i never thought i would be watching fencing vids but here we are.

A great communicator and fine teacher. Enthuisiasm is well weighted and most genuine manner. I keep coming back to Tim's videos because I don't do enough fencing to remember all the stuff. Thanks, again, Tim

Yet another well explained and demonstrated and filmed fencing lesson. Thanks very much .

love your work mate - my girlfriend and I really learnt a lot from one of your previous video and are using it to do a fence on our new 5 acre property. Thanks a million!

Hooray, another Saturday AM Tim Thompson video! Step one: hit the thumbs up, Step two: enjoy the video. Oh! He’s not only going to teach us something; he’s going to let us watch him break sh...stuff!! Fun fun!! (Better get my speed dealers on.)

I build fences in Kansas, so barbed wire cattle fences are my bread & butter. I discovered your channel and watch it to learn techniques I might apply to our own fencing. Thank you for all of your excellent videos! IN this case, I t seems that your knot is cutting your wire as they are pulled to to the center line of the post when put under tension - extreme tension, in the example of your demo. We double or even triple wrap our wires around the post (tightly) so that friction on the post holds the wire fast under tension, and wind the tail end of the wire around the line merely to keep the wraps on the post from slacking. When done correctly, the line stay on the face of the post and there is no knot to cut the line when put under tension. Don’t know if that would work with high tensile wire, but I don’t see why it wouldn’t. Then again, I might just be a day late and a dollar short yammering on about an idea you’ve already tried and discarded! Anyhoot, thanks again for all the vids and great techniques!

Thanks so much Tim. Got my pair of Hayes strainers the other day and I’ve been putting up electric fence for my pigs. Your videos have been super helpful for me

Love your work. Great to listen to an Aussie.

Mr. Thompson, love your videos. It is great to see real testing on these knots so it leaves little doubt which ones will hold up and what ones to trust.

Great stuff mate...I love doing wiring knots !! Love the expression a "sloppy knot" !! Well done as always !!

Gday Tim,thankyou for sharing your knowledge to the world.

Hi Tim thanks for the videos learning a lot about fencing and knots would like more videos about cattle care and handling. Keep up the great work.

Love the channel mate been great watching and learning heaps. Really appreciate and enjoy the work you put into helping other like myself out. Cheers Dave

Fantastic vid really clear

I love your chanal learnd a lot Form fencing and knots. Thank you for Sharing your knowledge, ! Greetings Form the Bavarian alps in south Germany!

Great stuff Tim! If it is a high pressure fence I wrap the wire around the post twice or even 3 times, then align the wire so it has minimal direction changes. Try that on the test bed Using steel angle iron strainer posts makes it hard to maximise wire strength Cheers Darren Milton NSW

Awesome as always mate good info

Really, Really, Really, Really appreciate this re-made video... can you please do figure 8 knot next, please Tim?

Yay, I need this! Can't afford the amount of gripple Ts

Thanks mate great info Really enjoying the videos Cheers Dave

I'm guessing James wasn't talking about the loop being loose, but the coils around the wire. Some people will take the trouble to coil so tightly that there's no gap between the coils, like an unstretched tension spring, so your neat ones might look "sloppy" to someone who thinks that's the way it's done. I'm with you in doubting it makes much difference, but it would be interesting to see it tested.

You had me at speed dealers.

Thanks for more testing Tim. The sloppy knot sounded a bit much but i have heard if you make a "lazy loop" on your first wrap ie. not at a right angle but around 45 degrees then followed by tighter wraps, it makes some difference. I've not tested it and I prefer clean neat knots for the record.

Great to see the multi-camera views on the knot tieing, Tim! Looking forward to the figure eight and the strainer knots!! Thanks for making this video on this termination knot. I'm a slow learner, so your original video on this I've watched about 20 times. This one is soo much better. Also, why are safety glasses nicknamed "speed-dealers"? Cheers!

Would be interested to see whether looping twice through egg shell/bull nose insulators was stronger and if so by how much

Great videos. I really enjoy learning new techniques. Would you do a video on Clipx fencing?

Thanks

A lot of fencers here in Canada double wrap the wire around the post before tieing, I wonder how that affects the knot strength.

Great vid, Tim. The fact that the wire keeps breaking at the pigtail of the knot, shows the faultiness of the knot method, whether neat or sloppy. It looks to me like the wire breaks at that location because the knot wire cuts across the line wire as it tightens, continuously grinding and cutting it in the same location. The moving knot wire also sustains scraping damage, but not repeatedly in one location, rather the knot wire moves along spreading out the damage it receives, so it does not break. The way to avoid this cutting action is to use no knot. Simply wrap 4 neat, tight coils around the line wire to terminate, so that as the wire stretches tighter it will only slip through the coil wraps, without repeated cutting across any one spot on the wire. My guess is that 4 simple wraps would have a higher breaking tension than the knot method. (Also, as others have suggested, make 2 or more wraps of the line wire around the post before termination to ease the strain on the termination wraps).

A sailor would put two round turns on the bollard, and tie a buntline hitch so there is less weight on the knot.

Hi mate great vid stay safe p.s got your message I think we will make that work

Have a go at tying an end knot under tension

Hi you should try the difference between under over and over under termination nots.

Tim - any thoughts on doing some videos on electric fencing? Especially ends, grounding and gates?

Wish I had of seen this video a few weeks back!! Grrrr! 😝 Love ur work Tim... Has this farmer got a wife!??? Lol

Do you use the same knot for barbed wire? We have used your videos to put in high tensile wire & mesh. Just great

Hi Tim, When are you going to do / re do strainer knot / figure 8 knot videos? Thanks!

Mate it takes real skill to tie those knots sloppy. Also I got a few strange looks from the family when that music played. They were wondering just what I was watching. Yet another great video

Tim - great video as always. I had my first go at fencing a few months back but found the end knot very difficult and my knots always ended up looking like your slopping version 😂. In the end I committed the crime of using gripple t clips, which added quite a bit of cost. I’m sure some of this comes down to years of practise, strength and and muscle memory, as you make it look so easy, but do you have any further tips on keeping the knot nice and tight? Would using a wire twister help a novice like me?

Tim in your latest video , is this the type of knot , you are using on the metal strainer post too crimp together the sheep mesh

Go around the posts twice and see the difference Peter

Can I use gal tie wire 1.57m as top & bottom strain wire for residential fence 15 Mtns long?

Nice, keep your videos short, they are good info

But the spiralfast on the other end of the post was strongest. Wish I could get them in South Africa

Have you done a book and picture on wire tiring?.. thank

Not to easy tie a bad knot when the brain and OCD like a tidy knot 👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Wonder what is the breaking strain of Waratah Gripple® T-Clip 🤔🤔🤔

The lag in the instrument prevented accurate read out of final breaking strain

How come in your old video you done the termination knot "over under, over under" but in this video you did the same knot but "under over, under over" ??

now compare the farmer hard stapled fence please

You have changed Tim.....you used to go over the line wire then down to make the horse shoe, you now come under and up.

Next time you run the end knot test, see what happens when you wrap the end wire around the post twice, position the loose end such that it crosses the main wire at 90 degrees, then tie the knot. This will reduce the tension of the knot pulling on the main wire by a factor greater than 2.

6:20 es un Dogo Argentino??

Can't do a bit of fencing without getting you're hands knicked up a bit lol

Please remove your ring and watch when fencing!

I don;t understand why you can;t just tie this knot under strain and save having to cut and redo a knot