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These work really well RED STAG. I am very impressed. Si HVB, you need to make some!

I've made them 1.3m long so I can do a 1.2m high fence and still knock a little in the ground

I've just made a couple of those but not used them yet, I was going to hold in place with nails but I will copy your staple idea now, thanks

What's that random gate hook doing?

There was no way I would get even tension on netting down the dip without a bag of gripples and a lot of patience but I don't use gripples and I don't have that much patience. Customer happy, he's got a tight fence that should last a long time. The inters aren't spaced far apart but was thinking of a couple of batons to make it look the part, but I need to buy some small staples so it wont happen until I have a bigger job for some

Ordinarily I would have used the clapping post as the strainer set plumb for the gate, to save on the cost, but grant spec does not allow the gate to close to the strainer so I had to put in two. As for the strainer its put in exactly as it would be if the ground was flat, if you were to put it plumb it would just be easier for the laws of physics to pull it out and I don't want that

Aye, I've been replacing fences put up in 1974, railway sleepers as strainers and struts(thanks to lord beeching) and B/8/80/15. The netting had rusted through

Well the struts clearly not doing anything resting on the wire so why waste time and materials strutting incorrectly where its not needed?

Tidy work!

What would you pay to put it right do you mean? :-) lol

Ye strainrite gauge. Have never figured out what exactly half a crimp size looks like, was thinking if you could make some sort of channel that would only fit over a crimp when at half size but not when slack. The solonet is kind of self regulating as if you over tension too much it will pull side ways. so if it stops moving forward and starts sideways, your at about right tension to lose a little after tying off the fence and it will settle back to correct tension. I am working with Simon to see if we can put some sort of gauge on it to stop people pulling out the far strainer. It shouldn't happen but you have got the power of a tractor pulling and with a monkey in the seat, who knows what can happen.

Didn't know that, its what the gauge reads when tight. If its wrong its wrong, but it is tight! I used a gauge more when I was starting to get an idea of how tight it was meant to be, now a lot is done by feel and I use the gauge to compare top to the bottom of net. The numbers may not mean anything but the tension is comparable.