Splice the two ends using a turnbuckle. It's pretty easy to do and, even though it's a bit more expensive, you can tighten the wire as it slacks over time without having to re-stretch the whole thing.
Just a few suggestions: First, get yourself a barbed wire dispenser, instead of carrying that spool of wire back and forth along the fence line. Most fence and farm supplys carry a "Spinning Jenny" wire dispenser. I use a special barbed wire dispenser I got at Northern Supply that attaches to my Quad and has an adjustable built in drag brake to keep it from "back spooling". I have also adapted it to fit my truck's receiver hitch. I can tie it off and drive it down line on my quad or plug it into my truck parked at one end and walk the end of the wire down line without carrying all that weight. If you can't get a dispenser, I've seen the cowboys use a steel stake driven into the ground through a used steel plowing disc with the spool placed over the stake and cradled in the disc...works just fine. Another way is to drive a 16d nail into the post sideways to the line of stretch at 36" height and take a 3 foot piece of 1-3/8" tubing run it through the spool & hook it on the nail. One person holds the pipe and spool onto the nail, level, while the other person pulls the end of the wire down line. Second, make yourself a "story stick" with the heights of each wire marked on it from bottom to top. Just stand it up next to each post on the ground to accurately mark each post, without fumbling around with a retractable measuring tape. This works great when you have lots of posts to mark. Third, buy yourself a good fence pliers (at almost any hardware store) that has an inside and outside wire gripper, a cutting groove, a staple hook / puller and a built in non slip hammer face. Finally, I always attach my wire top to bottom, since a properly stretched barbed wire run still sags downward, but then it does not snag on the wire below it. Diamond Rim Fence, AZ Contractor
Michael Waterman a spinning Jenny is for electric fence wire which weighs a lot less. Barbwire spools wouldn’t work, they are to heavy. I do agree there are better ways to dispense barbwire, but for the purpose of this video, it’s about the wire and how to install it. Red Brand the author is the wire manufacture. Their intent is to show only their products.
Start on "tie in end" with the barbed wire in a barb wire caddy(easily home made with 1 5/8 pipe. Grab end of barb wire and walk it to the opposite end. This works much easier than 2 people walking a heavy roll of barb wire across a stretch. This can be done by 1 person as well.
I have found your how too videos helpful and will be putting the lessons to use on my little piece of Texas Hill Country. Have that pesky hill country wild growth to deal with to get line of sight from marker to marker 859 ft away. I have my work cut out for me to get the 10+ acres ready to homestead. Fences first! Wish I was working in soft soil like you all are in your videos!
Brent VonAschen oh shut up. im farming the appalachians. get over your little hills. your job is EASY!!! just to get to my farm ive gotta go 100 ft up and 500 ft over. doesnt sound like much, but it makes a man wish he had some flat ground, like texas. feel better??
Ha ha, I am not complaining, just complimenting. Now that being said, I am 100% disabled and was struggling with wheel chair and or crutches and a walker until Jan 2017 when I was blessed to get legs back walking without pain unless I overdo it, Emergency back surgery sucks as well as a spinal cord injury. That fenceline I was working on has really been a chore, but it is getting done. Now there is a firestop running through about half the Texas Hill Country rocky wild growth along it. The docs still have me limited and won't release me to drive the FEL Ford 5600 tractor to get working on the fence line again. Once again, thanks for the how to videos, they are helpful.
I've done a lot of fencing, too for myself and have seen what lasted and what didn't. The best fence I have ever built has 4 in diameter posts for end posts and braces with 2 in. Pipe for horizontals and has two brace posts and the vertical end and brace posts are concreted in the ground too and I will pull each strand until it breaks, that way you have all the stretch out of the wire. I will stretch the top wire first, and I will never put my hands or body next to or on the stretched wire until I have some of it tied to several posts in the middle of the stretch, if that wire breaks it will definitely draw blood on you. You can walk down along your wire after you stretch it with a t post and pick the wire up and move it over with the end of the tee post. The entire process of building the fence is no better than the end posts or corner posts and the braces. Sou if you want a fence that lasts 50 years in a climate where it rains 40 inches of rain a year, don't use railroad ties, or cedar posts, but use thick wall steel, not rusty and thin steel pipe, in concrete or one can use wood posts if they are 8 to 12 inch in diameter and are called hedge, bois D' ark, or Osage orange all names for the same tree, I have seen them that are 75 years in the ground and still good in Eastern Oklahoma where the ground is not frozen very deep or for very long and they get an average of 40 inches of rain per year The red brand wire has good sharp and long barbs and are closer spaced than anything else I have seen
At 1:24, I not you are carrying the roll of wire, sometimes, this has to be done however, the way i do it is, I put my hay spear on tractor, put my roll of wire over the spear level and roll the wire where it rolls off the roll over the top and we drag the end of the wire to our tie off or pull post with hand if not far or with side by side utv if a lot of distance. We nail that off on our pull post then use the tractor as an anchor to stretch strain of wire from. We then just go to each wooded post and loose stable at the hight we want seeing that we have already tensioned wire to tension we want then they come behind us clipping the T post where the wire lays as it falls between each wooden post.
