A supposed Mark Twain quote: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
I always say… the times I miss my dad most, are those times when (if he were still here) I would turn to him and tell him he had been right about one thing or another.
Never had a father and it's been hell learning trade skills because everyone thinks I'm retarded when I say idk how to do something. So CZcams has become my father
I don't have a ranch and I have never worked with barbed wire - and unlikely will ever do so - but I still watched this from start to finish. 😂 Thank you sir.
Still can use it for any other wire and some extent on string too. One i have been using is the bow saw tightening method with stick and two strings being rotated, but this seems far better in that extent. Could maybe even use it to create pull on smaller tree if you dont have ratchet strap or dedicated felling tools around.
I’m 74, lived on a farm growing up and helped my uncle run fencing for the cow pastures. We used stretchers to tighten wires but I never saw this trick before. Pretty slick
I love that he’s handing down knowledge that his father showed him. The older you get the more you realise what a privilege it is to have things like this to draw on from people you care about and to be able to share that knowledge with others 🙌💕
Thats good, these damn 20 year olds now probably are too scared to get sweaty or dirty. You probably put more work in per day at 86 than the average 20 year old does in a week.
Same here 74, I don't work with barbed wire a lot, but I like videos like this . We can learn a lot from our dads, if they will take the time & we will listen and pay attention.
i'm not a rancher. i've never messed with barb wire. this just seems to be one of those 'nifty' tricks that is good to know. good job showing how to pull through the loop and then how to roll the hammer back over the loop to lock it in. this was cool. nice video.
Done it with a hammer, modified fence pliers and home made t handles. The wrapping trick is the key and your explanation was excellent. Some will say it weakens the wire but then again doesn't everything. Years of mending fence says this works very well.
Agreed. Weakened wire is better than a hole. You have to be practical when you have livestock, that you don't want roaming. This is a fast and efficient way to repair a fence with minimal tools. If someone is stuck on one particular way they can always come back later and re-do it.
@@montanawarren8462 Remember..technique demonstration, not application.. illustration purposes(and possibly saving the cameraperson's back..if they arent 3-4' tall kid..), show the top wire, so viewer can see clearly, and also so instructor shows a more "relaxed' working pose.. Instruction has 3 distinct parts: demonstration, student learning, and application.. Someone else's Dad taught me to see the bigger picture, & to not keep it to myself..
@@jbuckley2546 ? You got ponies to clean up after I guess..was a neutral comment, not trying to one up anyone..but seems you need more attention than how life lessons work..
@@jbuckley2546 ..Just curious , if you have ever heard of a tool called a field expedient..it's kinda like a Swiss army knife in a way.. ("thistle" give us all a laugh!)
I'm 57 years old and know absolutely nothing about barbed wire fence, but I can offer another great tip... next time tell your camera guy to GET CLOSER !!!
Some many “amazing” technique videos on CZcams are a complete waste of time / impractical. It is lovely to finally find one that is so useful, thank you.
I'm 72 but a newby to fence fixin and have been trying to use a fence stretcher to tighten up the fence I built a few yesrs ago, just me & my tractor. Now THIS method looks much more affective! Thank you!
I moved onto a remote 1883 farm with about all the skills of first visiting my uncle's dairy farm as a kid. What a learning curve just for basics! I've almost got coiling down but nothing close to the stunning tight coils of those before me. Learned I had made a hash on DIY tightening as the elderly owner came out and slung around a heavy "goldenrod" like a maestro and schooled me right. Also very impressed with an old fencing wagon that was abandoned and melted into the grass. Tripped over metal and recovered 4 pre-1900 iron straighteners I thought were some kind of steampunk industrial come-alongs. Holy hell, how did they even LIFT those things much less WORK them? Good tip. 5,765 more lessons to go to just attain greenhorn status.
Damn, I have not seen that method used since my dad taught me 70 years ago. As I recall, we doubled the splice wire and only used the hammer on one strand so the other strand could easily be folded back and twisted. Then the hammer could be easily unwound and that strand also twisted around the spice wire.
This is the type of skill that has been handed down for generations and built this country that is sadly disappearing little by little. Thank you for the detailed demonstration
Wow, I don't have anything to do with fences, but I believe this could come in handy for many other applications. It's one of those tricks you want in your bag of tricks. Especially when SHTF. Thanks for sharing.
There are tricks to every trade, thank you, this is a great idea. We’re from Missouri, the show me state. Appreciate your efforts to make the video to show us how it’s done.
