Winding up sheep netting
- Thread starter neilo
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- Location
- Ceredigion
2cd time netting never makes a tidy job
How much do you want for it
How much do you want for it
How hard would it be to modify a roto-spike? If it could be run 90° From normal with a disc either end to gather the wire straight I think it would be good, fitted on a loader you could watch it and move as necessary
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solo
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- Location
- worcestershire
Jones engineering and compost systems make fleece rollers which may help with ideas. The link below may be able to help too.
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glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
I made one out of a 3 ptframe and a hyd motor of a massey combine
- Location
- Welshpool Powys
Just get in it with hedgecutter they wind it up pretty quick
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Seen someone useing a hydraulic post auger. Made a long pole with alarge disk at the bottem.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
An old bale unroller with hyd motor would work
- Location
- sw scotland
In the time it has taken to read this thread I have rolled up 50m. By the time I have made some twisty, rotating, spiky, hydraulic thingy I have done 500m.
Get it tight first 20 metres by which time you are almost walking speed.
Get it tight first 20 metres by which time you are almost walking speed.
M-J-G
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And a lot of people aren't used to hard work, the up side is it would only be an hour or two.Very, very true.
Bending down while rolling wire up, is bloody hard work.
We took down a few hundred meters a couple of years ago and rolling it up wasn't the worst part, pulling staples is worse even though I use a strainrite crimping tool.
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
The best but I'd unstapling From broken posts
- Location
- Ceredigion
First job with my 50 B 4in1 , driving down some old fencing
Which with the advent of shite posts, happens far too often!
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
I was talking to a fencing contractor, and he said when farmers asked him to refence using the old netting, it was cheaper for them to use new when the labour was costed in. What a result for net zero and embedded Carbon, when one of the most Carbon intensive things is making Steel, another great win for banning the old tanalising!
Tubbylew
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Thing is, if the fence was any good it would be a repair job, if it's gone too far to repair then the wire is bugger all compared to the cost of everything else. Years ago dad tied a load of wire to the hedges on a new block of ground for a cheap quick job, years later when I came to do it properly, I thought happy days, at least the wire's been bought. I soon learn't by the time it's been fought out of the hedge it was a waste of time, even though it hadn't been strained, it took ages, and it was still crap to put back up after. I understand not all fences would be like that. I've yet to find a quicker cheaper method than dragging the whole lot of it out with a chain and bundleing it up with a loader/digger.
agree and spending money on an implement just for it would make it even worse.
mind you
ive just made a fresh wire jenny (never did like my hayes one) out of an old scrap disc and drum mower still git a bit of bed with a turning shaft in fit some sort of motor to that and it would wind up if wanted i reckon ,even a 12v starter motor would do i should think run with jump leads from tractor /vehicle or similiar .
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- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Surely that would depend on the age and condition of the wire to be wound up?
If it was rusty sh1te grown into the hedge for 30 years then it’s just scrap anyway. If it’s a decent length of relatively new HT wire, having a way of winding it up tidily such that it could be reused could be a sound investment with new wire at £110-120/100m?
But he’ll, just wrap it round an old haybob anyway.
ok then see my post #3 first line and get a person from the village to help for a few hours why does a machine have to do everything why do we always have to work on our own ?Surely that would depend on the age and condition of the wire to be wound up?
If it was rusty sh1te grown into the hedge for 30 years then it’s just scrap anyway. If it’s a decent length of relatively new HT wire, having a way of winding it up tidily such that it could be reused could be a sound investment with new wire at £110-120/100m?
But he’ll, just wrap it round an old haybob anyway.
Tubbylew
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Quick fencer do an attachment, if you have one of those, other than that it's cobble summat up or roll it up the old fashioned way, I'm guessing anything else will be £4k plus, so say at least 4000 meters of wire probably more, if you've that much wire though, it probably would be worth it.Surely that would depend on the age and condition of the wire to be wound up?
If it was rusty sh1te grown into the hedge for 30 years then it’s just scrap anyway. If it’s a decent length of relatively new HT wire, having a way of winding it up tidily such that it could be reused could be a sound investment with new wire at £110-120/100m?
But he’ll, just wrap it round an old haybob anyway.