Terminating wire woven fence options

[gsganzer]

I'm replacing some woven equine wire on a pipe fence and I'm reminded how tedious it is to terminate the ends by wrapping each horizontal strand around the terminating pole and twisting it back on itself. I twist the wire using fencing pliers and another small mutihole twisting tool at the terminating pole but it's always a PITA and time consuming,

Has anyone had good success using any of the various crimp tool/fittings? What ones do you recommend? I'm getting too old to mess with the twisting crap.

 

[bcp]

It will cost time or money.

Here's one way:

The quick & easy way to tie-off at the start or end of a fence or end post in Viticulture, Orchard and Fencing applications. | Gripple

Bruce

 

[SkylineAcres16]

I used T -Clips when I put up my woven wire and I can confirm they are great!

 

[BrokenTrack]

I just circle back upon itself and twist for a termination point, but I am pretty frugal and a minimalist by nature. For me, fence building is not that tedious because I know after spending 2-3 days fencing in a field, that field will have woven wire up for 30 years or more, so what is a few days of work compared to that?

But I have used crimps for woven wire repairs, and they work well. The cost is minimal, but the worst part is losing your crimping tool. That gets expensive, so but florescent pink paint as soon as you get one, and use it on all your fencing tools. Most tools are black, and when left somewhere, are easily lost.

 

[EddieWalker]

I'm curious what others have to say. I've been looking at what's available at kencove.com but don't know what's good and whats not. I've gotten some fantastic deals there for electric fencing, so it's my go to online source.

 

[JimRB]

I use a closed end 1/4" wrench to spin the wire around. Finish up with a short twist with pair of pliers. Fairly fast, but 13 wires to loop can be slightly annoying. I do that 26 times when tying a new roll to the already nailed up roll when installing new fence wire.

 

[dieselscout80]

I'm replacing some woven equine wire on a pipe fence and I'm reminded how tedious it is to terminate the ends by wrapping each horizontal strand around the terminating pole and twisting it back on itself. I twist the wire using fencing pliers and another small mutihole twisting tool at the terminating pole but it's always a PITA and time consuming,

Has anyone had good success using any of the various crimp tool/fittings? What ones do you recommend? I'm getting too old to mess with the twisting crap.

I wrap it around the post, stape it and twist it.

That said we have some high tensile wire and both of these crimps styles work great.
American FarmWorks High Tensile Wire 1-2 Gritted Crimping Sleeve, Pack of 25, HTCS12-AFW at Tractor Supply Co.
Farmstead Products Company 12-1/2 - 15-1/2 ga. Hi-Tensile Smooth Ferrules at Tractor Supply Co.

Crimping Tool
American FarmWorks 4-Slot Crimping Tool, HT4SCT-AFW at Tractor Supply Co.

 

[gsganzer]

Those T-clips appear to be the best option and run about $1.20/ea meaning it would cost about $16 for each end termination on a 13 wire equine fence. Not necessarily cheap, but no special tool required other than a cheap keychain type that allows you to undo them (if you ever needed to), so in a sense they're removable/reuseable. When you add that material cost together with the poles, concrete (if used), wire and other clips/wraps it's fairly insignificant. I'll probably try them on the next fence.

 

[Birdhunter1]

I hate woven wire fence with a passion. I told my son a few months ago when we were tearing some of it out that if he ever sees me putting the stuff up then he can know that I am getting paid well to do it. Recently figured a job with 300' of it and yes I bid it high.

But on the subject at hand I"ve always wrapped my post and stapled it on before I learned to twist and tie it off. I recently saw this ad for this tool and it might make it into my fence tool crib someday: S7 MODEL 6000

 

[ning]

I find that undoing the knots on horse fence takes me forever, suspect I'm doing it wrong and probably undoing too many of them. I find that wrapping the wire isn't that much effort afterwards, but definitely the start post and end post (terminators) of the woven wire is definitely the time-killer of the job - I'd be willing to shell out a bit more to save that hour.