Stretching the first section of field Fence for our new pasture area.

[@ashleyflint3501]

Man, you are doing a great job, your knowledge for farm work is fantastic , its great to look at a finished fence , reflecting on what you have achieved for the week,

[@terrimccullough724]

I just wanted we to say that I really enjoy your videos! Looks great

[@lorenmeyer5290]

Fence looks amazing Evan and Rebecca! Always love watching! Your audio is great too! God bless y'all!

[@btomlin5764]

You build a hell of a fence Evan! I truly enjoy every aspect of you and Rebecca improving the farm in every way possible. It's a joy to watch y'all do everything from building fence to baling hay (which i'm super excited for). Keep on keeping on!

[@richnusser6079]

Evan, you do nice work buddy. You and Rebecca have a slice of Heaven there. I so enjoy your videos and I really appreciate you taking us along for the journey. Thank you

[@lauranicholas3914]

That was a lot of work, but it really looks good. You hold yourself to a high standard. well done !

[@toddsoutsideagain]

You are a fence making machine Evan! I think you got it down pretty good! Well done in my opinion👍🏻👍🏻

[@Tomhohenadel]

Your lovely assistant Rebecca. Solid fence, great job

[@deanbarr5740]

I think it looks pretty doggone good Evan. You and Rebecca did an awesome job. Nothing wrong with being a perfectionist. I try to take pride in most things I do. Also, that was a good idea unrolling it with your tractor, them rolls of fence are very heavy and almost impossible to do by hand. I'm 60 years old and have unrolled these by hand 30 years ago, but I couldn't do it today. Or atleast I would definitely not want too.

[@kingkong7617]

Evan, I think your system of stretching wire is a good one and the fence seems to be taught and that is what you want, looking good.

[@ronaldclemons5520]

You did a wonderful job on your fence. Blessings🙂

[@johnberryhill8106]

Looks AWESOME! .......I remember those hot , humid days stringing wire in Southwest Missouri back in the early 70's on our farm........ seems like a lifetime ago....... so cool that your daughter is there to help.....she will never forget this ! I'm so sorry ! .....I thought it was your daughter! Please forgive !

[@joannak4640]

Oh, Rebekah is going to LOVE this one 😂 I'm not sure if you are serious or just giving his wife the best possible compliment EVER ❤️

[@craigmellor75]

Good Looking fence boss, greetings from Scotland , love following the transformation !

[@mitchellgourley4642]

I think you did a great Job The only thing I would’ve done different is hooked to come alongs to the tractor and pulled it that way but it turned out perfect keep it up can’t wait to see the finished project

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Y'all make great looking fences. Thanks for showing how and why you do it this way. I think it looks straight and the same height all the way down the line.

[@annietan9582]

Although I live in the city. I enjoyed very much watching you sharing your experiences. Thanks for sharing

[@farmtheland]

What a nice fence, looks really good way out here in Arizona, I think I'll drop by with my level. I bet the Steer are going to love it.

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

Some farmers learn how to play songs while strumming their fence wires. I think your fence will last a very long time. Editing was excellent. Looking forward to the next install.

[@bevnelson3678]

Awesome Even. The fence looks straight to me. It’s going to be great to have another paddock for steers.

[@ciphercode2298]

I've learned alot about fencing from you over the last couple years. I put up some as a youngster, but never had anyone show me how to properly. Mine held up for about 25 years and served my parents purpose, so I guess it all worked out.

[@tanneradams20]

Call me crazy, but there’s nothing better after a hard days work than watching somebody else put in a hard days work lol.

[@InquisitiveSearcher]

I once saw a placard that read "I love work, I could sit all day long and watch people do it."

[@deannaoverstreet4146]

Lots of hard work! Thank you for sharing!

[@chuckhorner3758]

I wish my fence was as good as yours. Keep om doing it your way!

[@MoneypitHomestead]

Thanks for another great video, Evan! I really like how you rolled out the wire, and I will do the pipe thing this summer when I am putting up some new fence. I have always put the fence on the ground and rolled it to the other end, LOL. I must agree with you about stripping wire. It is my least favorite thing to do, and it is so time-consuming. Anyway, the fence looks great, and I look forward to seeing the rest of the fencing projects. Until next time, may God bless your days the way He always blesses ours! Donald

[@jimstover1305]

Nice job, straight and tight!

[@lonebuffalo74]

The one of the coolest things about being a truck driver is some of the places I've delivered loads to. Like Oklahoma Steel & Wire Madill, OK also known as OK Brand Fencing Products.

[@TheOldguy1948]

Evan a job well done. Someone more than likely have told you that the fencing plier you have the top most part of the plier is for pulling staples. Look at it and you will see how it works.

