What did you get from South Africa?
I thought this thread might catch your eye... nothing special, just a wire strainer I brought back up from Zim with me out of sentiment, Baboon is the English name, bobbejaan in Afrikaans. It's not as good as the Kiwi ones or anywhere near as good as the latest easy-clipping ones form Oz:
Worth knowing, but I meant even more foreign than the weird and wild next county*...
ducks guts for keeping short strains of electric (or barb) tight.
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I thought everyone had a set of monkey nut grabbers in their armament from the 70’sI thought this thread might catch your eye... nothing special, just a wire strainer I brought back up from Zim with me out of sentiment, Baboon is the English name, bobbejaan in Afrikaans. It's not as good as the Kiwi ones or anywhere near as good as the latest easy-clipping ones form Oz:
Worth knowing, but I meant even more foreign than the weird and wild next county*...
*If such a thing is possible...
Hmm... I only brought up one set, forgot about / misplaced it for years, so had to buy another up here, then found the old set...I thought everyone had a set of monkey nut grabbers in their armament from the 70’s
I got a James Higgins fence repair tool at Christmas. For something so simple that only pulls a small amount of slack out of wire I've never liked a new tool so much.I thought this thread might catch your eye... nothing special, just a wire strainer I brought back up from Zim with me out of sentiment, Baboon is the English name, bobbejaan in Afrikaans. It's not as good as the Kiwi ones or anywhere near as good as the latest easy-clipping ones form Oz:
Worth knowing, but I meant even more foreign than the weird and wild next county*...
*If such a thing is possible...
The simple ideas are always the best
With gripples your either in the love camp or hate them camp. Personally I'm in the hate camp so I wouldn't use them.
Yep, got mine last year courtesy of Mrs Danllan, excellent kit and - from memory - in a different league of build quality to the old 'Texas' type ones. Did you get: a) a 'needle' & b) a ratchet with it?
- to break every time (when it does break I'll have a new workshop project, but I'll use stainless and over-engineer it... )
Glad you included the explanatory text underneath because, being thick, I was thinking that it was really daft spending money on an attachment that would stop you being able to cut with the saw. After all, you could achieve the same result for free by either putting a bit of stone under it, or just taking the chain off.Bit off T but just got one of these . Plenty about just not seen one before
They only cost around £5 . Best tool I have used for the job .Yep, got mine last year courtesy of Mrs Danllan, excellent kit and - from memory - in a different league of build quality to the old 'Texas' type ones. Did you get: a) a 'needle' & b) a ratchet with it?
I didn't get the ratchet because I don't think it would be a great advantage and might lead to over-tightening + I could make a pretty good one anyway if needed. I did get a needle, but find its hole a wee bit small for my uses; but the idea is good, so I used some 8mm st st tube I already had with a 4mm bore, and made myself two - one a bit shorter than the original and one only about 4" long for use with sheep mesh. The difference in the of use it is pretty big, since the wire 'feeds' in and out of it much more easily.
The 'Crinklers' I got are also good kit, I use them more than I thought I would; only drawback is they take a bit of placing when working with barbed wire. I saw the thing below on Amazon for £30, so bought one, it has wider spacing so is easy on barb, so far so good, but I expect the cast iron teeth -
Glad you included the explanatory text underneath because, being thick, I was think that it was really daft spending money on an attachment that would stop you being able to cut with the saw. After all, you could achieve the same result for free by either putting a bit of stone under it, or just taking the chain off.
Not if you are trying not to cut.
I've one of those strainers and it's a good tool. Being rigid it can be operated one-handed. I can't recall the maker but I think it was Australian.Stretchers and pliers mainly. The Gallagher in line tighteners Cows posted as well, and there’s another style that does similar that I use too.
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