As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
The above may look like an axle attached to a tire, but in reality it is how we were unwinding barbed wire off of a spool in building fence.
I was looking for something to help in this, as my other ideas worked, but barb wire comes on a spool, which has a square wire interior, so it bounces on things round in unrolling. That is when I found this old rancher out in Idaho who said all you had to do is pound a bar into the ground, put a metal plate on top of a small tire and rim and then pull the wire off of it.
I figured the bar would bend and pull out of the ground, and I brought along some other metal pieces to drag the spool along when this did not work........but it worked.
OK I refined this a bit.
My bar was a cut off axle with a point on the end. I used a sledge hammer to drive it into the ground. Unfortunately the bar was too short for my comfort as I was concerned the spool would fly off causing more problems.
So I put on the bar an inch and a half metal water pipe which is shown and it acted like a bearing race with the bar being the shaft, so it spun so much better.
For the metal plate, I used a disk blade. The wire did rub on the tire, but did not cut it.
I learned that 40 rods of wire is 39 rods as companies cheat, just like 100 wire staples is 90. I was careful though as I did not want the spool locked to the wire as I pulled it and it became a slingshot flying around.
OK in pulling, I used clevace in the pick up draw bar, Just wired it on and it worked great, going very slow. The wire picked up corn fodder in the ditch, wore a line in the dirt, but it worked easy without effort.
Due to being cheated on short wire, I had to pull a section of about 100 yards by wrapping it around a wooden sledge hammer. I could do 80 yards good, but it gets heavy after that. So figure on a machine to pull if your wire is held in place by this method.
This does work and it was easier than other ways. This taught me that you unroll wire vertical not horizontal. I do plan on making something like this for a tractor to drive along with, but as for now, this was much easier than dragging along a spool behind me or having it bounce between the pick up box.
Hope this helps.
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