Need double wraps on end posts and like has already been said, wire should pull from the center of the post not off the side, the way you did it will loosen with time. You also say "don't overstretch" what do you think that loose wire will do the first time an animal hits it or a snow drift sits on it? All the stretch you failed to remove will then show itself and the wire will be nearly on the ground.
First.... use a Golden Rod for tightening the wires.. much faster and easier ! Second.always install the top wires first...this way they dont hang up on each other. Third.always .always install a fence.." if possible " after the corner posts have had a chance to settle . Here the posts have just been installed.....they will likely pull out if a lot of tension is applied. Allow one year before installing or tighten the wires when the posts are still frozen in the ground....Spring time. ( if it freezes where you life ) I noticed your end spice is off sided.. instead of centered. If they are all on one side of the post.most likely the tension of the wires will turn the post in the ground when its wet......rendering the braces worthless.
1 person can pull a roll of barb wire across the ground much easier than 2 people can carry it while unrolling. If the bottom wire is put that low to the ground it does no good unless you are running sheep or pigs.
Your company needs to come up to speed with wire tensioning - have a look at the Hayes Chain Walker been around for ever or the relatively new Fence Line Solutions wire tensioner. What you are showing is so archaic and primitive.
The video states that "make sure not to over stretch" yet they don't say how to determine proper stretched tension or even what proper stretched tension should be for the various gauges of wire and type. They refer to sag at one point but that is not dependable since sag varies with length. I heard 250 lbs tension is appropriate for 12 and 15 gauge wire. Tension can be estimated from your applied force times the stretcher lever dimension in feet. Nor do they mention how to determine brace size, post size and post depth for various fence heights and lengths. And I definitely would not trust the demostrated wrapped wire splice to hold in my cattle. I recommend referring to the methods in the USDA-NRCS Technical Guides for proper wire wrapped splicing, tie-offs at braces, brace construction and all other aspects of barbwire fence installation.
The way they demonstrated is correct, even if their wraps weren't quite tight enough. The way you suggest is terrible; it will be loose in a month. One suspects you haven't repaired much barbed wire fence...
Gracias por el video, me ha servido de mucho en la instalación de cercas de púas, solo me gustaría si me puedes dar las medidas de distancia (altura) que usas en cada alambre, desde el piso hasta arriba, yo ocupo 4 alambres (cierre interno) y 5 alambres en cierre perimetral, muchas gracias.
OK, cool vid but you guys need to update. No need for 2 guys walking out the wire. They make handle that fit on wire spool handle that spins. One guy pulls , one guy holds handle that is holding spool. If your running more than 600 ft hook wire to tractor and go slow while one guys still holding handle.
In N.Z, i used to always , use S.R,Strainers, with that B/W you are using, you need to stretch the wire in middle of strain, in say 3 places, i usually strain from the middle of strain, check wire not tangled, strain up and tie, or crimp off, a much better product, is High Tensile barb, it wont stretch. but well made fence.
Badmus Olalekan it costs 3$ per t post, 5 dollara per wood post, and a roll of barbed wire is 40$. do the math, then decide whether or not you need a man to do it for you, or of you are a man at all.....
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Splice the two ends using a turnbuckle. It's pretty easy to do and, even though it's a bit more expensive, you can tighten the wire as it slacks over time without having to re-stretch the whole thing.
Really appreciate this video. Every minute of it was value-added. It was clear and concise.
That was the MOST useful video I have seen on CZcams on the subject. Very professionally produced. Thank you!
I agree 100%. Great video, music wasn’t annoying...well done
I'v done a lot of fencing, on barb wire it is best to work from top to bottom, if you dont you are alway's hung on wire that is already up.
