Great comparison there. So in Australia you have a Hilux ute with lite tray full of tools. In Ireland you have a bucket of tools in the back of the family sedan. In the US of A you have a semi trailer, a warehouse full of materials and tools along with an assortment of track machines and a 5000 acre property to put it all on.

It seems very complicated to build a fence in America. Glad I saw your videos first or I would never have tried.

I work on the english and scottish side of the border in the UK. I will have to show you guys what we have in our bucket. Its funny to see how all 3 are similar to us. Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

Great video Tim. Im just about to start my first fence at home about 700mtrs worth, and I've been binge watching all your videos to learn how to start and do it properly. Cheers and keep them videos coning 👍🏼

Don’t forget those safety glasses! While peeling off some wire from the new roll, I caught a recoil in the eye once. That was the last time I left my safety glasses behind. Great video on tools for the kit. I really like the pipe case for the auger bit!

Funny thing...I watch your channel because of the simplicity and effective nature without a bunch of tools. Should of seen it coming...hats off from the United States

Luke Gibson has it down. We use almost everything he has but our post driver is a vibratory hydraulic driver rather than impact. Also, we use a Milwaukee grinder with a cut-off disc to cut staples and nails on scrap posts when removing old fence line. Makes for fast removal.

Wow! I love the Power Auger bit protector you made. Gotta make one for my 400mm long Auger bit. Yes,it was very expensive,and,nobody,but,nobody touches it. I saw it jammed in a post by a friend,and,ended up sacrificing the post to get my bit back. Too many people just don't understand how to use one. Small bights of the drilled hole,not full length of the bit. A poly pipe protector is great!

How cool to see examples from around the world. Appreciate the time taken to show us this insight.

Hey mate I've seen Luke fencing big projects on other You Tube channels and he knows his stuff very good collaboration

In America we call aussie fence pliers, fishing pliers. And strainers we call 3rd hands. Ours can be used to push, pull, and clip onto broken wire to pull together for repair.

i used to like trellis building in vineyards tying off wire at end posts to make vine rows, then once vines growing run out foliage lift wires. We joined wire rolls by figure of 8 on the cordon wire but had to use twisty tales for foliage wire joins as fig 8 or gripples would jam the pruning machine and only break the wire. This meant getting out the tractor to fix it in the cold night air.

American here. My gear. Barbed wire tool, pliers, Hammer, 14" bolt cutters, Fence stretcher, T post wires, U staples, sharp shooter shovel, post hole digger. The smaller bits fit in a canvus tool bag. Just replaced a few H Post with only these tools.

Really interesting to see the differences in fence design from place to place. We see very little galvanized pipe fencing here in New Zealand. Some concrete posts and quite a few star pickets in the South Island due to the rocky ground. I wasn't aware it was a problem elsewhere but wooden posts here overall are of good quality. For quite some time native hardwoods like Totora (highly valuable, beautiful for carving) were used but now all the new posts are treated pine. I guess we're quite lucky in that we have a huge forestry industry here, in a small country, keeping quality good and prices ok. Most contractors here will have a post rammer but these usually connected to the three point linkage on the back of a tractor rather than a mini tank! Haha! The one tool I didn't see anybody mention that every fencer and indeed most farmers own here was a set of Eze-Pulls. I guess they are more or less useful depending on the job being done but here they are invaluable. Made by Strainrite, they are like long handled fencing pliers but have holes for staple pulling, two sizes of crimp (2.5mm HT, 4.0mm), wire cutters and also wire strippers for doing undergate cable for electric fencing and so on. They live on my tool belt and really do get a lot of use day to day. We also carry a small chainsaw which gets a lot of use cutting stay posts and holes, foots and blocks and cutting rails down to length. Thanks again for the video guys! Keep them coming!

Great to see difference horses for different courses. I’m more in our American cousins set up. I reckon most contractors have a great loathing for digging posts in! Still have my original Shoveholers and bar, from the early 80’s. On my sixth or seventh new post driver. Although the days of buying bigger shinier have gone. I’ve scaled back to a Protech Contractor model. Head torch is indispensable in the winter here for fencing/ feeding changing trailer tyres etc! All your videos are Bob On Tim. Love the simplicity and chilled way you teach. I’ve got a lad who works with me and I give him Tim Thomson homework to do as it’s a great aid to figuring stuff out. We watched the joiner wire test together and first thing he said was I can see you binning all the Gripples!! Well they have there uses in certain repair situations, so maybe they won’t go on E-Bay just yet! Great stuff from everyone

Great video Tim. I am also getting ready to do my fencing on 3 acres & found you'r video's by sheer luck. Couldn't have been better timing as my crop of yallara hay grain witch should be ready in around two month's 👍👍👍

Awsome videos sir👍 Luke Gibson is the man

Hello Tim , your videos are a great help and a source of information . Very simple , clear and well presented. Would you be able to do a review on the best gloves for fencing sometime. Greetings from Co. Mayo , Ireland.

