Excellent explanation. You do such a great job. Some vloggers gripe about all the work they do to get a video out once every week. You just keep going with no complaints. We appreciate your work on these.
I love your style of teaching Doug. You and Stacy are great instructors. I know. I know. I have said it before. But it is truely the way I feel! Thank you.
"liked' I love the come-a-long winch, I removed cement posts from under the shed with just the come-a-long and a near by tree. I a 5" female nearing 80. KUDOS to whoever invented . KUDOS to Doug that makes directions easy to follow in short order.
That's exactly what I wanted to see. Great how-to instructions, easy to follow and remember. I don't have a tractor but I do have a pick up truck (not a 5th wheel) and wonder where you would hook up the come-along. Thanks for all your videos; they are terrific!
great information. when you sped up the video, the birds in the background sounded like angry squirrels. made me chuckle. thank for sharing the information.
Thanks for teaching us a fast and easy way to install our chicken wire and other types of fence. My husband would like to know those what you eat or drink to make you go so fast LOL He loved the fast forward parts and laughed hard ( which is a sound I don't hear often anymore with his PTSD so THANK YOU for making him laugh)
Thankyou Doug, My Husband & I are about to re wire our old fences with chicken & 2 strand of barb . Your video is what we were after seeing how to do it step by step from a homesteader & love the home made fence strainer (stretcher). Big G'Day from a Aussie Hubby & Wife DOWN UNDER.
Loved this video! I love your step by step DIY's!! As someone with less physical abilities than others I don't use it as an excuse. I still want to get out and get done whatever I can. It takes me longer of course but so what...it gets done. Even I could do this. Thanks so very much. You two are making a HUGE difference in my life. My knee is coming along well too btw. Therapy everyday and I'm already putting full weight on it, back working a little in my garden and going for short walks! I REFUSE to go down and your inspiration has been a wonderful and most appreciated influence. Thank you dearly!!! Love, hugs and Gods Blessings Always, Lisa 💕💕💕💕💕
Thank you so much. I am a recent widow so am doing all this by myself. My hubby could do all and invent all. Now my turn wish I was 30 yrs younger 🙂. Thanks again
Great video on how to put up a fence. I will make one of those streachers for my self. Right now my fence around my garden is kind of loose. Thanks for the tip with the chain.
My bolts are all long so before I put on my second board I add my chain to two of the bolts THEN put the second board on and tighten it all down. That eliminates having to put any holes in your wire and your chain is using the bolts for the strength to do the pulling. The chain would go 1/4 of the way to the top and 1/4 of the way toward the bottom. The center of all that chain would then be where you hook your come-along to. And I hooked my come-along to my garden mower or my truck and pulled it only till it stood up then I used my come-along to tighten in. Did I explain that good for you?
@DUZTEM DE7IL I don't have a way to make a video nor would I know how to put one up. So I just thought I would explain what I do because It seems way easier and I thought he or someone else might learn from my experience too.
Knowing a bit about chicken wire, the run is long. How about running a top and bottom wire to secure it to so it is less likely to sag? I enjoy watching your projects and wish I could participate!
Well the Amish look is a nice touch. To make a real fence stretcher from wood use sawmill mill cut oak like the one I have that was my father and grandfathers. The store bought pine wood and fence post won't last long. But it's nice for a garden for 3-4 years. Good job showing beginners how to try to make it.
Great video! Here in Texas we have to bury the bottom 6 inches of the fence to help keep the critters from going under the fence. Also, the wild hogs are pretty bad here so a second layer of 2x4 wire is generally needed as well.
Just a quick tip. If you want to stop missing with your hammer as much, wrap you thumb around the handle on the hammer. Keeping your thumb in line with the shaft makes you roll the hammer and miss more often. Great video to keep critters out of your garden.
my grandfather had one of these made from 4x4's. Then again he was stretching all sorts of wire and used his old Ford tractor. You could play a tune on them wires and I can't say that I remember him breaking one. But then by the time I came alone he had had lots or practice.......
