Straining hinge joint, a real agricultural issue we can actually solve.

TelesnaAg · Mar 10, 2023

tepapa said:
280m would be long pulls over with me. Short runs would be 30-40m with most runs being between 80 and 140m at a guess.

That makes sense, the uk is only the size of some of our bigger farms back paddocks.

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DrWazzock · Mar 10, 2023

TelesnaAg said:
I dont have bulls on farm, some for agistment hiefers but this is last year.

I usually stick a bare hot across corners and always across gates, bare.

Elec fence runs at 8-9.

Not sure how ling these posts will last, options are limted, i am high rain fall.

Star posts will not stay in ground, i have top soil 800mm deep in places, in summer you can go along and lift them out of the ground.

Also economics amd neighbours to think off, ill be flat out getting a cent out of any of them, most were hoping to die before having to do fences, they are barely stocked.

It does reaffirmy position off gold plating infrastructure when you young and can do so, so the dream off pottering around on the farm when older can be a reality, my neighbours are all scrooges and renowned for it.

An old real.estate agent calls in occasionally and tells me how the old owners amd neighbours use to try out do each other on scrooging, hes dumbfounded with what ive done with the farm, never thought he'd see it.

Ant...

Ain’t that the truth. Get the infrastructure right while you are younger and it’ll serve you well into later life.

cows sh#t me to tears · Mar 10, 2023

TelesnaAg said:
Long pull fair enough as slack when tying off not much of an issue. However i am finding the odd wire snaps at the tension crimp they put in the wire, so not all okain sailing with knots either.

Im using max-loc wire, its half price of warratah, i used in pottland and had a good run with it.

Warratah was $660 aud for 200m, effing crazy, there staples are garbage so i dont think the wire will be twice as good tbh.

I have alot of short runs to do, 280m, ill probably gut pull some and crimp, seems like more work but.

I have about 5km of internal fencing to do, most 300m strains.

Ant...

I'll only use "other " brands like Whites of o
im desperate.... I've found Waratah the ONLY wire that doesn't get tied in a fùçķing knot on the wire spinner at some point. And God fùçk me, there's NOTHING in this world more frustrating or that will pìşş me off more than a Friday afternoon apprentice wound roll of wire that isn't wound correctly.

cows sh#t me to tears · Mar 10, 2023

TelesnaAg said:
I dont have bulls on farm, some for agistment hiefers but this is last year.

I usually stick a bare hot across corners and always across gates, bare.

Elec fence runs at 8-9.

Not sure how ling these posts will last, options are limted, i am high rain fall.

Star posts will not stay in ground, i have top soil 800mm deep in places, in summer you can go along and lift them out of the ground.

Also economics amd neighbours to think off, ill be flat out getting a cent out of any of them, most were hoping to die before having to do fences, they are barely stocked.

It does reaffirmy position off gold plating infrastructure when you young and can do so, so the dream off pottering around on the farm when older can be a reality, my neighbours are all scrooges and renowned for it.

An old real.estate agent calls in occasionally and tells me how the old owners amd neighbours use to try out do each other on scrooging, hes dumbfounded with what ive done with the farm, never thought he'd see it.

Ant...

Neighbor we bought a block off of, you could literally see which fence was put up by each generation. Grandfather who fought in WW1 Was by far the most thorough. Son (long gone ) Skimmed on a few wires. His son whom would be close to 60 is by far the tightest mother fùçķer of them all. .Just ringlock and a single barb on top. His boys seem to spend more freely, so hoping they do a better job....

ollie989898 · Mar 10, 2023

DrWazzock said:
Ain’t that the truth. Get the infrastructure right while you are younger and it’ll serve you well into later life.

Agreed, do the job properly once or you'll be cussing it for years.

Never did get the people who nailed stuff to trees or didn't cut things back before doing it etc etc etc. Drives me mental. Either do the job right or don't bother. It's either fenced or it's not fenced and stock will keep getting out- a PITA job at the best of times.

Willie adie · Mar 10, 2023

TelesnaAg said:
Ok, so you can have a laff lads, here some pics of my farmer qaulity fencing.

I got all south side done tonight so o to northside boundary tomorrow, pulling it out.

1.28km to go and im done for the year!!! 3 strains, 1 gate.

Ant...

