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Barbed Wire Trailer Controls Roll-Out
"I couldn't find anything on the market for unrolling barbed wire with an ATV," says Ronald Berthiaume, who created a one-man barbed wire trailer that unrolls wire for putting up fences.
  
He used the axle off a snowmobile trailer to create it.
  
Flat steel circular discs hold the spool in place. A metal rod runs through the disks and the spool. Two screw-down bolts press against the disks to adjust the tightness of the spool.
  
The key to the success of the trailer is the way wire is fed out through a pair of steel rollers that look like the wringer on an old-fashioned washing machine. "The wire makes a click every time a barb goes through the rollers so the operator never has to look behind to see if the wire's still feeding out. The rollers also act as a brake to keep the spool from spinning too fast. It eliminates tangled up wire messes," Berthiaume says.
  
A piece of pipe on the trailer's drawbar holds an extra spool of wire.
  
Berthiaume is interested in negotiating a deal with a company that wants to produce his trailer.
Contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Ronald Berthiaume, 704 Columbus Smith Road, Salisbury, Vt. 05769 (ph 802 352-4323).


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2004 - Volume #28, Issue #6