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Hayes strainer

  • 28-03-2012 10:29PM
    #1
    foxylock
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    Howya lads.

    Does anyone know where a fella could buy a Hayes wire strainer right quick? I'm under a small bit of pressure for it. Thanks.


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  • #2
    kay 9
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,676 ✭✭✭kay 9


    Connact gold have them I think or most hardware stores seem to stock them too.
    http://www.agridirect.ie/index.php/battery-fencers/fencing-accesories/hayes-wire-strainers.html <---- this crowd have them also if you fancy online purchase. Could be next day delivery. Didn;t check postage details.


  • #3
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,857 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    where are you?

    Farm relief services should have them for sale with the fencing stuff. I think its stradbally farm services that import them

    http://www.stradballyfarmservices.com/pel/pel_fencing_tools.html

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #4
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    Thanks for that lads I'm in south tipp. There's an frs in cahir might be worth a shot.


  • #5
    MfMan
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    foxylock wrote: »
    Thanks for that lads I'm in south tipp. There's an frs in cahir might be worth a shot.

    The likes of Arrabawn co-op probably stock them; I'm sure Mullahone would have them also.

    No matter how much I read the literature or study online postings, I still can't figure out fully how they work and if they're effective. Are they a one-man job? For fencing recently, I have a cable-puller, a ratchet-type job that I anchor to the tractor, put a loop in the wire, slip it through the hook on the puller and strain away. Does the job reasonably well.


  • #6
    Muckit
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    How do lads strain sheep wire with them?


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  • #7
    redzerologhlen
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    Muckit wrote: »
    How do lads strain sheep wire with them?

    Weave a crow bar in through the sheep wire and put the strainer onto the middle of the crow bar and the other end onto the tractor. The couple of time we put up sheep wire that was the way we did it. There might be a better way to do it.


  • #8
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    Well lads after a lot of phone calls and a bit of sweatin I finally tracked one down today in Stradbally farm services, I felt it was a bit pricey at 180 Euro but the pressure is on this weekend to get a badly needed fence erected before I move the ewes. Gonna have a fair crack off it tomorrow, as regards how good it is with sheep wire I'll keep ye posted. It could be a baptism of fire with me new fancy strainer goin flyin across the mountain and the wise old man beside me noddding his head with a knowing smile thinking of all the posts that 180 Euro would have bought. Sure ya have to try don't ya!!


  • #9
    FREDNISMO
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    That sounds a little pricey, I have seen them in my local co-op for 70e, genuine Hayes strainers at that, unless there is a few different models and the pair that I saw were the base model


  • #10
    gazahayes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 455 ✭✭gazahayes


    They have them in the co-op near me (north tipp) for €90 last time i was looking for one only wanted the chain as it was lost but it'd cost the same.


  • #11
    foxylock
    Closed Accounts Posts: 429 ✭✭foxylock


    FREDNISMO wrote: »
    That sounds a little pricey, I have seen them in my local co-op for 70e, genuine Hayes strainers at that, unless there is a few different models and the pair that I saw were the base model

    No pretty standard model as far as I know, everyone I was talking to was on about this price hike, but now as I type this I'm beginning to notice that my ass is a little sore!!


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  • #12
    Dodge2014
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    This place is 85e plus vat for the Hayes Wire Strainer H300

    http://merchant.iitc.ie/detail.asp?p=137&m=26


  • #13
    Conmaicne Mara
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    Dodge2014 wrote: »
    This place is 85e plus vat for the Hayes Wire Strainer H300

    http://merchant.iitc.ie/detail.asp?p=137&m=26

    Was just looking at the handlamps on there, some of them are antiques!


  • #14
    screcrow
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 47 ✭screcrow


    frs in cahir
    https://www.frscahir.ie/proddetail.php?prod=EH3


  • #15
    bogman_bass
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    anybody use gripples?


  • #16
    frazzledhome
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    anybody use gripples?

    For repairs and only if in a hurry. They become the weakest part of the fence. Often glad of one in a rush though


  • #17
    C0N0R
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    For repairs and only if in a hurry. They become the weakest part of the fence. Often glad of one in a rush though

    Figure of eight knot best job if you have the wire for it


  • #18
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    C0N0R wrote: »
    Figure of eight knot best job if you have the wire for it

    Yea green steel hi tensile, tighten till you can stand on it!


