Gripple products have been used in the vineyard and orchard industries for may years to tighten and join wire. Gripples have been used on soft "low carbon" wire as well as Hi-Tensile "high carbon" wire products. The success of the Gripple product in these industries have lead to its use in farm and ranch applications as well as in the greenhouse, tower erection (guy wire apps) and nearly anywhere joining and tensioning wire is needed. I have been installing and/or instructing others to install field and electric fence for about 12 years. I have made many mistakes that have caused fences to fail, however, I have learned for these mistakes and have learned from the "experts" from companies such a Bekaert, Twin Mount Fence, Gallagher and Gripple.  I am no expert but I do have some practical ideas that may make your next fence easier to install, cost less, have eye appeal and save time installing.

Uses for farm and field fencing:

Joining and tensioning wire.
Building H-Braces.
Building Corner Braces.
Repairing wire breaks.
New insallations.
Works on Hi-Tensile smooth wire
Work with low carbon smooth wire
Works on barbwire
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There are many types of Gripple products for the above applications.

Money and time savings:

There are several applications where Gripple will save time and maybe money. When joining wire you have the option to tie, crimp or use a Gripple. If all you're doing is joining, tying is you least cost alternative. Next would be using a crimp sleeve, however, if your going to have to add an in-line strainer to tighten the wire, Gripple would end up being your least cost method of joining! An in-line strainer will run you @$2.75 alone while the Gripple would run somewhere @$1.20. You have both benefits of easily joining and tensioning the wire with the Gripple. SEE OUR SELECTION OF GRIPPLES.

When building corners, we will have an end post, brace post and a crossmember. We want to "tie" our brace post to our end post by means of a twitch wire. This means pulling from the top of our brace post to the bottom of our end post. We do this to offset the pulling force of our wire fence pulling the opposite direction.

There are several ways to accomplish this:

1)With a wire looped and tightened with a twitch stick,  with wire looped and tightened with an in-line strainer or by installing wire or cable with a Gripple. If we use the twitch stick method, we can run into problems when we come back to tighten our corner, especially if we have installed field fence.  The fence or the crossmember post may deter us from twisting our twitch wire. Also, your twitch stick will rot as it weathers.

2)The Hi-Tensile wire and in-line strainer is a great option. We have the ability to come back and tighten at anytime by tightening with our in-line strainer. There are only two negatives I have with this method. (All my fences have braces made in this manner)  It is very  time consuming and expensive to have to bend and crimp the wire to the end of the strainer. We already mentioned the cost.

3)Using a Gripple cuts our expense for making our twitch wire with Hi-Tensile wire. You do not have to crimp and you can re-tighten with your Gripple tool at anytime. This method will work well with Hi-Tensile electric fencing, low carbon electric fence and low carbon field fence. I do not advise using this method on Hi-Tensile field fence.

4)The newest means by which to build your H-Brace is with the Gripple Anchor/Brace cable and Jumbo Gripple. I have been involved with 4 fence building demonstrations this past week and have opted to use this method on any new fence I build. This is not a cheap method however, this is a very secure building tool for all fence applications. The cable has a loop with a crimped end. The cable is placed around one post with the loose end of the cable being threaded through the loop. The loose end is then threaded through the Jumbo Gripple, around the second post and back through the Gripple. Adjust and tighten. Your through!! SEE OUR SELECTION OF GRIPPLE PRODUCTS

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