Empty Reels for use on a Rappa barrow?

[steveR]

I have 2 fields with semi permanent electric fencing I need to take down and move back as margins are being removed, and rolling it up with the Rappa, is the quickest and neatest means of doing so, before re-erecting! All the wire was bought on supply-only reels.

Just priced Rappa blank reels, and wondered if anyone has found any cheaper reels that fit the rappa wind up kit? Only wanted as a short term measure so I don't need premium reels!

I have used Rutland reels in the past, bored out a bit in the centre, but they have disappeared it seems...

 

[Lincs Lass]

Not for Rappa but would hand wind reels do for a temporary job

Electric Fence Reel "WZ 27"

<ul class="checklist"> <li>practical reel for polywires and tape</li> <li>for up to 500 m conductive material</li> <li>diameter: 18 cm</li> <li>incl. practical locking device</li> <li>incl. suspension device for hanging</li> </ul>

www.electric-fence.co.uk

 

[steveR]

Not for Rappa but would hand wind reels do for a temporary job

Electric Fence Reel "WZ 27"

<ul class="checklist"> <li>practical reel for polywires and tape</li> <li>for up to 500 m conductive material</li> <li>diameter: 18 cm</li> <li>incl. practical locking device</li> <li>incl. suspension device for hanging</li> </ul>

www.electric-fence.co.uk

Thank you. I have had some of the cheapies from Voss, and would probably pay the Rappa price rather than use them again for hand winds...

I do wonder if they would pull apart and go on the Rappa shaft though...




Later... No the Rappa shaft is 20mm, the Voss reels have 30mm or 35mm centres

 

[neilo]

Get some empty RAPPA reels, use them to roll up & unroll that wire, then put some poly wire on them after? Either save for use for normal fencing, or stick on eBay (or here) to recover most of your outlay?

Hand reels, or spurious ones, might be a bit cheaper but what’s your time & hassle worth, if you already know how simple the RAPPA winder makes the job?

 

[steveR]

Get some empty RAPPA reels, use them to roll up & unroll that wire, then put some poly wire on them after? Either save for use for normal fencing, or stick on eBay (or here) to recover most of your outlay?

Hand reels, or spurious ones, might be a bit cheaper but what’s your time & hassle worth, if you already know how simple the RAPPA winder makes the job?

Is it possible to have too much fencing wire...? Good point about selling 1/2 doz reels on though...

I have looked at finding some shaft tube to make the cheapies fit, but 10mm difference is a lot!

 

[unlacedgecko]

Is it possible to have too much fencing wire...? Good point about selling 1/2 doz reels on though...

I have looked at finding some shaft tube to make the cheapies fit, but 10mm difference is a lot!

By the time you've f**ked about with home made solutions you'll have been better buying rappa.

 

[yellowbelly]

By the time you've f**ked about with home made solutions you'll have been better buying rappa.

........yeah, and you'll get a free Yorkie

....serious choclaholics may consider ordering the reels on a one-by-one basis.......

....if you get really lucky you might get a Yorkie with each one

 

[It was already broken.]

By the time you've f**ked about with home made solutions you'll have been better buying rappa.

I'm with @unlacedgecko. I'm using Rappa gear that is over 20 years old each winter and it all works just fine. I think I will give up over the next 5-10 years and what I have will still sell for half I paid for it.

 

[Tim W]

........yeah, and you'll get a free Yorkie

....serious choclaholics may consider ordering the reels on a one-by-one basis.......

....if you get really lucky you might get a Yorkie with each one

I'm sad to report that last weeks delivery didn't have any chocolate offering at all

 

[steveR]

I'm sad to report that last weeks delivery didn't have any chocolate offering at all

Standards have slipped, or maybe you just need to spend more...

 

[neilo]

I'm sad to report that last weeks delivery didn't have any chocolate offering at all

Join the club. Marcus has always pinched my Yorkie bars…

 

[steveR]

So I choked back the tears, and ordered 4 reels from Rappa...

Interested me that my details were still on their system from when I last made an order, almost certainly, for reels, about 12-15 years ago

 

[steveR]

So I choked back the tears, and ordered 4 reels from Rappa...

Interested me that my details were still on their system from when I last made an order, almost certainly, for reels, about 12-15 years ago

24 hr delivery,,, quite impressive

My lad is on Leave in a week or so and based on past experience, he will be bored after a day.... so He will be given the Rappa barrow (just serviced it again*) and send him on his way 2km of 2 strand, to wind up.





* 25-30 years old I reckon!

 

[neilo]

24 hr delivery,,, quite impressive

My lad is on Leave in a week or so and based on past experience, he will be bored after a day.... so He will be given the Rappa barrow (just serviced it again*) and send him on his way 2km of 2 strand, to wind up.





* 25-30 years old I reckon!

Sorry, I didn't realise it was a barrow you had. May I retract my comment above about realising how easy it was with a RAPPA.


But anyway, on a more important matter...... any Yorkies?

 

[Henarar]

Is it possible to have too much fencing wire...? Good point about selling 1/2 doz reels on though...

I have looked at finding some shaft tube to make the cheapies fit, but 10mm difference is a lot!

We got some reels that have a Centre about 10mm to big so I just cut off a couple lengths of plastic water pipe and put in them and they work fine
penny saved and all that

 

[steveR]

Sorry, I didn't realise it was a barrow you had. May I retract my comment above about realising how easy it was with a RAPPA.


But anyway, on a more important matter...... any Yorkies?

I did have a home brew attachement on a baby compact tractor with reverse steer, almost as good as a Rappa on a Quad! Tractor gone now, so back to pushing, but on smooth grassland, not too much of a ballache.

I might look at a trailer unit one day, if the sheep numbers grow beyond the cpability of my Missus walking around taking off the wires, while I wind up!

No choccie

 

[Mc115reed]

Fuming ordered some more bits from rappa last week and for the first time ever no yorkie!! Always got a yorkie even with an order for a £7 spring! Standards slipping @Rappa Ltd

 

[steveR]

Fuming ordered some more bits from rappa last week and for the first time ever no yorkie!! Always got a yorkie even with an order for a £7 spring! Standards slipping @Rappa Ltd

Itsa bugger.....

 

[Nearly]

Mig wire reel bodged onto a cordless drill?

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Fuming ordered some more bits from rappa last week and for the first time ever no yorkie!! Always got a yorkie even with an order for a £7 spring! Standards slipping @Rappa Ltd

I was going too place an order this next week. Might have too hold off too give them a chance too restock?!