Nifty Barbed Wire Unroller

Nifty Barbed Wire Unroller FENCING Techniques 20-5-9 Most barbed wire unrollers work well as long as there's only a partial roll of wire on them, says William J. Kuryliw. How-ever, with a new roll the wire has a tendency to jump off the side of the unroller and wrap around the shaft, the Lac La Biche, Alberta, farmer adds. "To solve the problem, I built a æno-wrap' unroller out of scrap materials that encloses most of the spool so the wire can't slip off," Kuryliw says. "I've put up a bunch of fence since I built it a couple of years ago and it works perfectly. I built it to mount on my Honda 3-wheel ATV, but it could be adapted to fit a pickup, or tractor 3-pt." Kuryliw used a 1-ft. length of steel pipe 16-in. in dia. He welded a side plate on one end of the drum and a 1 3/4-in. dia. shaft horizontally through the center. He made a removable side plate for the opposite end of the drum to load the unroller and welded on a collar that fits over the shaft with a 1/ 2-in. bolt that acts as a set screw. He cut an opening about 1/4 the circumference of the drum in the back for the barbed wire to spool from. A 1/2-in. by 6-in. vertical slot cut in the front of the drum allows him to see at a glance from the ATV's seat how much wire he has left. "I can unroll standard spools of barbed wire as fast as is safe from an ATV," he says. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, William J. Kuryliw, Sr., Box 1434, Lac La Biche, Alberta, Canada TOA 2CO (ph 403 623-2257).

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