Straining hinge joint, a real agricultural issue we can actually solve.

[TelesnaAg]

I love the T's for tying off ringlock on the end I'm tensioning. Get it nice and tight especially using the contractor tool. Tie off the starting end by hand though.

Contractor tool you say?

Ant...

 

[TelesnaAg]

Good advice as always John,
I have maybe been lucky but I have never had gripples slip, though I do twist both ends after tensioning, and all the folk I speak to that fence up here have never had them slip either,

Ive never had a gripple slip if i bend the end which i do religiously.

Ant....

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Contractor tool you say?

Ant...

There's 2 types of gripple tensioner. 1 is a plastic handle job and the other is longer metal handles and can also handle the maxi gripples. Which you have to use on horse sighter wire.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Ok, so you can have a laff lads, here some pics of my farmer qaulity fencing.

I got all south side done tonight so o to northside boundary tomorrow, pulling it out.

1.28km to go and im done for the year!!! 3 strains, 1 gate.

Ant...

 

[TelesnaAg]

There's 2 types of gripple tensioner. 1 is a plastic handle job and the other is longer metal handles and can also handle the maxi gripples. Which you have to use on horse sighter wire.

Is there a tool for t gripple?

 

[unlacedgecko]

Ok, so you can have a laff lads, here some pics of my farmer qaulity fencing.

I got all south side done tonight so o to northside boundary tomorrow, pulling it out.

1.28km to go and im done for the year!!! 3 strains, 1 gate.

Ant...

Looks good mate.

No dog issues in your area?

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Is there a tool for t gripple?

nope. just use same one.

 

[TelesnaAg]

Looks good mate.

No dog issues in your area?

No

50 cal says no dogs.

Ant...

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Ok, so you can have a laff lads, here some pics of my farmer qaulity fencing.

I got all south side done tonight so o to northside boundary tomorrow, pulling it out.

1.28km to go and im done for the year!!! 3 strains, 1 gate.

Ant...

Nothing wrong with any of that. Main thing I do differently is where you have crossed your wires on the end assembly to tighten it up. I don't . What we do is use a cut of steel post and wind it up so the bracing wires pull up super tight .

 

[TelesnaAg]

Nothing wrong with any of that. Main thing I do differently is where you have crossed your wires on the end assembly to tighten it up. I don't . What we do is use a cut of steel post and wind it up so the bracing wires pull up super tight .

Ive dine all sorts of tricks for these but i worked with a contractor at my old farm and liked this style, i do coat oil on post to make wires slide, also using a gripple i can come back a tension up in a year, especially on this black dirt im on.

The reason i cross them is so the hots dont hit, if i had a dollar at my old lease block the amount of times the hot was hitting these wires i swore black and blue id never do straights again.

The first lot of fencing i did around the house at new farm i retentioned strainers , some still dead tight the odd one a touch loose.

This dirt can proper crack open, not walgett bad close.

Speaking of which my next thread, farkin crickets....

Ant....

 

[TelesnaAg]

Nothing wrong with any of that. Main thing I do differently is where you have crossed your wires on the end assembly to tighten it up. I don't . What we do is use a cut of steel post and wind it up so the bracing wires pull up super tight .

Ill try the t gripples on north boundary and see what i think. They will all be end pulls, one strain is 480m.

Ant...

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

Ive dine all sorts of tricks for these but i worked with a contractor at my old farm and liked this style, i do coat oil on post to make wires slide, also using a gripple i can come back a tension up in a year, especially on this black dirt im on.

The reason i cross them is so the hots dont hit, if i had a dollar at my old lease block the amount of times the hot was hitting these wires i swore black and blue id never do straights again.

The first lot of fencing i did around the house at new farm i retentioned strainers , some still dead tight the odd one a touch loose.

This dirt can proper crack open, not walgett bad close.

Speaking of which my next thread, farkin crickets....

Ant....

Mine aren't straight once you twitch them up with a star post...Also helps take any little gap out of the cross brace post.

 

[Bury the Trash]

Contractor tool you say?

Ant...

bottom one in this pic. a swell as being metal and longer handles its got a bit of gearing to multiply force,
top is standard plastic one i modified, will pull about as well as the contractor one ,not quite so smoothly, and plastic one would break a bit quicker if over pulled but ive broke gripples before with it so must still be within limits

can you still use CCA treated wood?

