HOW TO MAKE A AMISH FENCE STRETCHER
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2017
- OFF GRID with DOUG and STACY are showing you how to make an Amish fence stretcher.
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I had never seen a fence stretcher until I started fencing with a master Amish fence builder. So after a couple of summers working with him I am building my own fence stretcher modeled after his.
In this video I basically walk you through the steps so you can make your own fence stretcher for your homestead. A great DIY project and a great way to add another tool to the homestead arsenal =)
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quick tip: if you need to cut a threaded bolt, install a nut first. that way, if the saw messes up the threads, removing the the nut will fix it.
Hey Douggie Fresh! Quick tip for you buddy... After you make your mark and draw your line with the speed square, slide the speed square down the board just a bit to line up your saw blade to where you want to make your cut then slide the speed square back up against the side of your saw so you have a nice straight edge to run the saw down. I know it's not super important to have a perfectly straight cut in this instance but it's a nice little trick to know. Thanks for the vid's man!
Hi Doug. Whenever you get in a situation where you have to cut a bolt, if you put the nut on first, cut the bolt and then remove the nut it helps to repair any damage done to the threads. Sometimes it is hard to start a nut on bolts that are cut. I have found that this helps. Great video! I love your channel.
have been a follower since 2019, today (4/29/23) find myself designing a fence to keep people out. These are crazy times. Sooo, here I am seeking among your videos how to stretch a wire fence alone, AND, then you even show this video on How to Build the Fence Stretcher. Amazing. I'm ready to get this fence done all by my onesie! Thank you so very much, Doug. Love & light to you and all concerned.
Doug, thank you for taking the time to go into the details and to share with us.
I've seen my dad use one of those for many years, and I've made a couple over the years and use them myself. Had no idea we were using an Amish tool. Looking forward to the sequel.
Homemade, simple, and makes a job easier...sounds perfect!
Well I must say another fantastic video from our Man Doug! thanks Doug! Good Job!
Thank you for sharing how to make a DIY fence stretcher.. Awesome 👏 job.
Appreciate the tutorial, looking forward to the demonstration ♥
Finished digging clothesline pole holes. Planted t posts. In the morning the line is going up, then the wet laundry. Woohoo!✌
We just made one similar to this to stretch out our sheep fence, thanks for sharing with us all. God Bless
OK, I just started watching this video… But I have to say, the little boy on the right-hand side just made that my favorite intro of all time!!! They were too funny and cute!
Great video Doug. I have nothing but the greatest respect for the Amish people. If everyone would adopt their hard work ethic things wouldn't be as bad as they are in my honest opinion.
Sure could have used that tool about 5 yrs ago when we put up fence for a sheep pasture. I will send a link to hubby and our son. Thank you! Definitely looks like a good tool.
Thank you for this Doug I'm going to put this to good use!
I've used one of these for a couple of years. It works great!
I'm sure that is a super useful tool! I remember way back in the day wranglerstar had a video where he used one of these. Thanks Doug!!
Thank you Doug for sharing this. We needed that last month but will make it for next time.
Those are the handiest tools on a working farm! If you gotta do fencing....that is what ya need! An old boyfriend..... :) from the 70's made one of those and I thought he was soooo smart! Turns out he really was! Thanks for sharing this! It will help so many people make fencing a lot easier!
I've made these type of fence stretchers for years. I made mine using oak lumber, works great.
Omgg...I love the fast forward bits that you do...I laugh all the way through....hehe...
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Funny, I was planning on making one of those yesterday and happened across your video. The only thing I did different was I made the holes bigger on the 2X4 that you attach the nuts to, its easier to put that board on and off. Today is fence stretching day at our place in Maine, we have about 150 feet of woven sheep and goat fence to hang on our wooden posts. I really enjoy your videos Doug, good stuff here on your channel....!!!
Thanks heaps for this video. Off to make a couple now.
Thanks for the video Doug. Going to need to put some fencing on the new place soon for the dogs and the chickens and I was trying to figure out how to spend less than a store bought device.
you hooked us, now we have to watch another video on how it works ;-) thanks for your videos!
Timothy Andersen I was wondering how it worked to!! And will keep watching to see!
I look forward to seeing how this is done on the actual fence. This fall/winter I hope to be adding a fence around my raised beds and if I can't find someone to help, hopefully this is something I can manage myself...
I'm excited about this. I have very saggy fences. We are in the city with a good size garden that we have to keep chickens out of.
I don't know if we will ever need one of these, but it's good to know.
what a great tool, thank you very much for sharing, we could have used this a long time ago
Nice idea. I just happen to be putting up a 4x4 welded wire fence this weekend.
I like it!!
God bless you and yours and God bless the USA
Great info. I will need that in the not to distant future. Thanks
Just made this by my own girl self. It worked GREAT!!!!!!
Woop woop 🤠👍
The intro was awesome! You are speaking my language on wood. :) Nice work!
Amazing simple and handy tool, thanks.
I have been using one of those for the whole 22 years I've started living on my homestead. I never knew they were called Amish fence stretchers though.There was lots of real 2X4's here from way back when they really were hard wood real 2x4's
I made mine with those.
They aren't a "stretcher", more of a spreader bar to distribute the load across the entire height of the wire. A "stretcher" would be something that pulls this and thus the rest of the fence. We would use a come-along that was hooked to the tow bar on a tractor since the wire would break before the tractor was pulled backwards. Then staple the wire to the fence posts, wrapping the wire around the end post as you stapled it. I clicked on this actually thinking he was showing how to build an actual stretcher out of wood.
