I love how he is the most country bloke you could imagine but he still refers to his shades as “speed dealers” absolutely golden

Im not a farmer by any stretch of the imagination, this kind of know how is extremely helpful. My Dad did show me how to do this many years ago, but now he is gone, Ive been putting off straining and redoing the "Hinge lock" because I never thought to check youtube lol. thankyou so much for this video.

Hi Tim. Enjoyed the video and helped greatly with the fencing I did today. One thing I wanted to mention. No eye protection. As a doctor, I see this along with gloves as an essential component of work safety. Hope you take this on board and apply for future videos. A poke in the eye with wire can end sight in that eye.

Best complete wire fencing vid on KZfaq, by far.

Best video on sheep fencing out there!!!!!

I have watched this video many times and learnt a great deal. The simplicity and accuracy of instruction is much appreciated.

We just bought property and I was going to get someone to build our fence as the old fence has had it. After watching your vid we are going to tackle it ourselves. We have about 2kms to do. Thanks for your video and you have a new subscriber. Hope to learn more.

Thanks mate. I'm new to hobby farming and fencing. Great tips, helped me out and given me some confidence.

Thanks for the Video mate, very informative, well explained!

Very informative. Who would have guessed that watching a bloke put up a fence could be this interesting@

Thanks Tim. I tackle this job in a different order to you, and come up with a quality long lasting and satisfying job. Not knocking your way of doing it, just reminds me of an old saying, "There's more than one way to skin a cat!" Thanks again.

Good afternoon Tim, I have been bingeing your videos while assembling steel garden beds, and I have to start taking notes as I am rewinding the video to watch your excellent demo and write down the names of tools I need to buy, cheers

Tim great job explaining the finer details and art of fencing. Looking forward to now to tidying up our fencing thanks to youtube video. cheers

Oh thank goodness for your fencing vids! So helpful to have as a resource. THANKS AGAIN.

Hey Tim I would like to thank you for your ringloc run,I'm only a real novice at fencing but with your videos,they have been a real help and of course yourself.

Have only recently found your channel Tim. You do a great job. Thank you

A very comprehensive video. Learned a few things here. Thanks for posting.

Hi Tim, just discovered your videos after doing a few months' paid and volunteer fence work around Batlow and Corryong. Always good to see the million different ways of doing fences, tying knots, etc, and learn a few new skills. Also there's something reassuring about your screen presence that says "I'm a decent bloke". Keep up the good work!

Very interesting. I never knew there was so much to fencing. Thanks for taking the time to film this 👍

Tim. You are an international adornment. A 70 plus year-old amateur here, in the UK. Using your videos for guidance I have done all my own fencing. Only about 300 metres in total, but properly done, with box ends and sheep mesh to contain (surprise) sheep. Alas, the deer just jump over the fence and eat all our roses, but two more stands of HT wire might stop that. My best investments - cheap Chinese copy strainers have been OK for my limited use, and a second-hand pair of Maun pliers/wire snips. More than anything, the work has kept me and wife active, and been great fun. My thanks to you, Tim. For limited use, the Chinese strainers aren't too bad if you take those stupid springs off. Lived in Australia for a few years. SO many bloody flies. How do you stand 'em?

Your tutorials are superb. Going to need all this info to fix my fence.

amazing tips! Thanks for putting all the effort in to share all your experience

Great stuff Tim. Looking forward to the next one.

Great video Tim. I may have seen this on one of your videos, but another way to get the stay wires off is to use a Gripple contractor tool to walk them off. Thanks I always enjoy your videos

Thanks Tim, for putting out the great fencing tips and tools of the trade. Well explained, and put togather. Thanks, Richard u.s.a., state of alabama

fantastic and simple explanation, anybody can follow Tim's instructions.

When you said if I ever used staples to strain wire you'd find me I did have a quick glance around the room. But I won't do it again now I know better. Thanks for sharing the info to help with doing it correctly.

