Home made tools for V Mesh fence installation

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Morning James, they have them over at Jamiesons on Forrest or at MasterHalco. I buy a lot of my stuff at Merchants Metals in Irving. The 8 and a half inch are perfect for tying two and three eighths.
 
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Morning James, they have them over at Jamiesons on Forrest or at MasterHalco. I buy a lot of my stuff at Merchants Metals in Irving. The 8 and a half inch are perfect for tying two and three eighths.
 
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#43  
I used to tighten up fence with my fence pliers doing basically the same thing as the tuning fork took. The downside on that is the sharp edges of the fence plier jaws nicked steel. Eventually you can figure that becoming a problem.

So I came up with these.
 

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I used to tighten up fence with my fence pliers doing basically the same thing as the tuning fork took. The downside on that is the sharp edges of the fence plier jaws nicked steel. Eventually you can figure that becoming a problem.

So I came up with these.
 
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#45  
I used an old pair of pliers, rounded off the top jaw and welded two pieces of quarter inch rod to the bottom jaw.

It works great. But as the wire gets tighter it gets tougher to crimp. The tuning fork tool has the handle angled about thirty degrees off from the line of the fork. This makes it more efficient to use and easier on the operator.

When I get some time I want to make a really trick one that will do three times the work as easy as the fork does. I've made it in my mind, just haven't taken the time to form, cut, and weld. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Oh, the tuning fork will allow one to pull a fence so much tighter than any crimp style ever could. Leverage, think "Atlas" moving the world.
 
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#46  
I used an old pair of pliers, rounded off the top jaw and welded two pieces of quarter inch rod to the bottom jaw.

It works great. But as the wire gets tighter it gets tougher to crimp. The tuning fork tool has the handle angled about thirty degrees off from the line of the fork. This makes it more efficient to use and easier on the operator.

When I get some time I want to make a really trick one that will do three times the work as easy as the fork does. I've made it in my mind, just haven't taken the time to form, cut, and weld. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Oh, the tuning fork will allow one to pull a fence so much tighter than any crimp style ever could. Leverage, think "Atlas" moving the world.
 
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I remembered to take a couple of pictures today of the finished (dressed out) V Mesh that was so loose.
 

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I remembered to take a couple of pictures today of the finished (dressed out) V Mesh that was so loose.
 
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What's neat about this, besides being neat, is you can tighten up the whole section of fence.

Itty bitty bites. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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What's neat about this, besides being neat, is you can tighten up the whole section of fence.

Itty bitty bites. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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