Splices came loose on woven wire fence?

[Carol K]

Did you use the "proper" tool for the connectors? Just wondering as that thing really get those clamp things tight. Darn thing was expensive but does a great job, if you don't have one borrow one if you can when you repair it.

Carol K

[texican]

You Put a Post where the two wires meet. Preferably a double braced post. Wrap the end of wire a around the post and nail, then wrap wire b around the same post, cutting out the verticals, and nail it all up tight...There isn't any good way to splice the wires. My uncle, full time farmer will go ballistic if you drop a tree on his fence...you can't simply tie the wires back together...You have to put in post on each side, wrap the wire around each, then put a brace post in between, and wire the devil out of the braces, to make it as good as before...

[foxtrapper]

I've found it important with those crimps to bend the ends of the wire back over the crimp. Otherwise, they slip, as you discovered. I've also learned that the cheap crimps don't hold nearly as well as the expensive ones.

You can bolt two boards together up the fence several feet from the current spice. Do it on both sides. Use a come-a-long to pull it back and recrimp.

[Hammer4]

How about just use a splice wire, crimped on both ends to attach the top and bottom wires?

kind of like this: -----=-----=-----

With the middle part being the new piece of splice wire to join the two sides of the top wire together.

And definitley use the right crimps and crimping tool, in my experience the crimped wires are stronger than the wire itself, I have overstretched 12.5 gauge high tension wire on a fence, the wire broke before the crimp came apart. I also will put 2 or three squeezes on a crimp, but never put two crimp pieces on, they are two expensive for that.

[sassy_mare]

Thanks so much everyone!

Since I have no slack, I may try adding a wire like Hammer suggested.

As long as we are on the subject - can someone tell me how to wrap hi-tensile (or individual woven wire) tight so it looks so neat? We tried the "hi tensile" knot with pliers and it looks terrible - you know the one where you wrap the wire back around 5 times...

The joys of a newbie hobby farmer!
Sheri

[ace admirer]

The twist used on high tensile fences? they sell a little tool (a flattened rod with a hole through it) to help beginners make the close winds. i tried the tool and found it to scraped off too much galvanising for me to feel confortable with. takes good work gloves and some strength. in high tensile the dead end of the wire is crossed at 90 dregrees to the live end (like around insulators) so the start of the wrap is easy (well relatively easy anyway) .. if you're making a splice (like a western union splice of electrical wires?) well thats another thing. its not seggested for high tensile. a square knot is used,,, or for a faster, neater splice, three crimps are used (with the proper tool with the proper setting for the size crimp you are using).

just remembered. (i've got a bad case of crs) i have seen a picture in some farm catalogue (tractor supply maybe?) of a little tool thats used to make western union type splices in barbed wire and other low carbon fencing. seems it was some form of a folded little piece of sheetmetal with a bent finger protruding on one end.. sorry, i've never had one in my hand to look at.

[Hammer4]

What are you wrapping the wire for or around? When I need to attach high tension wire to a post, I just slip a crimp on, wrap the wire around the post and crimp it back to itself....after cutting it between the brace post and the end post and putting in a crank tensioner, of course.

[sassy_mare]

Hey Hammer!

It is the knot shown towards the bottom of this page. They show a guy doing it by hand, but my SO said it was too tough to make it tight and neat like that. Maybe he was just pulling my chain....?

http://www.staytitefence.com/fence-d...e-building.htm

Thanks!
Sheri