I've seen much worse doesn't look too much wrong, cracking posts!! No problem be with wider spacings with timber like that, plus good to see it's the 22cm spacing, I hate using 15 now

Bury the Trash · Mar 10, 2023

DrWazzock said:
Ain’t that the truth. Get the infrastructure right while you are younger and it’ll serve you well into later life.

of course but we wernt as wise when we were younger and also hindsight is a wonderfull thing

Willie adie · Mar 10, 2023

tepapa said:
I wouldn't get all excited over using gripples and I definitely wouldn't use t clips on a 480m pull for the sake of 10mins tying off, I wouldn't risk a tclip snapping or popping off . Fair enough if it was 8m.

Gripples do slip if under pressure but even if you tie them off the ceramic ball cuts through the wire so they still fail.

Maybe I'm not pulling tight enough, but it's not just me the other 2 contractors I know can't be either before Thiers don't slip either,

tepapa · Mar 10, 2023

Willie adie said:
Maybe I'm not pulling tight enough, but it's not just me the other 2 contractors I know can't be either before Thiers don't slip either,

They will under pressure. Go and drop a tree on the fence and watch them all slip.

Other pressures are available.

cows sh#t me to tears · Mar 10, 2023

Probably depends on the wire you use too. 2.5mm ty-easy (girls wire) will break or stretch to the shìťĥouse first... We only ever use 2.8mm high tensile wire (man's wire) . No comments about sexism either, but if you've worked with high tensile wire all your life you'll understand how it sorts men from boys when it comes to tying off and getting clean looking knots....

TelesnaAg · Mar 10, 2023

Willie adie said:
I've seen much worse doesn't look too much wrong, cracking posts!! No problem be with wider spacings with timber like that, plus good to see it's the 22cm spacing, I hate using 15 now

Posts are 6.5m

TelesnaAg · Mar 10, 2023

cows sh#t me to tears said:
Probably depends on the wire you use too. 2.5mm ty-easy (girls wire) will break or stretch to the shìťĥouse first... We only ever use 2.8mm high tensile wire (man's wire) . No comments about sexism either, but if you've worked with high tensile wire all your life you'll understand how it sorts men from boys when it comes to tying off and getting clean looking knots....

Im a girl

Plus thats all they stock here

All singles are hot

Ant...

TelesnaAg · Mar 10, 2023

cows sh#t me to tears said:
I'll only use "other " brands like Whites of o
im desperate.... I've found Waratah the ONLY wire that doesn't get tied in a fùçķing knot on the wire spinner at some point. And God fùçk me, there's NOTHING in this world more frustrating or that will pìşş me off more than a Friday afternoon apprentice wound roll of wire that isn't wound correctly.

I only use warratah single, plus its all i can get.

Ant...

cows sh#t me to tears · Mar 10, 2023

TelesnaAg said:
I only use warratah single, plus its all i can get.

Ant...

You can get whomever to order in whatever you want . You don't have to take only what they have...Especially if your buying a bit... Not uncommon for me to order in a 10 pack of 1000m high tensile rolls. And I'm pretty much the only one around here using that.

TelesnaAg · Mar 10, 2023

cows sh#t me to tears said:
You can get whomever to order in whatever you want . You don't have to take only what they have...Especially if your buying a bit... Not uncommon for me to order in a 10 pack of 1000m high tensile rolls. And I'm pretty much the only one around here using that.

Lol im never that organsied as my real job is hectic.

Pulling out 1.28km of north boundary today, old posts and barb wire style.

Ant...

cows sh#t me to tears · Mar 10, 2023

That's the bit I hate the most....New fence. Easy. Love it. Pulling up old cráp .....pet hate

TelesnaAg · Mar 11, 2023

cows sh#t me to tears said:
That's the bit I hate the most....New fence. Easy. Love it. Pulling up old cráp .....pet hate

Ive got down pat, i leave it all connected and start in centre push post forward and backwards with hay forks frame then go under neath amd lift up using prongs on the wires, i got fence out in few hours, piling up i hook chain to loader and keep pulling over it self then push up, had to chain lift out about 15 in 1.3 km

Ant...

TelesnaAg · Mar 11, 2023

I out out guide wire for contractor and mark posts with paint on ground, they are spoilt.

Ant...

TelesnaAg · Mar 11, 2023

cows sh#t me to tears said:
That's the bit I hate the most....New fence. Easy. Love it. Pulling up old cráp .....pet hate

The hardest part i find is looking over there farms all day doing boundary and see theres not been a dollar spent, and its a mess, just traded off someone else hard work there whole life.

It disgusts me.

Ant...

Zedlock · Mar 11, 2023

TelesnaAg said:
What is radiseures?? Cant find.

Yes its 8/90/30.

Ant...

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