Love your videos. Your tutorials are easy to understand and make fence building a breeze. Thanks for sharing. I have now got a fox proof fence and happy chickens.
Enjoy your videos thanks Tim. We tie our top wires on to post similarly, but with a slight difference. Put tie wire through hole and cross ends, put the top wire between crossed tie wires and twitch around top wires as per your method. This method means top wires do not touch post. Especially important if using older steel posts where galvanizing has failed. We tie netting and plain wires on similarly. Cheers.
Thanks for uploading. Never heard or seen of those twicher tools here in Ireland but good idea. Steel posts not common here bur if l you asked me to do that job ld probably cut those tie wires 12-14" long, do exactly as you did but instead of using your tool, ld create a handle, do my twists, then snap off. Advantage: nice clean finish/ nothing to snag on. Disadvantage: more waste wire!
I paint all tools in white red yellow blue silver anything but black green or brown 1 easy to find espescially on the ground. 2 Newbie gophers understand colours ie: the blue hammer or the white and red pliers.(gophers = go for anything helpers) 3 Paint is protective. 4 Stops accidental permanent borrowing by "mates ".
Just made a twitcher. For our t-posts without holes, the wire tie needs to be a bit longer. The wraps work the same way. Now, I don't have to buy pre-made wire ties
Best system I’ve ever seen is to use Waratah jio posts and post clips, they take two seconds to clip on, allow the wire to be strained up after being clipped to the post as they allow the wire to slide in the clip and in the event of a tree falling on the fence the clips release so that you don’t stuff the whole fence. I used to use the Peice of tie wire and twitch method but never again would I ever bother with that. Waratah jio all the way
I’ve installed my sheep mesh nice and tight, how do I install the top wire and tighten it up without making the sheep mesh go wobbly and not tight anymore
Hi Tim, here in Ireland the standard mesh wire used for sheep is C8 80 15 (i.e. the wire has 8 strands, is 80 cm high & the vertical strands are 15 cm apart). For hill areas it is normally purchased in 50M rolls as it needs to be transported via quad bike. Most contractors use either double loop knots (weak) or gripples (expensive) for joining 2 rolls. What method would you recommend? And would you consider posting a demo? Thanks for all the excellent videos already posted.
I’ve used a basic coil shaped knot on both sides of the wire to join two fences together for a while. It takes a while to get it perfect using the longnose pliers to get a nice tight knot but it is really strong, gripples are very dangerous imo as they can fail and wire can fly out at people or vulnerable animals. Just search up how to join two rolls of field fence on UA-cam and you’ll see what knot I mean.
G’day Tim, thanks for the fantastic videos…..I am building a mesh sheep fence along a property boundary using steel straining posts and Waratahs at 4m centres.. From the info I take from your videos the mesh is run on the stock side of the steel posts, my question is, if there is stock on both sides of the fence is it a “done thing” to alternate every second Waratah to the other side of the mesh?…. Cheers.
o I should have made or bought a twitcher before I did my equivalent of 2.7km plain wire fencing with 4m starpost spacings lol.... I think I brought forrward my thumb arthritis 15 yrs doing it without...
I don't know man. W ties are about 6 cents a piece and come with a free tool (which I've probably misplaced half a dozen of this month). But I defiantly agree, don't put the wire through the holes. Such a pain when I have to come along and tear the fence out.
I enjoy your videos. It's always nice to see how other people build fences Tim. But I'll keep spending that that 30 cents per picket, looks better in my opinion and I'm not going to compromise the look of a 5 grand fence over a few W ties. The look of a fence might be superficial, but it's probably a third of the reason I get paid.
For the 12-1/2% of males (yes 1 in 8) watching this who, like me are R/G colour blind and wouldn't know "Cherry Red" from their arseholes, (hmmmm?), you can use a magnet to determine the right temperature as steel becomes non-magnetic at "Cherry red". Don't use your best magnets to test it though ;-). Or you can just spend the five bucks LOL, although I would need a link for that. (Cherry Red indeed)... Hurrumph!
Love your videos. Your tutorials are easy to understand and make fence building a breeze. Thanks for sharing. I have now got a fox proof fence and happy chickens.
Great simple tips.
Glad it was helpful!
Everything seems so easy when you explain it. Great video
Enjoy your videos thanks Tim.
We tie our top wires on to post similarly, but with a slight difference.
Put tie wire through hole and cross ends, put the top wire between crossed tie wires and twitch around top wires as per your method.
This method means top wires do not touch post. Especially important if using older steel posts where galvanizing has failed.
We tie netting and plain wires on similarly. Cheers.
That was perfect mate, I have to build some fences for Dad and Mum on Monday!
Cheers Tim, great tips for fencing, now I can go redo my entire fence..
Thanks, a useful video
good simple easy to follow as usual and a neat tidy job. well done Tim.
