How To Use Fencing Pliers | Why Are They Better? 

My step dad had 35 head of Angus on a 241 acre farm and trust me when I say that fencing pliers become your best friend really fast .

You forgot my favorite feature of fencing pliers: the two holes up top can be used to hold your staple in place while you hammer the staple with your other hand...that way the staple doesn't mushroom and there's no way to hammer your fingers.

Don’t forget… the insulated handles are handy for hooking electric fence wires back in the insulator after the bull chases a heifer through it. … the hook bill is good for picking your lunch bucket up when you are too full to reach all the way to the ground where you left it. … the beak is great for smashing blood engorged ticks you pick off your beagle! … it also is great for cracking almonds also… if you wipe the tick blood off first! Just thought that you should have the full range of capabilities for your archives.

I've spent a few hours using fencing pliers. This is a great description of what they can help a person do!

Every person should have a set or two of fencing pliers, in my opinion. Great demonstration of the capabilities.

There hasn't been a decent pair of fencing pliers made for at least 40 years. I've been using them for over 60 years. My favorite pair is Utica, which were made in Utica, NY. They're stamped 1932 and are still like new.

One finer point on pulling staples after you can hook into them with the jaws...the rounded side of the head is the direction to rock! It gives you leverage to pull the staple.

Learned all these tricks as a kid fixing fences with my brothers. Well done!

Thanks for your information. My neighbor gave me a new pair of those. I didn’t know why but I graciously accepted them at that time and I still have them. I think I remember using them for who knows what a couple of times and I still have them hanging out in the shed with most of my other tools. Good to see what they are used for 😊

I've had a pair of these for many years. My Daddy first showed me what they were and how to use them when I was young and helping him string some barbed wire. Good vid.

You can also grab the wire in between posts and give the wire a twist into a loop to tighten the length of wire. Once the wire is stapled, you can grab the wire and wrap it around itself several times to make a permanent loop. A pair of vice grips come in handy for fence work.

I’m an epee fencer! Thanks for the fencing clip. I love my sets of fencing pliers. They are great tools.

I still remember my favorite set of fencing pliers. Leather gloves and fencing pliers installed and removed a lot barbed wire. I agree 100% crazy awesome tool.

Some good ol fashioned dueling pliers are just what I’m missing! But seriously, a versatile tool. Thanks for the demo!

Bought a pair not knowing what they were the other day serendipitously I was working on a fence thank you for the knowledge

Use these all the time, although I don’t do any fencing. I do have to run lots of wires across greenhouses to hang the plants on. These are great for gripping wires to give them a real nice pull to make tight wraps.

Thanks for the video. I'm need to get a pair of these. I was trying to cut sheep fencing with an old pair of electrical pliers the top and bottom strand took all of my might to get through. Right tool for the job make for light work

I used working in oil fields about 30 yrs ago, I have a pair for a souvenir.

Thanks for the clear and concise presentation. I now know how to use these pliers the right way!

You might be surprised that a city slicker found a use for a pair of fencing pliers. I remembered the few times of using these pliers when visiting the family farms when I was faced with pulling a ton of carpet staples. So a bought these pliers to help on the job. Now they aren’t the sole answer to pulling carpet staples but they sure helped.

Thank you for this video. I'm doing the yard work while my husband is injured and I felt so stupid for nit knowing how you use this cutter. Truly appreciate you!

I use them with lineman pliers. Also it seems every brand fence pliers the inside grooved slits nearest the handles are slotted the wrong way. If they were slotted the opposite direction the wire would be less likely to slip, like when you were pulling the wire around the post.

Had the same pair 50yrs/work great.

Here in the UK just have small house & garden, so my late father's fencing pliers mainly used for staples removal from my firewood; would love to be on a horse fence checking.

Hey, thanks. I needed this. I just scored a nice set of these for a dollar. Rusty and grody, but I lovingly restored them. It's what I do. Raised in the country but didn't fence much so I was kinda clueless. I'm fencing in the backyard to keep the dogs out of the garden. Big dogs. Love them, but the garden can't be their playground. Anyway, now I can use my bright and shiny fencing pliers to best effect, thanks to you. Saved some bucks, too.

The double grooved end is great for starting staples and saving fingers!

