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wire winder

PureCountry said:
Hee hee, lurking for the chance to market things hey? Ah well, we all have to make a living somehow. :lol: :lol:
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don't take me wrong, I enjoy seeing all and any new way's to do thing's,and yes we all have to make a living. I guess my biggest problem is that so many of the "new " things are only available stateside, or the "freight" almost double's the price...free trade my a$$
 
Saw a guy jack up his truck and wind the wire on an empty wheel he had placed on his rear axle. Worked pretty slick. When that wheel got full, he just placed another wheel on the truck and started again.

Saw a home made job that worked on a PTO wheel/spool too.
 
Pretty good looking wire winder on this show,along with a couple of other good ideas


http://theruralchannel.com/wp/pfr-11-cattle-handling-201213/
 
There are a lot of wire rollers and there pretty expensive... The one I build only cost $600... Im not trying to get rich off of it... I just do it for the extra money... The rolls are removable... Just send me a text and I can send a picture of what it looks like... 785 844 2662 thanks
 
I love tinkering and making this kind of stuff myself. Trouble is I usually end up going to work on a pipeline or something, and not making time to tinker. Then again, pipelining pays better, and I usually end up buying something instead of building it. Maybe once we're moved..... :lol:
 
We had a three point one that my dad used for years both on a tractor and on our bale bed. He had more patience than I do. After I came home from school I decided we needed to put a gas engine on it. That sped things up considerably, but then I got to thinking. That is always a problem because it usually costs money when I try to make things work better. We were rolling up about two and a half miles at a time on a spool and then using a little trailer we had cobbled together to pull behind the ATV to unroll things. I got to thinking that I ought to see if I could figure out a way to roll and unroll wire with the same rig. Then I got to thinking it would be nice to have more than one spool, then I got to thinking that it ought to be on a trailer that we could pull with the four wheeler, then I decided to put suspension on it and fenders on it. By the time I got a prototype done I figured I had spent way too much money on it, but then I looked at the 12V winder linked on here and I realized I still don't have as much into it as one of those.

I can roll and unroll about eight miles of 14ga wire without having to change spools. The other bonus is that I am really crappy at math, and I messed up my sprocket reduction calculations. It winds wire so fast the first time I used it I about had to go back and change my drawers when I saw how fast the end was coming at me. Now I need to perfect the prototype next winter and redo my calculations.
 
PowerFlex Fence sells Spinning Jenny's for not much over $100.00 that are used for rolling out large coils of 12 guage high tensile wire and they can also be used to roll the same wire up again. Inside the jenny in two places there is a small piece of square tubing that you can thread a long bolt through with a nut on one end to make a crank on the reel. You can wire it to the frame on your loader or the headache rack on your pickup and with only a little elbow grease you are in business. Low input tool that costs very little and does two jobs. Hope this helps.
 
rancherfred said:
I can roll and unroll about eight miles of 14ga wire without having to change spools. The other bonus is that I am really crappy at math, and I messed up my sprocket reduction calculations. It winds wire so fast the first time I used it I about had to go back and change my drawers when I saw how fast the end was coming at me. Now I need to perfect the prototype next winter and redo my calculations.
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:lol: :lol:

Now that's pretty funny unless you're the one watching the end coming at you! Cuz when that end starting whipping around, you're not safe behind any rock or tree!
 
Her is what I built. It will roll over 1 mile of a 4 wire fence. I have used it with both smooth, and barb wire. To unroll the wire, you have to use a spacer in between the spool and the driven part, then tie onto it with the 4 wheeler,and away you go.



I don't have a cab tractor any more, so this is kinda the same thing. You want to slow you hydraulics down when you get close to the end.
 
LazyWP said:
Her is what I built. It will roll over 1 mile of a 4 wire fence. I have used it with both smooth, and barb wire. To unroll the wire, you have to use a spacer in between the spool and the driven part, then tie onto it with the 4 wheeler,and away you go.

I don't have a cab tractor any more, so this is kinda the same thing. You want to slow you hydraulics down when you get close to the end.
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Have the exact same rig other than our spools are built out of disc blades so that there was less places for wire to catch.
 
Jake said:
LazyWP said:
Her is what I built. It will roll over 1 mile of a 4 wire fence. I have used it with both smooth, and barb wire. To unroll the wire, you have to use a spacer in between the spool and the driven part, then tie onto it with the 4 wheeler,and away you go.

I don't have a cab tractor any more, so this is kinda the same thing. You want to slow you hydraulics down when you get close to the end.
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Have the exact same rig other than our spools are built out of disc blades so that there was less places for wire to catch.
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The spool, is made so it comes apart. I have taken a number of rolls that I have rolled, off the spool, then put them back on to unwind. I need to make the ends smoother, if I use it more. I think the ends are about 3 feet in diameter, so a disc blade won't work.
 
LazyWP said:
Jake said:
LazyWP said:
Her is what I built. It will roll over 1 mile of a 4 wire fence. I have used it with both smooth, and barb wire. To unroll the wire, you have to use a spacer in between the spool and the driven part, then tie onto it with the 4 wheeler,and away you go.

I don't have a cab tractor any more, so this is kinda the same thing. You want to slow you hydraulics down when you get close to the end.
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Have the exact same rig other than our spools are built out of disc blades so that there was less places for wire to catch.
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The spool, is made so it comes apart. I have taken a number of rolls that I have rolled, off the spool, then put them back on to unwind. I need to make the ends smoother, if I use it more. I think the ends are about 3 feet in diameter, so a disc blade won't work.
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We have a bunch of different spools around so we don't get that big of rolls. Majority of everything is smoot wire and you can put enough miles on a spool that you don't have a chance of moving it without machine assistance.
 

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