Thank you, for sharing your Dad’s great information on splicing barbed wire fencing back together. My wife and I inherited the small family farm. We are dealing with unscrupulous hunters that cut the wire to poach our deer and other animals that we have posted no hunting on our property. I need to repair the fencing that they cut, I really appreciate the tip that you have demonstrated in your video that your dad taught you, it is great. Thank you, and I really appreciate it very much and glad that your dad took his time and his patience to teach his skill onto you so that you could pass it on also.
As a hunter, I would say… Put up some hidden trail cams, and then turn in the poachers (so they will never get a license again)! And sue them for the damages!
An older friend had the same situation with poachers on his place. He solved the problem by leasing his property, for hunting, to just one hunter. He checked him out and got references. By doing that he knew how many deer that one hunter would take, which was far fewer than poachers. The hunter did all the work to catch the poachers on "his" lease. The friend also made a little money for the lease.
It would be interesting to know the history of some of these tactics. I am 51. My dad showed me this and I am sure his dad showed him. I am 51. From Alberta, Canada. Thanks
You need to force metal rod into wood to tie two peaces together=rock, nah it does work but might hit your hand between so lets add a handle=stone axe if sharpened peace is added and hammer otherwise. Well now i need to remove it to salvage nail since those are extremely valuable at the time. Well cant pull it or hit it out effectively.. perhaps something that goes around the nail back end= peace of metal with slot in the middle. Hey lets add this to hammer so it can both remove and install nails and lets make it from metal! Ou there is not much force to pull the nail, not enough leverage, lets add this bend on the puller side for that=more of less modern hammer. Then someone needed to tighten wire and realized you need more leverage, had seen how pulleys and hoists worked to decided to use hammer head as a pulley and use handle as leverage since that was all he had around that the time. Something like that in short form is probably what happened.
@@mattbrown837 I've done this to tighten wire because, being a girl, I'd only ever been told to "stay back in case the wire breaks" instead of being taught how TO do such things. (Glad to know I wouldn't have been laughed at for my figure-it-out fix.)
I learned this hack way back in 1978. My Dad taught us all how to splice barb-wire fences that were damaged/broke/cut. This is the first time I've seen it demonstrated.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 Also just looked at it apparently in 1955 MIT nerds were using the term... so maybe you need to research before just commenting random stuff
@@tristancoffin Ah, another smartarse - must be something in the air. I obviously wasn't talking about the term "hack" being used in the World of computing, unless you see fence repair as being part of the computing sphere. I was talking about "hack" being used as a substitute for "tip" throughout the general population - decorating hacks, baking hacks, gardening hacks, cleaning your bathroom hacks, homesteading hacks etc etc. None of these have anything to do with the computing World. "Hack" meaning tip only entered general usage a few years ago, even if, decades ago, it was used in a different context in the coding World. Next time you want to shoot someone down over an Innocent comment, it'd probably be a good idea to engage your brain first.
A so turning the wire around the handle of the one screw driver and using usually there is hole for hanging it on the wall, but you put second driver trough it to increase leverage, the pulling back using rest of the handle and another end? Sounds pretty good actually, except slight torture for the tools. No thank you for sharing, didnt consider this and now its on my mental tool bag.
That very last sentence is a huge reason for the problems in this world. We need dads, not youtube. What's really sad is so many youths are watching youtube instead of learning something from their dad
That's a great tip! Here's one that helped me: Get some compound diagonal cutters. Cuts through double strand like butter. My forearms actually got smaller after I bought one, it's amazing how much force you have to use to cut wire.
This method my grand father used back in the 1920s on the ranch and I always did it this way neat to see you showing it. It is the best way wire won’t slip back.
Been doing this for many many years. Yes the loop ends are sharply bent and weaknd but usually the fence is old and weak anyway. Otherwise would not need fixing. Actually used this method just yesterday.
That is ingenious! I would have gone for a fence stretcher instead but they are much more cumbersome than a hammer and still leave a bit of slack. Thanks, I'll be using that technique on my next fencing project.
This is such a cool trick! I used to do something similar with pliers but I just couldn't get it out in the same smooth way. Hammer saves the day, once again.
We used to loop and get as much out as possible and then put something smooth metal between like a piece of conduit and turn that until tight then back off 1/4 and slide out. I like this trick and will try this next time. Never too late to try something new
I used to do what you described with 14 gauge wire. You can twist it with the handle of your cutters or a screwdriver. To me, it seems quicker than the hammer trick. Plus, If what you're using to twist has a taper, then you don't even need to back it off to get your tool out.