Love your channel Tim. You list all the painful shortcuts my father takes and buggering the strainer heads on the post by passing the chain through is my pet hate!!!!

We owe you a beer for this Tim - just doing the mesh now - thanks so much...

I love your content, I like to put my top wire on 1st and plumb bob the posts to get my line and I do put the flat of the posts against the wire, just the way I was taught but all in all exactly the same result. We never had those twist wire joiners either, how wonderful do they look, much easier than tieing against the strainers.

dad gum Tim, if that wasn't the best fencing tutorial out there

Well presented easy to understand. In that he communicates on a level that the average bloke can relate to 👍 Thanks ,really appreciated.

tim,,,just found your channel,love watching it,,you remind me of the leylands brothers !!! very informative

Thank you so much for uploading this! Years ago I started my Certificate 3 in Agriculture but was unable to finish it. The teacher was a bully who never should’ve been employed, and I was forced to quit after 2 months into the course, so I never got the chance to learn how to properly fence.

Brilliant Tim as usual! I've often wondered how do some farmers get their fences looking so good.Absolutely loved this presentation, and loved the music with a little mandolin doing a little bit of chopping.

So much great advice, best fencing video I've seen. I used Whites stiffstay which has high tensile as the top and bottom wires eliminating the need to run out those two extra lengths.

Thanks for sharing Tim, lots of great tips that are often overlooked. What you explained is pretty much what DPI recommend. The only difference I did with my fencing is only using a single chain tensioner without a tension bar or board. I just took my time, started at the bottom, then pulled every second line, and tied off one line above each time, and only put enough tension as you explained, then lined up the uprights. I'm, keeping Goats and Sheep, and while the Sheep rub on the fence, the Goats really lean in the mesh, so far it just bounces back just like you explained, so allowing for that movement is really important. Now off to do some harrowing, lol.

Hi Tim, we get a great deal of valuable advice from your clips, thanks. You refer to a twitcher for tieing the star tickets to your fence. I have heard of the "twitcher" being called a "wire key", from a few sources. I have a funny story of my late mothers experience with same, as an apprentice fencer with her father-in-law, (my grand father), she would often find her self frustratingly sliping from her grip & flying a few feet away. So my grandfather, being a practical joker, said to her, "Why don't you tie it to your wrist with a piece of string, that way you can't loose it?" My naive mother thought that sounded like a good idea. You what happened with the very next tie....

Tim, your the fence guru of all time. In Ireland I have never seen the end assembly method of fencing. Most fencing contractors will hammer in a larger diameter post called a tensioner, and over time they all pull towards the fence run. I’ve also not seen the sheep fence attached to the tensile strainer wire. This video is fantastic as I need to start new fence runs and repair shoddy contractor work on existing fences. I’ll have the best fencing in Galway. I’d also like to see a video on uneven ground like one of your other subscribers requested.

I dont even do any fencing but found it very educational thanks

Wow!!! Thank you for your amazing expertise!!!!!

Hi Tim, Another great video, thankyou once again.

Great video Tim. You're the gun! Greetings from England.

Doing huge fence project , thanks this real helpful

Looking forward to this new video love all the others

I love your safety advise

You’re bloody marvellous mate!

best ever and you’ve saved me a ton of time.

Thanks your videos are invaluable, so helpful.

Great content Tim. I live on my wife's family farm in SA, the recent Cudlee Creek fire damaged almost all the fences and pasture. Big rebuild coming hopefully with some support from blazeaid. My father in law has taught me a little bit of fencing but your videos are helping greatly too. When it rains, it pours though, he had a bad fall loading wool bales on Monday doing a serious knee injury, so we'll all be stretched getting it back up and running with him down for at least 12 months.

Awesome video mate, great information. Thankyou.

Great tips, good instruction

Great videos Tim. Invaluable tips! Thank you.

Brilliant video! I learnt a lot!