If you look at the commercial products, this is sometimes sold as a "stretcher bar" to be used in combination with another device referred to as a "stretcher", so even they differentiate between the two. The stretcher bars usually consist of a metal bar with hooks on it to catch the wire of the fence netting.
Good video... We actually built two different sizes ...they work great
Thank you for sharing, wish I'd known this many years ago🙂💓👍
I had no idea these were Amish. I think you made it way fancier than needed. I made mine out of leftover pieces of 4x2. Put eyebolts on the top and bottom (with regular carriage bolts in the middle). Only about 3.5 feet for mine. I used eyebolts so that I could run chain through the top and bottom and pull with come-along. Didn't do much measuring either. Just eyeballed it. No need as long as the tension is distributed and that is more a matter of having a straight line pull than the bolts. Mine is not as finished as this one but works just as well for the one or two times a year I use it. An even better option is to use wing nuts (the plastic wings if you can find them) that make taking on off the stretcher a cinch.
asked hubby how his Dad stretched fence and they took a bar welded hooks pulled it at the end of the fence line and hooked tractor up with come along and stretched it! neat how people do things 😎😀😋
fantastic video, thank you for all the information
I saw one of these on Guildbrook Farm in a smaller size for their goat fence. Can't wait to see how Doug uses his. I always like to see several methods to try and ascertain what would work best for my place. Thanks Doug...staying tuned...again! LOL
Is anyone else wondering where to get that Amish circular saw?
Amish black market lol
Hahahaha!
Tristan Rineer o
I live near Amish. Horse and buggy. But they buy gasoline. Hmmmm. Maybe they do have some power stuff????? Someone let me know where to an energy efficient self powered circular saw. I'm off the grid....solar, propane, gas generator when I need run tools or short energy needs. uses.
Thanks Doug !
Doug: Try carriage bolts. thanks
Stephen May yep, striving for perfection 👍
Thanks Doug👍
I had one of those factory made, I bought at a sale. But it came to where I wa either using pallets for fence or later on cattlr or hog panels, and I havnt stretched a woven wire fence since around 85
THERE GO'S THAT BOB WIRE!! LOL!!!
Thank you for the video, are you still thinking about putting a Tool playlist together? Even some of your battery hand tools, they are I'm sure " Off Grid " Approved
Would be a great help for some to start acquiring the needed tools.
Excellent
OCD here but how did you decide how far apart to drill the holes for the bolts?
thanks Doug
I feel for you kneeling down there on the ground!
You want to clamp the wire around 2ft from the end of the wire. That gives you something to work with after the fence has been stretched to wrap around a post or steeple it onto a post.
Sears and Wards both had them in there catalogs for decades
Love it.......
yes, I like DIY videos
Those Canadian two by fours are 1/1/2 thick so that makes three inches so 4 inch lag bolts would be plenty
Hahahaha, yup, caught that Bob wire. I think you forgot to show us how to staple the steeple on though.... :)
Nice Video,
My husband made one of those about 15 years ago out of metal in does different sizes.
Think you should of showed us how to build saw horses first then the fence stretcher!
Nice Video
You're going to put your fence post stretcher on the verticle right on the opposite side that you're pulling.
Great video. Working smarter not harder. Doug I just can't grasp the concept of working on my farm barefooted. No offence. Lol.
Been there done that👍🏻
Cameron Jones did you get the T shirt? 😉
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can this be used on cyclone fence ?? my fence is down due to bear activity climbing the fence
Itazuke Dee no experience with that fence but I do not see why not
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Nice job, however those aren't lag bolts. Ha Ha Thanks for the video's.
Stephen May yep, you got me.... CARRIAGE BOLTS
You got to have a good fence so your Amish don't get out.
that will work really good if you using hog wire or chicken wire if you have a chain link fence the bolts are too short
white tiger just use longer bolts 👍
Hi...... 🎥👍👍👍
Life is a lot easier if you work on a bench or horses.
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Was this your first attempt at building one of these?
Just got to wondering, DO YOU THINK WING NUTS WOULD WORK?????????
Do you have a lot of fence to stretch?
would this work on chain link fencing? probably dumb question.
kl meyer sure
Just buy fencing pre-stretched 😉
No problem because this is a Southern tool and not amish. My grandfather had one and we had one on our farm in Florida and not Amish.
Hey Doug, you are barefoot! Did you know about grounding 6 years ago? I didn't know about grounding until maybe 2 years ago.
LOL..Yes,.I got it...B-A-RRRR-B wire. Thank you Stacy...Women know that Bob did not invent that wire!. LOL!
I'm Amish and didn't know it, it must be in my blood. The Hillbillys use the same one to stretch their fence! ;)
cool beans
hey guys while we're on the subject of pronouncing or words correctly how about "herbs" instead of Erbs 😜 love the vids
Those are NOT "lag bolts"! Lag bolts are more like giant wood screws with a hex head, and DO NOT use nuts. What you have are "fully threaded hex bolts"... Thought you should know the difference.
Hi - are you guys Christian ?😊👍🙏❤️
I bought instruction from woodprix and I build it very very cheap.
I thought Amish don’t use power
I mean, if you don’t answer my question you’re fake and your whole life is a lie.
don't think anything of it Doug, people from WV. call it Bob Wire also!
An Amish, not a Amish.