102569 Wire Stretcher - Standard Duty - Tightens High Tensile, Barbed or Smooth Wire

This is indispensable for a homeowner like myself who counts on long runs of barbed wire to secure property and deter poachers, thieves, scavengers and other varmints. Barbed wire will stretch, it will break, it will get kinked, cut with mowers, rust away to the point of failure or any other number of mishaps that can leave your land unsecured. Not having the proper tools on hand is begging for trouble. This stretcher is perfect for the last step of splicing or stretching wire. Use a four-wheeler for running long stretches of new wire over distances. A swedging tool and the means to pull wire over long distances would turn this into a pretty comprehensive barbed wire repair/install setup. In my first use of this tool, I was able to tension the ends of four broken places in my fence and splice in new wire in about a half hour. Wear heavy leather gloves!

This is very sturdy and works well for getting a nice tight barb wire fence, but also to secure and release a barbed wire gate that using a loop of wire to attache the post in the gate to the post on the fence.

It does the job once you get the hang of it. For a female, it is heavy and cumbersome to use and the mechanisms that grip the wire are difficult to manipulate but, like I said, it does the job.

This is very handy tool.Easy to do barbed wire fencing alone and safely without compromising the quality of fencing

It's stout. It seems well built. BUT, as others have said, it just doesn't grip the wire. The wire slips, sometimes dangerously. The mystery is "why?". Why would anyone design and build a not cheaply made product that has such an obvious, fatal and seemingly easy to correct defect?The springs are (too) strong, maybe as an attempt to exert more clamping force. That's wrongheaded, the clamping has to come from the action of the toothed cam against the static arm, no spring can be strong enough to exert sufficient force to prevent slipping and, in a proper tool, very little spring tension is necessary, just enough to hold the wire until the cam action takes over.So, it doesn't work - unless you use namby pamby wire tension, in which case you don't need a stretcher.

This stretcher does a great job. All parts worked smooth and with stood a lot of strain pressure.

dose not grip well it slips in the grips

It’s not the greatest but it holds pretty well. Value for the $$. Buy better wire and it looks super. Thin wire slips a bit