Bought the tool before I knew how to use it lol thanks for the useful info. Sure sure if I’ll use them anytime soon hahah

Haven't used em in 30 yrs. Thanks for refresher

Cool! Thanks for sharing.

The video is great, this kind of tool is still very practical, not long ago, I bought a renhotecic brand pliers, it is very convenient to use, it works very well. Everyone can use a tool

Thanks! Was given a pair of these which have sat pretty much unused because I had no clue how to use them.

You can use the twist "pigtail" the wire when you're terminating too. Grip the free end, hook the hammer end around the taut wire and circle the handles around it. Sorry, hard to explain but I've been using these since I was a kid and that's how I was taught to do it. It makes a tight, neat wrap.

Great short video on explanation of fencing pliers

I have a pair that I purchased early in my career with the fire service. They were great to have on hand for gaining access through fence wire on grass fires.

I figured out recently that hole under the grip hooks is used nicely to grab the wire your terminating and when twisting up and down depending what way you want to wrap the wire it'll pigtail nice and tight . Sorry if my explanation is hard to understand

Also works great for tightening T-post clips!

Great demo, but while I did learn one technique you forgot to demo the “OMG how did I not know that?!” feature: the slots in the jaws being spaced to hold a staple to get it started without smacking cold finger/thumb. 😊. Also, you mentioned the being used to set T-post clips…. Would love to see that. Will look it up before I put my boots on right now to do some of that. Thanks again.

I needed these today, but made due until I can buy a set tomorrow. 👍

Thank you for this video.

That was very helpful thank you very much

We use these all the time. They’re fantastic.

This and my ugly wrenches and another multi pliers were my go to tools for most repairs. Chances were I still couldn't fix it right of the bat but I had a better idea what I needed after starting with them and I don't remember doing any fencing with it.

The most useful tool I own.

I have a pair that have literally built 100s of miles and fixed fence . Best tool ever !

Great video! Thank you!

Thanks for the info, I learned a few things, like what those little teeth are for, and about the ridged bite for tightening the wire. The other parts, I already knew. But this type of plyers is not that great for driving the staples in, they just don't have the weight and momentum to generate sufficient force with, so I use a carpentry hammer for pounding the staples. And I'm not sure what kind of wood the staples are intended for, but the trees I use for driving the staples into, which are Metrosideros polymorpha, aka Ohia, usually only accept the staples halfway, before the staples start warping, the wood is too hard. But GREAT video.

Also the best tool to unwind t-post clips.

Thanks man! Good information

Nice video, thanks!

So versatile..... can open, back scratcher, coter pin puller, drift pin punch, and everything else mentioned here. If I'm not carrying a pair, they're usually within arms reach.

Awesome, I got these from my Dad and I didn't know what they were.

with a little grinding they make nice tire balancer weight install/removal pliers .

I really like tools that have a Swiss Army knife approach to them. Having said that, these are my favorite.

I had a pair of these on me when my argo broke an axle. They made a good hammer for removing a pin from my track.

One of few tools that I could NEVER be without. When I first bought it, I thought that it would be a "one job wonder". Ohhhhhh, how wrong I was! Get a pair!!

I couldn't resist watching this as remember well my dad teaching me the fencing pliers tricks of the trade. Actually an ingenious tool. The Crescent brand with its two teeth was the best brand...I didn't like the single tooth brands. Good video.

i just order a them last 5 days back and getting in my hands today soon!. some one told me to get them help with box cattle fence need repairing! fence post

Lived on the land for many, many years. Either on my parents place or my own (leased). Mine was only 5000 acres, mum and dad's joint, well, the airstrip paddock on it's own was 1000 acres. Had my own rural fencing business for years. Tried a stack of different pliers. To my mind, ain't nothing beats yellow handled electricians pliers. I'm not saying that they're the best. They were the best for me. Everyone has a different idea about what makes the best fencing pliers. Different ideas on most things I guess. It's one of the things that make the world less boring.

I didn’t read all the comments so it is probably in there but with the pliers closed there are 2 holes in the mouth of it that a staple fits right into. You can start your staples without hitting your fingers.

Very useful multi function tool. The swiss army farm tool. Like tape measures & hammers, buy a few so you can find one when you need it.

I bought my first pair over sixty years ago and have used them ever since.

