Rewinding High Tensile Fence Wire

BeeDI

Lads, I have over 1,000 meters of double row high tensile fence wire I need to take down and rewind. It's a boundary fence competely overgrown with briars, furze, withethorn etc,.
I want to go in with a track machine and clean up the place.
However, can someone give me an idea how to remove and coil the high tensile wire? I don't have any good gear to hand to handle the wire, so I want to be able to do it more or less manually!! I was trying last Saturday for a few hours and found it a near impossible job to be honest.
Any ideas?

Username John

BeeDI wrote: »

Lads, I have over 1,000 meters of double row high tensile fence wire I need to take down and rewind. It's a boundary fence competely overgrown with briars, furze, withethorn etc,.
I want to go in with a track machine and clean up the place.
However, can someone give me an idea how to remove and coil the high tensile wire? I don't have any good gear to hand to handle the wire, so I want to be able to do it more or less manually!! I was trying last Saturday for a few hours and found it a near impossible job to be honest.
Any ideas?

I did this job before, manually as well, and talk about sickening... I dont envy you the task then to be honest...
What I did was take it all off, and put it down on the field. Then roll it up around a stick shaped like a Y, with the bottom of the Y a few feet long, so you could wrap it around the open ends of the Y . Tie it in the middle of the Y, then just keep rolling as best you can. Make sure you have gloves, and some heavy jacket, as it could run up the Y onto yer hands very quick, and mind yer face as well, as they stuff can fly if yer not careful. You'll need a few Y sticks, as they get heavy with a bit of wire on em...

Thats what I did, not sure if it was the best or easiest (or safest) way to do it, but twas what I came up with at the time. But it was a full (summer) day or two of hardsip to do two strands.

charityboy

if you are taking down the wire so that you can reuse it , open off the wire at both ends then tie it to the hitch of the tractor and pull it out on to farm roadway or along the bottom of another ditch until you want to use it again works well for me

Bog Man 1

We welded up a reel about 2foot 6 inches in diameter with the hub tapered and a removable disc at one side so the wound up wire can be removed after it had been secured with cable ties .If the wire was not too strong maybe if you got a few old reels from CO2 welding wire and wound it onto that.

kay 9

If it's a 1000 meters you will need something bigger than usual so a reel like the esb have would be ideal. They are plenty of them on building sites that go as waste. You can actually roll them easily with weight on them and start the high side of field after pulling it through the briars and hawthorns etc. It will pull through itself if it's the heavy guage stuff it can take a fair pull. A tractor is your best friend with this or machine if ya have one. Easier than pulling by hand anyway.

blue5000

Ya esb cable drum is a good idea. Electrician suppliers might have them too.

You could cut it into 200m lengths, then pull it out to a flat field. roll it up around an empty 200 L plastic barrel. Any longer and it gets too heavy. Hope you have help with you though.

RobinBanks

Slightly off topic but any tips unwinding high tensile electric wire. Christ it’s horrid stuff to manage on your own. If it gets away from you at then you are fu**ed. Seen those spinning Jenny’s online but need something for now. Any use anything else to unroll it?

Willfarman

A Esb cable drum on top of a pto cement mixer. Seen it done. Great job.

wrangler

BeeDI wrote: »

Lads, I have over 1,000 meters of double row high tensile fence wire I need to take down and rewind. It's a boundary fence competely overgrown with briars, furze, withethorn etc,.
I want to go in with a track machine and clean up the place.
However, can someone give me an idea how to remove and coil the high tensile wire? I don't have any good gear to hand to handle the wire, so I want to be able to do it more or less manually!! I was trying last Saturday for a few hours and found it a near impossible job to be honest.
Any ideas?

