Whenever I pull staples in a situation like that, I always make sure that as they come out they go straight into a container of some sort, I never rely on picking them up afterwards.
We had barbed wire fences on our fields and when they were loose we would just take the claw end on the hammer and place the fencing into the claw, with the handle parallel with the fence, and turn the hammer up 90-degrees. This will tighten the fence by almost 1" each turn and you can do this several times on each strand and get it quite tight without having to loosen the fence from the post. I would imagine it would work just as well on woven wire.
Good job! We have horses that get caught up on everything it seems. After getting things tightened I would take the long tail and wrap it around the fence wire to keep it from sticking out in the future. You sure did a nice job of tightening the woven wire fence for sure.
Thanks for the video, have been thinking about getting some of these cripples to fix some loose sections on our field fence. The actual lock jaws are about $1.50 is the cheapest I’ve found and the plastic tool about $85. The make a contractor tool with longer handles for more leverage it’s about $140. You mentioning the length makes me lean towards the longer handles. 👍 Thanks!
My dad and older brothers put up a cyclone fence years ago when I was a kid. I remember how technical dad was about the fence posts (metal pipes set in concrete) and attachment cups at pipe ends that allowed for expansion and contraction as well as a device used to draw the fencing in to tighten it up causing tension so as not to have sagging. That fence lasted in great condition for 50 years when it was removed. Simple things can be more complex than appearances reveal. You done good MR. Charlie Brown!
We used a similar clamp to splice galvanized cable for use in high tension grade lines for running our grade controls on highway concrete pavers the lines were anchored and tightened with come-alongs
that damn fence will be a musical instrument with a little vibration from the wind and in the winter it will have a live feed video of endless fence harmonics hahahahah
Evan I like the way you read up on how to do things before you start to make sure you do it right. Everyone has their own way,and their way don’t always work for everybody. Good job. Looks like you are getting close to winter ,stay warm ,take care.
JudithB Interesting gadget! I still do fence repairs the old way--cheaper. I use a claw hammer to tension wire, and sometimes use a come along to pull wire. The hunters cut my barbwire on the west side and it needs repaired. I use an old metal paint can to hold staples and wire hooks and it has a piece of barb wire twisted around the handle to make a hook. Hangs on the fence when working or a nail in the barn!!! I keep the fencing pliers in it too!! I would worry about those ends poking an eye on a goat or cow. I also run barb wire in woven wire at the heighth of what ever critter is rubbing on the fence. Put in a scratching post that would be handy to tie too also! Just some thoughts!!! Enjoy your videos very much!
Good demonstration Evan, you got the fence mended and tightened👍👍!! Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos? We appreciate your sharing with us
I use Gripple products in my vineyard. They work great for a lot of wire related things. I would also look into a "goldenrod". They are great for a lot of fencing work, and can be used in conjunction with Gripple splices and Gripple end clamps. In your case, the Goldenrod would pull the two fences together with much more force (if needed) than the Gripple tool. I have both tools, and if one doesn't work, the other will. You could use the Goldenrod on every wire for a nice, tight fence. Just search "Goldenrod fence tool" and you'll find it -- it looks like a weird gold car jack.
These vids are so educational, love the fact that you work while you talk and so in-depth. Thank you again. I’m glad I stumbled across your channel. I’ve now subscribed.
Evan - I love how you explain what you are doing and how you plan to do it. It's like every video is an instructional video. The honesty about mistakes is also appreciated.
I'm suffering PTSD watching you fix fence. My wife and I bought a run down 211 acre farm and had to fence and cross fence the whole thing. Good job 👍 on the fence. Glad it's you and not me 😊
When I bought the Torq tool, there was gripple release pin in the package. Might want to check the packaging if you still have it. It’s just a small wire with a blue plastic tab that you grip.
I've been watching all the work you have done and still doing. I suggest that you watch Justine Rhodes channel. He has many good ideas you may like some. God bless Puerto Rico here. 👀ya.
