Fence line crushed by heavy boughs / tree

[Buggerallbandwidth]

What is the best (easiest) way to re-tension a standard stock fence (netting and 2 strands barbed on top) after removal of timber. Fence is still intact so is it possible to take up the slack somehow? Wire is stretched.
Thanks in advance.

 

[NZDan]

What is the best (easiest) way to re-tension a standard stock fence (netting and 2 strands barbed on top) after removal of timber. Fence is still intact so is it possible to take up the slack somehow? Wire is stretched.
Thanks in advance.

Cut out the damaged section and use crimps to replace the whole section and then retention with inline strainers.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Gripples .

Crimp in 2.5mm ht wire if extra length to rejoin is needed, then a gripple on the end and retension with the tool.

A decent length of the 2.5 ht wire will allow further tension in the future if required.

Very simple, straightforward and effective system.

 

[Willie adie]

No matter how good a job you make they never look right,

 

[Bury the Trash]

If the vertical wires are beyond tapping back into their original place sideways , cut them out , twill allow the horizontal wires to regain their correct original height / plane.,
To add even more strength ( or to improve looks ) cut a piece of a roll of stockfence ( which has the same square pattern / size ) and hog ring into place. Use good quality hog rings though not those that will rust in 6months
If you line up the piece you are adding with the squares of the original it will blend and be not hardly noticable as well as being almost double strength.

None of this stuff is rocket science.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Loadall and chain after fitting some new wire

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

Gripples .

Crimp in 2.5mm ht wire if extra length to rejoin is needed, then a gripple on the end and retension with the tool.

A decent length of the 2.5 ht wire will allow further tension in the future if required.

Very simple, straightforward and effective system.

So Gripple tool £70 Screwfix is all I need really to make it look presentable again?
I have some ht 2.5 so can maybe add that in for added stability. I am new to stock fence gadgets Many thanks.

 

[JD-Kid]

fences always look a bit sad after trees land on them best way if netting is take out a bit bigger section so repair not standing out so much crimps on one end then prem strainers at other end of the new bit makes it look smarter
plan wire tidys up alot better.

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

No matter how good a job you make they never look right,

That has been my experience to date hence the query to you experts.

 

[michael N123]

Cut out whatever looks stretched and join in new wire and pull to the strainer

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

Loadall and chain after fitting some new wire

If only I could afford a Loadall

 

[Bury the Trash]

So Gripple tool £70 Screwfix is all I need really to make it look presentable again?
I have some ht 2.5 so can maybe add that in for added stability. I am new to stock fence gadgets Many thanks.

The 2.5 ht wire that is mentioned above could well and most likely will be needed to get a clear and enough length of wire in the gap of or to replace the distorted stretched lateral wire s when they are cut just to allow more movement on the still fairly tight ? fence iyswim .

Feels a wrong cutting wires but to use the gripples and take out the distortion ,its necessary, to help yourself ...only cut do one wire at a time and ultimately only the 8 horizontal wires need the gripples tho of course but the verticals both ways will need cutting as well and also may or may not twisting off the end of the horizontal to give more bare length of it clear to get the gripple on and work. which is fiddly but not hard to do once you get the knack, once done if there is enough wire stretched to just put the gripple in with the tool to tension then fine, but it gives you more room to work with the stitched in 2.5 wire , if you dont 'do ' crimping 2 gripples will be needed per horizontal wire instead in that instance, 16 on a standard stockfence.


If the fence was strained properly it will be fine, as it will just have stretched distorted the wire s in the fence
Retensioned with the gripples and you wont know the difference, and repaired function will be 100% .

I Note the kiwis dont mention gripples, possibly because they didn't invent them....

They wont give or break either, unless you're pulling the wire too tight which you wont do with them tensioners .

Happy days.

 

[whitefox]

Just do what my landlord does when one the hundreds of trees and branches of his that wrecks my fences does ................................................................ Absolutely f&#k all!!! , no help i know, but it seems to work for him

 

[neilo]

That has been my experience to date hence the query to you experts.

Luckily for you, @Bury the Trash is an expert in such bodging.

I do exactly the same as he suggested btw. Gripples are just perfect for repair jobs like that, as well as for tensioning wire in the first place, not that the ‘professional’ fencers like it much.

 

[Willie adie]

Luckily for you, @Bury the Trash is an expert in such bodging.

I do exactly the same as he suggested btw. Gripples are just perfect for repair jobs like that, as well as for tensioning wire in the first place, not that the ‘professional’ fencers like it much.

I've absolutely issue with gripples I use them and never had any slip I think those folk using them when they slip are putting too much tension on.
But in my experience of them they are fine.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If only I could afford a Loadall [emoji23]

Tractor and loader will do the same or even a land rover

 

[TexelBen]

What's wrong with baler band and half rotten pallets?

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

Tractor and loader will do the same or even a land rover

Yep have done that with front end loader on single strands of barbed at a time. Works well if you can access it ok. I also saw a gadget that fitted to netting through 4 or 6 of the "squares" so you could pull evenly on it. Thanks for the tips though, it is appreciated .

 

[Buggerallbandwidth]

What's wrong with baler band and half rotten pallets?

Suited my dad for 50 years !

 

[JD-Kid]

I Note the kiwis dont mention gripples, possibly because they didn't invent them.

don't know a single contractor that uses them they were about. but can't say they were a big seller
more crimps used for joining wires