Tool price rant

[bcp]

I added a high tensile wire to the top of one section of field fence where deer, bear, and limbs keep mashing the top down. I couldn't find my hog ring pliers so I just used slip joint pliers. Two squeezes instead of one, but it was no big deal.

Today between appointments I checked several stores, expecting to find hog ring pliers for $5+-. No way! Those things must be made by Black Forest elves and hand carried to the US!

The crude thing on the left was just over and under $20 at a couple of stores. As a comparison, I found regular fencing pliers for $16. (I know where my fencing pliers are, so didn't buy any.)

I'll keep using slip joint pliers until I find my hog rings pliers, or find some at a garage sale for $0.50.

I guess they can charge $20 for those things, but I'm not buying.

Bruce

 

[IslandTractor]

Search results for: 'hog ring pliers'

$9 before using a 20% discount coupon.

 

[DT86]

What about hi tensile fence requires hog ring pliers?

 

[DJ54]

Too bad you weren't with me last Friday at the Habitat for Humanity 50% off sale. Saw 2 pair, for .50 each, so would have been .25 ea. And, 4 boxes of new hog rings for .50 each. Had to chuckle, as the HfH store is in an upscale community, and wondered how something like that ended up there.

 

[Ed of all trades]

What about hi tensile fence requires hog ring pliers?

That is a new one to me too. Ed

 

[LD1]

Was wondering the same thing?

 

[MMagis]

What about hi tensile fence requires hog ring pliers?

Me three. Or is it four.

 

[bcp]

Like this:


(I modified a photo found online)

One high tensile wire along the top of the field fence, clipped to it with a hog ring about every 3 feet.

Bruce

 

[MMagis]

I'm still lost. What does that wire do?
I've built a LOT of fence, but have never heard of that.

 

[DT86]

Thanks for the pic, makes sense now.