Cut Out Damaged Wire and Install Crimp Sleeves

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