As someone who has watched a thousand how-to videos on youtube, this one is perfect. All the info needed without a lot of useless jib-jab and wasted camera time as you spend two minutes drilling a hole or explaining what tools will be needed to complete the job, etc. When you're finished covering all the farming stuff, please consider doing a how-to video on how to do a how-to video.
Hi John, lol! Yep, I got tired of the same thing. But when I watch car repair or appliance repair videos they're straight to the point. I don't care for long shots of pretty scenery; I can watch National Geographic for that.
This was, hands down, the best fence video I have seen. Especially since I am doing my fence mostly alone and without a tractor. Thanks much for the outstanding video!
I've taught for 40 years. I've also used video a lot in my presentations. You have a great ability to narrow down what's important and make your presentation precise. Other DIY videos guys on RUclips make you watch as they hammer in the third nail. You video the first occurrence of each step then assume that your learner is smart enough to duplicate that as many times as necessary also using slip time to show the passage of time to the completion of that task. Very well done and helpful. As a suggestion, you might want to mention the names of all of your tools and fittings, eg. "crimping ferrels" for the tension wire, so DYI dummies like me will know what to ask for when we go to Tractor Supply or Home Depot :).
Ive watched a bunch of fence stretching videos and this is the best ive seen. I really appreciate how slow and detailed you go with each step and the angles you filmed really helped. Thanks Pete.
Thank you for this video! I too had to learn how to build fences through a whole bunch of different RUclips videos. I also appreciate you doing this without a tractor.
Wish we found this video first. It is very concise. I feel confident in building a woven wire fence now, and installing the gate! Thank you so much for creating this tutorial.
We always did barbed wire in the west. I loathed fencing. Cowboy work, awesome. Mechanic work, treat. Mucking, cool. Fencing. Nope... unless I couldn’t help it. Solid video. How do you tell the real cowboy in a truck? He rides in the middle. He doesn’t have to drive or open gates.
This is amazing. After watching so many videos you have nailed it. If you weren't an educator you should have been! Thank you for putting this together
This is definitely a great way to do it. I do have to say though, the Gripple Brace kit is so much easier to work with. If you haven't tried them and you're doing lots of fence, give it a go.
** TIP - using your technique of tensioning, install a horizonal member between the temporary tensioning post and your end post, to avoid concern of bending the post. You don't even need the temporary post to be secure in the ground. I used 3/8" steel pins to do this. ** I installed my first farm fence 15 years ago. There are better "how to" resources today - this video! A few of my posts have rotted and I need to redo 3 sides. I am interested to see you used the same technique of boards to stretch, BUT you did something critically different - wrapping the wire! I remember mine all slipped. Using a tractor I had not considered - I set an extra pole, which required digging two extra holes per corner. I also used 3/8" round stock to pin the braces, but I like your method - much faster. This is great - thank you.
Pete. Thank you for putting this video together. Been watching your videos on Dexter cattle and really appreciate your honest feedback on your experience. This video will help me build/rebuild my farm’s fencing. All the best. GG3
I came to this video figure out how to anchor at the end of a run, and you said it! Use the tractor as an anchor! Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?!? 😂 thanks! ❤
I followed this for the installation of my wire fence, except I used my back hoe for stretching. You really did a great job on editing/producing this video. Explaining and sound is great stuff.
This video was Very helpful & Very inspiring. I was thinking I could not do this by myself until I watched your video. Thanks so much for making it. My fence is 50" tall so my corner horizontal posts needed to be taller, which meant I couldn't support the horizontal post with my knee. To solve that (I thought, what would Pete do?) I put a large V-notch on the ends of two 4'x2"x8" boards and leaned them against the corner vertical posts so I could rest the horizontal posts in the V-notch while I drilled the holes & put the spikes in. It was easy enough to kick the bottom of the boards to make the horizontal post go up or down to get it level. Now, if I could just think of a use for that bucket of vertical woven wire pieces.
