The Fencing Picture Thread

[Greenbeast]

Bit of a long shot but i have a little, basic post driver for my zetor. it coped ok with a bit of pre-augering of holes during spring but with the clay firming up has been a nightmare recently.
It's only got a 50kg weight i believe.

I believe the box section would stand to take more hammer weight and my tractor and hydraulics are more than capable. What i'd like to do is remove the existing hammer and fit something in the 100-200kg range. would need new rope/wire and some adaptation.

Does anyone have old hammer or any bright ideas about fabricating one. I did get a quote off a company for one of theirs as a 'spare part', so i could go that route.

 

[roscoe erf]

here is my fencing rig

did a bit today with my creosote dipped posts

 

[poorsheepfarmer]

Do you always put the barb on before the netting ?

I do, takes any slack out of the strainers, before you put net on which stop s net going slack when you put top wire on.

 

[Mouser]

Do you always put the barb on before the netting ?

Yeah we do

 

[Andy26]

 

[Andy26]

Pictures from a friend working near Newmarket on a new Otter fence with his new post driver.

 

[Andy26]

 

[S J H]

Started a new site this week, this is the work of the last contractors who we're working for. Luckily their foreman came out earlier to tell me to start putting the diagonals 2/3 up the post because it's stronger and looks better. After he told me how to put a fence up, I pointed out that his lads had put the netting upside down on one part.

I went to put some mesh on some gates last night to finish a job off

 

[S J H]

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How did he compare time wise to you and a Bryce Andy? He must be a good driver

 

[itsintheblood]

Started a new site this week, this is the work of the last contractors who we're working for. Luckily their foreman came out earlier to tell me to start putting the diagonals 2/3 up the post because it's stronger and looks better. After he told me how to put a fence up, I pointed out that his lads had put the netting upside down on one part.

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I went to put some mesh on some gates last night to finish a job off

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Proper smart post and rails

 

[S J H]

Proper smart post and rails

When I buy my 2,000 acre ring fenced estate, I think I'll get a man to go all the way around in cleft chestnut with a hawthorn hedge behind

 

[Andy26]

How did he compare time wise to you and a Bryce Andy? He must be a good driver

@S J H I've not seen it in action myself, just got sent some pictures, hoping to go and see it this week now we've finished harvest. Speaking to him on the phone he said over all he's very impressed. It's a 300kg hammer and you also get some weight transfer from the digger, so it performs better in his opinion than a floating post mast.

His only concern is if using smaller post 3-4", apparently there's not much control of the hammer, it's all or nothing, so where on the Bryce you can control the speed of descent of the hammer with this Vector its full power every time.

I'm impressed with how plumb all the posts are as when I watched the video on youtube from Vector it looks all over the shop. I will take more pics and some video of it working later this week.

 

[S J H]

@S J H I've not seen it in action myself, just got sent some pictures, hoping to go and see it this week now we've finished harvest. Speaking to him on the phone he said over all he's very impressed. It's a 300kg hammer and you also get some weight transfer from the digger, so it performs better in his opinion than a floating post mast.

His only concern is if using smaller post 3-4", apparently there's not much control of the hammer, it's all or nothing, so where on the Bryce you can control the speed of descent of the hammer with this Vector its full power every time.

I'm impressed with how plumb all the posts are as when I watched the video on youtube from Vector it looks all over the shop. I will take more pics and some video of it working later this week.

When we used to hire a protech version, it needed a good driver who had got the hang of it. He had a button in the cab that he could control the drop from, I think he held it for less time.

 

[Post Driver]

Estwing and Vaughn ar

e cheap in the US. Shame I've no need for a big framing hammer : (

 

[7740 man]

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Estwings are damn fine hammers, I swear by them!

 

[DFC]

Estwings are damn fine hammers, I swear by them!

Snap..... Don't get half the pain in the elbow using one of these coated to a cheap hammer

 

[Post Driver]

Few bits and pieces

Nice long run of post and rail, knocked that in a long day

I had to square off this yard space, so strutted the corners back into the yard to stop the corners strainers collapsing in. The furthest side from the netting strainers was a short 12m run so I put some 2nd hand ratchet winders on it tweak the tension and get it even right round.

Metal fence posts are nothing new....

Interesting idea for electric fence insulators. Seen this once before so maybe a local contractor was doing it? Anyone else come across this before?

 

[S J H]

How's the knocker going @Post Driver ?

 

[Post Driver]

Yeh she's going well. At times I miss the extra 100kg of hammer the Bryce has, and how the Bryce sits there rock solid. but that is made up for in other ways. Swings and roundabouts and both have their place.

I prefer the Bryce post cap, visibility is a bit crap with the Protech and the little spikes have broken off before long. It wants a cast steel Bryce cap grafting to the Protech one, but thats beyond my welding skills!

This will be the first winter with it so should mean we can get about without leaving a trace.

 

[S J H]

I haven't used a Bryce, but I've been thinking about running one with the tracked machine, or something of similar weight, just for strainers and gate posts. It would be the ideal, but means running a tractor aswell.

Are you still running a Bryce aswell?