Thanks for such informative farming/ranching videos!! Glad Brownie was with you when she trapped herself. Her tail was wagging so much when you showed her where to get out at. 😊
Fence stretcher. A must to have in every farm truck. I used mine today. The splices work really good too with the stretcher. Not too expensive. And there are different sizes for different wire. Maybe a little quicker
Spot on with this one Tyler. I have two, one in the side by side and one on the quad. It really helps make those repairs in rapid fashion. Congratulations on your channel growth.
I've used one of those stretchers alot over the years. I learned real quick to be cautious when releasing it off of the barbed wire. I'll have to keep an eye out for the live stream. Stay safe.
Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to create this video. I retired and moved from the city to the country. When I say country, I mean, my neighbors are cows. I had to replace 125' feet of fence and did NOT know how to use the wire stretcher. Now I KNOW! Thanks again.
They work great but I think you’ll find it easier to release the stretcher at the end by taking the handle and pulling it down to the parallel position as if you were going to slide it along the track. That way you’re still holding each end if something pops loose ,it’s less likely to explode in your face. Either method works but I do it that way so I don’t lose an eye in the process. Great videos, keep em coming! 😊👍🏻
I came to the comments section to say the same thing. Also this method of splicing is more prone to failure as he is putting kinks in the wires by bending them over themselves like that.
The ol Fence stretcher, there aughta be one of them in the back of every ranchers ATV, You maybe know this but you can release tension without releasing the wire so you don't possibly get smacked in the face with a rogue wire. take the handle all the way back opposite of the tensioning direction and that should release it, the one I have has a secondary lock so I have to pull some tension then release that secondary lock and pull the handle back and it releases. Good video though man, congrats on almost 10k, look forward to the live stream. Have a great day.
Haha I feel like an idiot no I didn’t know that but a few people have pointed it out so next time I use it I’m going to try that! Thanks Brenton hope to see you there whenever it is!
Great work ,you always doing something to help the animals out. It might keep them from doing they excersize again ( I'm talking about the time they got out ) had you going after them. I love your animals and your lovely family. I enjoyed your video. Thanks to Farmer Tyler Ranch 😊
Great tool. I took a 5 inch piece of 5/8 mild steel rod, flattened one end with a hammer, drilled a hole the barbed wire fits thru easily. After you get the wire ready to roll around ( I cut one barb out with diagonal pliers ) run the barbed wire thru the hole and proceed to twist around the piece as usual. Makes a tight coils close together fence mender. Now you have to hold the splice with fencing pliers while doing the twisting. I have one with a smaller hole for woven wire. They work great and slide easily into a back pocket. The rod can be bought at Lowe’s in I think 3 foot sections. Great stocking stuffers for Real farmers with the extra rod lol. Seriously Tyler make a couple you won’t regret it. 1/2 rod will work. I just subscribe to a little bigger in tool material is usually better. I know you do too. I’ve watched too many videos. Later Brother. And around here we always called it a barbed wire stretcher and everyone knows what your talking about. Might just be ny area idk
We use those in Australia too. You can actually purchase them in rural supply stores and I think they are known as "twisties". Always handy for plain wire repairs as well. They certainly save your fingers. As you say Keith they are also very easy to make and you can have a couple of hole sizes for different wire gauges.
got to fix 5 horse wires out front where a kid with a pickup wrecked taking out two big corner posts a huge xcel energy power pole my power pole and bent flat 12 T posts. this refreshed my memory cause I am FINALLY to the point of tightening the wires
@@farmertylerranch4399 Yes, I've already checked. It's available on Amazon and eBay. It costs 30 bucks, not expensive. Thanks for such videos, they are very helpful. God bless your family :) :) :)
Sometimes it feels like I’m right next to you and I’m wanting to help !! Always good times Tyler !! What a spoiled life brownie has !!! Thanks again for your time and videos !!
That’s awesome J R thank you! Yeah ol Brownie struck the jackpot when she wandered into our place a few years back. Can you believe someone would abandon a sweet dog like that? Anyway she’s been a part of the family ever since!
After seeing this, it's kind of a must have! I found it for $35 at Tractor Supply. Well worth it. I'm looking forward to the livestream bud! I'm really glad this youtube thing is working out like it is for you. You deserve it!