I found a spray jacket with hood on was best protection from ticks in tea tree when it was thick. They seem to just slide off instead of into collers, cuffs etc. I even used to put a cheep Parker with hood on my dog. That way I wasn't using posibly toxic chemicals on me to keep them off. Checking for ticks is important on dogs. I used metal tweezers shaped similar to tick tweezers. For delicate places like eyelids etc oil will not allow them to breath so the remove them selves. But are still alive!!!!!!! So don't let them just drop off in the house for example. They will just bite somewhere else. My understanding is that they become dangerous to remove after a few days so if you get them early you should be fine removing them your self.

I disagree with how the USA tool “bucket” is portrayed. He’s a professional fence contractor, talk to a farmer or any other average joe with a fence the kit will look a lot more like the other two. The biggest difference is simply what we call the tools!

Fantastic tim your covering everything i neen to know we have just bort 130 ac neen to do a lot of work thank you

Always interesting to see how different people do the same thing different ways, with KZfaq and the Internet in general every one gets to see how every one else does what they do a different way, especially fencing, many different ways to set up a fence, with so many variables, cost, climate speed, manpower materials availability, how long will it last, what matters the most to one is off no concern to another, so many ways to do it wrong and usually more than one way to do it right, does appearance matter, are we keeping animals in, or out, maybe it's for humans not animals, hell my computer has essentially digital fences to keep out others, even though I don't do it much any more I still find it interesting, the variety, and every now and again something new.

Haha, safety glasses. Great video.

Interesting to see Luke has an Irish made post driver on the Morooka chassis. (Luke, we usually see rubber tracked ones over here). The hand tools are fairly similar, but does your Pasload gun fire nails or staples? There is a bit of a push on here in Ireland by the importers to convert people to Clip-Ex steel fence posts, but it's early days yet.

Really useful to me. Thank ylou.

I want to see the equipment used on large sheep and cattle stations.

What you call a fencing bar and Luke calls a spud bar, we (or at least l) would call a crow bar. Same thing, different name. Does the same job!

Gee, the Yank needs an extra truck for all that gear! But then again, he's a contractor. Most guys get away with what you have in your ute Tim. I'm just a little more organised and have a tool box for all the stuff instead of a bucket. I just don't like searching through everything to find a set of pliers ;) Have you tried those Chinese Hayes knockoff strainers Tim? Wondering if they were any good. I've had a set of Hayes for about 20 years now, still going strong.

I’d add a set of ear/air buds, mobile/cell phone (with a play list).

Love it great video.

Wood is becoming outdated in Australia as well. At least commercially. Homesteaders I think tent to still use wood as part of that do it yourself with your own trees turned into posts kind of thing.

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Tim great video...is that a 1/2 inch auger bit ? And couldn’t find the pliers is it MORN? the maker. Thanks

I wish I had done you a video from the UK.

Enjoyed the video greatly.

You fencing contractors seem to favour the chain strainers such as the Haines but I prefer the DONALD patent strainers invented in New Zealand in the 1940 or 1950s safer and easier to use mine I have been using for nearly 65 years best to use especially with barbed wire

As an American that puts up fences, my fellow American might be over prepared.

Australia, a bucket of tools. Ireland, a bucket of tools. America, $300,000 worth of equipment that requires a large trailer to transport. MERICA!!!!

Spent an hour trying to find those pliers. Finally figured out the plier brand, maybe I wasn't the only one but it is spelled Maun. What is the model number of yours? I didn't see the Maun with the groove.

I'm looking for the name of a tool that's called a "wire puller" "chain strainer". It does the same exact thing as a tool called "Draper Fence Wire Tensioner Tool". Could be the "fence strainer" you mentioned. But the difference is the hollow pipe in my description. I believe they are used mainly for high tensel wire, but can be used with barb wire. I've found one in the barn but it's a hollow pipe maybe 3 ft long not quiet, has a chain welded to it (short), a slot and a bolt welded to it?!?! Anyone know the name? Driving me nuts that I can not find the name or the tool anywhere online!?!?!.....BTW...NEW SUB! Great content, very informative, easy instructions!

its true what thay say, you do a great job teaching the art of fencing. However, i thought it was a very bad idea to through away your safety glasses. i hope your never regret doing that.

Got most the same stuff diggers are same and all but the new dewalt staple gun is way better and ya dont need the gas!

g-day Tim , how well do the china brand knock off`s fence strainers hold up ? the ones the Irish was using ?

"only drive your staples 2/3's of the way in"?

That American fence builder looks like he knows his stuff. Especially that wood is outdated. Only thing I've never ever heard a pair of posthole digger's called double shovel's..... must be from up North..

LOL Google subtiles gave up when we came to Ireland

The comparison idea was great but got let down by the American fencer whose type of fencing is not an everyday job over here which also means he had over $200000 invested.

Ah man I'm Irish fencing contractor our tool kit nearly fills van not a blue drum ....more tools faster the job

Eish, the American: all he felt short, was the AR15, the . 50 caliber and the Abrahams tank.....