The Fencing Picture Thread

[Mouser]

Just a 10 minute job he said, just a strainer he said!
Put crow bar straight through 25mm pipe. Two hours later we were finished.

 

[tepapa]

 

[cheggars]

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How do you tie off when useing the solonet, Do you have to staple it first before tieing it.?
The contractor who did our gladir fencing last year liked to winch off the post to pre tension it before tieing off.

 

[Penmoel]

Strainer dug in too?

 

[tepapa]

How do you tie off when useing the solonet, Do you have to staple it first before tieing it.?
The contractor who did our gladir fencing last year liked to winch off the post to pre tension it before tieing off.

Depends on the situation and how long the fence is. You can pull up just short of the strainer with the solonet and tie off the slack. I tend to just tweak the loose bit with a hand puller and use a staple to hold tension (not driven in deep only enough to hold) unless its a long pull which you can over tension to compensate for the loss in tension. Also sometimes its better to use a gut pull so I'll roll out of one side and then the other and pull with solo on one side and a clamp pulling off the solo on the other. I tend to do this with any left over bits of a roll from a 250/500m roll.
Pre tensioning strainers is good but if there in solid and strutted well they are unlikely to move far.

 

[tepapa]

Strainer dug in too?

No just pilot hole augured to check. There was solid limestone rock at about 800mm deep in places.

 

[Greenbeast]

[emoji1360] seeing some 'contractors' on Facebook not even bothering to tie off, just hard stapling and cutting, done with a quickfencer I think. I'd go off my nut if I paid someone to put up a fence with creo posts and wire work like that.

On my latest little run I double stapled one end tensioned at the other then double stapled there, is this not good enough?

 

[tepapa]

On my latest little run I double stapled one end tensioned at the other then double stapled there, is this not good enough?

No.

 

[Mursal]

Probably do longer than the post ............

 

[Greenbeast]

No.

I'm sorry but my teacher told me to show my workings, not just the answer...

 

[Greenbeast]

I'm guessing the line is then pulling on the staple rather than itself, which can pull through the wood grain over time?
So should i wrap round the post and tie off at both ends? Does it need a fancy knot?

 

[Andy26]

I'm guessing the line is then pulling on the staple rather than itself, which can pull through the wood grain over time?
So should i wrap round the post and tie off at both ends? Does it need a fancy knot?

Yes, especially over time the wood will shrink/contract and as it decays it will allow the wire to slip.

No fancy knot required, get one of these:

 

[Andy26]

http://www.screwfix.com/p/tornado-w...gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=COH9npqyn9YCFWOoUQodTE8DFQ

 

[Greenbeast]

Yes, especially over time the wood will shrink/contract and as it decays it will allow the wire to slip.

No fancy knot required, get one of these:

lovely, we have one of those already

 

[Andy26]

The bottom wire especially can be hard due to the proxmity of the other wires, so one of these can help, not cheap but easy:

 

[Greenbeast]

so are they tool-less then? ~£14 per 20, probably worth getting a bag of them for the two bottom wires only and twist everything else

 

[Andy26]

so are they tool-less then? ~£14 per 20, probably worth getting a bag of them for the two bottom wires only and twist everything else

Yes you don't need a tensioning tool.

 

[Greenbeast]

Yes you don't need a tensioning tool.

surely apart from putting tension on initially, same as twisting or stapling?

 

[Andy26]

Quite glad

surely apart from putting tension on initially, same as twisting or stapling?

Yes you could use T gripple for the top and bottom wires which are often thicker and thus harder to twist and twist the rest.

Don't staple them!

 

[Greenbeast]

Yes you could use T gripple for the top and bottom wires which are often thicker and thus harder to twist and twist the rest.

Don't staple them!

Sorry, what i meant is that in the past and just recently i have double stapled to finish off a line. So i put tension on using the monkey tool or my fence clamp, then staple then release the tool. I'm guessing the same applies but with a gripple (or tied wire) instead of the staple?