The Fencing Picture Thread

[Willie adie]

I find that if there is stock pressure from both sides the 40 mm can give a little. The creosote acts like a lubricant.
on the plus side, I can strain netting round two or three turners using creosote posts as the creosote allows the wire to pull round the posts nicely.
I don’t normally strain round more than one uc4 turning post.

Put a bit of grease on turners, and use Torus or x knot ,

 

[S J H]

I’ve never thought it would suit me, but got a solonet a few weeks ago and it’s been a saviour on the current job.

 

[Forkdriver]

I’ve never thought it would suit me, but got a solonet a few weeks ago and it’s been a saviour on the current job.View attachment 1153126View attachment 1153127

Looks like expensive horse netting you are putting up is that right?

 

[S J H]

Looks like expensive horse netting you are putting up is that right?

No just standard deer netting, for new woodland

 

[Forkdriver]

I see, fencing out not in

 

[Fendt516profi]

I see, fencing out not in

Depends which side of the fence your on.

 

[suffolksmallholder]

Aye definitely 30mm, still intact. A lot of the posts look like untreated larch, really tight rings in them, some of the older ones are quite likely home grown too, anything in peat ground still looks brands new below the surface.

Our sawmill produced quarter sawn larch posts pre the days of treatment.
It was hard work as each round was manually handled.
You could expect 30+ years life from them.
They were a good market for early plantation thinning.

The Risborough Lab tested treated timber for longevity and one of the quickest rotting timber is sycamore. This rose to the top of the longevity list after treatment!
I have some garden furniture that is made from sycamore and that was treated when a flat-pack and this has stood in both my gardens for 40 years to date

The minute the chemical composition was reduced to just food colouring ‘treatment’ became a waste of time in both senses.

Personally I use creosoted round 4”-5” 6’ posts and 7”-8” 8’ strainers from Mcveigh Parker.
My old Parmiter bashes in the posts nicely but I have to drill a 6” pilot hole for the strainers then bash them.
SS

 

[Goggles]

I’ve never thought it would suit me, but got a solonet a few weeks ago and it’s been a saviour on the current job.View attachment 1153126View attachment 1153127

What do you like about it Sam?
Been thinking about changing out the quickfencer.
Are you on a bit of McMullen ground?

 

[S J H]

What do you like about it Sam?
Been thinking about changing out the quickfencer.
Are you on a bit of McMullen ground?

I don’t think I am, but doing it through another contractor. I’m west of Bedford.

It wasn‘t the machine that put me off, just the idea of having another machine tied up. Most of my jobs are around 500m and mostly stock net, so would never of been worth moving the machine but had a good bit to go at here, and with the weight of the deer net I had to sort some sort of unroller. The solonet seems nicely made though, paint looks good, I didn’t really look at any other make.

 

[Goggles]

I don’t think I am, but doing it through another contractor. I’m west of Bedford.

It wasn‘t the machine that put me off, just the idea of having another machine tied up. Most of my jobs are around 500m and mostly stock net, so would never of been worth moving the machine but had a good bit to go at here, and with the weight of the deer net I had to sort some sort of unroller. The solonet seems nicely made though, paint looks good, I didn’t really look at any other make.

I’ve got a quick fencer for deer net but it’s manual tensioning. My smaller quickfencer is getting a bit tired, and I’ve seen a couple of videos of the solonet working. Quite fancy the hydraulic tensioning to speed things up a bit.

 

[Goggles]

I only asked about the McMullen ground as they seem to have put an awful lot of trees in recently.

 

[S J H]

I’ve got a quick fencer for deer net but it’s manual tensioning. My smaller quickfencer is getting a bit tired, and I’ve seen a couple of videos of the solonet working. Quite fancy the hydraulic tensioning to speed things up a bit.

I’ll try and get a video.

 

[tepapa]

I’ve got a quick fencer for deer net but it’s manual tensioning. My smaller quickfencer is getting a bit tired, and I’ve seen a couple of videos of the solonet working. Quite fancy the hydraulic tensioning to speed things up a bit.

The solonet is a good tool. It's not all fancy and complicated like some other netters but it does the job perfectly well.
I ran one on the loader for a couple of years until I got one on the front of the solotrak. Wouldn't look at anything else.

 

[womble8350]

I’ll try and get a video.

I’ve got a quick fencer for deer net but it’s manual tensioning. My smaller quickfencer is getting a bit tired, and I’ve seen a couple of videos of the solonet working. Quite fancy the hydraulic tensioning to speed things up a bit.

The solo net is streets ahead of the quickfencer. Had my solo net 9 years soon and I would have packed up fencing with out it as using the boundary strainers killed my hips. Briefly had a quick fencer but hated it not having the ability to tie off work each side etc.

 

[Tubbylew]

Love my solonet, ace bit of kit, wouldn't be without one even if I had to go back to a tractor, nice simple machine with the ability to pay out wire from both sides, which is fundemental for me.

 

[ploughman1963]

Solonet here as well - great bit of kit

 

[tepapa]

Solonet here as well - great bit of kit

Sound like we've all bloody got one

 

[Cowpoke82]

Bush pig here

 

[Dave6170]

Sound like we've all bloody got one

Don’t worry I’ve got a bog standard quickfencer

 

[womble8350]

Sound like we've all bloody got one

We will have to start a solo owners club !! Quiet a few solo trak owners on here too.