Ha yeah when I found out about these I was like, why didn’t I think of that?? I bought mine at TSC for about that I think, probably the same one. I appreciate it Chris and I still haven’t forgotten who gave me my first shoutout that got the ball rolling, thank you!!
pretty good presentation, ... I have the "Golden Rod" fence stretchers which I much prefer. You can release them much slower so the wire doesn't pop back from the tension. I'm not sure I agree with hammering those tabs lose.
Good video. In addition to your gloves I also highly recommend safety glasses for that one time when the repair is fine but the stretching results in another break in the wire.
Good morning from South Korea. Thanks for the video. We're going to be fencing our farm in the Philippines with six strands of barbed wire. We will certainly be picking up a wire stretcher as well as some other fencing tools. Fencing 6 hectares of rolling, hilly, jungle-farm is quite a production. We used 8 foot concrete posts buried 3 feet in the ground. The posts were all carried by hand through our 1000 rubber tree forest and up the hillsides. My hat was certainly off to the team setting the posts. Congrats on your 9.4K subs. You're almost to the 10K mark. Hopefully you'll do some live streams on the weekend so I can jump in. We're 16 hours ahead of Cali time. Cheers and God Bless. ~Mike and Ester~
Its cool to see how different people splice their wires together. Next Spring you should come out and show me the best way on my fences. lol Take Care Tyler
My father in law was an electrician and he always told me to leave plenty of wire when we were wiring outlets. Same with barbed wire, too short is not good! :)
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So I watched your 100K subscriber video earlier today about the trouble maker cow and then fixing the bullpen. And I was curious about a fence stretcher so a search brought me here, to your 10K subscriber video! Oh how things have changed FTR!
Get you some of them wire splicers brother! Not too expensive and heavy duty. Was putting up some fencing for a couple goats and noticed our far fence had a couple broken wires and those things saved the day. P. S. everybody with a farm should own a stretcher. Much love from Oklahoma!
So funny you talking about gloves! My grandfather had gloves EVERYWHERE!! Several pairs in each pickup, tractors, barn, calving and lambing areas, just everywhere! He never didn’t have gloves when he needed them. We used to tease him about his glove stashes!!!
Congratulations for getting close to 10k likes Tyler. The down side of that for me, is that the more likes you get, the more comments you will get and the less chance you will have to read and reply to my comments.
Haha well don’t get too worried I’m still able to read and reply to pretty much everybody. I guess at some point that would be hard to do but I doubt I will ever get that big!
@@farmertylerranch4399 You may be surprised Tyler. I like your practical no BS style of producing your channel and I suspect many others, like me who are newbies to raising cattle will also discover your channel. I am in Australia and still find the advice relevant.
Thinking back to fence and gairdrail days as a union iron worker. The tools - come along with two line dogs. Line dog sizes vary but for bw size of plam, it is a cable pulling clamp with a spring tension. Used for phone, electric, cable, lines to pull slack out line. Would work without investing $ in speciality tool.
Tyler, had me worried with that opening, "I'm about to get buzzed". Thought you were going to talk about that "wacky tobaccie" being in CA. Glad it was just a crop duster. 😊 That RanchEx Wire Stretcher is worth every dollar of cost.. Good explanation of usage.
Good video....just a suggestion, I find it easier to unwrap the wire and then do the wrapping with the single strains. Also, I slip the barbs off the wire so they are not in the way when I start making the wraps.
Called a fence jack,also release tension by pushing handle of the jack the opposite direction too release the tension. This lets the tension off without letting go of the wire
I dont care too much for the old school strechers,I prefer my come a long, with a fence grabbing clevits on either end.Congrats on ten thousand,I dont think ill ever get to 1000 ,Its already been two years!
Yep, those wire stretchers work really well. A little heavy tho when you have to walk long fence lines with no access with your truck. A hammer and and good set of pliers work just as well. You still gotta carry that wire spool. I used to forget my gloves too. Ya get used to it and being careful.
