It’s not the first post, it’s a post driven in as far as it’ll go at a good angle for the strut to rest squarely against.
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It’s not the first post, it’s a post driven in as far as it’ll go at a good angle for the strut to rest squarely against.
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Ah there is a lot of folk use the first intermediate which im nae keen on
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I use the first intermediate post as a stay, but put closer to the Strainer than the next, then another intermediate post horizontally as an H brace, tensioned with a diagonal loop of HT plain wire (& gripple). As above, nothing’s moved yet.
My original thinking was that there’s less timber in contact with the wet ground, what with the preservative being little more than gnat’s pee.
Have plenty of ‘properly’ strutted strainers here, that have been put in by contractors previously, that are far from vertical now.
Dave6170
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- Watten, caithness
I ve been asked to add to a normal fence to make it a deer fence. Its a normal rylock net, 2 top plain wires, 5 foot 6 square posts, 8 foot strainers. Its roughly 800m around a 10 acre field. Has a few gates aswell. Fence was brand new last year.
How would any of you go about this? How often would you put in a deer post and what would you do at the strainers?
How would any of you go about this? How often would you put in a deer post and what would you do at the strainers?
Really need to replace the strainers with properly strutted deer strainers, a good fence is all about tension.
Are the existing top wires HT? If so leave one where it is and take the other and make it the top wire above a run of 6/90/30 netting, deer stobs beside/between every 2nd existing post, assuming existing posts are 3-4m apart.
Willie adie
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- Aberdeenshire
I agree with macsky. You might be able to attach 3.6 mtrd rails cut in half to existing posts too.
But you will need to replace the strainers
But you will need to replace the strainers
Dave6170
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- Watten, caithness
i was hoping you would all say there was an easier way for doing the strainers
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Agree with above, you should replace strainers. However, you could in theory knock a new deer strainer in just beyond the normal one depending on gate sizes and whether there is space to reduce the size. You could box stay over the top of the other strainer. Means using 2 strainers instead of one but means they are basically 2 separate fences and one doesn’t effect the other. Might look a bit silly though!!
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Or you could put a strainer in before the existing one and ( whisper it) hard staple the existing stock fence the attach the higher net on too. Then short section of rail to existing strainer with baton attached to fill in gap.
If you know what i mean so in essence the gap looks like a wooden ladder
If you know what i mean so in essence the gap looks like a wooden ladder
- Location
- SW Scotland
Waited nearly 4 months for this....
Wanted the large spring wire clamps and thought the winch and strain gauge would be worthwhile. Winch smaller than I expected but should be up to the job. Not cheap.
So far all it has done is lie on the kitchen table.....
Jameshenry
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- Location
- Cornwall
Expensive monkey pullers ? Have you got them just for tensioning plain wire?View attachment 814982
Waited nearly 4 months for this....
Wanted the large spring wire clamps and thought the winch and strain gauge would be worthwhile. Winch smaller than I expected but should be up to the job. Not cheap.
So far all it has done is lie on the kitchen table.....
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- Location
- SW Scotland
Yes - expensive experiment....
Don't always get wire clamps to hold - and then they get locked on? - so wanted to try these spring clamps. They are easy to open and the clamp handle looks like it will keep your hand away from the wire.
Chain winch seems fiddly but should be easier once you get used to it.
Problem is, largely, that I'm an amateur fencer and blame the tools for making a bad job.
Jameshenry
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- Location
- Cornwall
Yes - expensive experiment....
Don't always get wire clamps to hold - and then they get locked on? - so wanted to try these spring clamps. They are easy to open and the clamp handle looks like it will keep your hand away from the wire.
Chain winch seems fiddly but should be easier once you get used to it.
Problem is, largely, that I'm an amateur fencer and blame the tools for making a bad job.
Well they look the business, they certainly look easier to use than monkey strainers, i only really use monkey pullers for tensioning barbed wire nowadays, personally i just tension plain wire with a gripple, or two if it's a long stretch, have to let us know how you get on with them
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Yes - expensive experiment....
Don't always get wire clamps to hold - and then they get locked on? - so wanted to try these spring clamps. They are easy to open and the clamp handle looks like it will keep your hand away from the wire.
Chain winch seems fiddly but should be easier once you get used to it.
Problem is, largely, that I'm an amateur fencer and blame the tools for making a bad job.
They are very very good.
- Location
- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
smaller farm here, 150 acres, and have just totted it up, we have just over 12 kilometers of stock fencing on the farm here (including double fencing by hedges), just over 7 1/2 miles!
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Willie adie
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
View attachment 814982
Waited nearly 4 months for this....
Wanted the large spring wire clamps and thought the winch and strain gauge would be worthwhile. Winch smaller than I expected but should be up to the job. Not cheap.
So far all it has done is lie on the kitchen table.....
Ive seen these close up at a local supplier, i have to say they arent for me i think the cost of them doesnt make great value.
You could easily get 2 sets of strainrite stretchers that seem far more robust and for me would seem better value
Im not saying that the the supplier is charging too much no doubt the import charges and the quantities required has a bearing on price. But personally for me id like something more substantial for that money.
The chain is similar in size to an old fashioned chain to flush a lavvy
pine_guy
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- North Cumbria
Bit of proper fencing, as I thought some of you beginners might learn a thing or two.....
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Get out of my field!!!!!!