Taught by my uncle back in '61 (after Carla hit) and sent out to repair "several" breaks. And yes, he inspected the first 20. Paid me a $ for each one and trusted me for the other 25. Whole lot of money for a 10 year old 😅
Lee Valley Tools sells a kit that uses the same principle to make hose clamps. When done right, the result is a clamping effect that's smooth and pleasing to the eye , and when wrapped with tape is almost invisible.
The “clamp tite” wire tool. I repaired a 12lb sledgehammer handle with three DOUBLED bindings, and some hockey tape. We used that hammer for another three months before the handle broke again in another spot. The manufacturer (not Lee Valley) sells versions of that tool that will tension up to .250” wire.
Nice job! Seems like you could tie off that final loop with the hammer, too. After lifting and rolling back, instead of removing the hammer, take a couple turns around the standing wire to lock it off. Then remove the hammer. Less chance of losing the tension, less direct hand-to-wire contact, etc. Regardless, nice technique, and thanks for sharing.
This is how Grandad taught me to fix breaks and slack lines... The only difference being he wanted three wraps for each eye and they had to be tight around the strand, with each wrap stacked one after the other. Cool to see a trick that I though was a family secret. 😃
My dad taught me to start with the top strand because if you start with the bottom strands the top strands will get tangled up with the bottom strands.
Very nice! Thanks for sharing! After I get the splice done I usually just bite a piece anywhere down the length between the posts in question, and twist my lineman pliers (I think the tool is actually called a fence multi-tool pliers, but look a lot like lineman pliers), and make a "fold" or a "Z bend" then I can crimp it shut to flat. This can be done anywhere on the line, but they will occasionally cause the old, crappy, rust fence, that we've adopted on our 24 acre property, to break clean at the crimp point. I think your spice system might be a bit better, since I can use the mechanical advantage of the twisting with the hammer to get tension back to the next barb on both sides, thus avoiding the weak point(s) that I'm creating down the length of the fence. Cool idea, and thanks!
Dear GPRL I am 75 and that was an excellent way to tighten a Wire fence with simple tools that you could easily store in your Ute Permanently!! I had to laugh at the guy who said he had 46 Hammers suck in his fencing!!!
This is really cool.. I could have used this when I was still a city slicker learning all the "fun" things with keeping up the property... Earned a stripe or two quite a time ago, but not without of blood, sweat and hazing from relatives and locals.. Yeah, know your wire! I popped a few older older tensioning while repairing.. That can sting you if you push the old ones bast the limit.. I got bit.. Twice.. Anyway... There was no CZcams back then but this is great info! Thank you for sharing!
I'm 70 now but when I was young and on the farm my grandfather showed me this then about 50 years ago. I walked alot of miles repairing fence in this fashion.
I'm not a rancher. I have no barbed wire fencing around my house. I will never use this little trick that you're showing here. But I still watched this whole video just to know how to do it. CZcams has taught me so many things that I will never use 😂
@@greenerpasturesranchingltd7621 Congratulations on the number of views! 3.5K subscribers and you have 840K views on this video in 11 days. That is crazy! Good luck to you and your channel. Both of my kids have channels too. My son's channel is more popular than my daughter's, with 16K subscribers, but his highest viewed video is 312K views. Keep up the great work.
Great trick when you don't have your strainers handy. We used a Hayes brand of Fence Strainer, very simple and effective also, but nothing wrong with a handy trick like this when you don't have everything you need, thanks for sharing.
I've been looking at a broken stretch of barb wire for 6 months but didn't have anyway to make a repair tight. I'm just back from fixing that annoying piece of wire. Great hack.
Looks like unraveling the spliced wire from the hammer without losing tension is the trickiest part of the procedure, might take a few failed tries but thanks for the tip. I too am a non rancher, but always good to learn new things.
Instructions unclear, I now own 47 hammers and 46 of them are stuck in my fence.
😂😂😂
You've just made a hanger system for your tools! The next step is to build a shelter so they don't get wet...
Hammer-barb fence
Look at the bright side, Any rogue hordes of nails will think twice about crossing your perimeter 🤷🏼♂️
🤣🤣🤣
It never ceases to amaze me that the older I get, the smarter my dad becomes.
Well done.
Well said
A supposed Mark Twain quote: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
I don't think I realized this until I was almost 30. That old man worked my tail off before I went off to college and got drafted.
I always say… the times I miss my dad most, are those times when (if he were still here) I would turn to him and tell him he had been right about one thing or another.