Hey Doug and Stacy. Great video. Wow it looking great . Great way to use our left over chicken wire . Garden looking nice and neat . And to walk barefoot is great . We thinking about making a raised bed .. just to try out for our winter greens . See how it work out for us . We have a large garden.. but want to plant berries this coming year . Thanks for all your help . Blessing 👩🌾
There is also stove bolts. Carriage bolts have a square shoulder benieth the head of the bolt. Stove bolts don't have this. Just the shank of the bolt coming up to the head. Both heads look somewhat like WW 1 helmets.
I use the same kind of fence streacher. On mine I drilled two one inch holes through the boards and run my chain through. It looks like a triangle when finished. Then I hook my come along on the front side of the board to pull.
Large plastic wing nuts. Will save you LOTS of time. Also using eyebolts to run your chain through (and running chain down the middle front of stretcher) saves time and puts the pressure on the front of boards instead of fence. It is also distributing the pressure across the fence (top to bottom). Much easier, less waste. Also, because you have wooden poles (as opposed to T-posts) every 6-8 feet, you don't even have to use the stretcher. You can use large clamps and stretch it at each post and staple it there. That is even better way if you have posts every few feet.
Love your videos but never seen chicken wire installed like that. We do it diferently over here in France. We put a diagonal post at each end / corner post to keep the end posts upright. Then three wires over the length of the run: one near the top, one at the middle, and one right at the bottom, these wires are doubled over and stapled hard at one end then loosely stapled on each middle post. At the other end post we attach ratchet wire stretchers (really inexpensive) to stretch the horizontal wires. Finally the chicken wire (or other wire fencing) is attached to the horizontal wires with wire clips leaving about six inches at the bottom to peg down (or bury) to keep rabbits out. If the chicken wire itself is stretched like that I think it will quickly go out of shape, especially when the end posts start to lean.
Hi Doug....do you then go and weave in 14 to 16 gauge fence wire at the top of the chicken wire to stop it from sagging over time and stapling the wire to the posts?
hey Doug. it's all coming along nice. your season is so far ahead of us. im jealously watching you et tomatoes and all the goodies from your garden and i've got nothing yet! lol wondering if you are going to brace those corner posts. even chicken wire will pull them in and you'll be redoing them next Spring.
At 3:03 there is a structure in the frame on the left side (your right side). Looks like a wall in front of a wall creating a walkthrough or pathway. Would like to see a closeup of that if it's used to prevent snow/rain/wind or similar.
I was raised on a farm Doug and I wanted to mention that at both ends if you take a post and put it at the top of your end post and down to the base of the post closest to it so if you were to look at it side ways it looks like a Z or a N it will keep the wire taught and the posts straight you do this at both all ends. does it make sense how I enplaned it ? It works good for any kind of fencing.
You might want to make some kind of a mark at one end of each stretcher board inside and out, so that you don't waste time setting up just to find that you have to turn the board without the bolts in it around to line up with the bolts IF they aren't EXACTLY spaced the same.
Hey Doug why can’t you just use a cordless drill and screw the two 2x4’s together to clamp the fencing between on your “Amish fence stretcher” instead of those carriage bolts? It’s WAAAAAY faster .
You and Stacy are always so happy with what you do. Would really love to be in country like you guys. How did you pick Missouri? Thank you for all your great info.
You ran out of intros? Good tip. We had to use a logging chain to clear some small stumps so we could plant raspberries about 5 or six years ago. It came in handy.
Clever! I saw somewhere or other a demo of how to deal with netting and sloping ground (posts aren't at right angles to ground) - have you had to deal with that?
Love your videos! Love the new intro!! Are you using treated wood for your garden posts? If not, how many years do you expect your fence to last before having to put in new posts? (I'm also preparing for aging in place)
Worried a little about the use of a 2 X 4 for the corner. Why not a 4 X 4, because of tension ? Or some kind of angled stay to counteract force of tensioned fence ?
I wonder if this method will work to straighten welded wire that was bent/damaged/stretched by someone manually pulling it out of the ground (it was embedded over time) without loosening the ground first. So it's not attached to a post.
Heeeyyy Dougie, just want to let you know that you remind me of Pappy Yokum from Li'l Abner. Nice fence job, by the way. What do you use to cook on in your outdoor kitchen?
great video, much easier then pulling by hand...weird question at 8:49 why was the straight line flashing red and green...my ocd is acting up I know but WHY!!!lol
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Excellent explanation. You do such a great job. Some vloggers gripe about all the work they do to get a video out once every week. You just keep going with no complaints. We appreciate your work on these.
