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support companies that help support the stony ridge farm subscribe to the channel and contact farm fence solutions for all of your fence building and tornado wire needs hey there folks this is josh stoney ridge farmer welcome back to another beautiful day here on the stoney ridge there's a boo-boo here huh had a little whoopsie had a little whoopsie with a caterpillar 953 loader and the tornado wire fence so this is titan fixed knot 13 48 12. right right and we'll define all that stuff for you guys we're gonna show you how we repair a total disaster total mess of a fence and we got luke here with farm fence solutions to teach us how the pros do it so if you ever have a woven wire piece of fence that needs to be repaired or even a high tensile wire or barbed wire this is going to be kind of the technique you'll use to repair a broken fence line right yep all right let's get busy all right guys welcome to the stoney ridge farm channel if this is your first time here please pound that like button subscribe the channel love to have you back we're on 150 acre first generation farm here in the foothills of the blue ridge mountains of north carolina we've got a special guest here luke has come all the way out from indiana in route to another fence job and he's going to help me out fixing this thing we're good friends we made good friends through youtube which has been super awesome i've got tons of awesome fencing content out there and this is just part of it so what we have and you can see i've got step in post right here someone backed around this corner was pulling a tree out of the woods right there and creamed the fence right here you don't have to get into the fence too awful much with a caterpillar 953 loader that's a 30 000 pound machine you can't even feel the fence when you get into it so he didn't notice it and we got a boo-boo we'll get you a close-up of this boo-boo we're going to cut the boo-boo out we're going to take these chains in what's called a strainer bar strainer bar is that right yeah wedge-style strainer wedge style strainer bar from strain right from farm fence solutions we're going to wedge style strain this there's one down here there's one down there and we're gonna ratchet this back tight so we'll cut out the bad spot right here right down there and we'll crimp in a new good spot now we could tie knots and do all that stuff but in the interest of time we're just going to use crimps are those strain right crimps they are okay so we'll use strain right crimps we'll show you guys exactly how all this goes and we're going to pull out the bad spot thanks josh for having us back to the stoney ridge farm i know our relationship started via just one comment on one of your fence videos in the beginning and it's developed into a real friendship and it's amazing the community that we've built in the agricultural fence world just with your content and the and the energy and effort you've put into it and i sure appreciate you having me down it's just nice we were walking walking fences a couple evenings ago and it's just amazing to see the difference in the last four or five years that we've been coming here and now there's you know 30-some mama cows up on the hill and they look beautiful and they're all in great shape and it's just so neat to be here and see all this come to life i just really appreciate being here so what we're going to do to start with because the poster on this side we've got to do this repair on the other side so that our chains aren't tied up in the post but uh we'll just get some stuff moved to the other side start bringing this fence together with the two sets of wedge boards we use what we call boundary strainers in the middle which are a chain walking device similar to just a plain wire puller but we're going to have to use extra chain to span that that gap i think it's about 50 feet here that we'll end up replacing so we'll start moving things the other side and get to work so the way that this wedge board works is you've got a profile on this side that matches the profile this side and it wants this to slip through around the wire then we use the wedges as a tensioning device drive those tight all the way down so there's no bolts nuts to lose there and it's just using a hammer and also the benefit of this is that the wedge never touches the wire so that wire sandwiched in there on the smooth interior and you don't do anything damage the surface of your wire very good better better good boss mr fuzz whoa there she went so as you get these started and work your way down you know the wedge above the one that you're driving it'll loosen up so it's a you got to go up and down the row a time or two it's also good to keep your wedges lubed with a little bit of light oil they don't need to be soaked but just enough so the first time i got to use a set of these strain right wedge boards was in wales uh and i had a good friend of mine paul harris that connected me with a guy named john morgan and cy gibbs psy gibbs picked me up on the side of the m6 motorway in england and we went over to wales and john had just gotten a set of these and so i called strain right immediately and ended up i think my first set uh which this is one of this is my first set i ended up costing me something crazy like two grand in shipping just to get them here from new zealand and now we bring it in by the container load but it's it's uh definitely quality equipment we believe in it yes sir there you go bobby [Music] there we go there we go [Music] on the boundary strainers there are several options this is a snap hook end and then we also have a d shackle end and a flat hook end so it's i get asked a lot what's the what's the best one and we've got them all and we use them all just ends up being personal preference i prefer to put your hooks on away from the fence so that if that were to slip it doesn't get hooked on a vertical stay makes them easy to take off [Music] this is called a boundary strainer and then we're using what we call an anchor