You need more close ups off what your exactly doing!
I like the fact that his dad taught him this skill. Dads are important!
Bingo how I learned from my dad 78 . We were to poor to buy wire pullers
so having 2 dads makes it even extra special? lol
But not in the west 😂
Amen.
Never had a father and it's been hell learning trade skills because everyone thinks I'm retarded when I say idk how to do something. So CZcams has become my father
71 years old and learned a great trick before breakfast. THANKS!
DITTO
@@industrialathlete6096 me too! only now I dont have any fences haha
Our pleasure!
I'm 72 and didn't know this. He had a good dad and teacher. And looks like his dad had a good student.
44 and same boat. Still feelin just as old, haha!
This is the type of content that I've always thought makes CZcams special.
He feiled to mention something important....being of the right side of the repair. Or you have to climb trough the fence to get bck to your truck...
Agreed.. use to be.. now yt thinks I wanna watch crap mainly. Glad this came back up though
I don't have a ranch and I have never worked with barbed wire - and unlikely will ever do so - but I still watched this from start to finish. 😂
Thank you sir.
Still can use it for any other wire and some extent on string too. One i have been using is the bow saw tightening method with stick and two strings being rotated, but this seems far better in that extent. Could maybe even use it to create pull on smaller tree if you dont have ratchet strap or dedicated felling tools around.
@@Hellsong89 Great points! Thanks buddy. :)
You’ve learned something, it is applicable to other situations. Try it next time you see the opportunity! Shalam
Same here. I'm in Chicago..😂
Same
I’m 74, lived on a farm growing up and helped my uncle run fencing for the cow pastures. We used stretchers to tighten wires but I never saw this trick before. Pretty slick
You can be ignorant at any age. Never used a clamper before?
@@AFMR0420We are all ignorant in some areas. Understanding this is surely part of wisdom.
Me too!!!
I have, at present, no practical need for this information. And yet, im glad i watched. Something to file away, just in case. Excellent video.
My thoughts exactly.
You never know.
Glad it was helpful!
lol im a townie with no real need for this knowledge but for whatever reason i found this really satisfying to watch
I love that he’s handing down knowledge that his father showed him. The older you get the more you realise what a privilege it is to have things like this to draw on from people you care about and to be able to share that knowledge with others 🙌💕
This is what a clamper does. E clampus vitas.
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Good demo. I'm 86 and been stretching barb wire this way for a looooong time.
Hi Det, how is Barb doing? Still feeding the maggots?
Thats good, these damn 20 year olds now probably are too scared to get sweaty or dirty. You probably put more work in per day at 86 than the average 20 year old does in a week.
This method was used before God's dog died using sticks ... without a tool bag new hammer new pliers & never used gloves ...
I’m 70 and you taught me something new today. Thank you.
I'm 69. Eeeehhh.
Me too.
68 here in East Texas. Easier than a come-a-long on small project.
Same here 74, I don't work with barbed wire a lot, but I like videos like this . We can learn a lot from our dads, if they will take the time & we will listen and pay attention.
i'm not a rancher. i've never messed with barb wire. this just seems to be one of those 'nifty' tricks that is good to know. good job showing how to pull through the loop and then how to roll the hammer back over the loop to lock it in. this was cool. nice video.
Same here. I don't even have a garden but one never knows when this might come in handy.
I’m 143 years old and i learned something new today
How many days is that?
@@AFMR0420 that's 52,195 days not including leap years
Lol I'm 144. Get out of here youth.
I got ya beat. I'm three days older than God's dog. 😅
I am god’s dog 🤔
Done it with a hammer, modified fence pliers and home made t handles. The wrapping trick is the key and your explanation was excellent. Some will say it weakens the wire but then again doesn't everything. Years of mending fence says this works very well.
Excellent!
Use the correct tool once you will be amazed.😂
Agreed. Weakened wire is better than a hole. You have to be practical when you have livestock, that you don't want roaming. This is a fast and efficient way to repair a fence with minimal tools. If someone is stuck on one particular way they can always come back later and re-do it.
@AL4N. Yes, but sometimes you dont have those tools
Jake’ wire tighteners. Far quicker and easier. This is a good trick if you are in a pinch, but I keep 50 of the Jake’s around.
You get fewer gouges on the forearms if you start on the lowest wire first.
This is an experienced barbed wire fixer....
@@montanawarren8462 Remember..technique demonstration, not application.. illustration purposes(and possibly saving the cameraperson's back..if they arent 3-4' tall kid..), show the top wire, so viewer can see clearly, and also so instructor shows a more "relaxed' working pose..
