Field Fence mending

Tree flattened my fence to the ground. I've cut the wires holding it to the fence post loose. I can pull it up and straighten it out but it'll be really loose and wavy. Usually I have to take the claw on a hammer and make little rig-zags in each strand of the wire to tension it up again. It'll take a lot of them. I'd love to hear from others with field fencing as to how they fix it.
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On one like that I cut and then splice the fence but I have a tool for just that type of problem. The tool looks like a bolt cutter but part of the jaws are for cutting the fence and the other part is for the splice parts that you crimp down. I use a com-a-long t the top and bottom so as to get a nice tight fence
 
Depending on the animals you are trying to fence in or out, I think old has the right approach. The fence section in the picture is probably ruined. You can either cut out just enough to make a tight fence after the splice, or do a better job by replacing that section of fence.
 
Stretch it back to the closest wood post and I'm not sure how to explain this but wrap the excess to the side of the wood post and staple it to the side of the post. Good quick fix
 
I wonder if you could tighten it one strand at a time with a Texas Fence Fixer? They sure make quick work of tightening barbed wire.
TFF
 
Wonder how the Texas Fence Fixer would work the barbless wire we have up for horses.

Since no run is longer than 1/4 mile, what I do is cinch it post by post till get to post that run starts/ends at and re-tighten it there.
 
I usually do it almost like newhollandnut decribes. Wrap one strand at a time to the sides of as many posts as needed, put a piece of wire on the back side of the post, and tie each end of this piece to the fence wire by twisting it around it like shown on the Tx fence fixer video. Make a loop on the middle of this piece of wire. Twisting the loop will tighten the fence wire and hold it tight to the post sides.
 
(quoted from post at 13:04:03 07/31/15) Tree flattened my fence to the ground. I've cut the wires holding it to the fence post loose. I can pull it up and straighten it out but it'll be really loose and wavy. Usually I have to take the claw on a hammer and make little rig-zags in each strand of the wire to tension it up again. It'll take a lot of them. I'd love to hear from others with field fencing as to how they fix it.
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f these small trees like that in your pic flatten the fence to the ground then the fence was not nearly tight enough.
I stretch my bison fence tight to the point of spinning out with the tractor pulling on it before wrapping and stapling it to a corner post/brace.
most trees that fall on it don't do any damage. It takes a 12-18" dia tree to lay the fence on the ground, there is often enough give in the wires that most but the top two or 3 wires spring right back after the tree is cut free of the fence.
If these wires are to loose i cut them, stretch them individually tight and put a crimp splice or 2 on them.
 
We would just either pull the corner up some so the top is tight or pull the end till it is tight. We usually put in a corner post then with the woven wire around the side of another post just push or pull that post towards the corner post this will stretch both directions at once. Then shorten the cables holding it to the corner post. Or if it is by the end we would just pull the end and shorten the cables holding the end to the corner post. We do not wrap the wire around the post and hook it back to the wire,except for barbed wire.
 
Bought my neighbor"s farm in "82, and he just added a pallet or two, or a bed spring assembly when the critters made it through. Whatever was handy.
 
thanks, I took your advise--just got in and that's done. The corner wasn't far away. Surprisingly it only needed about 3 inches out of the top wire to make it taunt as a piano wire. Less and less had to be wrapped up as I worked to the bottom.
 
I took newhollandnut's advise. The corner post with 45 deg braces is in the pic. I got the tractor parked on the other side of the post and used a come-along attached it it to pull on a bar inserted in the wire. I pulled it tight past the corner post then banged the extra around the post and stapled it in place. I spent a bit of time straightening all the vertical wires first. It got dark so I haven't attached the fence to the metal posts yet. It's just for my dog and even then mostly for piece of mind.
 

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