The Fencing Picture Thread

wr.

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Livestock Farmer
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Breconshire
I'll also take your 2nd hand staples. Might be able to get them blasted and re galvanised. :whistle:

Seriously though, I've seen old gnarled pieces of oak being sold for loony lolly in garden centres. When we set out the garden 20 something years ago we used a lot of very old oak stumps.
 

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
Enough of these fancy pictures, time for some real world fencing.
Firstly straighten out a bucketful of bent, rusty nails. Removed when fencing replaced with new to keep Glastir happy, but far too good to throw away......

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Next roughly bang a softwood post in at each end of the run to fence up. No need to strut it as it won't move far in hard ground, not before it rots off anyway. Take some old netting wire, rolled up from the above mentioned Glastir jobs, and stretch it between the strainers with the fencing pliers. Not too much or it'll break, just 'tightish' will do......

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Push a couple of stakes in with the Merlo bucket and use a handful of those recycled staples to attach. Only needs a couple of new stakes, as there's a couple of rotten gate posts somewhere near the line already. Handy really.:)

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Not sure if my knots are quite as tidy as the ones pictured previosuly, but bugger it, they'll hold it for now.

I don't know why you lot spend so long faffing about tbh.:whistle:
I despair :rolleyes::ROFLMAO:
 

S J H

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Enough of these fancy pictures, time for some real world fencing.
Firstly straighten out a bucketful of bent, rusty nails. Removed when fencing replaced with new to keep Glastir happy, but far too good to throw away......

View attachment 477352

Next roughly bang a softwood post in at each end of the run to fence up. No need to strut it as it won't move far in hard ground, not before it rots off anyway. Take some old netting wire, rolled up from the above mentioned Glastir jobs, and stretch it between the strainers with the fencing pliers. Not too much or it'll break, just 'tightish' will do......

View attachment 477354 View attachment 477356

Push a couple of stakes in with the Merlo bucket and use a handful of those recycled staples to attach. Only needs a couple of new stakes, as there's a couple of rotten gate posts somewhere near the line already. Handy really.:)

View attachment 477358
Not sure if my knots are quite as tidy as the ones pictured previosuly, but bugger it, they'll hold it for now.

I don't know why you lot spend so long faffing about tbh.:whistle:

That must have been some tree @neilo

Could you not have repaired and joined up the railings? :whistle:
 

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
What is the best knot for joining 4mm low tensile wire. I have tried figure 8 knots and due to the thickness of my wire they always look a mess.
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:bag::D
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
That must have been some tree @neilo

Could you not have repaired and joined up the railings? :whistle:

All part of my cunning plan:sneaky:. I wanted to remove the railings for scrap, then put a proper fence up instead. Estate wanted to keep the old parkland railings (the drive is a footpath down to Offa's Dyke, so on display), which is fair enough. I figured that, if I put up a bodged fence to keep the sheep in place for now, they'll get round to replacing the railings sooner.(y)
It was a big oak, several hundred years old and probably dating back to when it was developed as a deer park in the 16th Century. We've lost several in the last couple of years, all getting to an age I guess.:( There's one similar at the other end of the same field, stuck 25 yards out in the field. If one really had to go, why couldn't it have been that one?:banghead:
 

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
How do you tie these?
I've had a look on YouTube and could only find one clip but couldn't work out from it how to do a speed knot

But you won't be able to break off the crank ends with mild steel

Speed knots are great for joining HT under tension without losing any strain on the wire

For your mild steel, a figure of eight knot is really the best I'd say
 

Alistair

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Livestock Farmer

But you won't be able to break off the crank ends with mild steel

Speed knots are great for joining HT under tension without losing any strain on the wire

For your mild steel, a figure of eight knot is really the best I'd say
Cheers I will just have to keep practising the figure of eight knots to make a better job
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Carrying on with 'proper' fencing, I've been studying the best way to join rolls of netting together today. Gripples and straightened rusty staples are getting a bit expensive, but I reckon I've got it sussed now.......(y)

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To be fair, that fence was 'done' several years before I got here, so has been holding stock in OK for 6 or 7 years, at least. Unfortunately the string is starting to rot now, so having to tie new on...
 

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