I would say that if you used a gripple on top and on bottom and then used your fencing plyers to grab and twist the rest to take the slack out you could do the same thing much cheaper ! the way we tightened a loose fence was just with the fencing plyers.. grab the wire by the tip or have the tip around the wire and pull, then twist the wire with the plyers doing so will take out the slack in the fence the cows will lean on the fence eventually and the only way to keep the twists from unraveling is to put a stiff heavy gauge wire through all the eye's that you made. we tightened the cow pin like that for decades... because they will streach a fence beyond it's endurance ! those fencing plyers are also fence tighteners too ! just grab and twist... just fix the eye so it can't unravel ! and we never left the horse-shoe nails loose so they could slide! that is new to me(makes sense too) .... but we never did that.... see you can teach an old dog new tricks ! LOL
Look at your pasture landscape! It is gorgeous. wow! Please DO NOT cut down those bushes and trees. animals need that for shade and comfort. Besides, it serves to remind us how gorgeous nature is.
I just used this same method to tighten some woven wire fence on our farm. I've done a lot of fencing and I really like the Gripples. Wish I would have known about them sooner.
LOL... @ 0:42 I had the speakers up and You could hear your chickens squawking in the video and my chickens were squawking at the same time... It was like I was being swarmed by poultry.
I added them to my high tension wire and they worked great my high tension wire had been up for 6 years and I did not want to use the crank ones they were cheap and rusted
You should bend the tail end 90 degrees up or down so when you torque the other end, the tail won’t slip. 👍 Also, I think you should have only used about (4) instead of doing every wire. Didn’t need (13).
I learned something with this video. I did buy a different crimper from Rural King to do my high tensile fence. My question is, is the green tool you used a crimper or a cutter? It looks like my red cutter. Thanks for the videos.
Was the cutting the fence just to tighten it? You couldn't just tighten it, like with a board and pull it and then reset the nail in the posts? I'm not being critical, I just don't understand why that was necessary. Janice
Use the old J I Case and a com-along with a fence tensioner the Case being made as a portable Anchor, always pull staples and put in a container, they poae a danger for livestock and people if lost especially to hogs and sheep can damage hooves and pigs can ingest them. And i don't think allowing hogs to ingest old staples is a way to give them iron supplement...
Only one thing about them, in the winter time, they will expand and contract with water that water gets inside them and your fence will come loose. That why I gave up on using them.
I don't know who told you how to do fence tightening but every time you cut your fence you just make a new weak spot. This could have been done in about a 10th of the time.
I don't understand cutting a perfectly good fence into, to give you problems down the road. Why not just stretch it? And if you don't have a fence stretcher, all you need is a couple pieces 2"×4" about 4' long and 3-4 bolts w/nuts to go thru them and hold them together.
Were you crimping with bolt cutters?? I fixed a lot of fence when I was a kid. I used 2 claw hammers and a pair of pliers. Never heard of such a tool but seeing this I would much rather have it over the hammers. Good job it's almost as good as new!!! Thanks...Peace!!! Bill
I am no fence expert but wondered why you would cut out first instead of just stretching from the end? I watched another video where he did that. ua-cam.com/video/IAYt0lWiX2A/v-deo.html
Whenever I pull staples in a situation like that, I always make sure that as they come out they go straight into a container of some sort, I never rely on picking them up afterwards.
Yep, clean up as you go.
I admire your patience in getting that job done.
Loved how you cat was helping you dig the fence out in begining of you video.
Never knew these Gripples existed...
Your vids make me SO HAPPY. Hate to see them end. You are always so professional and intent on doing what needs to be done. Love watching.
We had barbed wire fences on our fields and when they were loose we would just take the claw end on the hammer and place the fencing into the claw, with the handle parallel with the fence, and turn the hammer up 90-degrees. This will tighten the fence by almost 1" each turn and you can do this several times on each strand and get it quite tight without having to loosen the fence from the post. I would imagine it would work just as well on woven wire.
Exactly what I needed to see! Thank you🙏
Good job! We have horses that get caught up on everything it seems. After getting things tightened I would take the long tail and wrap it around the fence wire to keep it from sticking out in the future. You sure did a nice job of tightening the woven wire fence for sure.
Thanks for the video, have been thinking about getting some of these cripples to fix some loose sections on our field fence. The actual lock jaws are about $1.50 is the cheapest I’ve found and the plastic tool about $85. The make a contractor tool with longer handles for more leverage it’s about $140. You mentioning the length makes me lean towards the longer handles. 👍 Thanks!
Looks good and tight now.
My dad and older brothers put up a cyclone fence years ago when I was a kid. I remember how technical dad was about the fence posts (metal pipes set in concrete) and attachment cups at pipe ends that allowed for expansion and contraction as well as a device used to draw the fencing in to tighten it up causing tension so as not to have sagging. That fence lasted in great condition for 50 years when it was removed. Simple things can be more complex than appearances reveal.