Instruction has 3 distinct parts: demonstration, student learning, and application..
Someone else's Dad taught me to see the bigger picture, & to not keep it to myself..
@@francisconti9085 What a load of pony. You just don't like the fact the dude is much smarter then you.
@@jbuckley2546 ? You got ponies to clean up after I guess..was a neutral comment, not trying to one up anyone..but seems you need more attention than how life lessons work..
@@jbuckley2546 ..Just curious , if you have ever heard of a tool called a field expedient..it's kinda like a Swiss army knife in a way.. ("thistle" give us all a laugh!)
Getting the wire tight by hand is never enough. I'll be using this trick. Thank you and your dad.
I aint a rancher but I do like watching people being clever, this is awesome! Never would have thought it in a million years.
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I'm 57 years old and know absolutely nothing about barbed wire fence, but I can offer another great tip... next time tell your camera guy to GET CLOSER !!!
Ha!
Thinking same
The second demonstration can't get any closer...are you people blind?
I learned that trick working on a cattle ranch in Southern Colorado about 45 years ago. Thanks for sharing so others could learn.
Some many “amazing” technique videos on CZcams are a complete waste of time / impractical. It is lovely to finally find one that is so useful, thank you.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm 72 but a newby to fence fixin and have been trying to use a fence stretcher to tighten up the fence I built a few yesrs ago, just me & my tractor. Now THIS method looks much more affective! Thank you!
Good luck!
I moved onto a remote 1883 farm with about all the skills of first visiting my uncle's dairy farm as a kid. What a learning curve just for basics! I've almost got coiling down but nothing close to the stunning tight coils of those before me. Learned I had made a hash on DIY tightening as the elderly owner came out and slung around a heavy "goldenrod" like a maestro and schooled me right.
Also very impressed with an old fencing wagon that was abandoned and melted into the grass. Tripped over metal and recovered 4 pre-1900 iron straighteners I thought were some kind of steampunk industrial come-alongs. Holy hell, how did they even LIFT those things much less WORK them? Good tip. 5,765 more lessons to go to just attain greenhorn status.
I learned this trick at nine years old from my nine year old cousin in 1969 when I spent the summer on his families’ Iowa farm.
Damn, I have not seen that method used since my dad taught me 70 years ago. As I recall, we doubled the splice wire and only used the hammer on one strand so the other strand could easily be folded back and twisted. Then the hammer could be easily unwound and that strand also twisted around the spice wire.
I'm a city girl but for whatever reason I've been binging these kind of videos.
Pro tip. Start at the bottom and work your way up so you aren't chewing on the top wire while you're working on the wires below it.
This is the type of skill that has been handed down for generations and built this country that is sadly disappearing little by little. Thank you for the detailed demonstration
Wow, I don't have anything to do with fences, but I believe this could come in handy for many other applications. It's one of those tricks you want in your bag of tricks. Especially when SHTF. Thanks for sharing.
Its really good you shot a video about essentially tying knots from 25 feet away. Good job!
Do you people even watch full videos? He literally does it zoomed in later in the video...People have the brain capacity of a gnat...
No more buying strainers for me thanks to your method, definitely going to save me money Thank you for sharing.
Glad to help
Thank you for a clear and concise tip.
You're welcome!
I learned that 45 yrs ago . Shocked many people when I did it
They all asked me how can I get the fence tightened lol 😂
It's not electric --- HAHA
Yeah, they probably wanted to do it the hard way and waste time.
There are tricks to every trade, thank you, this is a great idea. We’re from Missouri, the show me state. Appreciate your efforts to make the video to show us how it’s done.
Thank you, for sharing your Dad’s great information on splicing barbed wire fencing back together. My wife and I inherited the small family farm. We are dealing with unscrupulous hunters that cut the wire to poach our deer and other animals that we have posted no hunting on our property. I need to repair the fencing that they cut, I really appreciate the tip that you have demonstrated in your video that your dad taught you, it is great. Thank you, and I really appreciate it very much and glad that your dad took his time and his patience to teach his skill onto you so that you could pass it on also.
We will keep sharing the knowledge.
As a hunter, I would say… Put up some hidden trail cams, and then turn in the poachers (so they will never get a license again)! And sue them for the damages!
easy fix. I.E.D's
Eye e dees
An older friend had the same situation with poachers on his place. He solved the problem by leasing his property, for hunting, to just one hunter. He checked him out and got references. By doing that he knew how many deer that one hunter would take, which was far fewer than poachers. The hunter did all the work to catch the poachers on "his" lease. The friend also made a little money for the lease.
