If you use, what's called a lineman's splice, you won't need to revisit the splice to tighten it up, again. You just simply bend the two ends at a 90° angle, hook them at the bends, then wrap them on the long portion of the wire, not the short portion. And, you don't loop them back on themselves. If I had a way to demonstrate on this phone.

Novel trick, thnx

Each LOOP weakens the wire by half. A western Union is a much better splice.

Tricks rite in front of us, just a matter of seeing them ..

Dónde conseguimos esos guantes...????

Repeat excellent! But have to pay attention.

Don’t they make fence stretchers for that ?

We need to educate our children about people that emerge from the Dark Triad of human psychology.

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I use twist wire for the joining wire. Put loops on the end of the old wire. String out the twist wire to reach span the gap, plus extra for the hammer and double back. The wire will go threw the loop of the fence wire and duble back. So you will have two ends that go threw the loop of the other wire. With enough to use you hammer to tighten it up.

Wow! Great trick! Thanks!

Yep gave it a try today and I like it a lot. 👍 thanks for the tip.

NICE TRICK BUT WHY DO YOU HAVE THAT JUNK PAIR OF DIAGONAL PLIERS ? SIDE CUTS ARE 10 TIMES BETTER AND NO NEED FOR DIAGONALS..

barb wire should be banned , use straight wire or electric . inexpensive and more effective

👍 Be sure you don't throw any smaller pieces of wire in the grass. Cows can eat it, and that could cause serious problems. That is why cows usually have magnets in their stomach.

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Maybe sell some of that hay and buy some hay rings?

How much of the bale do the cows consume?

I am curious where you are located. Not asking for a specific location. Just a general location.

I live deep in the heart of suburbia, have never left for any appreciable amount of time, and yet of late have found myself watching videos like "how to heel a calf" and "how to saddle a horse" and "how to splice a barbed wire fence." Who knows, maybe one day.

Great work Steve - thank you!

Dumbest solution ever, no disrespect but just staple off new short sections and youre done. Why waste valuable time?

Good job.

Please consider Log winching safety-weighted-aprons applied on both sides of wire being tightened - don't overlook this aspect! Each of your cranial temples being 90 degree from the horizontal points of danger - you trying to get wire-swacked in stereo?! Stay with us bruddaman! MG

Hammer time! 😂

Very cool. Thanks for this teaching moment.

Hammers can, pound, pull, pry, dig, hoe and chop ... i have 7 in my vehicle, 3 claw hammers, one under the drivers seat, one on my tool belt, and a floater that sometimes ends up in a tool bag. 3 peening hammers for metal work and blade sharpening. And a shingling hammer i use for my fireplace ... not many cedar roofs anymore. You can make a hammer, or screwdriver quickly if you need one ... i built ikea shelves once with a rock and dime ... Lets hear it for the hanmer.

Would it be easier to use the hammer to do the final twisting? So after the lift, instead of unwrapping it, wrap the wire while it's being uncoiled from the hammer

Cant show this! This was a quick test to check experience

delightful, cheers for the tip

Amazing :)

I've been looking at a broken stretch of barb wire for 6 months but didn't have anyway to make a repair tight. I'm just back from fixing that annoying piece of wire. Great hack.

When Kermit the Frog goes rural.

Is barbedless bar wire the same as what we call smooth wire? We remove the barb from "2 wire barbedwire all of the time. U twist the wire 1 twist past the barb and with your fingers pinch the barb and the 2 strands in your palm, twist and pull the barb and twist the wires back into that place. The barb will be removed while the wires will be back in place twisted.

Great trick. You can also do it with Fencing Pliers.

I fix fence all the time and was very excited to see this, can't wait to try it out.

And than it snapped and took out his eye😅

Dear GPRL I am 75 and that was an excellent way to tighten a Wire fence with simple tools that you could easily store in your Ute Permanently!! I had to laugh at the guy who said he had 46 Hammers suck in his fencing!!!

Are you gonna pick up that extra wire or let your cattle pick it up with there feet😮

Thanks for that mate. Cheers

Slicker than snot on a door knob! Thanks for the video!!

nice trick!

That is God damn ingenious.

Folks who don't earn their keep outside with their hands and mind will never know what they are missing.

This is such a cool trick! I used to do something similar with pliers but I just couldn't get it out in the same smooth way. Hammer saves the day, once again. <3 Cheers Steve!

Thx from France.

I want a ranch now

Great work, thanks for the info 👍

This is really cool.. I could have used this when I was still a city slicker learning all the "fun" things with keeping up the property... Earned a stripe or two quite a time ago, but not without of blood, sweat and hazing from relatives and locals.. Yeah, know your wire! I popped a few older older tensioning while repairing.. That can sting you if you push the old ones bast the limit.. I got bit.. Twice.. Anyway... There was no KZbin back then but this is great info! Thank you for sharing!

Worst camera ever, useless angles, nothing important is visible.