Thank you once again for all your help and guidance.
thanks! you answered several questions in one video!! I have a bull calf & 2 goats.. perfect solutions..
Awesom mate I'm about to buy a farm and really need stuff like this cheers👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Nice job mate ! Greetings from Romania , Europe ! It is really helpfull !
Thanks for uploading. Never heard or seen of those twicher tools here in Ireland but good idea.
Steel posts not common here bur if l you asked me to do that job ld probably cut those tie wires 12-14" long, do exactly as you did but instead of using your tool, ld create a handle, do my twists, then snap off. Advantage: nice clean finish/ nothing to snag on. Disadvantage: more waste wire!
@@FarmLearningTim Yes l will def try it. Can make my own now thanks to yoir demo 👍
Waratah agrees with you regarding not running the wire through the post.
I paint all tools in white red yellow blue silver anything but black green or brown
1 easy to find espescially on the ground.
2 Newbie gophers understand colours ie: the blue hammer or the white and red pliers.(gophers = go for anything helpers)
3 Paint is protective.
4 Stops accidental permanent borrowing by "mates ".
Just made a twitcher. For our t-posts without holes, the wire tie needs to be a bit longer. The wraps work the same way. Now, I don't have to buy pre-made wire ties
Great stuff thanks
Best system I’ve ever seen is to use Waratah jio posts and post clips, they take two seconds to clip on, allow the wire to be strained up after being clipped to the post as they allow the wire to slide in the clip and in the event of a tree falling on the fence the clips release so that you don’t stuff the whole fence. I used to use the Peice of tie wire and twitch method but never again would I ever bother with that. Waratah jio all the way
I’ve installed my sheep mesh nice and tight, how do I install the top wire and tighten it up without making the sheep mesh go wobbly and not tight anymore
That’s all about your end assembly construction. Keep watching I have a video about this in the pipeline
hi from scotland
Great videos Tim. Do you have any suggestion for goat fencing?
I would never buy a twitcher, I lose them far too often. Luckily they come in the bags of star post clips we buy.
Hi Tim, here in Ireland the standard mesh wire used for sheep is C8 80 15 (i.e. the wire has 8 strands, is 80 cm high & the vertical strands are 15 cm apart). For hill areas it is normally purchased in 50M rolls as it needs to be transported via quad bike. Most contractors use either double loop knots (weak) or gripples (expensive) for joining 2 rolls. What method would you recommend? And would you consider posting a demo? Thanks for all the excellent videos already posted.
I’ve used a basic coil shaped knot on both sides of the wire to join two fences together for a while. It takes a while to get it perfect using the longnose pliers to get a nice tight knot but it is really strong, gripples are very dangerous imo as they can fail and wire can fly out at people or vulnerable animals. Just search up how to join two rolls of field fence on UA-cam and you’ll see what knot I mean.
G’day Tim, thanks for the fantastic videos…..I am building a mesh sheep fence along a property boundary using steel straining posts and Waratahs at 4m centres.. From the info I take from your videos the mesh is run on the stock side of the steel posts, my question is, if there is stock on both sides of the fence is it a “done thing” to alternate every second Waratah to the other side of the mesh?….
Cheers.
Typically no. However I do know of some people who alternate sides on cracking clay soils. This is because posts move over time in these soils.
Like your videos good info what are those pliers that you used where did you get them fr9m
Awesome , thanks mate
o I should have made or bought a twitcher before I did my equivalent of 2.7km plain wire fencing with 4m starpost spacings lol.... I think I brought forrward my thumb arthritis 15 yrs doing it without...
You'll be right for the next 2.4km.....
I don't know man. W ties are about 6 cents a piece and come with a free tool (which I've probably misplaced half a dozen of this month). But I defiantly agree, don't put the wire through the holes. Such a pain when I have to come along and tear the fence out.
I enjoy your videos. It's always nice to see how other people build fences Tim. But I'll keep spending that that 30 cents per picket, looks better in my opinion and I'm not going to compromise the look of a 5 grand fence over a few W ties. The look of a fence might be superficial, but it's probably a third of the reason I get paid.
Hi there, wouldn't it be better on the back, wide side?
Do you strain the mesh and can you do a video on that?
Hi do you work around south Gippsland?
Hi mate no. I teach in the Yarra Valley.
Tim for PM?
If you twist the tiwire to tight you will cut the fence wire
Another reason not to run it in the holes is if you need to swap a post
For the 12-1/2% of males (yes 1 in 8) watching this who, like me are R/G colour blind and wouldn't know "Cherry Red" from their arseholes, (hmmmm?), you can use a magnet to determine the right temperature as steel becomes non-magnetic at "Cherry red". Don't use your best magnets to test it though ;-). Or you can just spend the five bucks LOL, although I would need a link for that.
(Cherry Red indeed)... Hurrumph!