[@walterchapman2884]

I sure didn't know a fence loosened in the summer and tightens in the winter. You continue to impress with your knowledge! It's a great looking job you've done .Lol tell Rebekah she could see more than just the top of her cap by pulling the bib up. Just teasing her

[@jamesmorrison1884]

Hello Evan looks great nice work!!!!!!!!!

[@justahermet]

That chain on a pipe is cool!! thanks.

[@stevenbradford6824]

Great job. Who cares what the negative people say!

[@suziqbrown7073]

It's amazing what can get done with one man and a tractor

[@letartcircuitrider118]

Liking the new intro music. Another great video!

[@nikolausnighden667]

This is the nicest and cheapest cattle fence I've ever seen.

[@jr848484]

Evan you can use your gripple tool to strip the vertical stays

[@josephbrown-ut9ty]

JudithB It looks really good! Being me having horses for so many years, that lay on the top of the fence, I would run a strand of barb wire on top!! LOL!

[@CountryViewAcres]

The posts are tall enough to do that if needed.

[@jackhutsby208]

Use your tractor to pull it tight or use it as an anchor then you can pull the wire past the H brace

[@markboettcher9443]

Your fence building book must have been the college edition. We never stripped the end like you did. I built a lot of fence starting 60 years ago with my Dad and continuing with my son today. Double or triple staple the end of the fence on the wood post at the joints. Wrap the end of the fence on the end post. if you don't like stripping the wire. You asked for other ways!

[@stevenswain5144]

Stapling will twist the end post

[@stoutnerfarms139]

Agreed I was kind of confused about the stripping and wrapping. Like you said, just staple the ends to the post.

[@waynejones5239]

Always took the fence pliers and pulled it around the post then wrapped the wire on each strand they would get serval steps not tight after all wires were tight and everything released then end staples where tight if we could put the tractor or pickup to pull the fence then we nailed it tight and then released

[@TheMrCheezlezombie]

Well good thing you're the only one who has ever installed fence correctly. Thank God you graced us with your presence lmfao

[@ScottThomas-l3v]

For get the come alongs. And hook stretcher to front end loader . That way you go past end post and can raise wire to height you want

[@tomriblett2979]

Good job on that first stretch

[@Fmjnax]

Heed his advice with needing a strong brace for sheep/goat fence! We set up a slightly-temporary small pen using 13 line fence and did not bother with doing full H-brace. We used a floating brace method with the corner posts sunk 4' and the floating brace end anchored 2' with a deadman block. Felt extremely tight and secure... until we stretched the fence. On a short 24' run, the corner brace pulled as we tensioned. Remedied the problem by anchoring the start post to the side-by-side while we pulled tension and didn't put as much tension on it. Once it was stretched and secured, we released the anchor and the corner post held. Hopefully it will hold for the duration of the temporary pen need.

[@bendugas8632]

Interesting, I had never seen a sheep fence put up, as you said there is no wrong or right way, but when you tighten everything up and the ends moved with the bracing you have, it doesn't seem right to me but what do I know I only ever made cattle fencing. Very informative keep them coming.

[@gerryspang5917]

Looking good Evan . Cheers

[@leol1682]

Like the video on fence Evan .

[@Houston_sides]

That fence looks nice cool video

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

2:31 Wonder why... 😉 Great work on that fence! Thanks a lot for the video!😊👍🏻

[@azbushrat]

The number of wires does not determine the amount of force or pull on the brace. In fact, it just spreads it out along the length of the pole. The only thing that determines the combined force is how tight you pull the fence.

[@jonathanwilhelm2958]

That isn’t quite correct. The length of the pull doesn’t make any difference, but the number of wires do. Proper wire tension is just that, tension per wire. Generally speaking, non electrified high tensile wire should be tensioned to around 330 pounds of tension. For example, a 13 strand net wire would take approximately 4,300# to get to proper tension, verses a 8 strand only taking 2,600#. (Given 330# is your goal)

[@summerbreeze3090]

Sounds right. Are you a country boy/man?

[@OurNewLand]

Awesome job, guys! Very well explained. Thank you.

[@gardenman3]

I have found if a wire is loose I do this. Every so far down the wire grab it with pliers and give it a 1/2 twist makes things nice and tight.

[@nathanrittenhouse3589]

Great job brother I’m fixing to build a fence like that to

[@allanulen3809]

Good job Evan

[@sylviaprudhomme5417]

Nice job. Lots of hard work

[@dhamps10]

Tie the stretcher to your tractor set past the last post, and you can stretch to the last post.