  • #19
    ellewood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 950 ✭✭✭ellewood


    frazzledhome wrote: »
    For repairs and only if in a hurry. They become the weakest part of the fence. Often glad of one in a rush though

    Dont know how id manage without me gripple machine and me gripples - repaired 2 fields this evening in jig time with no cursing
    Chain strainer is grand only to get the fecker off the wire when tension on it
    Best yoke i ever bought the gripple
    strainer
    I just tie off each side of gripple once tught then it cant loosen


  • #20
    C0N0R
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Yea green steel hi tensile, tighten till you can stand on it!

    Na I like to be able to drive the motorbike over me fences, saves opening gates!


  • #21
    trixi2011
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    C0N0R wrote: »
    Na I like to be able to drive the motorbike over me fences, saves opening gates!
    Was just going to say that :D


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  • #22
    Greengrass1
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    Yea green steel hi tensile, tighten till you can stand on it!

    Father here likes that soft wire that he can manage.
    Curse of a yoke cause it breaks if tightened too tight.
    I learned how to do all the proper knits and all.
    Fence makes a place when its done really well


  • #23
    MfMan
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    For repairs and only if in a hurry. They become the weakest part of the fence. Often glad of one in a rush though

    Can you install a gripple without cutting the wire, or does it have to be snipped with the loose strands fed into either end?


  • #24
    satstheway
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    Used that aluminum elec fence wire here on a strip last year. It was always singing in the wind but not too tight to break but it ate through the insulation on my pigtales. What do I do wrong?


  • #25
    trixi2011
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    satstheway wrote: »
    Used that aluminum elec fence wire here on a strip last year. It was always singing in the wind but not too tight to break but it ate through the insulation on my pigtales. What do I do wrong?
    Pig tails aren't really designed for carrying wire more so designed for polly wire the stuff like string. May also be **** pigtails they all end up like that after a few years but have noticed that some cheap one I bought this year are fecked already


  • #26
    paddysdream
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    bogman_bass wrote: »
    anybody use gripples?

    Use them all the time.The cost of them is easily saved in time if you try to tie the wire PROPERLY.Tying 8 strands of sheepwire is a curse of a slow job.

    To pull sheepwire do not use a hayes type puller.Just get a 3ft lenght of angle,weld on a frame to latch a chain onto,drill 8 holes corresponding with the strands on the sheepwire and pull with the tractor.You run the ends of the sheepwire through the holes and place gripples on them to hold it.Never seen them to slip even with a good pull on 300 or 400m.


  • #27
    satstheway
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 832 ✭✭✭satstheway


    These the gold foot pigtales. They ain't cheap.
    Galv tying wire used much tighter for years no problem. But this aluminum stuff vibrates at a frequency that just cut through the insulation.


  • #28
    Zr105
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    MfMan wrote: »
    Can you install a gripple without cutting the wire, or does it have to be snipped with the loose strands fed into either end?

    You can get a special gripple lad that has 2 sort of hooks on one end of it, there spose to be for tying off at the end, you loop wire around stake, clip it onto the wire and then run the end through it

    This lad here:

    http://www.gripple.com/us/products/catalogue/t-clip.html


  • #29
    paddysdream
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    frazzledhome wrote: »
    For repairs and only if in a hurry. They become the weakest part of the fence. Often glad of one in a rush though

    Nothing wrong with gripples.Will hold when pulled with 200hp tractor straining upwards of 400m of wire and very rarely seen one slip.Also if used in a sheep wire fence allows you to tighten the wire at a later stage with a gripple pullers(shouldn't have to but ?).

    How else could you strain the middle of a fence where you cannot pull from either end?Use a clamp type chain pullers,then join and strain the middle 10 ft or so with gripple and pullers and then release the clamp pullers.Works a treat and you have a seriously tight fence.


  • #30
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    I must be doing wrong. If a wire breaks here its usually the gripple that gives. I only use for repairs when in a rush.


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  • #31
    49801
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    Greengrass1 wrote: »
    Father here likes that soft wire that he can manage.
    Curse of a yoke cause it breaks if tightened too tight.
    I learned how to do all the proper knits and all.
    Fence makes a place when its done really well

    All soft wire here. Much easier to work with. But I agree about it breaking when over tightened :mad:
    If I could learn to work the high tensile stuff I'd prefer to use it.


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