Energize Temporary Landscape Edging

it's windy and it's toasty out here so self-designed copycat design from my buddy greg judy here similar design to what he hooks onto his hot wires with but this is what we have i made these yet up yesterday says hot on it what i took was a piece of electrical pvc pipe and a piece of strap material metal strap material and i ran it through there put a self-tapping screw in so we have a handle right here that we can't get shocked from i drilled a hole through there and i ran my poly braid through there tied a knot in here just that simple knot pulls tight we're gonna hook onto our hot wire right here at the post so it has a little bit more extra support and before we hook on to it we better have our reel in our hand because it's gonna knock the lever loving snot out of me you can see i have a groove cut in there and that groove is going to lay right in here and that energizes this wire and this entire reel right here okay now for our purposes we don't want to energize this until we're ready so what we're going to do is we're just going to hang it on this post give her a couple twists just like so and then we'll head down the line with our reel so this is our strain right post the reason we didn't energize our wire is because we're going to run them through our strain right post just like that this is the easy way the pigtails are the easy way and it just rolls right off this reel be sure you run their wire through there trust me right this is a geared reel right here very very handy critter to have so the reason we're not energized is because if we were energized everything metal on this reel would be energized here's what we do this is a lock it's a locking mechanism to lock the reel in place so when we hang it on the fence down here we're going to hang it by the rubber piece so that it's not energized on that fence and grounding out the way we release it so that the reel will continue to roll let's just put this little tab up and then the wire comes off now we'll get down here to the post and show you how it goes on the post this is so simple guys so we're here on our strain right post that's it that's all it is it just floats it free floats in that post right there pretty cool so let me show you again just like that and then we'll head on back down to our next post [Music] so it always pays to not be 10 feet short on your wires so we're about 10 feet