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Texas Fence Fixer

Hanta Yo

Hanta Yo

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Anybody ever try this contraption? Looks like it might make tightening fence a little bit easier.....

http://www.texasfencefixer.com/how.htm

If any of you have tried it, let us know what you think. It looks like a good investment to me....but what do I know :? It is time for us to fix miles and miles and miles and miles of fence. :!:
 
It doesn't look good to me. I think it would just screw up perfectly good wire, putting kinks in it where kinks don't need to be. I was raised to think it sinful to stretch wire anywhere but at an already existing splice or at a corner. :wink: It is hard to beat a good old Goldenrod fence stretcher.
 
I liked the Goldenrod when I was a custom fence builder. Haven't used 1 much for over 20 years as all of our fences are either snake fence (logs)
or Russell fence (rails). My Dad was a perfectionist when it came to barbed wire so I learned right and haven't forgotten. Most "gimics" are just that, a poor facsmile of what already works well.
 
Soapweed said:
It doesn't look good to me. I think it would just screw up perfectly good wire, putting kinks in it where kinks don't need to be. I was raised to think it sinful to stretch wire anywhere but at an already existing splice or at a corner. :wink: It is hard to beat a good old Goldenrod fence stretcher.
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My line of thinking exactly. We have a neighbour that likes to take his fence pliers to a loose wire, pinch and twist it forming a little loop in the wire, thus taking up the slack. Works just fine for a time.... like until the wire gets some stress, then it breaks right were he twisted it. Kinda irritating on a shared fence.
 
I will agree with everybody else it seems to me he didn't get the fence stretched but a couple of inches. We probably wouldn't have stretched it.

have a cold one

lazy ace
 
Silver said:
Soapweed said:
It doesn't look good to me. I think it would just screw up perfectly good wire, putting kinks in it where kinks don't need to be. I was raised to think it sinful to stretch wire anywhere but at an already existing splice or at a corner. :wink: It is hard to beat a good old Goldenrod fence stretcher.
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My line of thinking exactly. We have a neighbour that likes to take his fence pliers to a loose wire, pinch and twist it forming a little loop in the wire, thus taking up the slack. Works just fine for a time.... like until the wire gets some stress, then it breaks right were he twisted it. Kinda irritating on a shared fence.
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Here we call those fixes,A$$HOLES.
 
Sorry to disappoint all you folks, but the fence tightener is just what we wanted, it looks better than my splices, and is stronger. On our fences, it only takes a couple inches to tighten, and with all the miles of fence (some of it is 50+ yrs and is fragile) we have to fix and with all the deer, elk and antelope who like to go through it and make it loose, it makes sense to use the tightener. I wish I had it years ago. :P :P :P :P :P
 
I have never seen one before but after going to the web site I can see where it could work well in the right conditions.
 
Thanks for the tip Hanta,I am close to seguin,Im gonna email them and see if they sell locally,always lookin for ways to make fence chores easier.
good luck
 

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