stretching woven wire over uneven ground

   / stretching woven wire over uneven ground #11  
You can go to my website on handling wire Unrolling Wire or you can do a search here for stretching woven wire. I know there's more than one how to we've done here over the years. I can take V Mesh and go up and down a couple of feet in a hundred feet or so and it will all be tight when I'm done. A little patience and some time is all it takes.
 
   / stretching woven wire over uneven ground #12  
When I put up the kennels for my two dogs, an area 20ft by 20ft, I used a pair of needle nose vice grips to make the wire tight. It works pretty good but I wouldn't want to do more than a couple of hundred feet that way. Now that I have my tractor, I'll use it to do the stretching when I put up my fence to go around my property. I did notice that if I didn't put anything between the wooden posts or put them in concrete and let them harden, that the wire was so tight that you could see the post being pulled one way or the other.
 
   / stretching woven wire over uneven ground #13  
Stretch it to fit the bottom in a valley and the top on a hill. Then use a carpenter's hammer to twist the loose upper or lower section. Insert the nall pulling jaw into the wire and give it a 90 degree twist.

To unroll the wire, I bolt a pipe onto one wall of my loader bucket. With the bucket curled forward, the pipe is horizontal. This makes it easy to load the wire coil. Curl it back and its vertical. Then drive the tractor down the fence line and the wire will unroll once you tack the starting end. Use a piece of plywood for the base of the bucket swivel so it doesn't catch on the bucket walls. Cut a hole in it to fit over the pipe.

To stretch the wire, use your tractor in creeper gear to slowly pull it tight. Use intermediate steps to check the tension and freeness at each post. Then staple it down from the beginning end. When you get to the tractor end, the wire will be tight but easily relaxed at the end section when you let the tractor move back. Use a chain or 2 pieces of 2x4 to capture the wire for pulling. Be careful not to pull too hard. You may find that the starting post breaks or pulls out and comes flying at you !

Some dogs like to dig under a fence, so make sure the bottom wire is at the very ground level. If Fido still is curious, run a hot wire for a few days 6" off the ground to remind him of his responsibility. And for heavens sake, don't P on the wire.
 
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Why do you just install an electric underground doggie wire. The dog wears a collar that zaps him when he walks past the underground wire. I think it is called Invisible Fence.
hugs, Brandi
 
   / stretching woven wire over uneven ground #15  
I agree with the invisible fence idea.

We used it for years with our two labs when we lived in the city. The only failures were when we let the batteries in the collars go too long without changing them.

It sounds pricey when you first investigate, but compared to a physical fence it is inexpensive.

Let the neighbor know what you are doing and he my be cooperative.
 
   / stretching woven wire over uneven ground #16  
I agree with the invisible fence idea.

We used it for years with our two labs when we lived in the city. The only failures were when we let the batteries in the collars go too long without changing them.

It sounds pricey when you first investigate, but compared to a physical fence it is inexpensive.

Let the neighbor know what you are doing and he my be cooperative.

Curly Dave,
Isn't letting the batteries get too low ...........operator error? :)
How is the JD 110 working out for you?
hugs, Brandi
 

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