Rappa - Too much play?

Mc115reed

Member
Livestock Farmer
2 strands polywire (if you need more you should have trained the sheep better, or get a rifle)
Stakes 15 yds apart, assuming flat ground of course.
Always straight lines, or I’ll lie awake pondering my incompetence.
i don’t tension to corners, the whole fence has to be tight. Stock not getting out means that’s perfectly adequate.
Do well keep 2 weeks old lambs in 2 strands though 😂 but yeah I keep most of mine between 2 strands even the horned lambs, I only tension too corners because it’s easier too wrap the wire around the strands above and below too spread the current rather than putting joining wires on .. but I’m a f**king red neck my corner posts are anything and everything I find laying around with a poly post tied too it with baling twine
 

DieselRob

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
That’s what I do, but carrying the stakes on my shoulder, rather than the willy billy littering that seems popular on here. :whistle:
Before I bought the rappa I used to carry stakes around like that or in bags, I definitely think dropping them off the bike is easier. On turnips I can usually spear them in to the ground with 9/10 success so I don’t have to bend down to pick them up
 

sherg

Member
Location
shropshire
I drive around with the wire and do the corners and put the odd plastic post in as I go and put the rest of the posts in on the second lap around, you get used to how far to drive in between the posts normally just ride the bike side saddle, I can't be arsed with walking when god gave me four wheels and an engine
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Finger of suspicion now pointed at the gearbox. Should the shaft move so much without the drive chain moving?

 

DieselRob

Member
BASE UK Member
Location
North Yorkshire
Do you stop/start as you go along to pick stakes up or do you wind in as a 1 continuous movement? It could possibly be a problem for the former but wouldn’t expect so with a continuous gather
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Having just looked at your first videos again, your wire guide is much closer to the cam plate than mine.
If it were moved out a bit, would it distribute the wire more evenly, rather than more to the one side?

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Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Having just looked at your first videos again, your wire guide is much closer to the cam plate than mine.
If it were moved out a bit, would it distribute the wire more evenly, rather than more to the one side?

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I’ve been trying to set them better but nothing I do stops it loading one sided. I’ve pushed them way out to the end of shaft so it goes past the sides of the reel but still loads one sided ( on the inside if that makes sense)
 

Jerry

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Do you stop/start as you go along to pick stakes up or do you wind in as a 1 continuous movement? It could possibly be a problem for the former but wouldn’t expect so with a continuous gather

Both really. No difference in resulting reels🤨
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
What glue do people use for sticking new clutch pads on? I can’t get them to stay stuck on for any length of time compared to the originals it came with

I don’t any more. I just sandwich them between the reels and the pads, with a bit more tension when winding up, then free off a bit (outside clutch to end of shaft) and a squirt of WD40 between pad and reel to unwind.
Seems to work fine.

winding in
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unwinding
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