I'm putting up some more fence & I'm watching this again to make sure I get it right. The first time around I should have taken a few notes as it's easy to forget some things when you're in the thick of things & it's hot & humid. My fence is actually 60" tall (not 50") and I could not get the fence to "stand up" like on the video. I had to go down the line and tie it off to each post with some wire which resulted in a wavy ripple all along the length of the fence which would not completely stretch out no matter how hard I cranked on the come-along. I thought my wooden anchor post was going to snap, maybe. I wonder if there's a good trick for standing up such a tall fence? I'm really glad I used the ratchet type tensioners, as the 2"x4" openings of my fence made it difficult in a few places to find room to wrap the horizontal wires around the posts and I had to un-tension the corner brace wire to give myself enough room. With this smaller fence opening I used a wire bending tool, I couldn't imagine not using one with these small openings. Again, fantastic video! Thanks for making it.
now, do that across the perimeter of 645 acres...and you might almost understand what farmers and Ranchers deal with almost weekly. None of the cowboying craziness depicted in the westerns. Love john wayne but even he would have admitted we spend more time repairing fences and cattle gates than we do herding or hanging out in saloons. Good work Pete, and I feel compelled to send you a fence tool. But I suspect it's a bit too unweildy for the tight quarters on the wind at the post ends. Great for barbed though.
What do you do if you run out of fence in the middle of a run? Do you have to put another 3-post stabilization setup like in the corners and join the fence to it, or can you join the fence to itself? Thanks! (asking because I have a large yard and the 100-ft fence rolls are just a hair too short!)
Thank you! Well Done! As far as the economics in general not necessarily for a heifer pen: Is the material cost for woven wire less than the equivalent horizontal strands of smooth wire or barbed wire? I think the labor costs might wash since the woven wire is more labor-intensive but you'd have to do five or six horizontal wires of the easier to build wire fences.
HI there Pete. Great video...I agree that some videos get a bit long. In NZ we call them Netting fences. They are 900mm high and may have a wire at the top and bottom. The wire at the top could be set up to be hot. I like the way you strained your corner posts. That way you can come back and tension it later.
How did you tension your fence on the corners? Wouldn't your tensioning tooled 2x4s not work at the perpendicular bracing? You have your fence situated on the inside of the posts. How did you do this using the tensioning tool that you have featured?
I have an old fence that’s 30 years old on the property and then it stops about halfway down my property line. I’m gonna leave a little bit of a space not much in between the old post and my new post. Should I have a cross post at the end of my fence even with it being straight run? Or do I only need to do a crossmember for turns?
I see you install the fence on the inside of the area. How to you stretch a side full side of an area when you'd have to pull through a corners H bracing? I was planning to install my fence on the outside of the posts for this reason. Just wondering if I'm missing a technique to be able to install it on the inside? Great video, thanks
You've added a few more steps than what I learned growing up but still pretty good how to video. To twist the wires we used a flat piece of steel with holes drilled in it.Easier on the hands. Well done.
This is a great video. If you don’t have that crimper tool could you use something else? I have a wood fence with posts that seem to move every winter to the point where my gate opens. I bought that wire and a twisty tension thing but I thought maybe I could just use vise grips instead of the tension tool.
We just used this video to do a corner and fencing for the first time! I watched so many videos and was afraid to tackle it. This video was easy to understand and follow! Thank you so much!
Great video! We put up a bunch of woven no climb fencing last year the same way you showed (except we used a skid steer to attach the come along)... It worked great, but this year we purchased a 3pt fence stretcher to hopefully save time and make it a little easier... Haven't had time to try it yet but I'm looking forward to it.
Great video! What about chicken wire fencing? I'm trying to install chicken wiring. I have sagging and flopping wire between my post, any suggestions would be appreciated.
Tbh in am playing with the thought to move to the us to Start a farm i have the money but im not sure if i Schuld do it because Ive never worked with Traktors or such stuff but Ive worked alot with farm animals were i live
Hi Nico, much of small farming can be done without tractors, or with just one small tractor. If you have the experience with animals that will make starting a farm much easier.
help but think about a novella from the ‘70s titled “Fup” by Jim Dodge. A fun quick read about a duck (Fup) which contains a wonderful account of the Zen of tensioning a wire fence. I think you might like it.
