Will these fence clips pop my tractor tire

[PoorPlowboy]

If you cut the wire at the end and pull the wire through these clips the clips will stay on the posts.

I don't see how. They're not clipped onto the post, only the fence wire.

 

[k0ua]

How do you save time by pulling them with pliers and dropping them on the ground rather than in a bucket? To answer your question, I have had much smaller pieces of wire than those cause flats on tractors and implements.

Looks like tire magnets to me! and I certainly wouldn't want to be anywhere near a mower especially a bush Hog with those treasures hidden in the grass.. can you spell projectile?

Yes, and Yes. They will cause a flat, and I sure as heck would a lot rather have them in a bucket then on the ground in the the grass where I would have to fish around for them. it would take only a couple seconds per clip to take them off, and drop them in a bucket.. no tire danger, and no brush hog missiles. Get a large pair of channel locks, don't mess with small "wire pliers".

 

[arlen4720]

if you ever graze cattle there, you won't want all those cut pieces of wire laying around...they will eat them, and could get hardware disease and die. I would just pick them up.

 

[RickB]

If you pull the wire back though them they will stay with the posts.

If they do fall off I doubt they will cut a tire because they are very soft wire.

If you cut the wire at the end and pull the wire through these clips the clips will stay on the posts.

Really? Have you even looked at the attached photo? I'm all for removing them and scrapping the clips, I hate to litter, especially on my own property. But the poster who claims that pulling the wire through will leave the clips attached to the posts isn't very observant. They will immediately fall to the ground when the wire is pulled through.

 

[DT86]

My bad. It was late. Don't really know what I was thinking. They will however stay NEAR the posts that way.



I stand by the fact that they are soft wire and won't flatten a tire. You'd also have to be lazy to let them just lay in the ground though.

 

[oldballs]

I just cut a bunch of them off and put the pieces in a bucket myself the other day. It's no big deal if the grass is short. In tall grass that might be a problem to find the pieces, so any quick search with a magnet would be helpful. When working my place I find nut, bolts, washers, fence, and assorted pieces of machinery parts on occasion. But I police them up.

 

[Gary Fowler]

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT. Those can easily be removed and reused if needed later. IF they are all bent per photo, you wont even need pliers to remove, just get some slack in the wire and they will come off. We use those T-Post clips to hold our barbed wire and net wire to Tpost but we twist the ends at least one full wrap so we have to cut them to remove them. Yours look so easy, I bet I could take down a mile of it in just a few hours. One of those fence reels will help in rolling up the wire, just attach it at one end and crank the handle as you walk along rolling it up. They will hold at least 1/4 mile of wire on each reel and NO TANGLES when unrolling it.

 

[oldballs]

Good point Gary. With a channel lock plier, only one ear has to be moved off to salvage it. I am looking for some new ones around here already....somewhere laying around this place.

 

[SHORT KID]

You don't even need pliers, a short piece of pipe like a hydraulic jack handle and its off. The time spent doing a write up and reading the replys could have been done, then just wrap wire.

 

[UTCenturion]

You don't even need pliers, a short piece of pipe like a hydraulic jack handle and its off. The time spent doing a write up and reading the replys could have been done, then just wrap wire.

ooh like this idea. These clips seem to be unusually stiff compared to others i've used. The other issue ive got is that this field has not been mowed in about 7 years. I just bushogged it but the area immediately under the fence is still a foot or more deep of dense grass. if you drop one it disappears and you'll never get it back. Its also probably a 1.5 miles of total of fencing, so its not a small job. I've done about a 6th of it so far and its a pain in the butt. I've considered weed burning under the fence, but dont want to start a runaway fire. there is a lot of burnable stuff in this field right now.