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There’s a h and s sayingVery, very true.
Bending down while rolling wire up, is bloody hard work.
Get some other f er to do it
Winding up sheep netting
- Thread starter neilo
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Get some other f er to do it
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- Carmarthenshire, West Wales
could you use the plastic centre from a roll of bale wrap to roll the wire up with, then some sort of a tapered spike to push into the plastic roll and connected to a motor
Herself is a dab hand... or rather, WAS.
Old age crept up on us both. Scrappies have the wire now!
One of the loader mounted bale unroller spike??
Hughes Bros in Oswestry used to make them....
livestock 1
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Don’t worry it gets everyone in the end
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- South East
Oh it has......Don’t worry it gets everyone in the end
However, I had a letter this morning telling me my State Pension is going up by 8%!! Winner!!
livestock 1
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The number of sheep on my shearing tally is the biggest tell tale of ageOh it has......
However, I had a letter this morning telling me my State Pension is going up by 8%!! Winner!!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Is it rolled up in a reusable state, assuming it's good/new'ish wire that is worth putting up of course?
- Location
- Ceredigion
It's not hard to do by had and keeps one fit
I dont shear sheep. Did half of one about 1976/77, never since....
Still don't shear sheep, as I went for EC as the perfect "old man's sheep "....
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Yes definitely. It took a bit of tweaking of oil flow, gear selection, engine speed and knowing what vegetation was too much for it to rip through. But this was an early model and they may have improved again.
We could have reused this netting, but it was 50m rolls of Mild Steel that had been hard stapled at the start and ends of the rolls. We left it all with the customer for patching up jobs and changed the hole galop over to foal netting with a Horse Rail above. I feel a whole lot warmer for looking back at pictures of August 2022!
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- Location
- Acton Scott, South Shropshire
Tubbylew
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- Herefordshire
Nothing in fencing seems to beNot cheap is the answer
I made one as well.
Hydraulic motor drive.
Bale unrollers for filling ring feeders?
Pictures please actually we are still just using ordinary spike atm manually slipping hay into 2 side by side ring feeders fairly easy to with short dry grass. bits get in yr eyes tho :rolleyes: and also if ive done the baling the bales wont be as tight ..... this it simple frame welded into...
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Rarely pick up net now, and if we do its rolled by hand. not like in the old dys when we used to fence kale for sheep with sheep netting and a sledge hammer when the steel 'hook on ' posts ran out
spent hours and hours doing that character build ing. 
p.s. that gearbox is far more useful in that than on them inter 440 balers i used to have
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Netherfield
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- West Yorkshire
I haven't, hope you're not getting preferential treatment.Oh it has......
However, I had a letter this morning telling me my State Pension is going up by 8%!! Winner!!
- Location
- Mendips Somerset
something like this maybe cheaper option and can be sold on after (sorry if already posted)
Like the oil drum trick. Easy enough to put a spindle for pig netting.I made one as well.
Hydraulic motor drive.
frame needs plating/guarding out to stop bits falling in around the workings a disc on the spkes would hold a roll of net better apart from that it would do the job .Bale unrollers for filling ring feeders?
Pictures please actually we are still just using ordinary spike atm manually slipping hay into 2 side by side ring feeders fairly easy to with short dry grass. bits get in yr eyes tho :rolleyes: and also if ive done the baling the bales wont be as tight ..... this it simple frame welded into...
Rarely pick up net now, and if we do its rolled by hand. not like in the old dys when we used to fence kale for sheep with sheep netting and a sledge hammer when the steel 'hook on ' posts ran out
p.s. that gearbox is far more useful in that than on them inter 440 balers i used to have
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- Location
- West Sussex
This is how we do it. You should be able to make something out of any hydraulic rotating implement. I think it would work just as well horizontally.
We find it easiest to pull out all of the netting and pull it in rather than trying to move the digger along the fence. You can make perfect rolls with someone gently guiding it in.
We find it easiest to pull out all of the netting and pull it in rather than trying to move the digger along the fence. You can make perfect rolls with someone gently guiding it in.