Very nice sharp-looking fence when you got done. Your method for building fence is about 95% the same as we used to build fence. However a few of the things you did are probably better than the way we did it. But our method seemed to work, I guess. Too bad we didn't have RUclips back in the days when we were building fence, as we could have picked up a few better ideas from you.
I had my doubts at first, for whatever dumb reasons, but...wow. Excellent video. Thorough, efficient, no fluff instruction. What really stands out, IMHO, is your vocabulary and terminology. It makes a big difference, understanding better, on my end. I've watched a few, and I still had a few questions, particularly on stretching and the corner wires. I really appreciate your video. I feel more confident in how and why to do what I need to. Thank you. Btw, my own vocab, terminology, punctuation, spelling, etc. is horrible, I know, but I still feel I'm correct in recognizing how good his is.
I don't know if you'll see this on a 2yr old video. I thought I knew how to build fence, I have a 1000 pairs. Oh boy, you taught me loads on how to build fence that will hold/last a long time. My hats off to you.
Just put up my first run of fence following the directions in this clip. I agree, a stretched, woven wire fence is as thing of beauty. Im really proud and excited with the result. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Im fencing in my property and I have a quirky section that forms a 10' by 12' square shaped notch. Should I use the same process of stripping, twisting and stretching for these short runs or is there a shortcut I could take. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Aloha from Maui!
Just another guy chiming in that your video is by FAR the best I've seen. I cannot praise this highly enough. I feel much more confident about building my fence. Thank you!
You are the best. Quick video, exact description/procedures. nice editing to keep it short but long enough to understand each step, and fun to watch you, as well.
As someone who has watched a thousand how-to videos on youtube, this one is perfect. All the info needed without a lot of useless jib-jab and wasted camera time as you spend two minutes drilling a hole or explaining what tools will be needed to complete the job, etc.
When you're finished covering all the farming stuff, please consider doing a how-to video on how to do a how-to video.
Hi John, lol! Yep, I got tired of the same thing. But when I watch car repair or appliance repair videos they're straight to the point. I don't care for long shots of pretty scenery; I can watch National Geographic for that.
This was, hands down, the best fence video I have seen. Especially since I am doing my fence mostly alone and without a tractor. Thanks much for the outstanding video!
I feel like I’ve watched every fence video on youtube and finally found one that showed the process in an understandable way… great work!
Piyup
I feel exactly the same.
@Trent Clark I feel the same.
Greetings from Portugal.
Totally agree. He explains the “why” which so many people don't do in “how-to” videos.
Red Brand won't say if the bottom wire should be on the ground where it will corrode.
I've taught for 40 years. I've also used video a lot in my presentations. You have a great ability to narrow down what's important and make your presentation precise. Other DIY videos guys on RUclips make you watch as they hammer in the third nail. You video the first occurrence of each step then assume that your learner is smart enough to duplicate that as many times as necessary also using slip time to show the passage of time to the completion of that task. Very well done and helpful. As a suggestion, you might want to mention the names of all of your tools and fittings, eg. "crimping ferrels" for the tension wire, so DYI dummies like me will know what to ask for when we go to Tractor Supply or Home Depot :).
Wow, probably the best fence video on youtube
I've debated on whether or not to tackle this project. I appreciate the insight. You are just adding to my confidence!
Ive watched a bunch of fence stretching videos and this is the best ive seen. I really appreciate how slow and detailed you go with each step and the angles you filmed really helped. Thanks Pete.
Great way to explain. No unnecessary blah blah, straight to the topic. Well explain topic. LOVE IT.
Very informative. Thanks for sharing!!!
Thank you for this video! I too had to learn how to build fences through a whole bunch of different RUclips videos. I also appreciate you doing this without a tractor.
Very informative, step by step and no nonsense! Excellent job educating. Thanks
what size staples do you use? And what is that ratchet tool you're using to tighten it?
