Winding up sheep netting

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Looking to wind up some HT sheep netting to reuse elsewhere.
I know Quickfencer make an attachment with a hydraulic motor that is supposed to make a tidy job of it. Are there any other options that I’ve overlooked?
 

Bury the Trash

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Mixed Farmer
cut it at 50m and roll up by hand.
trouble is even mechanically wound will need a bit of manual help to keep 'straight' and put it in too tight it will be hard to unroll again withoyt snags .
 

David1968

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Mixed Farmer
Location
SW Scotland
Not hard to knock something up if you have an old hydraulic motor and you can turn the flow rate on the tractor right down. If you have a hydraulic top link as well, it's not difficult to wind it on straight, despite @Bury the Trash 's pessimism.
And it rolls out again fine, provided there are no torn bits.
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Not hard to knock something up if you have an old hydraulic motor and you can turn the flow rate on the tractor right down. If you have a hydraulic top link as well, it's not difficult to wind it on straight, despite @Bury the Trash 's pessimism.
And it rolls out again fine, provided there are no torn bits.

I don’t have a hydraulic motor, but could certainly buy one.
I was thinking of mounting on the front of the telehandler, which would surely allow it to be wound on straight, as well as making handling the full rolls easy?
 

Tubbylew

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Location
Herefordshire
Looking to wind up some HT sheep netting to reuse elsewhere.
I know Quickfencer make an attachment with a hydraulic motor that is supposed to make a tidy job of it. Are there any other options that I’ve overlooked?
Solorap from solo fencing systems, fits on a three point hitch, wouldn't know how much it is mind.

 

Bury the Trash

Member
Mixed Farmer
How much netting are we talking here? That will be the defining factor… 100m I’d say muck Grab and buy a new roll… 10,000 metres id say required some engineering and clever thinking….
its probaly nearer the later ,a few thou metres at about 25yrs old wellused and a wee bit rusty .... a big job lot go with an ebay winning bid of 18 pound :cool: and all hes got to remove it by Tues day or something, still at least will distract him from trying to skin farts for a day or 2 😂😲😬
 

David1968

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
SW Scotland
I don’t have a hydraulic motor, but could certainly buy one.
I was thinking of mounting on the front of the telehandler, which would surely allow it to be wound on straight, as well as making handling the full rolls easy?
Used to have one we made years ago to wind up several km of net from a pipeline. It clamped onto the side of the post knocker.
You need a base to support the net as it winds in. Think it was 3mm plate about 2ft in diameter and fixed so it turned along with the motor.
That means you need an arm underneath to fix the motor on the end, maybe 18in long. And needs to be strong enough to carry the weight of a full roll. Ideally you want a centre pipe the full height of the roll fixed back onto a mast, but free to spin, if that makes sense. And another one sitting on a peg on the base plate, about an inch to the side of the centre one, and you feed the wire between the two to get the roll started. If it's made so the pipes can be lifted out, you can just push the roll off onto the ground.

Was a bloody good thing for spooling out ht electric fence wire as well. Loop the pipes for the motor together and the motor works like a brake so the turntable doesn't start turning faster than you can walk down the field pulling the end... :X3:
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
its probaly nearer the later ,a few thou metres at about 25yrs old wellused and a wee bit rusty .... a big job lot go with an ebay winning bid of 18 pound :cool: and all hes got to remove it by Tues day or something, still at least will distract him from trying to skin farts for a day or 2 😂😲😬

Oi! It's only the bottom three strands that are rusted out! It'll make more than new price in a collective sale. 😂
 

tepapa

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
Solorap from solo fencing systems, fits on a three point hitch, wouldn't know how much it is mind.

Not cheap is the answer 🙈
 
A certain group of people fenced a fell not a million miles from here and realised they had put the fence in the wrong place a couple of years later. I got 2 livestock trailer load of rolls of wire off the lad it was absolutely fine to use once it had a bit of a pull here and there. It’s not easy stuff to deal with
 

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