In the configuration in the video, the hole the post in in holds the tension on the bottom half of the fence, and the horizontal dead man post holds the tension on the top part of the fence. It might also be difficult to get a tractor into really tight spaces - it was for us. Thanks for watching. - Rick
Can you do a video about how to do this by hand without any vehicles or other expensive equipment?
My first thought is that you look like you could pull the hell out of that fence by hand lol!
🤣 Thanks for watching. - Rick
Where can I get that 100$ 2x4
$100 2x4...sounds about right in 2021 😄
Going to be attempting a field fence around some of our 4.5 acres the beginning of next year. I like the idea of using a dead brace to pull off of. Did you guys try pulling off of a tree or tractor before going to the dead brace?
Looks like your brace wire was backwards and may have contributed to some extra post lean.
Thanks for visiting and watching. This was a learning exercise that we became pretty good at over a period of 2 years. Our first attempt was using a 6" post attached to the bucket on the tractor and attached the come alongs to eye bolts. That resulted in us breaking the eye bolts - it is just too much tension. We then tried the same setup with wrapped the come along cable to to a chain wrapped around the brace - that resulted in the brace bending and it snapped, it would likely taken out the front hood of the tractor. So our 3rd approach, which is now what we have used exclusively for the past couple of years was to use the dead man post which has worked excellent. That is what is shown in the video. Pulling off of a tree would work but you have to have a tree beside and inline with the run of fence you are installing - we didn't have that in any of our runs. Not sure what you are referring to with the brace wire being backwards. Once we attached the stretcher to the wire, we then bend it back onto inself just for a little extra bit of strength to help prevent it from pulling out. Thanks for commenting. - Rick
The LaLa Farm thanks for the reply, I’ll definitely give the dead post a try then.
Sorry I wasn’t clear, I meant the tension wire on your h brace was backwards. The high side was on the corner post instead of the brace post.
Maybe a stupid question but how do you get that much fence unrolled and in position?
How would you stretch the fence to the fencepost on the far left? Would you just leave the extra fence an attach that?
Great question. First, we chose to run our fence on the inside of the pen versus the outside - it is much stronger that way. Note that the run that will intersect with with the run I am pulling in this video, does not yet have the h-brace installed. By not installing the H- brace until after the other run is pulled, in can keep it on the inside of the pen. Once this run was complete, I then installed the H-Brace for the intersecting run, stretched it, and wrapped the intersecting fence from the outside versus the inside. It sounds complicated, but it really isn't. Had I put the fence on the outside which is very common, really all of the strength in the fence is in the staples. By putting on the inside, the goats have to push against the fence and the posts set at 8" and anchored in concrete. Hope this makes sense. - Rick
500ft is a true test
I hadn’t pulled fencing for several years and just wanted to do some review and maybe find something new to consider. This does have basic info but Just skip to the 6 minute mark otherwise horribly painful video to sit through
Why not just hook a chain to the upper and lower of the puller bar and use 1 come a long pulling in the center of the chain?
That way I can adjust the tension on the upper and lower sides. The lower side has to go over bumps int the ground so usually pulls a shorter than the top does.