I am a city boy, worked on several farms! I too was taught top to bottom!
My first section done, I learned that mistake! In the memory banks now lol
We work from 1-4 that is bottom to top. Just how we do it.
Exactly. It doesn’t matter at the end of the day but we’ve always started at the bottom. Was always easier to me.
Just a few suggestions: First, get yourself a barbed wire dispenser, instead of carrying that spool of wire back and forth along the fence line. Most fence and farm supplys carry a "Spinning Jenny" wire dispenser. I use a special barbed wire dispenser I got at Northern Supply that attaches to my Quad and has an adjustable built in drag brake to keep it from "back spooling". I have also adapted it to fit my truck's receiver hitch. I can tie it off and drive it down line on my quad or plug it into my truck parked at one end and walk the end of the wire down line without carrying all that weight. If you can't get a dispenser, I've seen the cowboys use a steel stake driven into the ground through a used steel plowing disc with the spool placed over the stake and cradled in the disc...works just fine. Another way is to drive a 16d nail into the post sideways to the line of stretch at 36" height and take a 3 foot piece of 1-3/8" tubing run it through the spool & hook it on the nail. One person holds the pipe and spool onto the nail, level, while the other person pulls the end of the wire down line. Second, make yourself a "story stick" with the heights of each wire marked on it from bottom to top. Just stand it up next to each post on the ground to accurately mark each post, without fumbling around with a retractable measuring tape. This works great when you have lots of posts to mark. Third, buy yourself a good fence pliers (at almost any hardware store) that has an inside and outside wire gripper, a cutting groove, a staple hook / puller and a built in non slip hammer face. Finally, I always attach my wire top to bottom, since a properly stretched barbed wire run still sags downward, but then it does not snag on the wire below it. Diamond Rim Fence, AZ Contractor
Michael Waterman a spinning Jenny is for electric fence wire which weighs a lot less. Barbwire spools wouldn’t work, they are to heavy. I do agree there are better ways to dispense barbwire, but for the purpose of this video, it’s about the wire and how to install it. Red Brand the author is the wire manufacture. Their intent is to show only their products.
Start on "tie in end" with the barbed wire in a barb wire caddy(easily home made with 1 5/8 pipe. Grab end of barb wire and walk it to the opposite end. This works much easier than 2 people walking a heavy roll of barb wire across a stretch. This can be done by 1 person as well.
I have found your how too videos helpful and will be putting the lessons to use on my little piece of Texas Hill Country. Have that pesky hill country wild growth to deal with to get line of sight from marker to marker 859 ft away. I have my work cut out for me to get the 10+ acres ready to homestead. Fences first! Wish I was working in soft soil like you all are in your videos!
Brent VonAschen oh shut up. im farming the appalachians. get over your little hills. your job is EASY!!! just to get to my farm ive gotta go 100 ft up and 500 ft over. doesnt sound like much, but it makes a man wish he had some flat ground, like texas. feel better??
Ha ha, I am not complaining, just complimenting. Now that being said, I am 100% disabled and was struggling with wheel chair and or crutches and a walker until Jan 2017 when I was blessed to get legs back walking without pain unless I overdo it, Emergency back surgery sucks as well as a spinal cord injury. That fenceline I was working on has really been a chore, but it is getting done. Now there is a firestop running through about half the Texas Hill Country rocky wild growth along it. The docs still have me limited and won't release me to drive the FEL Ford 5600 tractor to get working on the fence line again. Once again, thanks for the how to videos, they are helpful.
I always wrap twice around end post, tie a termination knot the 6 wraps around the wire. No loose wire that way.
Great video! I'm going to be fencing in quite a bit of land this weekend and this video is what I needed!
I've done a lot of fencing, too for myself and have seen what lasted and what didn't. The best fence I have ever built has 4 in diameter posts for end posts and braces with 2 in. Pipe for horizontals and has two brace posts and the vertical end and brace posts are concreted in the ground too and I will pull each strand until it breaks, that way you have all the stretch out of the wire. I will stretch the top wire first, and I will never put my hands or body next to or on the stretched wire until I have some of it tied to several posts in the middle of the stretch, if that wire breaks it will definitely draw blood on you. You can walk down along your wire after you stretch it with a t post and pick the wire up and move it over with the end of the tee post.