[@joannak4640]

It's amazing how far you've come with putting up fences ❤️ Good for you! Although, I must say, at this rate it's going to be a long time until we see the job completed 😂 I'm sure you are much further along than what you have shown us but I'm getting anxious to see the final results. Nothin but love for you guys 😁

[@leighpetersen4972]

I suggest you learn how to do what they call a 'termination knot' which is a much stronger knot than just wrapping the wire, it'll also loose less tension. Just a suggestion, although just wrapping will probably work as it's not under a whole lot of tension

[@bradsamson6105]

He did terminations from what i seen

[@bradsamson6105]

6:00

[@leighpetersen4972]

I believe he tried, but they're done in a way that's just the same as normal wraps ​@@bradsamson6105

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Looks great Evan and Rebecca, going to have a great pasture safe and secure when you're done with the fencing and gates. Fred.

[@stevenpage3311]

Looks good Evan 🤙

[@martykennedy3962]

That’s a darn nice looking fence…..you’ve got this.

[@prodriver12345]

You can use your gripple tensioner to push the knots off the horizontal wires, dont cut the vertical wires though or they will just bend and pull through the gripple tensioner

[@jakeschisler7525]

I had almost a week of rain, ao you were lucky.

[@JG-sz8is]

Kevin, instead of stripping off the wire, you can just connect separate wire to the end of the fence as an extension.

[@InquisitiveSearcher]

Interesting.... I don't remember ever leaving the staples loose to let the fence wire "float." We always drove the staples fully in. On your corner posts where you are seeing movement in the ground we would always wedge a large rock (we had a LOT of rock) in the hole near the top, when we back filled, to support the post when we later began to pull tension. As far as getting that last little bit of fence tight before you release the tensioner I think I remember putting a loop in the end of the wire to fit over a big crowbar. So we would wrap the wire around the corner/end post and hook the loop into the crowbar and pull it tight and put in 2 or 3 staples driven fully in so the wire doesn't slip back much. Then wrap the wire onto itself and do that for each of the wires. Then loosen the tensioner. Though,... thinking about it a bit more, and because the tensioner we used was hooked to the draw bar of the tractor, and the wire was horizontal (against the ground) when tensioning, I think I remember "standing up" the fence (with a bit of a twist in it) and stapling the woven wire to the 3 wooden post before the "H" posts and then releasing the clamp. So we had a considerably longer length of wire to pull tight with the crowbar than what your tensioner allowed you. All in all I think you're doing a great job. Keep it up! P.S. I always found it interesting the way the fence would make that "tink tink tink tink" sound as it was pulled tight. It always more or less sounded like the fence cracking it knuckles. I don't know way, but that always amused me.

[@nickcpa6113]

Take the pipe you are using to hold the fence and weld an old disc blade on one end, convex side welded to the pipe. Then you can hang the fence straight up down while you unroll, and use the tractor to stretch it tight.

[@shamrock56gargan96]

Looks good ,the gate got bent

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

I have a standard sized goat about 90lb A mini horse and a Horse. Our fencing is 1 foot by 6" at the top then it gets tighter as it gets to the bottom I think the bottom is 1' by 2" for the last 3 squares. I find it keeps the chickens from wandering as well * not chicks lol they are all over the place lmao. Our goat is an alpine her horns curl over her head she turns her head and sticks it though the fence but has never gotten stuck

[@EngineersHomestead]

To remove the vertical wires near the braces, I think I cut them then held a pair of pliers loose on the horizontal near the knot then bang against pliers with a hammer/another pair of pliers. Probably not much better than your approach. To wrap the wire ends, I use the little fence wire twisting tool... depending on the style you may not have enough room between those goat fence horizontals to use it much.

[@jerrywoodlee2345]

Nice job It looks great

[@stevenswain5144]

Another thing try using a ht wire strainer on your brace wire instead of gripple. U can push that end back up. And yes u should always double up brace wires.

[@lindadecker3538]

Hi Evan... when I saw you sitting on that bucket, I thought "Wow, that has to be tough on the buns!" I was glad to find out you actually had a nice comfy seat.😁😁 I always like to look in the background to see what might be coming in a future video. Today, it looked like some work was being done on the roof of the old pole barn. Are you getting it ready for the steers? If you are going to paint it and need a color suggestion... I suggest brown to match new pole barn and billy goat camp. Also, it looked like your recently purchased grain cart was in the pasture. Are you going to use the round concrete areas to park your carts? Thanks for your dedicated efforts in making these great videos. I never miss one.

