Quick tip on how to tighten a loose welded wire fence. Thanks for tuning in on my first video for getting just one more thing knocked off of your list. Please like and subscribe for more quick how to videos.
And the RU-vid DIY tip of the year goes to you dude!!! That was a great tip.. wife and I was going nuts with this loose fence too we just installed.. this was an easy easy fix thank you!
This is such a great idea, I've got a loose fence just like that I just installed. Didn't have anyone to help me pull it out correctly and I was going to buy some fence sharers to fix it. Now I don't. Thanks Richard!
I installed 260 feet of 6 foot, welded wire fence like you have, around my garden, about two weeks ago. It was my first goat ropin' for welded wire, but I've installed quite a bit of barbed wire over the years. It was a beast to install this welded wire alone. On the first side of the garden, the bottom was nice and tight, but the top was loose, and no amount of pull and straining on the fence, even with a come-along, would improve it, so I started tightening it like I sometimes tighten short sections of barbed wire, like you showed in this video. On the first long side of the garden, here's what I found out about cheap fencing that you buy at Menard's: It ain't straight. I rolled out 100' of fencing on the ground, and it looked like a long, curving road. The outside of that curve was super wavy, with the peaks of the waves sticking above the ground anywhere from 6" to a foot. The outside was much shorter than the inner, and nothing can fix that, except for shortening every wire above the bottom wire. I had to put a kink in every other 2" section, on every one of 18 rows, for 260 feet. It took longer to tighten the fence, than it did to install the wood corner posts, 36 7-foot t-posts, and attach the fencing. Yes, I'm whining, but if just one person doesn't buy their welded wire fence from Menard's for reading this, that's a good thing. Great video, Richard! I look forward to seeing more about your ducks and chickens!
This just made our backyard fence so much better. My wife and I are very pleased. Thank you so much!! Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you, friends. ✝️ :)
I just installed mine for the first time obviously all by myself and I can't even tell you how many videos I have tempted to watch but I will tell you this out of everything I've seen online in regards to welded wire fencing you have absolutely given me the best advice best piece of information and the most productive tip that I can even think about I have been waking up and going to sleep thinking about this darn fence so when I finally got it up last night and I struggled as hard as I could to tighten it as best as I could I thought I would just add extra t-posts but now that I've seen your tip I'm going to try that first instead of that and I have my fingers toes everything crossed thank you so much for the advice
8 saw someone else's video with this identical fix, and there were howls from commenters on what a bad idea this was. So I tried it anyway, and of course it works beautifully.
Thank you! I would like to see how you installed yours so straight to begin with. Mine is very wiggly but luckily my dogs have no idea they could overrun it if they tried. 😂
Never thought about doing this. Just bought property and while I'd prefer RedBrand Kennel fencing, its just so expensive, and I have 5+ acres I want to fence in for my pack. Tightening like this along with sinking fence in ground 6+", should work just fine! Thanks for the idea!
Then the metal rusts that’s in the ground and covered in water and dirt and then it literally falls apart on the bottom, the welded connections one apart and it becomes a tangled mess that can’t be tightened or serve its purpose preventing anti dig through on the bottom
@@nowfuturechanges9404 Ended up getting Redbrand after all, and installed it all above ground. Am planning to run some welded wire along the bottom of inside fence line and cover with rock. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ibKhSg9ruTc.html
No, the answer is, it depends. For large animals, yes. This type of fence is not heavy duty so for small animals like dogs it is fine to do what looks best.