You done good MR. Charlie Brown!
Go to tractor supply and get a woven wire fence stretcher, it would be a whole lot less work
i think you did very well considering this was the first time that you had used these and they worked well tightening up the fence.
Well done, evan
You did a great job
We used a similar clamp to splice galvanized cable for use in high tension grade lines for running our grade controls on highway concrete pavers the lines were anchored and tightened with come-alongs
Come the winter you'll be able to play that fence like a banjo! 😂
that damn fence will be a musical instrument with a little vibration from the wind and in the winter it will have a live feed video of endless fence harmonics hahahahah
@@mike0566 😂
Evan I like the way you read up on how to do things before you start to make sure you do it right. Everyone has their own way,and their way don’t always work for everybody. Good job. Looks like you are getting close to winter ,stay warm ,take care.
Thanks for sharing
Nice going on the fence fix
Awesome education video and stay safe, God bless
I think you did an awesome job Evan. You wanted a tighter fence and that"s what you got. Mission accomplished.
Great, learnng for both of us.Now I can do it right. Fencing 101
That was an interesting learning experience to watch
JudithB Interesting gadget! I still do fence repairs the old way--cheaper. I use a claw hammer to tension wire, and sometimes use a come along to pull wire. The hunters cut my barbwire on the west side and it needs repaired. I use an old metal paint can to hold staples and wire hooks and it has a piece of barb wire twisted around the handle to make a hook. Hangs on the fence when working or a nail in the barn!!! I keep the fencing pliers in it too!! I would worry about those ends poking an eye on a goat or cow. I also run barb wire in woven wire at the heighth of what ever critter is rubbing on the fence. Put in a scratching post that would be handy to tie too also! Just some thoughts!!! Enjoy your videos very much!
Good demonstration Evan, you got the fence mended and tightened👍👍!! Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos? We appreciate your sharing with us
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I use Gripple products in my vineyard. They work great for a lot of wire related things. I would also look into a "goldenrod". They are great for a lot of fencing work, and can be used in conjunction with Gripple splices and Gripple end clamps. In your case, the Goldenrod would pull the two fences together with much more force (if needed) than the Gripple tool. I have both tools, and if one doesn't work, the other will. You could use the Goldenrod on every wire for a nice, tight fence. Just search "Goldenrod fence tool" and you'll find it -- it looks like a weird gold car jack.
I have one of those we call them fence stretchers... best tool I have owned when it comes to fence
@@2friesshortofabigmac407 Absolutely! There are 2 or three different one's, but the one I have does several things. It's a great tool!
These vids are so educational, love the fact that you work while you talk and so in-depth. Thank you again. I’m glad I stumbled across your channel. I’ve now subscribed.
Good morning. Thank you for sharing. 👍👏
That looks great ! Those work good! Never seen any thing like that!! Have a wonderful weekend!
Evan - I love how you explain what you are doing and how you plan to do it. It's like every video is an instructional video. The honesty about mistakes is also appreciated.
Interesting, I never knew that tool and system existed. Thanks for sharing.
I'm suffering PTSD watching you fix fence. My wife and I bought a run down 211 acre farm and had to fence and cross fence the whole thing. Good job 👍 on the fence. Glad it's you and not me 😊
When I bought the Torq tool, there was gripple release pin in the package. Might want to check the packaging if you still have it. It’s just a small wire with a blue plastic tab that you grip.
I've been watching all the work you have done and still doing. I suggest that you watch Justine Rhodes channel. He has many good ideas you may like some. God bless Puerto Rico here. 👀ya.
I would say that if you used a gripple on top and on bottom and then used your fencing plyers to grab and twist the rest to take the slack out you could do the same thing much cheaper !
the way we tightened a loose fence was just with the fencing plyers.. grab the wire by the tip
or have the tip around the wire and pull, then twist the wire with the plyers doing so will take out the slack in the fence the cows will lean on the fence eventually and the only way to keep the twists from unraveling is to put a stiff heavy gauge wire through all the eye's that you made.
we tightened the cow pin like that for decades... because they will streach a fence beyond it's endurance ! those fencing plyers are also fence tighteners too ! just grab and twist... just fix the eye so it can't unravel ! and we never left the horse-shoe nails loose so they could slide!
that is new to me(makes sense too) .... but we never did that.... see you can teach an old dog new tricks ! LOL
That seems like a good system for making tight fences with minimal tools. Thanks for sharing and teaching us!