I love your style of teaching Doug. You and Stacy are great instructors. I know. I know. I have said it before. But it is truely the way I feel! Thank you.
"liked' I love the come-a-long winch, I removed cement posts from under the shed with just the come-a-long and a near by tree. I a 5" female nearing 80. KUDOS to whoever invented . KUDOS to Doug that makes directions easy to follow in short order.
That's exactly what I wanted to see. Great how-to instructions, easy to follow and remember. I don't have a tractor but I do have a pick up truck (not a 5th wheel) and wonder where you would hook up the come-along. Thanks for all your videos; they are terrific!
I realize this is late to your show, but I hook stuff like that to the truck's tow package. 😅
great information.
when you sped up the video, the birds in the background sounded like angry squirrels. made me chuckle.
thank for sharing the information.
Thanks for teaching us a fast and easy way to install our chicken wire and other types of fence. My husband would like to know those what you eat or drink to make you go so fast LOL He loved the fast forward parts and laughed hard ( which is a sound I don't hear often anymore with his PTSD so THANK YOU for making him laugh)
It must be the kombucha.
Thankyou Doug,
My Husband & I are about to re wire our old fences with chicken & 2 strand of barb .
Your video is what we were after seeing how to do it step by step from a homesteader & love the home made fence strainer (stretcher).
Big G'Day from a Aussie Hubby & Wife DOWN UNDER.
Loved this video! I love your step by step DIY's!! As someone with less physical abilities than others I don't use it as an excuse. I still want to get out and get done whatever I can. It takes me longer of course but so what...it gets done. Even I could do this. Thanks so very much. You two are making a HUGE difference in my life. My knee is coming along well too btw. Therapy everyday and I'm already putting full weight on it, back working a little in my garden and going for short walks! I REFUSE to go down and your inspiration has been a wonderful and most appreciated influence. Thank you dearly!!! Love, hugs and Gods Blessings Always, Lisa 💕💕💕💕💕
I get so inspired by all both of you do. Trying to get hubby and I healthy with all the good food tips so that we can do more.
I made one of these years ago and put a video together on it. Works great really only needs three bolts though.😊
You and stacy are allways giving outt so much quality information thank for sharing
thanks for watching =)
I love all your videos, Our goal is too have a place just like you guys one day!!!!!!! Thank you for all your helpful videos!
Once again, thanks Doug. This is right on time for us!
I have been getting so many good ideas since subscribing. thank you for sharing.
Looking pretty slim there, Doug! Thank you for another great video. 🌻
Thank for teaching us how to do all these wonderful things to live off grid. You are so talented.
You know Doug he just like my hero you always do a fine job God bless you and Stacy
Thanks for the hot tip as I would not have know that one...probably would have put it through the link!
Doug is really good at explaining what he's doing as he works, really helpful!
Helpful! I'm leaving a comment so UA-cam algorithms are kind to you. Keep up the great effort.
Thanks JT!
Thank you so much. I am a recent widow so am doing all this by myself. My hubby could do all and invent all. Now my turn wish I was 30 yrs younger 🙂. Thanks again
Great video on how to put up a fence. I will make one of those streachers for my self. Right now my fence around my garden is kind of loose. Thanks for the tip with the chain.
My bolts are all long so before I put on my second board I add my chain to two of the bolts THEN put the second board on and tighten it all down. That eliminates having to put any holes in your wire and your chain is using the bolts for the strength to do the pulling.
The chain would go 1/4 of the way to the top and 1/4 of the way toward the bottom. The center of all that chain would then be where you hook your come-along to. And I hooked my come-along to my garden mower or my truck and pulled it only till it stood up then I used my come-along to tighten in.
Did I explain that good for you?
@DUZTEM DE7IL I don't have a way to make a video nor would I know how to put one up. So I just thought I would explain what I do because It seems way easier and I thought he or someone else might learn from my experience too.
Enjoy that introduction! Job sure do go a lot easier when you have the proper tools
God bless you and yours and God bless the USA
Hi Doug I always enjoy watching your vids You feel like family now!
another great video with a simple do it yourself gadget to make a homestead task a bit easier :D thanks a bunch
Great tip at the end!! You're both very good teachers. Thanks!