Setting staples. That’s why there’s two holes on the jaw so you can hold them without smashing your fingers with a hammer - you have been using them wrong all these years!! 😅😅

Man, you a genius .😂 Been using them there plyers longer than you been alive. 🤣

Spent hours today using needlenose pliers and a screwdriver trying to pry fencing staples out of my chicken run. Just ordered some of these on Amazon. 🤣 Thanks!!

I would love to see how to use them for T post clamps.

Good video 👍

Cool !!!

Great shtf urban survival tool

I work for a freight railway in the signal dept. We use fencing pliers for staples like you've got. Now the track sluggos use fencing pliers to remove cotter pins when they need to disassemble something. I see them struggle with those cotter pins and I've showed them how much easier it is to use linesmens pliers. They don't listen. These days I just laugh at them as they struggle.

I don't have any fence on my property but now I have an urge to buy that tool. About 40$ for American made

Awesome

I found a pair and they've become my best friend

You also can grab the staple when you're pulling it out of the post and not throw it out into the grass, some place where it will kill your cattle.

You forgot the pliers also hold the staple for banging into the post

My dad’s fencing pliers was made out of high grade steel and had two parallel tongs on the pincer, which made it much, much easier to pull staples, even if embedded in the post. The products sold today are inferior, including the steel, to those made in the 1950s and before.

My favorite model is the OLD Diamond Brand That is no longer made. How does this one compare? IT looks Very good 👍💯

Sad you missed how to put a "twitch" in the wire to tighten a saging fence / wire. Maybe thats only in Australia ? 🇦🇺

I have used them fo over 50 years, a pair in each truck

That's a cowboy tool 😁 cool indeed

Yes they do! Where I grew up in central Nebraska, they were called “fencing pincers”. Call them “fencing pliers” and you’ve seriously outed yourself as a city kid pretending he knows the lingo… Funny how we develop local vernaculars.

Worth spending a bit more when buying these. Here in Ireland you can buy CK brand ( German) for about 30 Euro (thats about 34 dollars) or cheap chinese ones for less than half that price. The cheap ones tend to eventually break at the hinge pin much easier, when hammering the spike into posts to dig out a staple. You'll lose the CK ones before you break them.

Im Thinking those thingys on the side may be called side cutters, Fence Guy, Cool Video, Cowboys even Carried as Terminal Tool, going way back. You still Gotta Love Kleins , Do a Little History on German Immigrant Mathias Klein, Would be Cool, Man was a Legend, like Levi Strauss 🎉

Sorry but you won’t see many pro fencers using a fencing pliers they will have a Ezepull and a separate wire cutters.But that’s a good review of the product.

Sweet back scratcher too, but I bought mine for the hog wire crimp. That's the funny shape cut out in the crotch of the jaws. You left out those two very important functions.

I've used my Kleins as a hammer more times than I can remember. lmao

Something is wrong with my fences. All my barbed wire is a fifth of a mile long, not three feet and my posts are in the ground, not on a table, and no roof over my fences

Handier than sleeves in a vest!

Good little info video. I thought Kleins were hammers too? " Everything us a hammer".

I was wanting to buy a pair to use for other things, not just on a fence.

very versatile tool. its in my INCH bag. defense, force entry, you name it.

I own a pair.

My problem with these is when I have them I have to fix wire and I have no time for that. But yes they are always in the truck.

I've always used crescent pliers modified my own way for decades building fences.

Good job Tinkerbell

Those 2 holes fit a staple so you can set it without using your fingers. Give it a tap, open the fencing tool and drive it home.

Those things can cut chain link fence, which surprised me.

We like the Moore bull nose pliers (we call em pinchers)way better than any, they are spendy these days for new ones though. Ours 4 or 5 pairs got to be at least 40 yrs old. The ones you have there we call weenie pinchers. The weenies use them.

I have 3. Most useful tool I own after a claw hammer and wrecking bar. And a really big screwdriver. And a drill driver. And....

I have a pair that has a slotted nose for twisting wire and grabbing nails and bending panel wire. These pliers are 50 years old. I wouldnt give a nickle for any of the newer style. My old pliers have been used for the last 30 years on my farm. I'm keeping them !

Yeah what you need mate is a pair of 8 inch top cutters.