It would be interesting to know the history of some of these tactics. I am 51. My dad showed me this and I am sure his dad showed him. I am 51. From Alberta, Canada. Thanks
64 my dad showed me this 50 years ago. He was from Texas.
You need to force metal rod into wood to tie two peaces together=rock, nah it does work but might hit your hand between so lets add a handle=stone axe if sharpened peace is added and hammer otherwise. Well now i need to remove it to salvage nail since those are extremely valuable at the time. Well cant pull it or hit it out effectively.. perhaps something that goes around the nail back end= peace of metal with slot in the middle. Hey lets add this to hammer so it can both remove and install nails and lets make it from metal! Ou there is not much force to pull the nail, not enough leverage, lets add this bend on the puller side for that=more of less modern hammer. Then someone needed to tighten wire and realized you need more leverage, had seen how pulleys and hoists worked to decided to use hammer head as a pulley and use handle as leverage since that was all he had around that the time.
Something like that in short form is probably what happened.
@@mattbrown837 I've done this to tighten wire because, being a girl, I'd only ever been told to "stay back in case the wire breaks" instead of being taught how TO do such things. (Glad to know I wouldn't have been laughed at for my figure-it-out fix.)
@@dawnmcr802women should be protected from injury. They bring forth more of us. Protecting those that bring life is good.
@@Hellsong89 huh? what you on?
As soon as I heard the accent I knew I was going to see something new to me. Great trick, howdy from West Texas.
Core memory unlocked. My dad taught me this when I was in high school.
I don't farm or ranch, even though i would love to. I really like learning tricks like this to help with certain situations 👌. Too notch material!
I learned this hack way back in 1978. My Dad taught us all how to splice barb-wire fences that were damaged/broke/cut. This is the first time I've seen it demonstrated.
Surely in 1978 it would have been a tip.
"Hack" didn't seem to besmirch the English language until about 5 yeard ago.
@@ianmacfarlane1241 "Life hack" has been coined for 2 decades
@@ianmacfarlane1241 considering that coding goes back into the 80s (Apple 2c is 77) at least I think you just weren't the crowd for it
@@ianmacfarlane1241 Also just looked at it apparently in 1955 MIT nerds were using the term... so maybe you need to research before just commenting random stuff
@@tristancoffin Ah, another smartarse - must be something in the air.
I obviously wasn't talking about the term "hack" being used in the World of computing, unless you see fence repair as being part of the computing sphere.
I was talking about "hack" being used as a substitute for "tip" throughout the general population - decorating hacks, baking hacks, gardening hacks, cleaning your bathroom hacks, homesteading hacks etc etc.
None of these have anything to do with the computing World.
"Hack" meaning tip only entered general usage a few years ago, even if, decades ago, it was used in a different context in the coding World.
Next time you want to shoot someone down over an Innocent comment, it'd probably be a good idea to engage your brain first.
I've been using 2 screwdrivers as a windlass, but I love how you use the hammer. Very clever, and thank you for sharing.
A so turning the wire around the handle of the one screw driver and using usually there is hole for hanging it on the wall, but you put second driver trough it to increase leverage, the pulling back using rest of the handle and another end? Sounds pretty good actually, except slight torture for the tools. No thank you for sharing, didnt consider this and now its on my mental tool bag.
Very welcome!
I don't have a ranch, farm or do anything that involves fences, but I watched the whole video and it was very entertaining ..... cheers from Mexico
That is why you dont have a ranch!!
@@thefamily512 right, I own commercial buildings, I don't need to know how to fix barb wire...
I only clicked because I miss working on a ranch from when I was a teenager. Definitely a good tip. Now instead of dads, we have youtube.
That very last sentence is a huge reason for the problems in this world. We need dads, not youtube. What's really sad is so many youths are watching youtube instead of learning something from their dad
great hammer trick,,,,ive spliced many broken fences,,,bit iam an old timer and love learning new tricks
Glad you enjoyed it
Uncle Ben taught us this. My brother learned it but I forget it every time. Nice job explaining,I’ll try learning again.
You can do it!
All I learned from uncle be is that with great power comes great responsibility.
Love THAT ! No nonsense!
Straightforward
“ field “ genius !
Don't know why I'm watching this but this is great.
That's a great tip! Here's one that helped me: Get some compound diagonal cutters. Cuts through double strand like butter. My forearms actually got smaller after I bought one, it's amazing how much force you have to use to cut wire.