Excellent video Pete!
This will help me with my new fencing.
Wish we found this video first. It is very concise. I feel confident in building a woven wire fence now, and installing the gate! Thank you so much for creating this tutorial.
We always did barbed wire in the west. I loathed fencing. Cowboy work, awesome. Mechanic work, treat. Mucking, cool.
Fencing. Nope... unless I couldn’t help it.
Solid video.
How do you tell the real cowboy in a truck?
He rides in the middle. He doesn’t have to drive or open gates.
This is amazing. After watching so many videos you have nailed it. If you weren't an educator you should have been! Thank you for putting this together
This is definitely a great way to do it. I do have to say though, the Gripple Brace kit is so much easier to work with. If you haven't tried them and you're doing lots of fence, give it a go.
** TIP - using your technique of tensioning, install a horizonal member between the temporary tensioning post and your end post, to avoid concern of bending the post. You don't even need the temporary post to be secure in the ground. I used 3/8" steel pins to do this. ** I installed my first farm fence 15 years ago. There are better "how to" resources today - this video! A few of my posts have rotted and I need to redo 3 sides. I am interested to see you used the same technique of boards to stretch, BUT you did something critically different - wrapping the wire! I remember mine all slipped. Using a tractor I had not considered - I set an extra pole, which required digging two extra holes per corner. I also used 3/8" round stock to pin the braces, but I like your method - much faster. This is great - thank you.
Pete.
Thank you for putting this video together.
Been watching your videos on Dexter cattle and really appreciate your honest feedback on your experience.
This video will help me build/rebuild my farm’s fencing.
All the best.
GG3
I came to this video figure out how to anchor at the end of a run, and you said it! Use the tractor as an anchor! Doh! Why didn’t I think of that?!? 😂 thanks! ❤
I followed this for the installation of my wire fence, except I used my back hoe for stretching. You really did a great job on editing/producing this video. Explaining and sound is great stuff.
Great video! Mill Gap Farms
This video was Very helpful & Very inspiring. I was thinking I could not do this by myself until I watched your video. Thanks so much for making it. My fence is 50" tall so my corner horizontal posts needed to be taller, which meant I couldn't support the horizontal post with my knee. To solve that (I thought, what would Pete do?) I put a large V-notch on the ends of two 4'x2"x8" boards and leaned them against the corner vertical posts so I could rest the horizontal posts in the V-notch while I drilled the holes & put the spikes in. It was easy enough to kick the bottom of the boards to make the horizontal post go up or down to get it level. Now, if I could just think of a use for that bucket of vertical woven wire pieces.
so incredibly clear. well done, I feel like I can build a woven wire fence now!!
I'm putting up some more fence & I'm watching this again to make sure I get it right. The first time around I should have taken a few notes as it's easy to forget some things when you're in the thick of things & it's hot & humid. My fence is actually 60" tall (not 50") and I could not get the fence to "stand up" like on the video. I had to go down the line and tie it off to each post with some wire which resulted in a wavy ripple all along the length of the fence which would not completely stretch out no matter how hard I cranked on the come-along. I thought my wooden anchor post was going to snap, maybe. I wonder if there's a good trick for standing up such a tall fence?
I'm really glad I used the ratchet type tensioners, as the 2"x4" openings of my fence made it difficult in a few places to find room to wrap the horizontal wires around the posts and I had to un-tension the corner brace wire to give myself enough room. With this smaller fence opening I used a wire bending tool, I couldn't imagine not using one with these small openings.
Again, fantastic video! Thanks for making it.
Thank you! I have this project coming up and needed a concise and complete explanation.
now, do that across the perimeter of 645 acres...and you might almost understand what farmers and Ranchers deal with almost weekly. None of the cowboying craziness depicted in the westerns. Love john wayne but even he would have admitted we spend more time repairing fences and cattle gates than we do herding or hanging out in saloons. Good work Pete, and I feel compelled to send you a fence tool. But I suspect it's a bit too unweildy for the tight quarters on the wind at the post ends. Great for barbed though.
