Barbed wire dispenser

Gary Mitchell

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When I was a kid still at home I helped pop unroll miles of wire by hand. He's stick a bar through the roll and with one of us on each side we'd walk the wire off. Wire it being in the upper 90's here, my pushing 65, and having a bad case of COPD, I figured that only a better way was going to get a new wire up on my fence along the front of our place. This turned out to be simple and easy. I had a 4 x 8 trailer I'd built a few years back. By bolting a piece of 1/2 inch water pipe to the front carrier rack on it and taking out the tail gate my problem was solved. My young helper and I had a wire "unroller," a method of hauling our tools, and the fun of making something useful out of stuff laying around the place. It would be interesting to see what other people have come up with to do this job. gm
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Dad has a winder that mounts on the side of his Farmall H. It is driven by the belt pulley. I assume it is still operational. To unwind you just put the tractor in reverse. It was probably purchased over 50 years ago.
 
That's exactly how we did electric fences when I was a kid! I have never had anyone else know what I was talking about. In western Kansas you graze the winter wheat (in the fall). We had a contraption that went on the belt pulley of the H and rolled it up. It sure beat walking miles.
 
Surely you don't still use barbed wire. We gave up using that rotten stuff about 45 years ago. If animals are going to go through they will go barbed or not just do a lot more damage. If plain 12 1/2 gauge wire doesn't stop them buy a decent electric fence unit. Barbed wire should be banned for sake of both man and beast.
 
We use a pipe through the 3pt to unroll with the loader tractor. We use the loader to carry all tools and to tension on the corners if we have to.
 
Four and five BARBED wire fences are the norm here in cattle country. Try maintaining 30-40 miles of electric fence. Smooth wire usually only used for horses.
 

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