Tip of the day - hog ring pliers and chicken wire

cavey

5 year old buck +
Just wanted to pass this on, Its not much of a tip but it saved me a ton of time once I realized I needed one.
I had a little rabbit visitor into my nursery out at the farm... Mr. bunny, now that we have snow, was able to hop over my 2' chicken wire. The original wire with time and my temporary fencing job was less than perfect. I caught the intruder problem early enough and got a few additional rolls of 2' chicken wire to go around above the existing wire. I was cutting short wire tie sections and tying the overlap sections together as best I could by hand.
I thought I was doing a good job but it was very very time consuming and a bit of a blood letting experience. That night Mr. bunny tested my fencing and was able to breach my work in multiple spots despite the overlap and periodic tied spots. I hate rabbits - the little @#&%'$ got me once this summer too so its game on.
Point is I think a lot of people use chicken wire - and maybe concrete remesh or other wire for fencing or cages. The next day after seeing tracks inside again I went back to cutting wire and trying to tie the overlap every so many inches - a huge pain. Then a light bulb went on - I drove to fleet farm and bought this pliers - It worked like a charm, super fast. I put a ring in every 4 inches and it took no time at all to go around the nursery fence. I was able to attache rings to the remesh wire securing the chicken wire to the fence as well as the overlap areas of the chicken wire. snap snap snap as fast as I could squeeze and reload the pliers.

Again, a huge time savings - If you have ever worked with chicken wire it is a pain and this made enough of a difference that its now on my "why didnt I have this tool before" list.

I thought it was worth passing on.
 

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was out checking to see if my buddy the bunny had tried to get back in and its a fairly big fence and the little heathen had checked most of it for openings... anyways this is what I was talking about for securing the chicken wire overlaps and to the fence itself. It was super fast compared to hand wiring the chicken wire on and together.
 

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