chain as an extension quite a little bit of wrong stuff going on here but we're gonna make it work because that's what you do when you're a fencer right okay so the critical part here is to make sure that your chain is pretty straight because there's no way to swivel it the way we've got it anchored off and when you snap your chain on there to your boundary strainers those just walk forward like so and then once it's tight we won't have to babysit it quite as much we'll just be able to run right with it one handed there [Music] we'll do something similar on the bottom [Music] just that chain nice and tight and when you're handling any kind of a chain strainer if you just palm it there and squeeze it that opens the jaws up to put them on or take it off either one so the most important thing here luke is to make sure that your chain isn't twisted because this needs to be facing one direction it'll try to either flip over or go go one direction or the other well yeah the the dogs here they won't hit a link square and so they won't latch gotcha and then you've got to get pliers out to try to roll that chain and once that chain's tight it's hard to do so that's why it's important to not have any twist or anything in there and this chain is just straight as an arrow check it out nice [Music] when you're not hooked off solid with a with a hook this is just a plain wire puller so it's made for one strand but it's got a swivel so you can just snap it on and go and if it is crooked it's easy to roll it cool now people can buy these uh at farm fence solutions yes right yeah good deal we're like everybody else running a little bit low on stock but uh did get an email from strain right last week that we've got a full container leaving on the 18th of march so uh good lord willing we'll have that in the next few months and be stocked back up the best strain right awesome we use the canipix mini bolt cutters which we also stock at farm fence solutions to cut especially high tensile wire it's very difficult to cut with just like lineman pliers or clines a lot of people call them so these are just a one hand especially if you're working a lot and when you're stripping knots just to cut right out on the tip it's hard to do with the lower quality tools but these these really do the job nice and last a good long while so we're going to cut this out of here and then we'll cut the the new piece we'll cut a stay and then the crimp will go right in the middle and that leaves us just enough room to kind of finish it off and make it look nice and then our crimp won't be right on the right on the post [Music] these are post ties i'm taking off right here make sure they don't end up in an animal's foot don't leave pieces of wire laying in your pastures or you'll have hardware disease that's hardware so what we've got uh here is a strain right crimp sleeve we prefer these they're gritted on the inside it's an aluminum sleeve we'll put this on with a crimp tool in a moment but in the structure of the wire are these tension curves and what a tension curve does is serve as an indicator of how tight the wire is and it also serves as a shock absorber so in the well you can see how much deeper the the tension curve is and wire that hasn't been stretched versus wire that is stretched so that gives you an idea you want to pull about half of that tension curve out or a little bit more but then it leaves enough in there that gets you through the dips and dives uh that you find on a fence row over the crest of a hill and able to do that without what we call a bias cut so that's tornado's claim to fame is the lack of slack line wires so all those line wires will have the same tension and it's kind of a magic trick that you can pull it down in a sharp dip and every line wire will still have the same tension and the way that they do that is by taking better care of their machines keeping them dialed in better having better trained operators and more operators watching the process so they stop those problems before they happen once we've straightened out the tension curve a little bit then it makes it easier to slip a crimp sleeve over and then we'll come back with the next piece of fence come in here and this will get crimped and then we'll finish off our tails where it's nice and pretty we're sliding these crimp sleeves on and uh we bring them up we use use our hand as a guide uh which would be the same on each each piece there where we want this bend that does two things it keeps that crimp sleeve where we want it while we wait on the next piece of wire to come in and then it's already going to be started where we can finish this off nice and neat so this is an ultra crimp from strain right also and we've got two more crimps left right here um if we wanted to get all artsy with this we could tie termination knots right here but we're not getting all super artsy we're trying to knock the job out because we've got more work to do today so what i'm going to do on these crimp sleeves right here is i'm going to crimp it three times and we'll just show you that real quick so one slip it down two slip it down right about there three now that looks fairly easy we'll get the next one up here and you can see that that just seals it off good okay and again these crimps have a grit inside of them that helps keep them from slipping that's what sets these crimps apart from the competition and get it right in the right spot land pop okay bam okay now this is just as tight and probably even better than the original wire right here so this is going to hold really really good we're going to go down do the same thing on the other side so all the way down evenly spaced again tighten 13 48 12. 