Great tip!
😊hey Neat Trick !!!!! I’m going to use it . I’m always having to fix my fence. Thank you so much & God bless you
You are so welcome
This right here, is why youtube is handy,
clear video example, no fluff, to the point
This method my grand father used back in the 1920s on the ranch and I always did it this way neat to see you showing it. It is the best way wire won’t slip back.
Thanks for sharing
Been doing this for many many years. Yes the loop ends are sharply bent and weaknd but usually the fence is old and weak anyway. Otherwise would not need fixing. Actually used this method just yesterday.
That is ingenious! I would have gone for a fence stretcher instead but they are much more cumbersome than a hammer and still leave a bit of slack. Thanks, I'll be using that technique on my next fencing project.
I'll never buy a fence stretcher. They end up rusting out in 2 years.
This is such a cool trick! I used to do something similar with pliers but I just couldn't get it out in the same smooth way. Hammer saves the day, once again.
Glad you liked it!
I've never thought of using a hammer as a winch before. Thanks for sharing.
No problem 👍
We used to loop and get as much out as possible and then put something smooth metal between like a piece of conduit and turn that until tight then back off 1/4 and slide out. I like this trick and will try this next time. Never too late to try something new
I used to do what you described with 14 gauge wire. You can twist it with the handle of your cutters or a screwdriver. To me, it seems quicker than the hammer trick. Plus, If what you're using to twist has a taper, then you don't even need to back it off to get your tool out.
Taught by my uncle back in '61 (after Carla hit) and sent out to repair "several" breaks. And yes, he inspected the first 20. Paid me a $ for each one and trusted me for the other 25. Whole lot of money for a 10 year old 😅
I fix fence all the time and was very excited to see this, can't wait to try it out.
Very nice trick! So wish I learned this years ago!
Doubt I'll ever forget it now. THANKS!!!
Made this old man's morning!!
Good fence fixing hack explained very well! May have to practice it a couple of times . Thanks for posting it .
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks buddy all my hammers are now stuck in my fence haha
I see a lot of sticks incorporated into splices. 😆 🤣
That would be my luck too😅
Better watch again, took me several tries years ago 😂
Watch it all the way through. Lol
You clearly need more hammers.
The mark of a great field mechanic is how few tools they need to do the job
I may never need to know how to do this, but it's cool that you've shared this trick.
Was that one of the intended uses of that tool? Love the generational knowledge.
It doesn't take too many times before you learn to do the bottom first and work your way up.
Thanks for making these Videos and sharing your knowledge Steve! I have been thoroughly enjoying discovering your content and podcasts.
Neighbors' cows and my horses and donkeys keep me busy. Nice video. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
Lee Valley Tools sells a kit that uses the same principle to make hose clamps. When done right, the result is a clamping effect that's smooth and pleasing to the eye , and when wrapped with tape is almost invisible.
The “clamp tite” wire tool. I repaired a 12lb sledgehammer handle with three DOUBLED bindings, and some hockey tape. We used that hammer for another three months before the handle broke again in another spot.
The manufacturer (not Lee Valley) sells versions of that tool that will tension up to .250” wire.
Nice job! Seems like you could tie off that final loop with the hammer, too. After lifting and rolling back, instead of removing the hammer, take a couple turns around the standing wire to lock it off. Then remove the hammer. Less chance of losing the tension, less direct hand-to-wire contact, etc.
Regardless, nice technique, and thanks for sharing.
Good tip!
Readily useful info! Thank you! I may just go back to my shoddy splices and tone them up now. It's hammer time... 🔨
Rock on!
If i had never worked with barbed wite this might be confusing but having done this before it makes total sense
Your video needed to be zoomed in when you inserted the hammer.
Must of viewed it on your (not so) smart phone.
Great video, great idea ! Thank you !
Glad you liked it!
This is how Grandad taught me to fix breaks and slack lines... The only difference being he wanted three wraps for each eye and they had to be tight around the strand, with each wrap stacked one after the other. Cool to see a trick that I though was a family secret. 😃
Watching from Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹, great job 👍🏽
Nice trick. In our country "barbless barbwire" is called smooth wire.
Ok. Hey Billy go back to the barn and get some wire. Billy: You want barbed wire or smooth wire? Understand now Billy??@@williamsharp2532
In my country the [Gates] of h3ll is buying up all the grazing land.
It's actually called barbless barbwire when I have to order it. 🤠👍
Excellent. Pick up the cut ends and start with the Bottom Strand in a real situation.