[@stevenswain5144]

The proper and best way is to wrap the ends and pull together in the middle. But wit post and bracing the way u did it. It won't matter. It's there to stay And it's good to see that u don't drive staples in all the way. Because the fence has to expand and contract. Because if it doesn't it will pull your end and corner assemblies. Mother nature has more power then any one of us can imagine. Good job indeed though.

[@rileyandfriendsvlogsandgam3667]

If you put the fence puller past the end of the fence and pull from something else you can get it tighter

[@martybertrand5119]

For nailing try the Dewalt 9 ga nailer. Huge time saver

[@seansysig]

We always slipped a piece of hose over the wire where it goes around a wood post so it doesn’t cut into the wood and loosens tension.

[@stevenswain5144]

What is the for unwrapping so many vertices. I just do 1 whole vertical line. And then the ones that will hit your brace rail and brace wire I have been in the fencing trade for 30 years. And that's how we do so. And now they have a 1 way vice link so u have no tying.

[@A_Plus586]

I always put my brace wire a little higher than the middle brace pole

[@abbo3272]

nice fence, just a suggestion, with posts, dont put in centre of hole, put against solid ground, side ram up 3-4 times, also, we usually strain up wires from centre, of a long strain.

[@csnanny1882]

How smart are you , got you a seat to set on. I see your help showed up. God bless you guys and your beautiful farm. Do you have baby goats coming ?

[@ronboeckler3735]

I have a question why you do not hook your tractor to your tensioning post and use your tractor as a tensioner or as an anchor point for your come alongs? Just a thought it might be educational for me.

[@JamesCouch777]

We fenced and cross fenced 50 acres for goats in some of the roughest terrain you can imagine. The ravines were so steep you couldn't navigate them with an ATV. Watching you build your fence is giving me PTSD 🥴

[@davidbonnet9614]

Maybe a simple fence stretcher would do the trick for the last bit of fence that doesn't have tension on it. Use your current stretcher and then hook up the other stretcher to you bucket so you can keep tension on it. The stretcher I'm thinking about is the one that has 3 hooks that grab onto your fencing and has a "ring" that allows you to run a chain from the puller to either your bucket or even your ATV rack. If that makes sense?

[@cathiwim]

Yep, i have one of those. Love it!

[@davidbonnet9614]

@@cathiwim good deal! Cheap and set up in no time.

[@davidfeatch1436]

Use brace wire and gripples to secure the fence ends instead of stripping the fence wire. Use as many brace wire lengths as there are horizontal fence lines. This was you can tighten the fence later by using the gripples if the fence sags. Also, place/ stretch the top line of the fence over the top of the metal T posts. That way no matter if the fence sags later it will never drop enough to allow an escape.

[@tonyaann4877]

Looks good 👍

[@alanmcclorey8914]

great video Guy's

[@ramchillarege1658]

great video demo

[@EC4400]

Really nice.

[@ronniewalker2881]

Good video good job man

[@jakebredthauer5100]

I thought you would tell us how high from the ground it should be. Keeping it off of the ground will prevent rusting. It might give you a higher fence if you staple it up higher.

[@viliamvaluska]

nice job! what type of wood do you use for the fence posts? thnx🙂

[@stevenbradford6824]

Beautiful

[@wambsganz8]

Do you think an electric sheet metal shear would cut those wires?

[@daleh645]

You are your own worst critic, the fence looks good. I want to see you do the back side fence going around the garbage pit. How is the tractor rebuild going?

[@CountryViewAcres]

I will be stretching the back fence tomorrow. Hopefully it goes well. I haven't had Ny extra time to work on the tractor.

[@mark_mthws]

Another great fence well done. Have you considered using gripples at the end instead of your second set of knots? That might give you the option to take out the slack and adjust individual wires if needed.

[@Charlie-s9c]

To each their own!

[@ismaelrios8641]

Show 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇧🇷

[@stevenswain5144]

The amount of pull is 1 foot per 100. Something to consider next time. That way u can get your strainer board closer to the end.

[@waynejones5239]

Take a hint from the utility company put a anchor at the corners

[@freeholdequine2733]

I was raised around horses, an old saying for horsemen is "you ask 10 horsemen the same question you will get 20 answers".

[@The.Artistic.Squirrel]

This is a crash course into Fencing Hell on a small ranch in Rural Wyoming. When I saw the brand of sheep fence my stomach dropped. It’s the same stuff my husband brought home just yesterday. 7 rolls of it.

[@ferminamezquita5422]

Hey Evan I have a question for you the fencing that you’re doing approximately what would it cost to do all the fencing you’re doing I have 30 acres I have to fence off so I’m wondering what it’s gonna cost me I know it’s going to depend on the length and the width but just a quick estimate would be great

[@albertcantu3446]

I use a angle grinder to cut wire