Yet another amazing video mate thanks

A very helpful video. Now I need to go and fix all my errors :( Thank you.

Excellent video thanks very much .

Thanks for your videos! I'm a Dutch fencing contractor and I learned so much from it. I'm having a hard time finding European retailers for the tools you use in your videos. Like the tensioning clamp and crimp sleeves, there aren't even similar alternative producers. I'm gonna weld my own netting tensioning clamp this weekend.

Hi Tim always a pleasure to watch, dam post drivers I remember on a larger version for wooden posts catching the bottom of the driver and the top of the post, it clattered me on me noggin and chipped some teeth, very lucky I did not kill myself, tech me to try and rush a job. Happy new year

Thank you so much for the detailed information you’re literally the best fence guy on the Internet! Why do you suggest not making my own fence stretcher out of carriage bolts And a 2x6?

Thanks Tim! I'm going to make a go of sheep instead of cattle at my place. Means I need to fix up the woven wire and replace my back fence.

Learned so much. Thanks :)

These are great, thanks. . I've got a bit of fencing to do, having just finally realised a lifelong dream of owning my own patch of dirt. Now, just need see if you have a video of you doing similar with some netting.

awesome tutorial, thanks heaps mate

hi from scotland and it is a good job

Sensational video mate

Tim, my wife and I are starting our new business in farming. Thank you so much for your very very informative video. I wish we had the extra money to get the fencing done professionally but the budget is not allowing that. So you have given us a massive help. Cheers mate.

Excellent!!!

Hiya Tim loved the video, I’m very excited to be putting up some sheep mesh this weekend for my paddock to stop the dogs getting in from my neighbours. I bought one of those £30 generic monkey strainers (the yellow and blue one…) and I actually found it worked quite well for my top wires. I’ve just bought another one so i can tighten both my top and bottom wires of the sheep mesh. Haven’t quite got the funds for a proper straining clamp but for now i suppose ill just hook my strainers up to my top and bottom wires.

Well produced. Down to earth. Would have liked to have seen information on using gripples as an alternative to knots. As this has the advantage of easily being able to retention as necessary over time.

Very useful video - thank you

Another excellent video. Love learning things all the time and reasons for doing so eg. not hitting staples all the way in! I've welded an extension onto the handle of my wire strainers which have made all the difference. I always put the back of the steel post up against the wire not what you do. What is your reason? Looking forward to your next video.

Good vid mate. Have run a fair few hundred metres of hinge joint but I run my three or four support wires first then lift the mesh up and run a c-clip between pickets to hold in place then I strain the mesh. I will try not doing this next time and seeing how I go. Cheers.

Tim is the best❤

Hi Tim, thank you for such a clear video, as always. Very useful information. I'll be going back to it when I try doing some of my fencing soon. I was wondering if you could discuss putting up rabbit netting (40mm heavy gauge, hexagonal) at the bottom of a fence for protecting areas of vegetable production, in case you come across such type of fencing project. Thank you!

Strangely therapeutic. Great video :)

Great video

Your a legend!

Great vid, that Ringlock is circa 1980’s or prior, the rings on the uprights were later changed to have the tails pointing down instead of sideways.

I have to agree with L.A. Gibson I like my Manuel post driver rusty and unused. Gas t post driver for the win, paid for itself within a mile of fence

Thanks Tim, been waiting for this one! Any tips on sheep fencing over undulating/sloped ground??

Another great video Tim, I always enjoy watching for the content and personality. I thought I'd mention that when I put plain wires up, rather than tying off to both end assemblies and straining in the middle or near one end and introducing a knot/gripple/spiralfast, I tie off to one end assembly and then strain to the second end assembly with the end knot being the final connection. Essentially I do plain wires the same way you did the sheep mesh. Is there any benefit of doing it one way or another, other than straining in the middle of the run as you mentioned?

