Matt on the Moors Posted March 21, 2017 Report Posted March 21, 2017 Pointless thread really , but 2 things that come to mind really annoy me, first when your stapleling upand one flicks off into the undergrowth on first hit with hammer, replace it only for it to happen again. Happens a lot with Chestnut I find. The other is when your tying off netting or plain wire and an end springs/flicks on to your fingernail, it really hurts and seems to happen to me all the time. I'm sure there are plenty of other little occurances that irritate- feel feee to add your own.
tepapa Posted March 21, 2017 Report Posted March 21, 2017 Staples stabbing in your fingers and under your nails when your picking them up out of the bucket.
Goaty Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 When people come and hold you up chatting. Not everyone, just the sort that makes a mental cloud descend when you catch them out your eye corner heading your way. When a fence line is 2 ft longer than the net. Solution go big time with a huge roll and dispenser. Solution to Matt an Tepapas staple issues. Stockade. Both systems on the shopping list.
Matt on the Moors Posted March 22, 2017 Author Report Posted March 22, 2017 Agreed Goaty on the netting running short, but even a big roll has to run out as some point. I like the stockade too. But reckon I'm only really interested in the battery version- too much of a faff else with compressors and hoses. By the time I'd set it up I'd have knocked 100m worth of staples in...
Ringfencing Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 Taking a strainer of the forks , standing up against the hedge, moving forward and just clipping the post so it falls down between the tractor and hedge but not noticing until your out the cab and half way round the the back . Then repeat the process .
Archie Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 Goaty. People holding you back chatting Especially the ones that did a fence once and insist on telling you all about there whole one fence experience like they can teach you something even though you do it all day everyday.
Matt on the Moors Posted March 22, 2017 Author Report Posted March 22, 2017 Ha ha yes, one time fencers "I used to use a claw hammer to pull the barb tight and whack a staple into hold it"! Thanks for that, how did I manage without that wondrous piece of advice!
Matt on the Moors Posted March 22, 2017 Author Report Posted March 22, 2017 Actually the funny thing is, most of them aren't one time fencers at all, but landowners who struggle on year after year doing **** fencing with nothing more than a drivall and some fencing pliers! My Dad has had his own farm for over 35 years, only last year did he go and get a set of Hayes wire strainers and a gripple tool!
RED STAG Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 3.30 on a winters day and you push the tubeless tyre of the tractor miles from anywhere.
premnayloon Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 Today the usual fencing annoyance Pulling out line wire and the jenny wheel sticks just 3 yards from the end strainer.and its always on long pulls when wheel is at top of a hill. When you get back to wheel it requires just a light flick with finger. I usually give it a two fingered flick.
Matt on the Moors Posted March 22, 2017 Author Report Posted March 22, 2017 Forgot about the spinning Jenny thing, yes that is a nightmare at times. Actually that is an annoyance in itself- 25kg rolls of hi tensile plain wire, making sure you get the right end each time, once it's starts tangling, it soon becomes a messy pile of scrap!
RCCM Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 use the tornado easy reels of plain line wire. much easier for everything, no more spinning jenny's.
Goaty Posted March 22, 2017 Report Posted March 22, 2017 use the tornado easy reels of plain line wire. much easier for everything, no more spinning jenny's. And compact for handling.
West Fork Fence Posted March 23, 2017 Report Posted March 23, 2017 Staples stabbing in your fingers and under your nails when your picking them up out of the bucket. I've got a splinter (it's really more like half a strainer...bloody huge) nearly to the second knuckle under a nail since last Sunday. I'd rather have a gaping flesh wound so it looked like it felt!
Charliehub Posted March 25, 2017 Report Posted March 25, 2017 I tend to find if your post and railing if you've got a rail that's running behind a holly or anything prickly and you've just wedged yourself round the back of it with prickles in your **** and your back, balancing the rail on one foot and the other end just being held in place with the tip of your little finger and thumb ....and the nail guns always run out of nails
Isle of Lewis Posted September 21, 2017 Report Posted September 21, 2017 losing control of your roll of plain wire ... i beleive the term couild be "nesting!" ... just being a div regular visits from the customer " to see how you are getting on"
Rancher Posted September 7, 2018 Report Posted September 7, 2018 to be out working on a 50 year old barbed wire fence with only pliers and a home made pounder with a pocket full of re straightened staples you salvaged from yesterdays repair. and have a professional builder drive by and just laugh at you. wink
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