5-Gal Bucket Fence Wire Reels FENCING Techniques “We use a lot of portable fencing on our ranch grazing cows on small areas and moving them around frequently We have a lot of ditch banks rough areas around hayfields and other areas where we can’t cut hay but cattle can graze ” says Heather Thomas Salmon Idaho “We use step-in posts and woven wire fencing Sometimes we don’t have a spool available and we still want to roll it up in a way that it can be easily unrolled again without tangling This past summer we hit on the idea of using a plastic bucket and it worked great We just set the bucket upside down over a post and pull the wire out to unroll it The buckets rotate easily on top of a post It’s good to use a bucket with some kind of rim to keep the wire from sliding off the bottom “You can roll a lot of wire up on a 5-gal bucket and the handle makes the wire easy to carry around ” Contact: FARM SHOW Followup Heather Thomas Box 215 Salmon Idaho 83467 ph 208 756-2841

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