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Explaining Fence Specifications and Wire Types

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Day 2 fencing competition! Modern Fence building Machines that do everything!

What happens here

The narrator explains the specific fence type being constructed for the competition: a net wire fence utilizing Merriwether Wire and American Timber & Steel posts. He specifies that the fence will feature barbed wire across the top and smooth wire at the bottom. The path of the fence includes a 'jog', meaning it changes direction, and requires a gate installation. He introduces two common brace types: the 'Ranch Brace', a traditional mortise and tenon design, and a simpler round-peg version. The importance of proper bracing for tension is highlighted. The narrator also introduces Luke, from Farm Fence Solutions and Merriwether Wire, who explains that their company is now manufacturing fence wire in the US to address past supply chain issues and maintain high quality, including fixed knot, high-tensile, and square knot wire.

Goal: This step details the specific types of fence construction required for the competition, including net wire with barbed and smooth wire, different brace designs, and the materials used, emphasizing the blend of traditional and modern techniques.

Tools and materials

  • American Timber & Steel Posts
  • Barbed Wire
  • Measuring Tape
  • Net Wire
  • Post Level
  • Smooth Wire

What they say

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nuggets ni thanks Tony thank you appreciate you all right guys lots of posts getting pounded here thanks so much for joining us here on the stery Ridge Farm Channel let's walk you through what we've got to build and you can see some of this is already getting built out here a certain spec that we have to meet we'll take you through and show you that spec after the fact after we've been judged so basically they're going to build a net wire fence with Merryweather wire and American Timber and steel post all the way through here then there will be a jog in the fence in other words the fence Cuts over that direction there'll be a gate installed over here I do believe they have barb wire that's going across the top and smooth wire goes across the bottom again we'll give you the entire spec at the end with the judges and we'll walk you through and show you what people got points deducted for these guys have 6 hours to get this completed and once the first person gets done they start losing points after that so it's awesome it's not only speed it's quality too that matters the most these guys are working hard thanks guys hit that like button if you like what you're seeing here it's a good time these guys have come all the way from England so what we've got going in here is called a rant brace and you can see the guys from Great Britain have cut a round hole out and made a round Peg if you look over here we've done a bit of mortise and Tenon work right here so this is cut out and that's cut to fit this is called a rant brace dig baby dig tell me about this Stockade produces some of the most high quality uh fencing staplers there are they have the uh the first cordless tools that were invented to put Staples in post this is the st400i it's the premium farm implement for uh putting in uh staples into posts it's very efficient very quick it's temperature sensitive so you can use it in freezing or warm temperatures for a consistent shot uh these things are serviceable and we'll last we've got some in uh shot counts of over a quarter million now oh wow nice so you certainly get the use out of these things highly dependable so you've got another one here this this is a uh 315 IE tell me about that this is actually the first cordless heavy gauge stapler it shoots a 10 and 1/2 gauge staple it's a little bit thinner than the n gauge okay got uh still can be used for fencing uh smaller animals goats hemming utilities love this a lot for ground wires um it's a light Tool…

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