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[Anonymous Poster]

Re: While Neal was ________ I was ___________

Dang. I came in too late. I didn't have a clue on the first pic, but as soon as I saw the second one, I said, "That's a fence unroller!" I knew, because just last week, I was struggling with some 4' hog fence. I stuck a fence post through it for a spindle, attached loops of cable around the ends of the post, attached them to the bucket hools, staked one end of the fence (laying flat on the ground, and backed away with the tractor, unrolling as I went. Unfortunately, I only spent about 4 minutes on the spindle/cable, and it wasn't exactly foolproof - at first, the spindle shifted and one cable would slip off. But, by the time I had gone about 50', I had it pretty well mastered and unrolled the last 280' PDQ. We then stood up one end and loop-tied it to the end post, grabbed the other end with my home-made fence spreader and pulled it tight. The wire pretty much stood up by itself, enough so that it was real easy to staple.

Now, if I was doing it every day like you are, I would be blessed to have such a gadget. The difference between you and me is that you can visualize it; I can only copy.

 

[shado]

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That does look quite neat in it's application, but could it be mounted over to the side & front of the skid steer so you won't have to keep moving back & forth & tearing up a lot of sod? So that way you could just drive straight along the path of the fence posts?
J.W.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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That's the reason for the four pieces of rectangular tubing on the bottom. The tractor can come in from all four sides as required.

Here's a picture of the tractor backing along the fence line unrolling the fabric.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Morning Don,

You can't fool anyone who's wrestled with the lady. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Boone]

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That is slicker than goat snot Harv. Worst thing I found doing fences was often times the fence was going up because the next door neighbors didn't get along. When I was in the yard working both sides would find a time to come out and plead there case. I just didn't want any violence while I was there and was glad I didn't live in that type of situation.

One of the tools I made for stretching short sections of chain link fence, was a car jack from a 1980's Olds. I tossed the bottom plate that the post fit into. I then cut the ground end of the jack post a couple of inches and spread the jack post end into a Y shape. This end I wrapped in duct tape. To use I wrapped a short piece of 1/4 inch cable from the post side around the flat bar and hooked it on the sliding jack. I put the Y end to the end post.

I then held it up at an angle and slid the jack up the jack post until it was taut. Then bringing the jack post horizontal the flat bar was drawn up to the clamps and the jack stayed at a horizontal position, allowing one person to install the bolts.

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

Re: While Neal was ________ I was ___________

Harv:
That looks as useful as a pocket, as you said, and is your usual elegant solution. I've had pretty good luck, however, with a simpler one. It is merely a T of tubing and angle iron, with a swivel on the end. I poke it through the roll and pick it up with the end hook on the 5 foot boom on my Power Trac. I then back down the line, after tacking the end to post #1. Sometimes, the wire doesn't even fall over.
Beats the stuffing out of unrolling it flat and standing it up.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

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Your idea like Don's works fine. This one came from seeing some ads in World Fence News for tools to help install chainlink.

The old crippling "if they can, I can" alive and well if you know what I mean.

I've been wanting to make one for sometime now because occasionally I get talked into doing some chainlink. I won't even discuss the residential fabrics so when I do it's the heavy variety.

Don, the panel stretcher sounded cool. I carry three or four different ones on the truck for different situations. The most used one is the one my dad made thirty some years ago and works like fingers at a bar b que.

Charlie, the upside down T with a swivel sounds like it'd work finer'n a frog hair for field fence or horse wire. That's a heck of a good idea. You need to post some pictures of it because there's a ton of tbn'rs that are or have put woven wire on wood posts.

 

[Charlie_Iliff]

Woven/Horse fence unroller.

<font color="red"> Charlie, the upside down T with a swivel sounds like it'd work finer'n a frog hair for field fence or horse wire. </font>

Harv:
Picture attached finally. Any steel scraps will work, the only specialty item is the swivel, which we had lying around.
You can't see detail in the picture, but the swivel is at the hook on the boom and the T is across the bottom of the roll. A disc at the bottom would be better, but the gadget works fine for the 200 ft rolls of no-climb that is my wife's current choice for her horse fence.

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Re: Woven/Horse fence unroller.

Thanks for the pic.
I'm looking at about 1400' in the near future. Your rig looks great for a single hand. Just looking, i think i'll add a horizontally swinging hook about mid boom to grab the wire, tp stop the unrolling and keep enough tension on the wire to keep it from falling over.
Make me a swivel out of some used tapered wheel bearings, and the right sized pieces of pipe.
Larry

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Re: Woven/Horse fence unroller.

The swivel isn't required if one finds an eighteen to twenty inch plow disc. A solid rod fed up through the disc which holds the roll of wire and attached to the boom will do just fine.

I wouldn't pull more than two hundred feet or so at a time. You just can't get the consistant tension from end to end. As for holding it up while laying it out I put a tie after each post, on the pulling side of the post. If you're using wood and or t posts then a smooth nine gauge or twisted smooth no barb wire might be a nice precursor to laying out the non climb.