tightening fence

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Jerome

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I have found that the 9 wire fence that encloses my hog yard has stretched and now sags quite a bit. I have tightened the cross wires on the corner posts to no avail. Is there a way to tighten the fence without unstapeling it and re stretching it???
 
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I have found that the 9 wire fence that encloses my hog yard has stretched and now sags quite a bit. I have tightened the cross wires on the corner posts to no avail. Is there a way to tighten the fence without unstapeling it and re stretching it???
 
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Jerome, when I was a young kid, I can remember using a claw hammer over the wire and crimping it between posts. That was a temporary solution at best since the crimps would eventually straighten out. I don't know of any device designed to permanently do this, but if you have enough slack to make a full 90° crimp, sometimes you can take a phillips screwdriver shaft (or something similar) and complete the crimp into a loop. Then a twist of the loop using a nail or screwdriver from time-to-time will tighten the fence. There is the danger of breaking the strand and that's no fun when that happens.

Another method is use clean cedar limbs and weave them into the fence. One or two between each post will provide some tightening of the wire strands.

Perhaps someone else will have a much better solution, but these are the two I know and I can't remember ever seeing a specific device for tightening stretched or sagging strands like you have.
 
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Jerome, when I was a young kid, I can remember using a claw hammer over the wire and crimping it between posts. That was a temporary solution at best since the crimps would eventually straighten out. I don't know of any device designed to permanently do this, but if you have enough slack to make a full 90° crimp, sometimes you can take a phillips screwdriver shaft (or something similar) and complete the crimp into a loop. Then a twist of the loop using a nail or screwdriver from time-to-time will tighten the fence. There is the danger of breaking the strand and that's no fun when that happens.

Another method is use clean cedar limbs and weave them into the fence. One or two between each post will provide some tightening of the wire strands.

Perhaps someone else will have a much better solution, but these are the two I know and I can't remember ever seeing a specific device for tightening stretched or sagging strands like you have.
 
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I recall Harvey having some type of a twist type tool to take up slack in a fence. You might search a couple of his posts as he even posted a picture of the tool.
 
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I recall Harvey having some type of a twist type tool to take up slack in a fence. You might search a couple of his posts as he even posted a picture of the tool.
 
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I've always used something like an 8" nail to twist it tight again. I also tie the nail to the wire when I'm finished with another short piece of wire to stop it slakening off again. Be careful because it's real easy to burst the wire.

The also make a tightener used in high tensile wire fence that works like a small rachet. You splice it into the wire and turn the rachet with a spanner to take up the slack.
 
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I've always used something like an 8" nail to twist it tight again. I also tie the nail to the wire when I'm finished with another short piece of wire to stop it slakening off again. Be careful because it's real easy to burst the wire.

The also make a tightener used in high tensile wire fence that works like a small rachet. You splice it into the wire and turn the rachet with a spanner to take up the slack.
 
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<font color="blue"> a spanner </font> ...a what??? where you from boy? /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif cain't be Texas... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif
 

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