Set Chain Link Fabric Perfectly Every Time! (EASY)

Stop cussing out your chain link fence while you're trying to set fabric height! This wacky-looking top rail dressing tool has saved us so much time and effort, enabling us to set the height of our chain link fabric perfectly every time.

[irvincordova]

Your videos always inspire me to keep going. I’m starting a fence business but it sometimes gets complicated. Please never stop doing videos!!!

[landmarkcreations]

Dan you were talking to me directly.. You said “there’s a tool for that Kevin!” (My name is actually Kevin) and I’ve been needing this!. Thanks Dan!

[eddieb]

Lift the low points of the mesh raking the high points with your trusty crescent pliers to get a uniform top line that works every time.

[beaudevore]

Good stuff down I like it I’m a have to get me one of those I’ll make mine pretty much the same by the way have you ever seen or made a needle puller To pull a needle out of a chain-link roll if not I’ll show you you might like that tool makes on weaving chain-link needles a hell of a lot faster

[reaper]

Just put a tie on it while you put the bands on so it’s at height also can buy hooks for the mesh while you roll it out you hook it to height

[welcometofreeportFL]

Great tool. I just need a LARGE one as this fence I'm helping fix needs to get the bent fabric to reach the top rail. Like twice a big in all length and those tines... I just can't do it and am about 5-6 inches shy. Like a stretch tool but for verticalnot horizontal stretching. Old rusty fence they want repaired not replaced.

[jsteiny]

So, a cheap alteritive garden steal rake and rope with carabiner?

[jwyoungy]

We made mesh hangers of our own design and they are easier to use and work better. You take some 1/2" rebar and weld or bend it into a hook. The hook section will be about 2 1/2" wide, the short end only will come down about 1" and the long side about 12". At the bottom of the 12" length on the rebar, weld a piece of 1" x 1/4" x 12" flat bar perpendicular to the rebar. When you're rolling out the mesh, you simply insert the hook though the high dimond and over the top rail. We install two or three per 10' section, making sure not to install any just before a line post. Two major advantages doing it this way over your tool. # 1 is that you can quickly hang the mesh, even when the fence is so high you can't reach over it from the ground, which is required for your tool. Second, and most importantly, you can stretch the mesh which just the hangers on (which is why you don't put a hanger just before a line post). Once the whole fence line is tight and hooked up, we start at one end of the fence installing the ties and work our way down, puling the hangers out of the fence as we go along. Simply rotate the hanger 90 degrees and it will slide right out. Cheap, effective and super efficient. Pro Tip

[michaelestrada]

You still have to dress the wire first right?

[rogerbettencourt]

Always posting some good information. You guys are the asbestos.