48 inches high 13 line wires 13 48 12 48 inches high 12 inch stay spacing so this is your stay wire up and down this is your line wire going across horizontal cool so we're using a strain right plain wire puller and what we're using that for is to take the last of the slack out one line at a time as we crimp this piece of repair wire in these come in several different varieties this is a springless they come with springs or without springs i prefer springless this one has a swivel and it's also got a swivel on the other end of the anchor chain which is a longer chain and it's got a hook on the end than what we would normally run with this just in a plain wire deal but that's what we prefer to use and as we bring this together our goal is to keep these knots spaced just the same so that we don't end up with a slack line wire in here and so to do that we can make finite adjustments with the plain wire pullers they work the same as a boundary strainer on the chain so you just snap them on and then you're able to walk right up the chain and you can set that to wherever you need it to get your crimp sleeve put on straight so we're on the second wire right here from the top and the second wire from the top here each individual wire needs to be pulled together here on this end so we're all connected up on that end with all 13 line wires and each individual wire has to be crimped here this is a bit of a process but if you do it right it should be stronger than what we had in here in the first place it's way easier if you just don't run a caterpillar wheel loader or track loader into your fence these things happen it does to the best of us to the best of us so again same thing with the crimper luke's got this ready for me this is a two-man job really uh you could do it with one person but two is so much better and we'll line up on our crimp bam good to go once again crimping it three times so three times 13 times two how much is that somebody post a comment tell me what that is so we've got 13 wires we've got to do three crimps a piece times two so 26 78 seven 26 times two three three seven eight all right good math on camera really hard all right luke are we ready we're ready to take the boundary strainers off all right cool so we'll release these boundary strainers and this wire may come up just a little bit and then we're gonna go ahead and tie off to our post right here and these are the wire ties that we used to tie off to the post so we just clipped some of these off it's gonna be awesome it's gonna be great thank goodness we got it fixed you might think it's gonna just go boing and spring out but it really won't this will just be a fairly gentle process right here and see how luke's taking that strainer chain off right there and then we've got one more right here pretty easy pretty simple all right now that we've got the tension off of our strainer boards right here or our wedge boards we'll go ahead and knock the wedges back out and then we'll tie off to this post and this post right here there we go release two apart we're going down and do the next one [Music] so we're going to go three tight wraps ringer off and we get no sharp edge right here to hurt our animals so we'll do that with every single one of these we'll just do three tight wraps and snap them off and that'll be it beautiful with the hammer and then we'll wring it off once it's around [Music] there you go that takes practice that takes practice so the last step in this process right here you can see we're way up off the ground i'm about six foot five it's a four foot fence it needs to come down at about two and a half feet uh you can use any number of technique but this technique is just gonna be me putting my weight on the fence while luke ties this tie let me show you one of the ties real quick let's see that drill right there buddy so these ties are what ties it to the post these get squeezed together and they go in this chuck right here they get squeezed together like that and then this kind of looks like an egg beater right now but it's going to be around the post and what it does is twist the ends off right here and breaks them when we drop those over in the post and that'll tie it down to the post now if you're pulling your fence wire down you want to start tying from the bottom up if you're pulling your fence wire up you want to tie from the bottom down is that correct that's correct all right so let's get busy now i've lost 75 pounds i might not have enough of what they call that a to get this done yep i see it yeah there you go here we go put some booty on it there we go a little bit more can you give me i don't know 30 more pounds 30 more pounds don't have it when you're holding pressure on like this you got to get about three wire ties in place before you can release pressure we'll probably do four [Music] there we go so we're holding pressure right here we'll show you guys how these twist on and the ends break off of them pretty cool that doesn't break off will eventually break off just get rid of that guy whoop dropping down in there and they will disintegrate eventually very nice all right guys that's how you repair a high tensile woven wire mess right it was a mess it was a mess so this this could happen if a tree fell on it or whatever and we were talking about when you build a fence like this and you've got trees that are impending doom kind of like this tree back here behind us we want to put our post not right up next to the tree in other words we want to set it up where if part of this tree falls on this fence it doesn't fall right on the post it falls in an open area so we can do a repair just like we did right here there are a couple trees did you see the pine trees leaned over the fence yeah there's a couple trees that are looking a little shady so we'll cut those in a future video and guys stick around there's gonna be lots more farm fencing to go here on the stoney ridge farm i've got a post driver to use and we're gonna do a tool tuesday on this awesome post driving machine over here so thanks a lot luke appreciate all your help good to be here yeah guys strong super strong kung fu grip hands thanks a lot guys we'll see you next time on the stoney ridge [Music] and that so the last step in this clap clap go ahead clap everybody got a clap yeah i got one all right yeah we probably gonna break a chain [Music] how's this mask working out no it's not so great yet but it will thumbnail