Tool price rant

[bcp]

I added a high tensile wire to the top of one section of field fence where deer, bear, and limbs keep mashing the top down. I couldn't find my hog ring pliers so I just used slip joint pliers. Two squeezes instead of one, but it was no big deal.

Today between appointments I checked several stores, expecting to find hog ring pliers for $5+-. No way! Those things must be made by Black Forest elves and hand carried to the US!

The crude thing on the left was just over and under $20 at a couple of stores. As a comparison, I found regular fencing pliers for $16. (I know where my fencing pliers are, so didn't buy any.)

I'll keep using slip joint pliers until I find my hog rings pliers, or find some at a garage sale for $0.50.

I guess they can charge $20 for those things, but I'm not buying.

Bruce

 

[IslandTractor]

Search results for: 'hog ring pliers'

$9 before using a 20% discount coupon.

 

[DT86]

What about hi tensile fence requires hog ring pliers?

 

[DJ54]

Too bad you weren't with me last Friday at the Habitat for Humanity 50% off sale. Saw 2 pair, for .50 each, so would have been .25 ea. And, 4 boxes of new hog rings for .50 each. Had to chuckle, as the HfH store is in an upscale community, and wondered how something like that ended up there.

 

[Ed of all trades]

What about hi tensile fence requires hog ring pliers?

That is a new one to me too. Ed

 

[LD1]

Was wondering the same thing?

 

[MMagis]

What about hi tensile fence requires hog ring pliers?

Me three. Or is it four.

 

[bcp]

Like this:


(I modified a photo found online)

One high tensile wire along the top of the field fence, clipped to it with a hog ring about every 3 feet.

Bruce

 

[MMagis]

I'm still lost. What does that wire do?
I've built a LOT of fence, but have never heard of that.

 

[DT86]

Thanks for the pic, makes sense now.

 

[woodlandfarms]

Ahhh... It holds up a stretched out wire fence. Tree falls on fence, it gets bent and stretched. New taught wire tightens up fence, or at least lets it hang correctly.

 

[bcp]

I'm still lost. What does that wire do?
I've built a LOT of fence, but have never heard of that.

About one or twice a month I would find a section of fence smashed down about 8 inches or so. I would have to pull it back up into place and put in some kinks in the horizontal wires to tighten up the fence.

Here is the only photo I have. This isn't my typical fence, but is a temporary fence that was only stretched by hand.



Bruce

 

[MMagis]

Okay, now I see. I assume it's a lighter gauge wire, like 16 gauge?
Honestly, I've never heard of it before. I don't build many woven wire fences, that may be part of it.

 

[2458n]

I am guessing you do not have many bears in Guernsey Co Ohio.

 

[MMagis]

Nope, just the occasional passer through. Deer are my biggest problem.

 

[muddstopper]

Usually for wove wire, we run a couple of strands of high tensil barb wire above the wove wire. Mostly just for increaseing the height of fence, not so much for added support for the wove wire. I have found many instances where the barb wire kept a tree limb from mashing the wove wire. Dont think I have ever seen slick wire hog ringed to the wove wire, but understand the reason why one would do it that way.