 

[cows sh#t me to tears]

bottom one in this pic. a swell as being metal and longer handles its got a bit of gearing to multiply force,
top is plastic one i modified, will pull about as well as the contractor one ,not quite so smoothly, and plastic one would break a bit quicker if over pulled but ive broke gripples before with it so must still be within limits yes no doubt .
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can you still use CCA treated wood?

I've found that with the contractor one I can "out tension" the wire strainers set at the correct Nm for what ever wire... Which is generally how I use them.... Pull up tight with wire strainers then do it with grippler . If it let's go the wire strainers stop it from taking off.

 

[TelesnaAg]

bottom one in this pic. a swell as being metal and longer handles its got a bit of gearing to multiply force,
top is standard plastic one i modified, will pull about as well as the contractor one ,not quite so smoothly, and plastic one would break a bit quicker if over pulled but ive broke gripples before with it so must still be within limits
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can you still use CCA treated wood?

Cheers, fok it ill gid some!

Yes in the colony we can use cca, but we dont get subsidised, thats the badlands of oz.

However our time in the barrell is coming.

Ant...

 

[tepapa]

I wouldn't get all excited over using gripples and I definitely wouldn't use t clips on a 480m pull for the sake of 10mins tying off, I wouldn't risk a tclip snapping or popping off . Fair enough if it was 8m.

Gripples do slip if under pressure but even if you tie them off the ceramic ball cuts through the wire so they still fail.

 

[DrWazzock]

If the quality of the wooden posts is anything like we’ve had here over the past decade then they are more likely to rot and snap off a long time before stapled net rusts through. I’ve loads that need redoing.
Even when not rotten some of these softwood posts just won’t stand it. The tup cornered our bull in a field corner and he broke an 8” post off making his escape. Not funny when you have to coax him back out of the woods after a benny hill style chase round the farm involving myself the tup and bull. Bloody sheep.

 

[TelesnaAg]

I wouldn't get all excited over using gripples and I definitely wouldn't use t clips on a 480m pull for the sake of 10mins tying off, I wouldn't risk a tclip snapping or popping off . Fair enough if it was 8m.

Gripples do slip if under pressure but even if you tie them off the ceramic ball cuts through the wire so they still fail.

Long pull fair enough as slack when tying off not much of an issue. However i am finding the odd wire snaps at the tension crimp they put in the wire, so not all okain sailing with knots either.

Im using max-loc wire, its half price of warratah, i used in pottland and had a good run with it.

Warratah was $660 aud for 200m, effing crazy, there staples are garbage so i dont think the wire will be twice as good tbh.

I have alot of short runs to do, 280m, ill probably gut pull some and crimp, seems like more work but.

I have about 5km of internal fencing to do, most 300m strains.

Ant...

 

[tepapa]

Long pull fair enough as slack when tying off not much of an issue. However i am finding the odd wire snaps at the tension crimp they put in the wire, so not all okain sailing with knots either.

Im using max-loc wire, its half price of warratah, i used in pottland and had a good run with it.

Warratah was $660 aud for 200m, effing crazy, there staples are garbage so i dont think the wire will be twice as good tbh.

I have alot of short runs to do, 280m, ill probably gut pull some and crimp, seems like more work but.

I have about 5km of internal fencing to do, most 300m strains.

Ant...

280m would be long pulls over with me. Short runs would be 30-40m with most runs being between 80 and 140m at a guess.

 

[TelesnaAg]

If the quality of the wooden posts is anything like we’ve had here over the past decade then they are more likely to rot and snap off a long time before stapled net rusts through. I’ve loads that need redoing.
Even when not rotten some of these softwood posts just won’t stand it. The tup cornered our bull in a field corner and he broke an 8” post off making his escape. Not funny when you have to coax him back out of the woods after a benny hill style chase round the farm involving myself the tup and bull. Bloody sheep.

I dont have bulls on farm, some for agistment hiefers but this is last year.

I usually stick a bare hot across corners and always across gates, bare.

Elec fence runs at 8-9.

Not sure how ling these posts will last, options are limted, i am high rain fall.

Star posts will not stay in ground, i have top soil 800mm deep in places, in summer you can go along and lift them out of the ground.

Also economics amd neighbours to think off, ill be flat out getting a cent out of any of them, most were hoping to die before having to do fences, they are barely stocked.

It does reaffirmy position off gold plating infrastructure when you young and can do so, so the dream off pottering around on the farm when older can be a reality, my neighbours are all scrooges and renowned for it.

An old real.estate agent calls in occasionally and tells me how the old owners amd neighbours use to try out do each other on scrooging, hes dumbfounded with what ive done with the farm, never thought he'd see it.

Ant...