hardware cloth

JimDRIl · May 4, 2016

I want to straighten a roll of 1/4" hardware cloth that is very stiff. I need to fasten it around a shed bottom.

rustyfarmall · May 4, 2016

You need a couple of good helpers. Get someone to stand on one end as you unroll it, and walk on it as you go. It can be frustrating.

Russ from MN · May 4, 2016

Roll it backwards! Recently I was helping the BIL in NY and we went into a hardware store looking for hardware cloth and they didn't know what we were talking about! finally got some at Home Depot.

Dave H (MI) · May 4, 2016

If you walk on it, be sure you are on a true flat surface or you will bend footprints into it. Rolling it backward sounds good but be careful trying to do that alone. Wire has a bad way of flipping up at the face with all those sharp cut edges.

TL (Va) · May 4, 2016

"we went into a hardware store looking for hardware cloth and they didn't know what we were talking about!"
Ask for Rat Wire, that's what my dad called it. :lol:

JerryS · May 5, 2016

It's a bit of trouble, but C-clamp each end of the wire between 2 2x4s (two on each end) at least as long as the width of the wire. Secure one end of the wire/2x4s to something solid--tree, post, tractor. Pull the wire to its full length, then use the C-clamps on the other end as handles. Give the wire three or four good jerks. May not be flat as a sheet of paper, but it'll be a lot straighter than it was.

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