- Location
- West Somerset
Ratchet strap!
Sheep Fenceing
- Thread starter Stonewall
- Start date
What are you going to pull with a ratchet strap . Two feet at most.
pycoed
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- Location
- Pontarddulais, UK
Are these any use to the "pros"?
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-Ton-Ha...099760&hash=item2f0e9488c1:g:TPoAAOSwm8VUz9wr
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/4-Ton-Ha...099760&hash=item2f0e9488c1:g:TPoAAOSwm8VUz9wr
Walterp
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- Location
- Pembrokeshire
You can buy that bar, with bolts rather than wedges - they never slip - for about £80. Great product.
A steel ratchet is better than a chain pull, and costs less, too - £24.
Gripples? Have you seen the price? (we use 'em for connecting long runs of netting and barb, but leave the centre-pull stuff to the professionals).
- Location
- West Somerset
Attach to loader pull up slack with tractor then then tension with ratchet strap. Works on straight forward pulls.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Yes, I use them - they tend to last only 12 months with our use but are very useful. I tend to get frowned at by the 'professionals' for using them as its not how they do it 'down under'
cotswoldcs
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- Location
- Bang In the heart of the Cotswolds
Are the cable pullers good enough to pull up 2 x 100m rolls of HT netting @ploughman1963 ? Why don't they last. Are chain pullers a better bet for HT netting?
cotswoldcs
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- Location
- Bang In the heart of the Cotswolds
I've found the answer....
Will save you all a lot of money.
Will save you all a lot of money.
- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Oh yes - 4t pull is well on top of it. They just seem to fall apart - bolts bend or the little springs that hold the ratchet dogs break - but I like them. We use a home-made affair with two bits of angle - one sitting inside the other arranged so the harder you pull the tighter they grip the wire. To tension we usually use a chain attached to the protech or the loader. The wire puller gets used when using two clamps to pull to the centre. I cannot see that wire would be better than chains or vica versa - other than the wire one is easier to let the tension off IMO.
Spalding have a heavier looking one than the ones linked earlier. More expensive too of course.
https://www.spaldings.co.uk/livesto...ng-products/heavy-duty-hand-power-puller-(4t)
They also have cheaper clamps. I might ring them for a price.
https://www.spaldings.co.uk/livesto...ng-products/heavy-duty-hand-power-puller-(4t)
They also have cheaper clamps. I might ring them for a price.
cotswoldcs
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- Location
- Bang In the heart of the Cotswolds
I'l be interested to know what you finally go for @Stonewall
johnflimston
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- Location
- Glamorgan, Wales
I think the ram could have done it better on his own!
Farmerscottuk
Member
Been looking for gates and gate posts to go with the clipex fencing. Really like the set up in the photo. Where are they from?
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
my advice would be fence and forget creosoted posts, telegraph pole strainers, and strain up with a chain hoist and two pieces of steel clamped over the pig netting
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
i don't se the point in using second hand poles that have been cut when you can get new telephone pole spec strainers from f4f that will last 50 yrs.
They are made by Gibney engineering here in Ireland .