I've an unroller for wire, I just wind it up on that,
It's easy enough to put 200 mtrs into each roll
Something like this.

https://www.homeland.ie/shop-agri-online/animal-equipment/fencing/78702/wire-pay-out-spinning-jenny-hd?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwIPrBRCJARIsAFlVT8-4FG7o9-R3eTtHIAkponw7UBP9qP5kNsZzOMmfqGKgEh6g25QPb0gaAs8PEALw_wcB

Limestone Cowboy

RobinBanks wrote: »

Slightly off topic but any tips unwinding high tensile electric wire. Christ it’s horrid stuff to manage on your own. If it gets away from you at then you are fu**ed. Seen those spinning Jenny’s online but need something for now. Any use anything else to unroll it?

I made my own one out of a few short bits of crush tubes that were thrown around the place. A Jenny is the only job for unwinding the rolls of wire to be honest and they aren't that dear.

Pod123

A Jenny is the job easily from a few bits of pipe. Put in your roll of wire and tighten on Jenny then cut the straps of the roll. You pull the wire from the end that has the tag on it.

If you don’t have a Jenny it’s a two man job. Place the roll on the ground you might need to put a few bags under it so it will be easy to unwind and won’t catch on anything. If doing it this way you pick the centre of the roll and the other person walks off unwinding it as they walk.
For the 1000 meters it’s just over a roll and a half. I would just roll in on drums and put up new wire. If it gets kinked it will just break and you will be back repairing it. You will more time wasted trying to unwind the old stuff and you will be annoyed with it catching on the drum and snapping.
Best of luck.

Bass Reeves

RobinBanks wrote: »

Slightly off topic but any tips unwinding high tensile electric wire. Christ it’s horrid stuff to manage on your own. If it gets away from you at then you are fu**ed. Seen those spinning Jenny’s online but need something for now. Any use anything else to unroll it?

If you need to unwind hold the roll in your left hand take 3 rings of wire off to the right hand side of the roll. Now take roll into your right hand and take 6 rings to the left hand side. Now back to the left hand and 6 rings to right hand side and keep repeating after that. Stick the end you start with a 12-15 inches into the ground to stop it moving or tie it onto a pole with a rope. The rings are now counter to each other and will straighten as you stretch the wire. If you are doing long distances flick the wire ever 30 meters to straighten it will straighten as you pull it snyway

fastrac

Get reels off an Electrician and use the tine on the bale handler to hang it off and roll away

patsy_mccabe

If you are scrapping it, just pull out and cut to lengths with a fencing pliers. Cable tie it in bundles then and off to the scrap yard.
If you are reusing then ideally you'd want to run it tru 3 small wire rollers to get the bend on it to make it easier to roll. Similar to these;

http://www.howarequipment.com/products/wire_tooling/wire_straighteners/

You'll hardly be doing that so a spinning jenny is the easiest. You'll need a second person to turn the reel. Use cable ties then every 20 or so twists then to stop the whole thing unwinding.

mf240

charityboy wrote: »

if you are taking down the wire so that you can reuse it , open off the wire at both ends then tie it to the hitch of the tractor and pull it out on to farm roadway or along the bottom of another ditch until you want to use it again works well for me

This is what I do too.

farisfat

I use the track machine and dig a hole for it.

cjpm

Neighbour of mine made up one that spins in the vertical plane. Mounted on a digger bucket with 2 handles on the back for spinning it. V handy. He's after rolling up a lot of wire with it. And can roll it out again no bother.

G-Man

The old teagle tip mixer have enough of a concave lip to allow you to roll up high tensile wire...Still a hard job and need to wind drum manually for stable control

Snowfire

G-Man wrote: »

The old teagle tip mixer have enough of a concave lip to allow you to roll up high tensile wire...Still a hard job and need to wind drum manually for stable control

Thought that’s what the pto was for...!?

Capra

https://youtu.be/ZTnFieEL8dc

Wire winding Jenny. These are a great job if you are using them regularly.

patsy_mccabe

Capra wrote: »

https://youtu.be/ZTnFieEL8dc

Wire winding Jenny. These are a great job if you are using them regularly.

That's the job.

Muckit

Seen one of those thrown out in a skip only lately. Good as new.