Home-made tools best for emergency fencing

A recent incident which brought 60 or more cows onto a busy road brought to mind the joys of emergency fence repairs — a task few dairy or beef farmers manage to avoid in the summer.

Delving into some past issues of my Practical Farm Ideas magazine revealed some useful home-made gadgets that make the job not only easier to do, but better as well. Some of these will be more than familiar to some readers, but I’m confident that few will know them all.

If you have or know of other home-made fencing tools out there, maybe better than the ones we have here, I’d be grateful for a call, and I will send on a copy or two of Practical Farm Ideas, by way of reward.