red brand barb wire

Anonymous-0

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I been putting in a new pasture fence and got red brand barb wire spools that say 1320 ft on the spool but I cant get that far. I even hooked wire to pickup and pulled as tight as I could without breaking and was still 20 ft short of making the quarter mile. What do you suppose is up here. The tag says made in usa with pride or something like that and it burns me a little with that boasting that I feel I been cheated. Oh and yes I have measured the distance by wheel and tractor gps so I know its not longer than a quarter mile.
 
I've had it happen to me, i never measured with a tape, but walked it off and bought more than i thought i needed only to find out im short and get to spend more money and half a day driving back and forth to town. come to think about it, i always ended up 20', 30' short. well now i got all these partial rolls of wire and fencing setting around with weeds growing thru them if i ever need some. guess it will save me a trip to town, some.... day....:)
 
Is your fence perfectly straight and perfectly level? If not then there is where your 20ft went,even a small variation can take up a lot of footage.Of course it could be short but its hard to really measure 100% accurate after the fence is up.
 
I wouldn't worry much about 20 feet. Like others have said just a little variation in a hill or gulley can make that much difference. The problem I have with Red Brand is rust, 3 years ago I put up a new property line fence. I bought 20 rolls of 12 1/2 gauge wire that the coop called Oklahoma brand(??) but they only had 19 rolls so they threw in a roll of Red Brand. It has already rusted and looks like it's 20 years old. The other is still bright.
 
LOL, I never heard of such a thing! When you get to the end of the wire you can splice on another roll and keep going. The fences here run on for miles and miles. I guess I don't understand the problem.
 
I strung 60 rolls of it in 01 and didn't notice. All of my pastures are a quarter mile long,but by the time I take off the road right of way they're a little less anyway. I had some left on every roll so I'd have thought there was a full quarter mile on them?
 
Problem is same as in many items today same size box, change fine print. Coustmen usualy does not notice. Over time for the manf. really adds up. Possibly some will buy different brands, therefore Red Brand will lose in the END. Pun intended!
 
In mfg/packaging world, all measures have a precision, tolerance. Your off by 1.5% (maybe, if off) & what you are using to measure has its precision/tolerance. They could stack up or cancel. I have no idea of tolerances that weights & measures bureaus require. 2cents
 

ASTM specification 121 for metallic coated carbon steel barbed wire specifies paragraph 7.5 and 7.5.1 and 7.6 specified the standard length spool is 80 rods - 1320 ft. paragraph 5.1 says the spool length is BEFORE any sample is cut from the spool, and paragraph 8.2.2 specifies a 25 ft. sample length for barb count but paragraph 92 specifies a 4 ft length from each end of the wire on the spool so that is ambiguous. Anyway, paragraph 9.1 says one out of every 50 spool has to be sampled. Point is, you may have the 1 in 50 that was sampled.

20 feet one way or the other doesn't matter anyway, but I am sure the manufacturer can cite a regulation to explain it.

I guess I would be thankful I have the means to purchase the stuff and the health to put it up.
 

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