What do you do if you run out of fence in the middle of a run? Do you have to put another 3-post stabilization setup like in the corners and join the fence to it, or can you join the fence to itself? Thanks! (asking because I have a large yard and the 100-ft fence rolls are just a hair too short!)
Thank you! Well Done!
As far as the economics in general not necessarily for a heifer pen:
Is the material cost for woven wire less than the equivalent horizontal strands of smooth wire or barbed wire?
I think the labor costs might wash since the woven wire is more labor-intensive but you'd have to do five or six horizontal wires of the easier to build wire fences.
HI there Pete. Great video...I agree that some videos get a bit long. In NZ we call them Netting fences. They are 900mm high and may have a wire at the top and bottom. The wire at the top could be set up to be hot. I like the way you strained your corner posts. That way you can come back and tension it later.
Wow. You did an awesome job to teach an idiot, that has not done fencing for over 40 years. Thank you, thank you, thank you, from traer, Iowa
Can the tension wire be omitted? I’m not keeping in cattle or any large livestock and trying to keep it simple and cheap!
Martinez Sarah Jackson Robert Young Kevin
How did you tension your fence on the corners? Wouldn't your tensioning tooled 2x4s not work at the perpendicular bracing? You have your fence situated on the inside of the posts. How did you do this using the tensioning tool that you have featured?
Great video Sir! You eliminated all the BS !
Butch
Ashland Ohio
So many things I did wrong... No wonder my fence is all wobbly and sagging.
Good video! I just ordered a Milwaukee fence staple gun hope it helps have a large fencing project
I have an old fence that’s 30 years old on the property and then it stops about halfway down my property line. I’m gonna leave a little bit of a space not much in between the old post and my new post. Should I have a cross post at the end of my fence even with it being straight run? Or do I only need to do a crossmember for turns?
Why not use cedar posts?
What was your spacing with posts through it the fence?
Thank you.
I see you install the fence on the inside of the area. How to you stretch a side full side of an area when you'd have to pull through a corners H bracing? I was planning to install my fence on the outside of the posts for this reason. Just wondering if I'm missing a technique to be able to install it on the inside? Great video, thanks
You've added a few more steps than what I learned growing up but still pretty good how to video. To twist the wires we used a flat piece of steel with holes drilled in it.Easier on the hands. Well done.
This is a great video. If you don’t have that crimper tool could you use something else? I have a wood fence with posts that seem to move every winter to the point where my gate opens. I bought that wire and a twisty tension thing but I thought maybe I could just use vise grips instead of the tension tool.
I never would have guess how to tension several wires at once but, having seen it now, it's obvious.
We just used this video to do a corner and fencing for the first time! I watched so many videos and was afraid to tackle it. This video was easy to understand and follow! Thank you so much!
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Simple and straight to the point. Thank you 👍🏽
On a 20'x20' fence, would these at each corner and in-line braces at the gate be enough?
Great video! We put up a bunch of woven no climb fencing last year the same way you showed (except we used a skid steer to attach the come along)... It worked great, but this year we purchased a 3pt fence stretcher to hopefully save time and make it a little easier... Haven't had time to try it yet but I'm looking forward to it.
We always had a flat piece of steel with holes drilled in it to use on the wrap around wires.
Thank you. Wish I came across your video first.
Good tutorial. Did the bulls respect your fence?
Thanks for the video! Very helpful.
Martinez David Hall Jason Gonzalez Deborah
Taylor Shirley Robinson Sharon Hernandez Mark
You could use a small diameter piece of pipe a foot long or shorter to stick over the wire as you wrap it and save you hands from the stress.
That was very informative.thank you
Gonzalez Angela Walker Sharon Thompson Karen
Very well put together and how to build your fencing
Best video yet on doing a woven fence, extremely to the point and good picture and video.
Very helpful video. Thank you!
Building 1 soon to keep wild hogs out of my yard.
