Rappa - Too much play?

[Al R]

@Al R has seen the screw in insulator he will vouch for me it’s totally safe

Anyone done anything with JCB loading shovels? Especially the 434’s? All the ones I’ve driven have had mole grips on the batteries to keep the terminals on They ark out against the frame with the vibration going down the road and you’ve got to be seriously quick!

 

[Jerry]

I’m going to have to go in a diet at this rate…

 

[exmoor dave]

I’m going to have to go in a diet at this rate…

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I'm sure there's a few of us who could help you out with the Yorkie situation

 

[exmoor dave]

Winding in shown at end of this video

Seriously toyed with this set up before updating my rappa. But figured I'd have to have their stakes, and I've gone with utv version of rappa, though still not got it up and running as it needs modification.

Yep, you would need kiwitech treadins for the extractor claw to hook under the bottom clip properly and lob them into your hand

I haven't used a multiwire, quad setup but I have used a single pac on an electric bike, even all cack-handed (it was set up for right-handers and I am wrong) it was pretty slick, taking up fence at 15-25km/h

the main advantage would be weight and size, and the speed at which you can hop off the bike and "go manual" if there's a gully in the way

Rappa looks like it would give great traction with all that steel, bet it takes a toll on racks and wheel-bearings?

Have looked at it a couple times, as have loads of kiwitech reels, but don't use any Kiwitech tread in's, but I wonder if you put the powerpac on the back rack in stead, so when winding in, the polypost comes past you first to manually unclip.
Only trouble, on reeling out fences, you'd probably have to just reel wire out, chuck posts off and go back and tread in, but seems that's the way most folk are using the rappa any way.

 

[Jerry]

I'm sure there's a few of us who could help you out with the Yorkie situation

It’s being quietly digested as I type….you’re too late!

 

[Boydvalley]

Anybody use Gallagher vario twist and lock posts. Got some of Dysons escapees in this morning and they use ALOT of them. Not seen them before. Look quick to take up not so sure to put out. About £2.30 a post.

 

[neilo]

Anybody use Gallagher vario twist and lock posts. Got some of Dysons escapees in this morning and they use ALOT of them. Not seen them before. Look quick to take up not so sure to put out. About £2.30 a post.

Not a good advert if you saw them when getting escapees in?

No cheaper than the yellow Rappa stakes at that, which come off with a twist too.

 

[neilo]

Have looked at it a couple times, as have loads of kiwitech reels, but don't use any Kiwitech tread in's, but I wonder if you put the powerpac on the back rack in stead, so when winding in, the polypost comes past you first to manually unclip.
Only trouble, on reeling out fences, you'd probably have to just reel wire out, chuck posts off and go back and tread in, but seems that's the way most folk are using the rappa any way.

You could always reverse across the field to reel out, putting the stakes in as you go?


Please video if though.

 

[exmoor dave]

You could always reverse across the field to reel out, putting the stakes in as you go?


Please video if though.

This is my current un winder .....

Wife drives, I pull posts out the back of the buggy and stamp in (while swearing profusely at the stones).


Winding in is a simple matter of sending wife along the line to take posts out, once at the other end, she unhooks one line at a time for me to wind in from a standing point, then I wildly gestate my arms to signal that she unhook the next line..... if the line snags on a turnip on route back to me, I wildly gestate my arms some more to signal that she is to go find the snag and release it

 

[bert]

This is my current un winder .....

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Wife drives, I pull posts out the back of the buggy and stamp in (while swearing profusely at the stones).


Winding in is a simple matter of sending wife along the line to take posts out, once at the other end, she unhooks one line at a time for me to wind in from a standing point, then I wildly gestate my arms to signal that she unhook the next line..... if the line snags on a turnip on route back to me, I wildly gestate my arms some more to signal that she is to go find the snag and release it

Sounds a faff, this is the future….

 

[mghley]

This is my current un winder .....

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Wife drives, I pull posts out the back of the buggy and stamp in (while swearing profusely at the stones).


Winding in is a simple matter of sending wife along the line to take posts out, once at the other end, she unhooks one line at a time for me to wind in from a standing point, then I wildly gestate my arms to signal that she unhook the next line..... if the line snags on a turnip on route back to me, I wildly gestate my arms some more to signal that she is to go find the snag and release it

I think an ATV Rappa looks cheap against the cost of a divorce lawyer, my marriage wouldn’t last 5 minutes using that system !!!!!

 

[neilo]

I think an ATV Rappa looks cheap against the cost of a divorce lawyer, my marriage wouldn’t last 5 minutes using that system !!!!!

@exmoor dave is still in the honeymoon period, before they take umbridge at the cussing and gesticulating.

Give him a bit longer and he'll have got himself a RAPPA winder if he doesn't want to lose out on his cake supply.

 

[exmoor dave]

I think an ATV Rappa looks cheap against the cost of a divorce lawyer, my marriage wouldn’t last 5 minutes using that system !!!!!

Does get abit frought at times

 

[exmoor dave]

@exmoor dave is still in the honeymoon period, before they take umbridge at the cussing and gesticulating.

Give him a bit longer and he'll have got himself a RAPPA winder if he doesn't want to lose out on his cake supply.

Got a another cake job going now.... go putting fences up in the crop, pick up any swedes i find, give them to mother in law,
Get cake on her next visit (not a cake made of swede, just incase anyone was wondering )

 

[Al R]

Got a another cake job going now.... go putting fences up in the crop, pick up any swedes i find, give them to mother in law,
Get cake on her next visit (not a cake made of swede, just incase anyone was wondering )

Hell she’s generous! I have to pay for the roast dinners my MIL makes in her pub Plus she boils the veg to f-all and cremates the meat

 

[unlacedgecko]

Hell she’s generous! I have to pay for the roast dinners my MIL makes in her pub Plus she boils the veg to f-all and cremates the meat

You must really love your wife to put up with that.

 

[Al R]

You must really love your wife to put up with that.

Complete polar opposite’s the wife and MIL in every way, especially cooking!

 

[DanM]

I’ve never managed to get my MIL out electric fencing… not that I’ve ever tried - waspy woman

 

[mghley]

I’ve never managed to get my MIL out electric fencing… not that I’ve ever tried - waspy woman

I suggest that at the next Sheep Event at Malvern they scrap the fencing competition and replace it with a new competition “Electric fencing with the MIL” sure to be entertaining and we could all get obsessive about straight lines, corner posts, wire tension, joining wires, post spacings etc etc etc

 

[Anymulewilldo]

I’ve never managed to get my MIL out electric fencing… not that I’ve ever tried - waspy woman

My MiL is due too come visit today. First time since Christmas she’s been too see her grandson.
So I’m out electric fencing in the Sleet. It’s still better than being at home and having too be nice.