Unrolling sheep wire/barbed wire...ZERO COST

padowado

I made up a cost free way of unrolling wire
cut 2 round pipes 2 inches long
weld these pipes on top of a transport box
(if you have one an old one would do)
then get a pipe a bit longer than transport box
push pipe through first on top of box then through
wire and then the rest of the way.....i have unrolled
100 meter rolls of sheep and barbed wire.

reilig

padowado wrote: »

I made up a cost free way of unrolling wire
cut 2 round pipes 2 inches long
weld these pipes on top of a transport box
(if you have one an old one would do)
then get a pipe a bit longer than transport box
push pipe through first on top of box then through
wire and then the rest of the way.....i have unrolled
100 meter rolls of sheep and barbed wire.

I use a scaffolding bar and a double u clamp to hook it to the quad trailer or to the transport box. Its easy to hook on and remove and there's no welding involved.

What's your best method for tightening wire?

mayo_lad

reilig wrote: »

I use a scaffolding bar and a double u clamp to hook it to the quad trailer or to the transport box. Its easy to hook on and remove and there's no welding involved.

What's your best method for tightening wire?

the Hayes wire strainer is the best method i've found for tightening wire it's verry handy and light .


http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=514&source=gmerch

i normaly tie one end of to a stake and pull it tight to the stake .

Username John

mayo_lad wrote: »

the Hayes wire strainer is the best method i've found for tightening wire it's verry handy and light .


http://www.premier1supplies.com/detail.php?prod_id=514&source=gmerch

i normaly tie one end of to a stake and pull it tight to the stake .

+1

Although I often just tie one end to the tractor to pull it tight.

Re unrolling - majority of our place is hilly, so start at the top, open the wire, one kick and it mostly unrolls itself
Altho whether it unrolls in the exact direction you want it to is another matter. :eek:

Muckit

padowado wrote: »

I made up a cost free way of unrolling wire
cut 2 round pipes 2 inches long
weld these pipes on top of a transport box
(if you have one an old one would do)
then get a pipe a bit longer than transport box
push pipe through first on top of box then through
wire and then the rest of the way.....i have unrolled
100 meter rolls of sheep and barbed wire.

Hi padowado

Thanks for posting. I kind of follow what you mean, but a pic would be a great help.

I think a tread devoted to handy 'inventions' that lads use and have found helpful or perhaps not, would be a great source of inspiration to others. Rovi? Reilig? :rolleyes: Tralling through donedeal (when I've nothing better to do!) always brings up quirky stuff that lads have made.

I think there's a lot of farmers out there with an inventor/engineer/'mad scientist' lost in them!

reilig

Muckit wrote: »

I think there's a lot of farmers out there with an inventor/engineer/'mad scientist' lost in them!

"Necessity breeds invention"

Isn't that what they say??

If someone wants to start a thread called "inventions" or the like, I'll put a permanent link to it in the Useful Information sticky.

blue5000

Thanks Relig, and can you put up the steps for up loading photos from both a camera and a phone. I still can't manage it:o

reilig

blue5000 wrote: »

Thanks Relig, and can you put up the steps for up loading photos from both a camera and a phone. I still can't manage it:o

Check this thread out from Rovi

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055376129

quietsailor

Muckit wrote: »

Hi padowado
I think a tread devoted to handy 'inventions' that lads use and have found helpful or perhaps not, would be a great source of inspiration to others. Rovi? Reilig? :rolleyes: Tralling through donedeal (when I've nothing better to do!) always brings up quirky stuff that lads have made.

I think there's a lot of farmers out there with an inventor/engineer/'mad scientist' lost in them!

There is already a thread called Labour saving and general guntering in this forum - lads were talking about building their own bale trailers and bale handlers among other things.

If you could sticky that it would make a ready made source of inventions available on the front page of the forum all the time

Muckit

quietsailor wrote: »

There is already a thread called Labour saving and general guntering in this forum -
If you could sticky that it would make a ready made source of inventions available on the front page of the forum all the time

I tried searching for that thread but couldn't find it!! Thanks for link quietsailor!

Yes this should be stickied IMO. It's always bits like this that really interest me on boards, Farmers Journal or at ag shows. The madder the idea the better!

I'm at a bit of 'tinkering' in the workshop myself tomorrow, so that's what put it into my head. Will stick up a few photos when I see some progress!! 'Top Secret' until then!

Rovi

quietsailor wrote: »

There is already a thread called Labour saving and general guntering in this forum - lads were talking about building their own bale trailers and bale handlers among other things.

If you could sticky that it would make a ready made source of inventions available on the front page of the forum all the time

I've added that thread to the Important Threads and Useful Information thread, thanks for finding it!

quietsailor

Rovi wrote: »

I've added that thread to the Important Threads and Useful Information thread, thanks for finding it!

No worries, its a good thread to read