My dad taught me to start with the top strand because if you start with the bottom strands the top strands will get tangled up with the bottom strands.
I guess that is possible. My thought is that it could be painful working beneath taut barbed wire.@@hillsidefarmer6762
@hillsidefarmer662 My Dad taught me to always start with the top wire ,if you don't by the time you get to it, your other wires will be become loose.
Hmmmmmmmm. So then the Top Wire will become loose? Always more that one way to do things. @@davidgregg2778
Having grown up in the farm, I never knew there was something else I didn't know!!! Amazing trick...
Very nice! Thanks for sharing! After I get the splice done I usually just bite a piece anywhere down the length between the posts in question, and twist my lineman pliers (I think the tool is actually called a fence multi-tool pliers, but look a lot like lineman pliers), and make a "fold" or a "Z bend" then I can crimp it shut to flat. This can be done anywhere on the line, but they will occasionally cause the old, crappy, rust fence, that we've adopted on our 24 acre property, to break clean at the crimp point. I think your spice system might be a bit better, since I can use the mechanical advantage of the twisting with the hammer to get tension back to the next barb on both sides, thus avoiding the weak point(s) that I'm creating down the length of the fence.
Cool idea, and thanks!
Yes. It works great. There are quite a few nay sayers. Lol
Get yourself down to Texas and show the National Guard this trick!
Mexico paid for a wall that 45 had put up from Calif to near Browsville Tx . I bet you forgot that ,right ?
That is hilarious but sad at the same time
I'll be happy to head down there. 😂
Yeah, and add a 2nd wire too!
They know how....they just don't
Old timer showed me this. It’s my preferred method if I don’t feel like packing a stretcher. 👍🏻
an original idea? Love seeing original fixer-up ideas
Well, now... saw something new today. Hello from South Carolina.
I don’t own a ranch or ever work with barb wire, but I still enjoyed the video and maybe I will be in a bind someday that this will get me out of.
Dear GPRL I am 75 and that was an excellent way to tighten a Wire fence with simple tools that you could easily store in your Ute Permanently!! I had to laugh at the guy who said he had 46 Hammers suck in his fencing!!!
Yes. All sorts of keyboard warriors on here. Lol.
@@greenerpasturesranchingltd7621 You did a good job with your video. D you have other videos in mind?
This made my whole day. Wish I was raised on lots of land.
This is really cool.. I could have used this when I was still a city slicker learning all the "fun" things with keeping up the property... Earned a stripe or two quite a time ago, but not without of blood, sweat and hazing from relatives and locals.. Yeah, know your wire! I popped a few older older tensioning while repairing.. That can sting you if you push the old ones bast the limit.. I got bit.. Twice.. Anyway... There was no CZcams back then but this is great info! Thank you for sharing!
I’m 75 and a half and I learned something new today!
Great fix! I actually hate barbed wire.
I'm 70 now but when I was young and on the farm my grandfather showed me this then about 50 years ago. I walked alot of miles repairing fence in this fashion.
I'm not a rancher. I have no barbed wire fencing around my house. I will never use this little trick that you're showing here. But I still watched this whole video just to know how to do it. CZcams has taught me so many things that I will never use 😂
Excellent!
@@greenerpasturesranchingltd7621 Congratulations on the number of views! 3.5K subscribers and you have 840K views on this video in 11 days. That is crazy! Good luck to you and your channel. Both of my kids have channels too. My son's channel is more popular than my daughter's, with 16K subscribers, but his highest viewed video is 312K views. Keep up the great work.
Great trick when you don't have your strainers handy. We used a Hayes brand of Fence Strainer, very simple and effective also, but nothing wrong with a handy trick like this when you don't have everything you need, thanks for sharing.
Very cool i pride myself on knowing every trick in the book but this is a new one for me.
Watched the whole video . Don't know if I'll ever need this info but hey, the more u know! Thanks man.
I've been looking at a broken stretch of barb wire for 6 months but didn't have anyway to make a repair tight. I'm just back from fixing that annoying piece of wire. Great hack.
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Looks like unraveling the spliced wire from the hammer without losing tension is the trickiest part of the procedure, might take a few failed tries but thanks for the tip. I too am a non rancher, but always good to learn new things.
You are correct
I was taught to do the same thing. But with pliers. Thanks Jim.
I have never googled fence tips, I will never need this information and yet here I am.
Purdy handy! My t-post driver and wire stretchers get "barrowed" all of the time, so I never actually know where they are at.