The entire process of building the fence is no better than the end posts or corner posts and the braces. Sou if you want a fence that lasts 50 years in a climate where it rains 40 inches of rain a year, don't use railroad ties, or cedar posts, but use thick wall steel, not rusty and thin steel pipe, in concrete or one can use wood posts if they are 8 to 12 inch in diameter and are called hedge, bois D' ark, or Osage orange all names for the same tree, I have seen them that are 75 years in the ground and still good in Eastern Oklahoma where the ground is not frozen very deep or for very long and they get an average of 40 inches of rain per year
The red brand wire has good sharp and long barbs and are closer spaced than anything else I have seen
At 1:24, I not you are carrying the roll of wire, sometimes, this has to be done however, the way i do it is, I put my hay spear on tractor, put my roll of wire over the spear level and roll the wire where it rolls off the roll over the top and we drag the end of the wire to our tie off or pull post with hand if not far or with side by side utv if a lot of distance. We nail that off on our pull post then use the tractor as an anchor to stretch strain of wire from. We then just go to each wooded post and loose stable at the hight we want seeing that we have already tensioned wire to tension we want then they come behind us clipping the T post where the wire lays as it falls between each wooden post.
Need double wraps on end posts and like has already been said, wire should pull from the center of the post not off the side, the way you did it will loosen with time. You also say "don't overstretch" what do you think that loose wire will do the first time an animal hits it or a snow drift sits on it? All the stretch you failed to remove will then show itself and the wire will be nearly on the ground.
Your advice is terrible. You do NOT stretch high tensile wire. That is stupid
First.... use a Golden Rod for tightening the wires.. much faster and easier ! Second.always install the top wires first...this way they dont hang up on each other. Third.always .always install a fence.." if possible " after the corner posts have had a chance to settle . Here the posts have just been installed.....they will likely pull out if a lot of tension is applied. Allow one year before installing or tighten the wires when the posts are still frozen in the ground....Spring time. ( if it freezes where you life ) I noticed your end spice is off sided.. instead of centered. If they are all on one side of the post.most likely the tension of the wires will turn the post in the ground when its wet......rendering the braces worthless.
There is a special "cap" that can be installed on the top of each of the steel posts. They call it a fence barbed arm and can be found at Lowes.
i know the barbed wire coil length is 1320 feet, about 402 meters. The distance between each post is according to your request
In Romania I will decide to fence with you thank you.
Extremely helpful video. Thanks.
1 person can pull a roll of barb wire across the ground much easier than 2 people can carry it while unrolling. If the bottom wire is put that low to the ground it does no good unless you are running sheep or pigs.
@bluehealer1 I actually found it at Tractor Supply, its called a Wire Grip or Wire Gripper
Thank you for all yalls hard work. Keep it up! = )
Your company needs to come up to speed with wire tensioning - have a look at the Hayes Chain Walker been around for ever or the relatively new Fence Line Solutions wire tensioner. What you are showing is so archaic and primitive.
The video states that "make sure not to over stretch" yet they don't say how to determine proper stretched tension or even what proper stretched tension should be for the various gauges of wire and type. They refer to sag at one point but that is not dependable since sag varies with length. I heard 250 lbs tension is appropriate for 12 and 15 gauge wire. Tension can be estimated from your applied force times the stretcher lever dimension in feet. Nor do they mention how to determine brace size, post size and post depth for various fence heights and lengths. And I definitely would not trust the demostrated wrapped wire splice to hold in my cattle. I recommend referring to the methods in the USDA-NRCS Technical Guides for proper wire wrapped splicing, tie-offs at braces, brace construction and all other aspects of barbwire fence installation.
This is a how you do it when you are a wanna be farmer. This isnt a real fence, will it work for some time sure but this is garbage in the making.
@@EternallyGod so teach us how to fence, great one 🙏🏻
Do you have a video on doing a fence on a pice of ground that is not level, that would either be sloped, have dips, humps, combination?
when conecting 2 wires wrap them back to themselves, what you did will not hold up it will loosen
The way they demonstrated is correct, even if their wraps weren't quite tight enough. The way you suggest is terrible; it will be loose in a month. One suspects you haven't repaired much barbed wire fence...
Very helpful video. Thanks!
@jsalavar i find that if u over tighten the wire before u tie it off the slack is taken up
This is very helpful, thank you
That end post is going to spin. The fence was connected to the side fo the post and was not centered. The result is that the fence will loosen up.
How do you think woven wire is tied off? It sure as hell isn’t in the middle of the post
@@nalley6815 Think it through. It is looped around the post and then tied and twisted back onto itself, so it's centered. Not complicated.
