They Made Their Own 3-pt. Mounted Wire Roller

They Made Their Own 3-pt. Mounted Wire Roller FENCING Miscellaneous 28-4-42 We made our own 3-pt. mounted wire roller using parts of a 4-row cultivator, a wheel off an old pull-type grain elevator, and a pto shaft. It works great with high tensile wire used for portable fencing and has saved us many hours of work. An 8-in. cultivator gauge wheel is welded onto the pto shaft and drives a 14-in. wheel mounted horizontally on top of the cultivator frame. A wire spool bolts to the 14-in. wheel and turns with it. To roll up wire, I tie one end of the wire to the reel and drive alongside the fence. To unroll the wire, I lift up on a handle connected to a bearing at the far end of the shaft, which lowers the shaft and disengages the two wheels. The spool holds about two miles of wire. It takes only about three minutes to roll up 1/4 mile with the tractor engine at idle. I use a rope around the handle and cultivator frame to adjust the pressure on the two wheels. If the wire ever gets caught on something, the two wheels will slip. There's a compartment in front of the spool for fiberglass posts and tools. (Lester H. Martin, 16957 Buttercup Rd., Barnett, Mo. 65011 ph 573 378-4169)

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