PTO-Powered Fence Winder Makes Pasture Moves Easy

PTO-Powered Fence Winder Makes Pasture Moves Easy POWER TAKE OFFS (PTO'S) Power Take Offs (PTO's) 26-6-27 A pull-type electric fence wire winder helps Jerry De Blonde, Swan Lake, Manitoba, make quick pasture changes. He built it using parts from an old pull-type sickle mower. "We use it for rotational grazing when moving cattle to different pastures. It lets us roll up a quarter mile of electric fence at a time, drive to a new location, and then quickly unroll it again. It works fast and requires only one person to operate," says De Blonde. De Blonde cut the hitch, table and sickle off the pto-driven mower, leaving the drive system intact. He cut the shaft off where the table had been and welded a spindle horizontally across the top of the mower frame. He bolted an old car wheel rim to the shaft to roll up wire. "To unroll the wire, I simply unhook the pto shaft and drive forward," notes De Blonde. Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Jerry De Blonde, Box 132, Swan Lake, Manitoba, Canada R0G 2S0 (ph 204 836-2726).

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