Farm Fencing Hack - Never Use T-Post Clips Again (Official Video)

Fencing Hack - Never Use T-Post Clips Again (Official Video).
Do you hate using those t-post clips? Trying to figure out how to install them, using odd shaped tools and then bending them into odd shapes so they hold? Here is a simple alternative to t post clips that is quick, easy and effective.
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[@jimskinner9234]

I agree that the clips are a pain. I’m 70 and grew up ranching. What we always did was take the 14 ga galvanized stay wire and get on the opposite of the post from the wire. Doesn’t matter if it’s a steel post, pipe or wood post. Now, take the stay wire and go around the fence wire TWICE. On a T posts this takes about 5 or 6 inches so that you have enough to come back behind the post and twist. With a little practice, you will see about how much wire to use. You don’t have to cut it before wrapping the fence wire. I prefer to just have a coil and wrap twice, pull back to the backside of the post, then cut the wire on the coil long enough to twist the 2 ends together on the opposite side of the post from the wire. When I twist, I use flat nose electricians pliers and pull back towards me as i twist. The result will be a nice tight tie and holds the fence wire tight against the post. To me, it’s a much better and more secure way than shown in the video and faster to do.

[@tracitenneson8850]

can you clarify "opposite of the post from the wire"?

[@jimskinner9234]

@@tracitenneson8850 When facing the post, the barbed wire is on the other side. So when you twist the stay wire you also pull towards you and it helps pull the barbed wire against the post.

[@alunderwood5903]

Thanks!

[@jamieharwood7281]

I think the Lord sent me to your video today because I was ready to pull my hair out using the clips for the first time. Your method is working so much better for me! Thank you so much!

[@celiem4352]

THANK YOU FOR YOUR VIDEO. JUST DISCOVERED THE SUPER SIZE ZIP TIES I USED LAST YEAR 'WERE ALREADY WEAKENED BY THE WEATHER. THANK GOD, I DIDN'T HAVE MY MELONS ON THE PANEL YET, IT DROPED AND WOULD HAVE CUT MY PLANS OFF!! GOD BLESS

[@wesleygiddings893]

Thank you. Just like an insulator tie for power line work. I work on power lines, but just learning about building livestock fence. Good video.

[@adriennesmith.artist]

I saw your post in Tube Ritual FB group and had to see what you’re all about!! :) can’t wait to see more of your videos! We have def used some wire in our fencing installation. 🤣

[@salliegallegos918]

I like that! Thank you!

[@JerryGDawg56]

Great tip! Thanks for sharing!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Glad it was helpful!

[@EastofVictoriaPark]

Thank goodness. I can't find clips in my area and it's a good thing I can't.

[@alunderwood5903]

Thanks!

[@axelec]

If your going to use that many raps of smooth wire you may as well use T-Post Clips

[@Jamesjghome]

Love it farming rules

[@DontInterruptMeCunt]

I just use mechanic wire for this 1 wrap around lined up the notch I'm using twist it tight with pliers cut and tuck the tag to the post

[@tillmanfamilyfarm7759]

I’m all caught up. We have been busting our butts the last few weeks. My sons Jeep had problems so I’ve been working on that, over seeding pastures with rye and running like crazy from all these storms. Hope you guys are well!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Doing good. Sounds like ya'll have been hustling. Where are you getting your rye seed from? I'm looking for some cheap cover crop to sow behind the pigs. Oats, rye, winter wheat. Something cheap that will put some carbon down and get things popping up to cover the soil.

[@tillmanfamilyfarm7759]

We have a great relationship with a local feed store in near by Pine Mountain Ga. we use to buy 50lb bag from tractor supply. We only bought a few a year doing deer food plots. Big pastures changed all that when we bought this place. We are paying a little over half the TS price. It works great for us. Cows and horses graze it in the winter and we pull them off and cut it for hay in the spring.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Nice. Someone said to search for “bin run” when looking for seeds. Not sure what that is but I did find some wheat on Craigslist that was pretty cheap. $8 for 50lb I think. Not sure what that is exactly or how it would germinate.

[@sn8323]

Thank you for sharing your super great hack! Not sure if I should go with cable ties or this, but definitely NOT clips. (Also, love the southern accent... "Pull it nass and taht, wrap it nass and sneuug." Adorable)

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Accent? What accent? 😂😂. That's a refined use of the English language developed over the course of 29 years living deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. 😂

[@sn8323]

@@SheratonParkFarms :)

[@egibbons69]

@@SheratonParkFarms Blue Ridge, nice. BTW are you anywhere close to the AT?

