Fencing Do’s and Don’ts

Do:

1. Be aware of safety – get a friend to help, and use Safety glasses and protective clothing with wire – it can be dangerous
2. Clear the ground that you about to fence – slash the grass, remove old fences and machinery.
3. Use a Sight/Guide wire.
4. Strain fence wire from the bottom first, and then work up , if you start straining the  top wires first, you will pull the fence in
5. Strain your fence wires and meshes closer to ends of fence……if it breaks, you will only need to repair a small amount of the fence
6. Use a wire spinner for fence wire – making sure that the paying off side of the coil is on the top – this will be where the tag and knot ties are.
7. Work out which side of the fence to have your wire on.
8. Walk along your fence as you strain it up to make sure that it is not caught on any posts.
9. Learn how to do an end knot
10. Learn how to strip off pickets from a Mesh fence, so that you can tie it with an End Knot or wire joiner
11. Hammer in Staples at angle, so that timber posts have less chance of splitting.
12. Ensure that StockPosts have their holes lined up, with the hole side pointing away from the fence.
13. Use Fencing clips – 3 or 4 per post

Don’t

1. Drive Barbed Staples all the way in – it holds wire up, not tight, it should be able to move
2.  Attach Barbed Staples to the  Picket wire of your mesh, just attach to the line wire – not the horizontal one.
3. Thread fence wires though fence posts
4. have your Fence Strainer Handles getting caught in the  the fence pointing away from fence (not against the fence)
5. strain Mesh Fence to tight – the crimps in the mesh are there for a reason, they should only have  1/2 to 3/4 taken out…should spring out
6. Install your Mesh upside down! – small opening holes at bottom
7. Wrap you mesh around you End post without tying it properly with an End Knot or Wire Joiner