Straining ht wire

[Squarebushed]

This may sound like a stupid question but when you strain wire for fencing and I want to end the run with a termination knot onto the strainer,but don't want to drive staples into the wire,how is the tension held while you wrap wire round the strainer and tie off with a knot?
Do you use a small length of wire which is already wrapped around strainer and using wire strainers to pull this towards main length of wire and tie with a speed knot so as not to lose tension? Or is there another way?
When watching YouTube videos can't seem to find one that shows wire going up from start to finish
Hope question makes sense cheers

 

[Farmer Roy]

This may sound like a stupid question but when you strain wire for fencing and I want to end the run with a termination knot onto the strainer,but don't want to drive staples into the wire,how is the tension held while you wrap wire round the strainer and tie off with a knot?
Do you use a small length of wire which is already wrapped around strainer and using wire strainers to pull this towards main length of wire and tie with a speed knot so as not to lose tension? Or is there another way?
When watching YouTube videos can't seem to find one that shows wire going up from start to finish
Hope question makes sense cheers

Err, normal practice here is to tie a short piece of wire to the strainer, attach one part of the wire strainers to it, the other part to the long piece, then strain wire & join with a knot or a “gripple”
We only tend to use HT wire, steel posts, don’t use staples & generally have quite long strains

 

[Farmer Roy]

Or, we attach the chain part of the strainers to the post, pull the wire tight & then just tie it off to the post while the strainers are holding it.

although, I prefer the above method of a short wire on the post as it allows you to do a neater, tighter knot on the post

 

[Farmer Roy]

Just quietly, I wouldn’t ever rely on staples to hold the strain on HT wire with the lengths / tensions we generally use

 

[Farmer_Joe]

Gripple

 

[Bill dog]

Watch Tim Thomson on you tube , that’ll show you what to do , and a million other things !

 

[Farmer Roy]

Gripple

they do make it easier, but I’ve only started using them in the last couple of years.
30 odd years prior to that I’ve always just tied knots in HT. Still prefer to use a number 8 knot if just joining wires, only tend to use gripples for tying off strains.

 

[tepapa]

Strain up to the strainer by wrapping the chain around the strainer, then tension the wire and tie off. If the pull of wire is long the small bit of slack will be easily lost over the whole fence. If it's a short pull it's more difficult to lose the slack. Very short fences are better if you use system that you can retighten like a ratchet strainer.

 

[e3120]

If using a gripple, don't bother with a short piece tied on, just loop back onto the gripple. That way the gripple is only holding half the tension on the wire, so less likely to give up.