Well, back in the day when we were raising a few cows
we would buy a mineral, protein tub like this
that the cows would lick on to increase their nutrient intake.
So I have a number of these that let over and they
kind of get curled over because of the sun,
so I'm gonna take and just cut the bottom out of this
and try to save this inner circle.
This is the swivel hook that I use to unwind my barbed wire with,
as I would carry it on this sling on the back of this 4-wheeler it would just unwind.
Well I broke one of the hooks off of it,
so that's why I remade this little 2 wheel dolly
that will carry my spool.
My little two wheel dolly is just going to hook up
to the back of my 4-wheeler
like so.
And, if everything works according to plan...
I've got to open this up just a little bit here.
a little on the tight side.
There.
So, as I go along
it'll just unwind.
Well it's pretty windy up here.
I don't know how that's gonna affect this mic.
But I had a partial roll left off of my last 3 strands,
so I'm gonna run it out and then I'll switch over to my new roll,
splice it in and that should finish out my last two strands,
I'm just gonna carry t his along with me
Gonna run this out.
Well I'm probably about there.
It doesn't really like this last little bit does it?
Well I'll run that out by hand.
I'm gonna need my fencing pliers here.
So I split these two strands
and I'm gonna go
one direction
and the other one is gonna come the opposite direction.
And the same with the other side.
So that came that way. I've gotta go the opposite direction.
So there's a splice that'll never come apart.
It'll take however much pull you can put on it.
So now i'll stretch it out.
Now I'm gonna get this fourth strand kind of tied off
but I'm not gonna put it under tension yet.
I'm gonna go show you what I did
with my top three.
I have the top two about where I want.
I'll show you where I've gotta put a little more tension
on this number three strand.
Well on this stretch that I'm sticking in,
you can see, I've got a dip here,
pretty strong, and then kind of a crown
and another dip and another crown.
So where I'm real low, my wires right now, are real high.
You can see I'm headed in a dip here,
Now this is m y first wire.
I put some tension on it, and then
what I did was, go up here to this low tie,
which is at the bottom of my draw here.
and just made sure
that this will come down to that tie where I want.
When I bring that down that's gonna increase the tension.
But the I bring it down there, it'll be pretty fair.
So I use that one for my top gauge for tension
so as I'm setting my other wires in,
I want to put them in about equal space.
Well you can see I'm pretty close on my top two,
but my third wire is sagging a little bit
so I need to increase the tension on it
a little bit more and then when I do my fourth strand,
which is way down here,
I'll tension it up
to where these strands are about in this position.
and that will be equalizing the tension on my strands.
And every time I hump a crown,
I'll take and clip the wires to that high spot post
and it's gonna go down til the next crown.
Well I'm not putting my wire on my posts as they go down,
just on the high spots. So when I get all my tension equalized
then I bring my wires down to my low posts,
it's actually going to increase the tension,
but it's keep the all the same.
These are my top two.
I brought my third wire up.
I'm pretty close where it needs to be.
My fourth wire is just a foot off the ground.
I'll bring it up to where it's right tin here somewhere.
Well I've got company that showed up.
Down a little further,
there's our heifer, that had a baby heifer.
The little heifer was supposed to be open.
That's why I got her and
two days ago she had a calf.
Well I've got my fourth one right in there pretty close.
Their about the same. I'm gonna do a five strand
so I'll put one more wire and have it set in about here.
The I'll go ahead and mount them all to the posts.
Now as I walk along, I think you can see,
we've got all 5 strands up
fairly close spacing.
This is going back up the other side of the draw.
I don't have any clips on these posts yet.
They're all just having free.
Pretty equally spaced.
So this is the top of one crown.
I have the wires clipped to that post.
That's the first post.
Then we are free again.
None of these wires are attached to the posts yet.
We're going down through another little draw.
And through all this we're staying pretty equally spaced.
We're headed back up another shallow little draw.
And this is the crease of another little crown.
I have my wires attached that post
Then from here, to the end brace,
we're hanging free.
I noticed, as I'm walking back in to the sun
it might actually show this wire a little more in the refection.
You can see they stay pretty equal through this draw
where noting is attached.
Now this is the deepest draw
where I have the railroad tie set.
It was actually set before in the old fence,
See my wires are pretty equal.
So this is my deepest point, my deepest draw.
So I'll take and start here first.
I'll bring my wires down, ,put them in position.
I still have hole here where the old wires were.
One, two, three, four, five.
I may not use those measurements.
But I'll take the deepest first,
and then I go the next, and then I
bring up the crowns and kind of make this wire flow
with the contour of the terrain.
So this isn't really meant to be
a lecture, or a school on how to,
how to hang fence. It's just ow I do it.
I do start with the top, cause that's what preloads,
and puts tension on all the end braces.
It seems all those joints tight.
And then I work down.
But it's kind of like, I think, potato salad.
Everybody makes it al intel bit different.
Some like it this way, some like it that,
and some don't like somebody else's potato salad.
Of course my wife makes the best.
So there's lots of different ways to build fence.
This is just how I do it to try equalize the tension
and then I attach it to the posts afterwards
Such as it is, that's how I do it.
Appreciate you following along!.
So since this is the down hill side, there's a lot of pressure up
I'm gonna double staple.
I don't set em tight.
I don't like to crimp em in.
A little loose so they can move
so as I set the rest of the fence, they can all adjust.
We'll go from there.