That was a learning experience while sipping my coffee this morning. Thanks for sharing. Hope you have a great weekend.🐖
Good job 👍
Good job Evan, that's a pretty nice tool. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing!
Look at your pasture landscape! It is gorgeous. wow! Please DO NOT cut down those bushes and trees. animals need that for shade and comfort. Besides, it serves to remind us how gorgeous nature is.
I just used this same method to tighten some woven wire fence on our farm. I've done a lot of fencing and I really like the Gripples. Wish I would have known about them sooner.
Salut super tank you vidéo magnifique
thank you i never new they had them
Pretty cool set up I like how they work
Wonder if you could use steel pipe to extend the handles
LOL... @ 0:42 I had the speakers up and You could hear your chickens squawking in the video and my chickens were squawking at the same time... It was like I was being swarmed by poultry.
Good video
Looks good to me... 😊👍🏻
Why use on every strand when you can fill in with normal splices and just tension the top and bottom?
I added them to my high tension wire and they worked great my high tension wire had been up for 6 years and I did not want to use the crank ones they were cheap and rusted
You should bend the tail end 90 degrees up or down so when you torque the other end, the tail won’t slip. 👍
Also, I think you should have only used about (4) instead of doing every wire. Didn’t need (13).
,,,good one, stay safe...
I learned something with this video. I did buy a different crimper from Rural King to do my high tensile fence. My question is, is the green tool you used a crimper or a cutter? It looks like my red cutter. Thanks for the videos.
It is a crimper. It looks like a bolt cutter, that has the cutters ground flat.
@@CountryViewAcres thanks
Was the cutting the fence just to tighten it? You couldn't just tighten it, like with a board and pull it and then reset the nail in the posts? I'm not being critical, I just don't understand why that was necessary. Janice
You need to bend the tail back over the gripple and the same on the splices. That way they can't fail and slip back.
Nice vids
How did you tie the fence off back at the corner post?
What was the multi tool in the beginning you used to pull the fence staples out with?
That was fencing pliers
Wow a lot of work🤣
I always loosened the fence and restretched, probably about he same time and a lot cheaper. Never cut a good fence!
Use the old J I Case and a com-along with a fence tensioner the Case being made as a portable Anchor, always pull staples and put in a container, they poae a danger for livestock and people if lost especially to hogs and sheep can damage hooves and pigs can ingest them. And i don't think allowing hogs to ingest old staples is a way to give them iron supplement...
Stormy ridge farmer has a lot of fence installation and tying wire videos from fence experts on his channel
Only one thing about them, in the winter time, they will expand and contract with water that water gets inside them and your fence will come loose. That why I gave up on using them.
Well you answered my question, thank you.
I don't know who told you how to do fence tightening but every time you cut your fence you just make a new weak spot. This could have been done in about a 10th of the time.
How?
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Seems like a good concept but a little pricey and takes a while
Hallo you better pick up all those stapels an pieces of wire before it get into your goats stomachs. Love your channel.
Shouldve done gripples all the way down bud so it would be tensioned evenly
never seen any thing like that
I don't understand cutting a perfectly good fence into, to give you problems down the road. Why not just stretch it? And if you don't have a fence stretcher, all you need is a couple pieces 2"×4" about 4' long and 3-4 bolts w/nuts to go thru them and hold them together.
Were you crimping with bolt cutters?? I fixed a lot of fence when I was a kid. I used 2 claw hammers and a pair of pliers. Never heard of such a tool but seeing this I would much rather have it over the hammers. Good job it's almost as good as new!!! Thanks...Peace!!!
Bill
It looks like bolt cutters, but it is crimper, the jaws are flat to smash.
That's what my wife said
About your fence, if the goats love rubbing against it...shouldn't you round off the end pieces so they don't poke and injure themselves
Kind of like tiny turnbuckles, but not really.
I am no fence expert but wondered why you would cut out first instead of just stretching from the end?
I watched another video where he did that.
ua-cam.com/video/IAYt0lWiX2A/v-deo.html
that is called old school.
I wonder, if you are unable to tinker with something on the farm, maybe as you are injured and laid up in bed, you'll go stir crazy.
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No no no come on