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Any favorites? I'm starting to think I need one, I suppose it's old age.
I'd use that one all the time if you would carry it for me.
I figured some enterprising individuals would have put some kind of razoo corner hopping device on the market, through cabelas, north40, REI or something
I figured some enterprising individuals would have put some kind of razoo corner hopping device on the market
They have.
Putting that cap over the top of the post seems like a wise precaution to me.
I guess that is the basic solution, pretty hard to improve on that design. Maybe a strap to ensure it stays in one place. I wonder what the load rating is on the aluminum?
agreed on the safety cap to maybe prevent being impaled.
dude’s name is Smallwood….. I’d be operating under a pseudonym…..
That's the one (or a similar one) I ordered yesterday.
My PC said he had one but misplaced it some time ago. So, I got him one with my order, probably should have got 4 of them. He said they work well, the aluminum is thick and he never had it slip while using it. He would get them at the CO-OP but they don't have them anymore, nor did Tractor Supply, Sportsman Wearhouse, Big R, nobody. At one time I had a crew guy that would jump the fence. He would grab the post and use it to swing hop over. Even in my twenties, which I was then, that didn't even cross my mind to try. He did it every time. His name was not Smallwood
Your typical city lawn sidelot chain link fence maybe four feet high nearly killed me when i was still 37 years young. Jogged up to it, threw the left leg over while rolling the upper body over, and BAMMMMMM. The jean cuff on the right leg caught on a twirly top and the next thing I know most of my left arm and part of my body is under the bottom of the fence. No rips, tears or gouging. But, my lower back talked to me 24 hours per day for about the next month. Never happened again.
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Your typical city lawn sidelot chain link fence maybe four feet high nearly killed me when i was still 37 years young. Jogged up to it, threw the left leg over while rolling the upper body over, and BAMMMMMM. The jean cuff on the right leg caught on a twirly top and the next thing I know most of my left arm and part of my body is under the bottom of the fence. No rips, tears or gouging. But, my lower back talked to me 24 hours per day for about the next month. Never happened again.
You were wearing cut-offs surveying? 😮
I haven't had many bad encounters with fence crossings, mostly tears on jeans.
At least not until last year crossing an interstate fence; one of those in a fill section, high ground on the roadside dropping off on the landowner side. I found where I figured I could step over, my right hand on the wire, left on the rod steading myself as I crossed. A stay in the fence line popped off, lost my balance, fell over to the landowner side as the wire cut my right hand up in a couple of places. No gloves on, super stupid. My little finger still has quite the scar, live and learn. I'm too old for my old habits. There was lots of blood. Finally used a combination of gauze in the first aid kit and duct tape to bind the wounds.
In many cases the safest way to get to the other side of a barbed wire fence is to lay on your back and shimmy under it while pushing up on the bottom wire if you have a Dunlop near you waist.
I also keep fencing pliers and extra staples in the rig