I didn’t say how to use the hammer. Make a loop on one end of the broken wire (shorter one is better). Splice your new wire, same length as Tyler, to the other end like Tyler finishes the splice. Put the end of your new wire through your loop and bend it gently back toward the splice. Then take the claw of your hammer and put it around the second to last barb on your new wire and lay the narrow part of the hammer head on your wire and start winding. When it’s really tight, give your hammer a good jerk to make a bend at the loop. Holding the wire tight with the hammer, start wrapping your wire around the newly stretched wire until you know it will hold. Then you can unwind the wire from the hammer and wrap it so it’s not sticking out. You can get it just as tight as the stretchers with practice. ... Well, I suppose most people can get everywhere with an ATV but I didn’t have one and lots and lots of fence to fix so I liked the hammer better. A lot lighter walking all day.
I think it's either Dutton-Lainson 400 All- All-Purpose Fence Stretcher/Splicer or RanchEx 102571 Wire Stretcher with Ratchet Control There is also a five pull wire stretcher called: Woven Wire Fence Stretcher
Tyler you gave me nightmares. Spent lots of hours walking fences woth one of those a roll of wire and a can of staples. Remeber dont get gready and give it too many click dont wanna break it somewhere else lol. Ive found as those stretchers get older it helps to give the tabs that hold the rwo wires a smack with your hammer so they hold the. Wire. Thanks for the memories lol
Sorry Kory for the nightmares! Haha! Yeah definitely got to be careful on that old rusty wire, I got a lot of that at the winter pasture, probably twice as old as I am! Thanks man!
One thing I ALWAYS did when fence mending , was to bend the ends of the wire so that they parrel to the fence wire . and the less possibility of cow , horse or whatever animal being hurt portion sticking down or up away from fence wire .
Boy I'm sure glad I watched to the end 😂😂..... I always do, ok . congrats on the subs ,that I don't always notice, seems like just a year ago I hit the sub button at 35 subscriber's? Congratulations!!👍🥃
Haha yeah I thought you probably did! Seems like just yesterday I’d post a video and it would only get one comment...from you! I appreciate all the support and I’m glad you’re still here almost one year later!
I have one of these tools and never knew it could be used on barbed wire mine is just called a fencing tool but it is awesome on normal wire it pulls it real tight but on wooden posts you have to be careful i have almost pulled it out of the ground concrete and all
Tyler, do you cut those little ended barb wire pieces off when your done? The way they stick out away from the horizontal wire makes them look like they could cut you or and animal. Just wondering 💭
In all my years of farming and doing miles miles of fence both barbed wire and red top fencing I have never seen one of those. We always used a barbed wire stretcher which works a lot of the same way yours does it's just way smaller you can put it in the palm of your hand any how we used that and a ratchet strap and pretty much do the same thing that you did. And of course every time you do a splice that will always be the tightest stretch of wire when your done lol. Great video on the safety and how to on barbed wire great job man. Where can you find that tool and how much would one cost I wonder? Looking forward to your live stream if I am not too busy in the field I will try to catch it have a great day
I had a tree fall on the barbwire did not break it but stretched it ,do you just use the tool to bring it together and loop it ? theres another video idea lol
Tyler, It’s a wire stretcher. BTW, that type of splice is precisely what my dad taught me was the WRONG way to splice (about 55 years ago!). The new loops you created are now the weakest link in your fence; one of them will eventually rust through and break, and you’ll be back there to splice it again. It is much stronger to simply wrap 6-8” of both wires together, like you did behind the loops. That way, the stress is spread across that entire wrap, rather than all on the end of the loop where you initially kinked it at approximately 90 degrees. Doug from Strawberry Point. 🤓
Tyler, another informative video. Am an ex ironworker specializing as a fence erector. If you can believe there is such a thing. Question. I do do some picking and grinning, is that you on sound track?
I would be bleeding like a stuck pig, if I didn't wear gloves. Good job fixing fence. If you ever run out of fence fixing, you can come here to Oklahoma and I have more.LOL. God Bless!
Yea ,, how do you call that tool ? ,Am on the process of fencing my farm ( 8,000 sqm ) and am looking for that specific tool to tighten and stretch the bab wire .I don’t know if I could get it where I live ,,, , I just subs ,, ❤️