Thompson William Lopez Jason Moore Linda
Great video! What about chicken wire fencing? I'm trying to install chicken wiring. I have sagging and flopping wire between my post, any suggestions would be appreciated.
You need solid corner posts.
Thank for sharing this information. Judging by the two gates and their location you can tell you put a lot of thought into it.
This is a phenomenally helpful video. Thank you
Best fence video yet. Thank you so much!
Tbh in am playing with the thought to move to the us to Start a farm i have the money but im not sure if i Schuld do it because Ive never worked with Traktors or such stuff but Ive worked alot with farm animals were i live
Hi Nico, much of small farming can be done without tractors, or with just one small tractor. If you have the experience with animals that will make starting a farm much easier.
Good video, but please wear safety glasses.
great video, good process,
hi Pete! wow look at your subs taking off! that's awesome. Happy 4th!
Happy 4th Peace Train Acres!
White Jennifer Anderson Betty Martin Eric
nice video, would be nice to ser how to strech fence on concrete post, the start is same but the end
wow, this finally makes logical sense.
Hernandez Betty Johnson Donna Davis Brenda
I did it myself thanks to Woodglut.
White Scott Martinez Mary Garcia Brenda
How do you stretch a fence that is on a hill that has a high point?
Great video. Thanks!
Very well explained thanks!
When you lifted that roll off the ground...OLD MAN STRENGTH. Impressive.
Quite amazing video! What a help! Finally I found a simple yet PRECIOUS video about fencing
Thank you so very much and greetings from Portugal.
Thank you so much for this video !
fantastic video, thank you sir!
help but think about a novella from the ‘70s titled “Fup” by Jim Dodge. A fun quick read about a duck (Fup) which contains a wonderful account of the Zen of tensioning a wire fence. I think you might like it.
Awesome video!!!!
Thanks.
Thank you Sir, you made the best video of how to build a fence! Very good!
Thanks again!
Butch
Ashland Ohio
Sir, are the corner posts cemented in? Do they need to be?
+Excellent Audio! Very good and descriptive language. A great teacher. Thanks.
Very nice sharp-looking fence when you got done. Your method for building fence is about 95% the same as we used to build fence. However a few of the things you did are probably better than the way we did it. But our method seemed to work, I guess. Too bad we didn't have RUclips back in the days when we were building fence, as we could have picked up a few better ideas from you.
I had my doubts at first, for whatever dumb reasons, but...wow. Excellent video. Thorough, efficient, no fluff instruction. What really stands out, IMHO, is your vocabulary and terminology. It makes a big difference, understanding better, on my end. I've watched a few, and I still had a few questions, particularly on stretching and the corner wires. I really appreciate your video. I feel more confident in how and why to do what I need to. Thank you. Btw, my own vocab, terminology, punctuation, spelling, etc. is horrible, I know, but I still feel I'm correct in recognizing how good his is.
I want to keep out free range horses and cattle
I wish I’d seen this video on fencing before I attempted to build fence. Thank you very much, I’m going to build some fence.
I don't know if you'll see this on a 2yr old video. I thought I knew how to build fence, I have a 1000 pairs. Oh boy, you taught me loads on how to build fence that will hold/last a long time. My hats off to you.
How do you strech around a corner
Which brand of come along do I need to get?
Super informative. I’ve read of this technique but was very confused before seeing this!
Just put up my first run of fence following the directions in this clip. I agree, a stretched, woven wire fence is as thing of beauty. Im really proud and excited with the result. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Im fencing in my property and I have a quirky section that forms a 10' by 12' square shaped notch. Should I use the same process of stripping, twisting and stretching for these short runs or is there a shortcut I could take. Any suggestion would be greatly appreciated. Aloha from Maui!
Just another guy chiming in that your video is by FAR the best I've seen. I cannot praise this highly enough. I feel much more confident about building my fence. Thank you!
Thank you. This was a very helpful video as I’m putting up my own woven wire fenced area for my dogs.
very informative tutorial.
You are the best. Quick video, exact description/procedures. nice editing to keep it short but long enough to understand each step, and fun to watch you, as well.