Knowing a bit about chicken wire, the run is long. How about running a top and bottom wire to secure it to so it is less likely to sag? I enjoy watching your projects and wish I could participate!
Thank you, for a lovely, patient, thorough explanation. Wishing you well.
The Garden is looking good!
Well the Amish look is a nice touch. To make a real fence stretcher from wood use sawmill mill cut oak like the one I have that was my father and grandfathers. The store bought pine wood and fence post won't last long. But it's nice for a garden for 3-4 years. Good job showing beginners how to try to make it.
Great video! Here in Texas we have to bury the bottom 6 inches of the fence to help keep the critters from going under the fence. Also, the wild hogs are pretty bad here so a second layer of 2x4 wire is generally needed as well.
Doug, Its a Come-A-Long not a wench.
Enjoy your channel. Glad I found you folks.
Just a quick tip. If you want to stop missing with your hammer as much, wrap you thumb around the handle on the hammer. Keeping your thumb in line with the shaft makes you roll the hammer and miss more often. Great video to keep critters out of your garden.
my grandfather had one of these made from 4x4's. Then again he was stretching all sorts of wire and used his old Ford tractor. You could play a tune on them wires and I can't say that I remember him breaking one. But then by the time I came alone he had had lots or practice.......
Actually just needed that last minute tip for a kids tire swing. Thanks!
Hey Doug and Stacy. Great video. Wow it looking great . Great way to use our left over chicken wire . Garden looking nice and neat . And to walk barefoot is great . We thinking about making a raised bed .. just to try out for our winter greens . See how it work out for us . We have a large garden.. but want to plant berries this coming year .
Thanks for all your help .
Blessing 👩🌾
YES !!!!! Another video from Off Grid With Doug and Stacy !!! Shabbat Shalom to All !!!
Shabbat shalom from south Texas, Homestead Homie!
excellent video Doug. I did something similar but I didn't use chains I used 2 heavy duty nylon compression straps reinforced with Kevlar.
Both my Dad and Grandpa called it bob wire. I think I was in college before I knew it was barbed wire. Takes me back!
Don't worry about it, Doug. They're steeples down here in south Texas, too.
Thank you bro. May Yeshua bless you and your family
looking great Doug! can't wait for the big reveal!
Fantastic!!! Great job, nice fencing. 🐕
I love the new intro Doug!
WOW!! We could have used that when we were building our chicken yard. Very smart idea!!!
There is also stove bolts. Carriage bolts have a square shoulder benieth the head of the bolt. Stove bolts don't have this. Just the shank of the bolt coming up to the head. Both heads look somewhat like WW 1 helmets.
Thanks for the helpful videos and nice tzitzit! Good bless
I'm going to Home Depot and get me some steeples, lol. The garden looks awesome, can't wait for the full review.
I use the same kind of fence streacher. On mine I drilled two one inch holes through the boards and run my chain through. It looks like a triangle when finished. Then I hook my come along on the front side of the board to pull.
Large plastic wing nuts. Will save you LOTS of time. Also using eyebolts to run your chain through (and running chain down the middle front of stretcher) saves time and puts the pressure on the front of boards instead of fence. It is also distributing the pressure across the fence (top to bottom). Much easier, less waste. Also, because you have wooden poles (as opposed to T-posts) every 6-8 feet, you don't even have to use the stretcher. You can use large clamps and stretch it at each post and staple it there. That is even better way if you have posts every few feet.
awesome video, never thought to use Chicken wire. Well done!
Love your videos but never seen chicken wire installed like that. We do it diferently over here in France. We put a diagonal post at each end / corner post to keep the end posts upright. Then three wires over the length of the run: one near the top, one at the middle, and one right at the bottom, these wires are doubled over and stapled hard at one end then loosely stapled on each middle post. At the other end post we attach ratchet wire stretchers (really inexpensive) to stretch the horizontal wires. Finally the chicken wire (or other wire fencing) is attached to the horizontal wires with wire clips leaving about six inches at the bottom to peg down (or bury) to keep rabbits out. If the chicken wire itself is stretched like that I think it will quickly go out of shape, especially when the end posts start to lean.