Thanks Tim, nice flock

Hi Tim. As always your are resource of knowledge re fencing and thank you for sharing. I hope you don’t mind me saying , you were abnormally breathless in a few of the video clips. Maybe get a blood test to rule out any problems that might be developing. Some one suggested this to me for the same reason and it turned out I had way to much iron in the blood. Be safe and keep it up

Great video with clear instructions capped off nicely with a 'How are ewe .?' to the sheep.

Thank you

Gee I’d love to come and work on your farm as an apprentice!

I used wd40 to help slip the ring lock ties off the end wires. Surprised at how well it worked.

Great video Tim, it contained some excellent tips and pointers. Would this fence keep in cattle as well as sheep? Or would you need to substitute some of the star pickets for timber or concrete posts? Like every third post for example? I'm looking to build a fence that is dual purpose.

Tim, thank you for the great videos, this is a really fantastic resource for amateurs like me. I have one question, how did you attach the wire strainer to the clamp? I have seen strainers with a hook at each end for use with clamps but notice that the other end of your strainer had a wire grip. Best regards and keep up the great work.

Hey Tim, another good video. Just wondering why you put a join in your line wires? John

Hi Tim. Thanks for producing such informative and helpful videos. I notice that you use both timber posts and star pickets between the box end assemblies. What is the spacing/distribution of these, please?

Great KZfaq page Tim! My family and I refer to it often for our fencing projects. I just had one quick question about treated pine fence posts. Did I see in one of your videos that you spray the top of your treated pine fence posts with spray paint or silicone or similar? If so, what do you use? Thanks.

Thank you so much for sharing this Tim. Much appreciated :-). Just wondering if you have any comments/advice for high tensile boundary netting which looks much like the ringlock netting. I've just completed a fence using cyclone tightlock which is high tensile for the line wires and medium for the vertical. My case (only about 80m) probably wasn't the ideal place to use netting due to some bends, many undulations and a hill, but I wanted to try it and see how it goes so thought I would give it a go and learn some lessons. The end result I think is really good, but I might have to wait a bit longer to confirm that... Are there any differences using high tensile netting to consider? I didn't use a bottom or top high tensile wire to clip the netting too (I figured it's high tensile as it could be added later if required) - would you add this on? My fence is for sheep and cattle so I've electrified a top wire above the netting, and plan to add another about 3/4 way up the netting. Good idea? I wasn't sure on how the netting would handle the ups and downs but it worked out really good. I was thinking I would need to have several joins to change the netting angle a bit but ended up adding some strainers in the middle of the netting to adjust as required and some more at one end and it seems to have worked a treat. Probably not ideal in some respects but would you consider this a decent approach? I used the two pieces of wood method to initially get the fence up as I planned to use in-line strainers to tension up the fence. What are your views on the being able to adjust the fence with in-line strainers as required?

My neighbor thought tightening the fence meant driving the staple in hard. The wire is still floppy and forget trying to remove the staples. City people move to the country and cause all kinds of headaches.

Good job , well presented thanks. What pliers do you use

Brilliant video Tim; extremely clear and helpful thanks. In the absence of a straining clamp arrangement, what’s your view on straining the line wires individually using the chain straining tool?

Hi Tim, love your fencing videos. If I only have 2 fence strainers. What can I use instead of a strainer plate.

Hi Tim. I stumbled on your videos today - brilliant work, and just the sort of lessons I've needed after years of trying to teach myself and failing. One question - any reason not to use offcuts of HT wire for clipping to posts? You mentioned the soft wire on this video, and tie-wire on another, not sure if there is a reason for not using HT wire.

G’day Tim, I am learning heaps from your great videos, thanks. You mentioned in a video that it is a bad habit to strain your plain wires onto the strainer post and I see in this video that you strain the wire with a join near the end post. Why is it a bad habit if you are introducing a weak point by adding a join? I have done a couple of runs by straining to the end post and after seeing your video saying that it was a bad habit, changed to a joining strain for my next one but would like to understand why. Thanks again for all the great videos.