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I am needing new inline chan strainers my old ones are worn out . Was looking at the nz stranright pullers does anyone one here use them . I usually use Haynes puller are they better our much the same. Any other option would be interesting .cheers Damien

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The straight rite ones I have do not turn 360 degrees at the handle clamp ends , if you know what I mean a real disappointment for me I use Donald ones, I just feel the £100 plus price when I can get the Donald ones for around half that is a no brainer

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We are on the Tornado forum, have a look in the Tornado contractors pack they supplied, in the (extras) section is a list of tools available from your host.

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The straight rite ones I have do not turn 360 degrees at the handle clamp ends , if you know what I mean a real disappointment for me I use Donald ones, I just feel the £100 plus price when I can get the Donald ones for around half that is a no brainer

You can get a swivel grab head on the handle, part no FCS00600, £75 ex VAT, could be cheaper if you go through tornado. (You may have to wait for it to be imported if theres none in the country)

I use all strainrite gear with no problems.

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Go to www.rural-fence.com.au, they have a spring grip wire strainer (its like a modern monkey strainer). There wasn't a UK importer yet (hint to tornado) but they are expensive.

$299 dollars each, shipping for 1 set $75 by sea, $145 by air, import duty $20 (cheaper for more sets). They were to expensive for me, so i cant tell what there like. Maybe someone here has a set and can give us a review.

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I use strain rite and love them, got the swivel head on. Can't compare them to Haynes as never used them, but I do like the ones I have. Maybe a bit more expensive, but I have had mine 6 years now and still work fine. Going to last a long time, you can just get new spring kits for a few quid for them.

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We use Haynes and never had any problems and my sets are prob 15+ years old also have a few sets of Donald ones like you say cheaper but more awkward to use as they don't run along the chain as well. Can't coment on strainrite as we don't have any but looking at utube would say very similar to Haynes.

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Go to www.rural-fence.com.au, they have a spring grip wire strainer (its like a modern monkey strainer). There wasn't a UK importer yet (hint to tornado) but they are expensive.

$299 dollars each, shipping for 1 set $75 by sea, $145 by air, import duty $20 (cheaper for more sets). They were to expensive for me, so i cant tell what there like. Maybe someone here has a set and can give us a review.

 

iv seen the Ozy ones, contacted both Tornado and rural fence but as yet no free sample lol 

 

we have both hayes and strainright and theres no real difference

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Oz pullers look like the pros choice .

WE are meant to be pro's in the UK! lol

I recon of we had enough people interested we could but in a multi order and import them ourselves, get them a bit cheaper?

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I have had Haynes fail to catch properly when under tension and its fairly painful when they slip of.

Use  Donald as well but strainright for my first choice every time.

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If TORNADO don't/can't/want to import the ozzy pullers, i'll import a batch for us all, I made contact with them last year, and should get us a better price for multiple orders,

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They do look to work well but it is a demo in the open with a wire at waist height. They won't make life much easier when on your knees in the bottom of a wet hedge.

 

Also they look to have quite a few springs which is something else to go wrong and then need fixing. Be interesting to see where they pitch the price.

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