@@Cotronixco no it isn’t 😂 how do you think it’s gonna be centered with a brace post and brace wire in the way? It’s not complicated
@@nalley6815 Simple physics. Easy to do. You can't do it.
@@Cotronixco you’re clearly missing what I’m saying. Go build some fence and come back to me
This is really helpfull, thank you very much!
Why not use a fence stretcher and fence pliers?
Starting with bottom wire works best? I’ve alway done top first guess I’m wrong.
It will take 1 roll of 1320' Barbed Wire. Retail on barbed wire is about $70 per roll
Red Brand i got TWO rolls for 70$. why does yours cost twice as much???
@@MyFathersBusinessLLC Quality?
If you nailed both ends to the post wouldn’t you end up with a big mess of tangled wire?
Thanks so much edifying
I learnt much thnks
Gracias por el video, me ha servido de mucho en la instalación de cercas de púas, solo me gustaría si me puedes dar las medidas de distancia (altura) que usas en cada alambre, desde el piso hasta arriba, yo ocupo 4 alambres (cierre interno) y 5 alambres en cierre perimetral, muchas gracias.
Thanks for taking the time to post a video but I also dont buy chinese products.
Great video, also nice deere in the background is it a 6400?
Thanks guys!
nice... when to use a 6 wire vs 5 wire fence or just go woven? thanks...:)
i have tall wooden fences. how do you recommend installing barbed wires on these?
super helpful
Thanks boys
OK, cool vid but you guys need to update. No need for 2 guys walking out the wire. They make handle that fit on wire spool handle that spins. One guy pulls , one guy holds handle that is holding spool. If your running more than 600 ft hook wire to tractor and go slow while one guys still holding handle.
onlyonespike OK, then let’s see you try to carry a full fucking spoil of barbed wire. Over 110+pounds. That’s why they have 2 people buddy.
How would you put barb wire on the top of the chain link fence to ward off intruders?
Great stuff! you make it look easy! be sure to check out our instructional fencing videos all the way from New Zealand too!
In N.Z, i used to always , use S.R,Strainers, with that B/W you are using, you need to stretch the wire in middle of strain, in say 3 places, i usually strain from the middle of strain, check wire not tangled, strain up and tie, or crimp off, a much better product, is High Tensile barb, it wont stretch. but well made fence.
thanks
So does the barb wire go on the animal side or outside?
Animal side
im from new Zealand this is old technology we use 10,000 volt electric fences
Bradley in new zealand, yall are a bunch of gays. remind me not to buy electrified beef from you. lazy bitch.
greater419 was ur great great uncle joseph glidden?
which is the distance betwenn each post?
What gauge wire? For cattle?
Huh....well, now I know how to put up a barb wire fence...good stuff to know for a cityboy:P
You lost me at leave a bow in the wire, that’s tight enough😂 most wire needs a good stretch and then tighten it up until it’s twang tight. 🤔
Where can I get one of those wire grab devices at 2:20?
How much does it cost to install a barbwire fence on an acre of land
Badmus Olalekan it costs 3$ per t post, 5 dollara per wood post, and a roll of barbed wire is 40$. do the math, then decide whether or not you need a man to do it for you, or of you are a man at all.....
@@MyFathersBusinessLLC Dude- where tf are you getting t-posts for $3/ea? I just bought 1200 for $8.
What is the spacing on the wire? from the bottom up? 5 stran
Trey K 18", 27", 36", 45". from the ground with a post height of 48"
no, that'll keep em in
how
why??
3:50 horrible information. You shouldn't drive the staples in tight they should allow the wire to move freely
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It's that simple, just go to the woodprix plans website and enter the world of woodworkers.
i hate when people block with wire in dayz.
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IN 1:33 A GIRL NEED TWO HANDS AND DELAYING THAT MAN
that's politics, we are in business, and we don't talk about the politics.
Robin Liu because everyone would hate you. you dont talk politics, for the same reason a thief doesnt discuss the law. ill never buy a redbrand product.
Someone send this to Donald trump please
Trump needs to have to put up that damn fence by himself , well I guess he could get Puttin to help.
@@tonywilliams7478 your to stupid to talk , shut up !
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I make every effort I can NOT to buy anything from China.
Robert Zornes impossible even when you buy a american car half would be sourced from china in parts. Everything has Chinese components in it