Hi Doug....do you then go and weave in 14 to 16 gauge fence wire at the top of the chicken wire to stop it from sagging over time and stapling the wire to the posts?
Great video, awesome tip! Thanks for all your information!
Brave to walk around that clover with bare feet
That was a great video and the new intro was super catchy! Great stretcher idea especially for light duty wire.
hey Doug. it's all coming along nice. your season is so far ahead of us. im jealously watching you et tomatoes and all the goodies from your garden and i've got nothing yet! lol
wondering if you are going to brace those corner posts. even chicken wire will pull them in and you'll be redoing them next Spring.
Loved the way that fence stretcher worked. When I get ready to expand my deck I will call you, your faster than an automatic nailer. LOL LOL LOL
Great chain tip, great video
Thanks Doug for that great idea
Thanks so much for this video! The detail was SO helpful!
Thank you. Im doing this this morning and wanted some tips.
love the safety boots .good video as usual
At 3:03 there is a structure in the frame on the left side (your right side). Looks like a wall in front of a wall creating a walkthrough or pathway. Would like to see a closeup of that if it's used to prevent snow/rain/wind or similar.
Nice tip at the end.
Thank you for the nice video I Remember when you hook your chain it's the opposite the Wild Side 2
I was raised on a farm Doug and I wanted to mention that at both ends if you take a post and put it at the top of your end post and down to the base of the post closest to it so if you were to look at it side ways it looks like a Z or a N it will keep the wire taught and the posts straight you do this at both all ends. does it make sense how I enplaned it ? It works good for any kind of fencing.
You might want to make some kind of a mark at one end of each stretcher board inside and out, so that you don't waste time setting up just to find that you have to turn the board without the bolts in it around to line up with the bolts IF they aren't EXACTLY spaced the same.
Good tip Doug. Homies.
Thank you for your wisdom sharing! Such good info!
Hey Doug why can’t you just use a cordless drill and screw the two 2x4’s together to clamp the fencing between on your “Amish fence stretcher” instead of those carriage bolts? It’s WAAAAAY faster .
Thumbs up right off the bat just because you said "homestead homies"
Good information, thanks for sharing.
Loved the tutorial, thankyou!
You and Stacy are always so happy with what you do. Would really love to be in country like you guys. How did you pick Missouri? Thank you for all your great info.
love your videos wish I had a garden, hi Stacey
You ran out of intros? Good tip. We had to use a logging chain to clear some small stumps so we could plant raspberries about 5 or six years ago. It came in handy.
Clever! I saw somewhere or other a demo of how to deal with netting and sloping ground (posts aren't at right angles to ground) - have you had to deal with that?
real nifty idea. Have a great day
Love the new intro!
Nice . Thanks . Just what I needed to know .
Love your videos! Love the new intro!!
Are you using treated wood for your garden posts?
If not, how many years do you expect your fence to last before having to put in new posts?
(I'm also preparing for aging in place)
Another good video and tips! Thanks!!
Worried a little about the use of a 2 X 4 for the corner. Why not a 4 X 4, because of tension ? Or some kind of angled stay to counteract force of tensioned fence ?
No corner braces? won't be right for long. Looking forward to the big reveal!
stay tuned and its not for heavy use =)
Good video will try this method
If you ever get rid of that audio receiver, and have had your use out of it, hit me up. My 13yr old son is really into vintage
Nice job on the fence, I learned a lot. How high was the chicken wire that you used? 6 foot? Thanks for sharing.
5ft
The most impressive part is how you handled that chicken wire without cutting your hands to shreds.
I wonder if this method will work to straighten welded wire that was bent/damaged/stretched by someone manually pulling it out of the ground (it was embedded over time) without loosening the ground first. So it's not attached to a post.
Heeeyyy Dougie, just want to let you know that you remind me of Pappy Yokum from Li'l Abner. Nice fence job, by the way. What do you use to cook on in your outdoor kitchen?
Doug i think your real name is sneak peek..... lol great job.
great video, much easier then pulling by hand...weird question at 8:49 why was the straight line flashing red and green...my ocd is acting up I know but WHY!!!lol
Thank's amigo nice explanation, 👍👍
Thank you so much....I needed this
Thank you for this ❤
love your diy
Hahahaha Steeple. You would think you where at a church ready to ring the bell. =)