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Machinery Saves Time and Labor for Fence Installations
from Fence News June 2022
by fencenewsusa
One of the biggest problems for fence installers these days is handling labor costs. Fence installation takes manpower. Injuries can happen when workers are doing the same things repeatedly, day after day, week after week. It is physically intense work.
Robert Miller, with Quick Link Fence, has invented a way to solve this problem. With over 50 years in the fencing industry, he’s come up with a better way.
“In the early days of fence installation, a crew o three would have to handle the rolls of wire from the truck to the location of wherever it was being installed,” Miller explains. “Many times, the final destination is not accessible by truck, so workers are carrying the wire mesh, standing it up, and then spinning the rollout in a vertical position.”
From handling the roll, to standing the roll to spinning it; the wire mesh is handled quite a bit. “Typically, the first couple of rows are not usually so bad, but as the repetition sets in, it can get tiresome quickly,” he says.
Miller created a fence installer machine called the Dominator, a tractor machine that works well on uneven job sites. It has an extra set of quick hydraulic disconnects that can plug anything 3000 psi or lower, operating anything hydraulically driven up to 3000 psi. His other creation is called the Manipulator, a tire machine designed for projects on a hard surface, such as a tennis court. These machines are 100 % made in the USA.
“These machines do away with the manual heavy lifting, maneuvering and ladder climbing. On an average 1000-foot project, you might be climbing the ladder 600 times. Anyone doing that over and over can likely strain their knees and hips,” Miller explains.
In addition to the lifting and maneuvering, the machines save time, laying the fence in over half the time it used to take four laborers, laying the fence through the front of the device with two laborers instead of three. “We can now do a 1000-foot job in three hours; it would have taken two days with the same three laborers before using either one of the machines”, Said Robert Miller.
The machine can hydraulically pick up the roll, and dispenses the fence as one person is driving along. The second person can stand on an adjustable platform on the left-side of the machine. As the machine moves along, it rolls out the fence while the second person is on the platform, hanging the wire fence.
After completing the fence rollout, the fence installers can then us the machine to fasten the wire to the framework. The machine eliminates the lifting of the rolls and makes spinning out the fence effortless.
“Replacing three or four workers with two, it saves labor costs while making fence installation much easier,” he says. “Let the machine do the work. It allows the contractor to manage the job in a more efficient way and the end product is a better quality.
Quick Link Fence is a manufacturer of fence installer machines and is celebrating over 50 years in the fencing installation business. To learn more, email info@quicklinkfence.com, visit www.quicklinkfence.com or call 203-433-4051.
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