[@trevorstolz8580]

Hello from Northern Alberta! Thank you for this video. However, I'd really like to mount 2x4 boards on t-posts, so that the board is not touching and the ground and won't rot. It could maybe be 6 inches above the ground. There are t-post brackets for that but they are expensive, as in $4 US each. So, if I need 100 of them, that adds up to significant money. I work at a lumber mill and can get all the reject lumber I like for free. I am thinking of cutting a groove in a 2x4 lengthwise with my table saw, from one end right to the other. Then I could mount his vertically on on the t-post with the "vertical part of the letter T" in the groove. However, I'd need to make sure the vertical 2x4 doesn't slip done. Yes, I could driver small 1/4" holes near the top and the bottom and secure it with wire, but that wouldn't be very tight. It would still slip up and down somewhat. With vertical 2x4's I could screw horizontal railings from post to post, paint it white and have a very esthetic white fence. Is there such a thing as a cost effective collar I could put on the t-post, just below the vertical 2x4 so it cannot move? No, I do not want to install 3" or bigger fence posts. I have a gas powered post pounder and it literally takes only a minute or two to put an 8 foot t-post into the ground 3 feet deep. Anyone with any creative ideas, please advise!

[@GetRealBaby]

There's a t-post clip tool that makes attaching clips to t-posts fast and easy. It's an inexpensive tool that is nothing more than a piece of metal about 4": long with holes in it that allows you to wrap the clip ends tight to the wire. It's much easier and faster than what is demonstrated in this video. This video demonstrates why you should not use the 14g wire method.

[@3CreekFarms]

Nice hack. I got sick of the t-post clips and started using heavy duty zip ties but that is more expensive than this 14ga wire. Like it 👍

[@Rancho5]

Can you do this barbed wire with this

[@Coconutoilcrazy]

Thanks you, I am not attaching fencing to a t post. I am looking at options for a rail across a bridge that is over a creek. I bought 4 t posts and began looking at rope, cable rails that led me here. It seems this wire will work for what I have in mind, I shall see.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Good luck with your project.

[@triciahill216]

I’ve also heard of people using 12 gauge soft galvanized wire to fasten fence wires. Any thoughts as to why one would be better than the other (14 gauge vs. 12 gauge)?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Honestly I just use what I have on hand. Not sure that one would be better than the other if you tied them tight.

[@ourv9603]

I use plastic electrical zip ties. Use one every wire crossing to the post. Zip ties are dirt cheap, like pennies ea, PLUS they do not rust. !

[@renamurray8138]

Man I hate those dang clips. I'll have to try this out.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Its and time and knuckle saver!

[@jrstearns9658]

Do you use this method when you have two panels at the same post?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes. Still works fine.

[@marykwart9331]

Exactly what I needed to set up a hog wire fence to keep deer away from my bird feeder.

[@ericbruckner6048]

How is that easier than using the clips?

[@nalley6815]

Kinda what I was thinking. I have a clip already done by the time he pulls the wire off the spool and cuts it

[@timhansn362]

Why you go over the top? If you on the bottom the wire will hold the fence up better?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

It’s really not about holding the fence up or down but holding it tight to the post. You could certainly go under the bottom. Or you could thread one side over the bottom and the other over the top.

[@AZHighlandHomestead]

For me, t post clips are easier and faster if and only if I have my stubby screwdriver to lever the horn around the fence.

[@fancyonfourteen]

I literally just got done with our livestock pen and dealt with the t post clips lol I used the wire and clips. Come check our channel out sometime. New homesteaders here!

[@toddcaskey9984]

Good hack

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Had to figure out a way when I didn’t have clips. Thought it was much easier than those darn things.

[@toddcaskey9984]

@@SheratonParkFarms I have the tool for the clip , but I have twisted difrently wire around the t posts 9 gauge . Your way is better.

[@edwinfai5910]

@@toddcaskey9984 please can you help to know how many electric net fence can go for a six hectares of land

[@toddcaskey9984]

@@edwinfai5910 too many

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. I use it all the time now.

[@jeremeyweeks7409]

The wraps leave slack around the post. This is a fail

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Then don’t use it. Worked fine for me