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Installing some stock fencing this week, unrolling the barbed wire with a bar through the middle and hands either side and thinking God this is heavy and don't fall over!! There's got to be a better way to do this?? Has anyone made a barbed wire roller on here? Can't be that hard to make?

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I used a punch bar that poked in a hole on the side of my tractor loader, with a circular disk of plywood to stop snags on the inside. Providing you drove in a straight line the reel stayed on the bar. This was using the wooden frames reels not the metal wire frame type.

There used to be a wheel barrow chassis for carrying and un-reeling electric fence wire, perhaps this would help but you would have to allow the wire out between your legs as you walked along.......Mmmmm!!

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I used a punch bar that poked in a hole on the side of my tractor loader, with a circular disk of plywood to stop snags on the inside. Providing you drove in a straight line the reel stayed on the bar. This was using the wooden frames reels not the metal wire frame type.

There used to be a wheel barrow chassis for carrying and un-reeling electric fence wire, perhaps this would help but you would have to allow the wire out between your legs as you walked along.......Mmmmm!!

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Like your thinking an old wheel barrow?

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I stick a bar through the reel then stick it in one of the holes where the canopy bars are meant to go on a landrover pickup- can unroll 200meters of barb in about a minute!

Otherwise 2 of you one on each side of the bar makes it sooo much easier but I used to do it on my own a lot using your method and always felt like I had biceps like popeye by the time I got to the end- worst was when it was unreeling and the barbs snagged on your jumper- ripped many jumpers/skin in this fashion!

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