Tool Talk
What's-It Forum => What's-It Forum => Topic started by: Badknuckles on July 18, 2016, 01:27:10 PM
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Is this a fence wire gripping tool?
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Looks to be a gripping tool. But what do you do with it, once you have it? Seems too small to have leverage on its own. I suppose a link attaches to the main handle and fits a fence stretcher?
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Never having strung a fence I can only imagine the process. Evidently you attach a come-along between that hole in the handle and some anchor point. I would suppose a fairly small fence wire from the size. I don't quite see why there are 2 grips. I suppose you would tie the loose end of the wire to something then release the come-along and then the thing then repeat it all.
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Possibly a clothesline tightener. Not really heavy enough to stretch fence.
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I agree, that's not big enough to manage fence wire.
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Or a vineyard?
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Hello
Can't help with exact identification but I also can't resist the need to muse on how it may have been used. Once the gate is closed on the rope/wire and a load is put on it, it looks like a pull back on the solid handle (lever) would cam the gate more or less open and allow the line to be released while under load. The bottom looks like a fulcrum for the handle lever, to make it easier to pull all the way back. This fulcrum also suggests that this tool was employed along a solid surface, like a wall or boom, etc. A test of this would be interesting.
Dave
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or a wooden fence post to pull the wire taut, then re staple the wire to take up slack ????
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I think we have it!