hardware cloth hurts..

[chicknerd]

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When I was cutting open the wire holding a roll together the roll suddenly unwound and one of my right fingers was in the way. Very nasty cut. Probably should have gotten stitches but a little hydrogen peroxide and a bandage did the trick. But that came out of no where. I had no idea how sharp it was.

Gloves for me from now on!

 

[columbiacritter]

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When I was cutting open the wire holding a roll together the roll suddenly unwound and one of my right fingers was in the way. Very nasty cut. Probably should have gotten stitches but a little hydrogen peroxide and a bandage did the trick. But that came out of no where. I had no idea how sharp it was.

Gloves for me from now on!

Ah, been there done that. I buy the biggest rolls I can find since we use so much of it, but that first sudden unravelling always makes me jump. One time it fell over and hit my bare leg as it spung. OW!!! Blood shed!

The unrolling and walking on it to flatten it down help a lot.

 

[Rte.66_chicks]

I have had my share of bloody parallel scratches (more like shallow ragged cuts) from working with the stuff. It's a love-hate relationship.

 

[Whitewater]

Oh, I am SO GLAD I found this thread! I have been wrestling with hardware cloth for a week now and I've got scratches in the *wierdest* places . . . I'm very thankful that the bloody stuff hasn't come near my eyes -- yet -- and that I've got gloves.

So far, it's scratched me up, put holes in my shirt, and managed to attack both dogs. Now they won't come near it (which is good, I guess, all things considered).

With luck, today will be one of the last days I have to deal with it. My new mantra, which I repeat when it's 87' outside and the sun is shining in my eyes and I'm feeling the new scratches and I'm sore and tired and sweaty and frustrated because the dang hardware cloth is catching on everything in sight and scratching up the stain on the coop and not going where it's supposed to go, is . . .

"Thank God I only have to do this once". Our yard isn't big enough for many chickens, even 6 would be too many, so our small coop was built for 4 max, which is the max our yard can handle . . . we will never have to build another coop or expand this one . . . so once we're done putting up the demon wire, we won't have to do it again.

Thank God. It's worth it, but oh, putting it up!!!!



Whitewater

 

[fancbrd4me02]

lol

This post made me laugh. I have been "attacked" by hardware cloth many times. In fact, I never come out of a pen builing session without being scratched and bloody. I even have a bruised toenail from a project I was working on in Jan. It's hard out there for a chicken keeper.

 

[Morgan7782]

aye the wounds of chicken keeping! Glad to know we are all in the same boat lol. And also glad for the tips!! I will look for a better, less clumsy pair of gloves. But I will probably have a few scars to tell the grandkids about when "gramma was a fence wrestler". By then they might have hardware cloth that sets itself up!!

 

[ScaredOfShadows]

Oh man this thread is my thread for today!

I'm working on my largish chick tractor, the coop is about 4.5X4.5 and the run 7'X5'....today i've been mainly doing wood work, nailing stuff for the coop together all i have on the run to do is pain the brace beams and tack on the wire...however I've been using power tools all day today and a hammer! Didn't get hurt with any of that except when i was stripping down something to use as a roost that I wanted to get out of the way I knicked my foot with the crow bar, but that didn't hurt really, left a bruise...BUT as i was putting everything away, i forgot i set the dang hardware cloth at the corner of the big shed and stepped right on it barefoot, and that was bad enough, but then it sprung up and whacked me in the leg and scratched my ankles too! The crazy stuff can't wait till Sunday or Monday to stick its little bitty spikey teeth into me, it had to have a taste of blood today! that mess hurts too. Always has, no matter how many times.

Hardware cloth, chicken wire, barb wire, "stickler wire" (as i call the stuff thats similar to barbwire but only got sticklers on it instead of big barbs)etc it all hurts!

 

[sianara]

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So'd you get the job?????

 

[sianara]

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Ok, another solution to the small fit and husband stealing problem is to buy PINK gardening gloves at any home good store. My favorite is Lowes. I have a few pink or purple ones that have that plastic sealing goo all over the hands and they are small so they won't fit the average husband.

 

[Kittymomma]

Oh my gosh, YES!! I'm using a scrap piece for the top of my emergency brooder (darn coyote got the broody hen) and didn't take the time to trim the edges. I was in a hurry to feed/water the chicks one morning before work and now my arms look like I was attacked by something with major attitude. I've lost count of how many times I've been asked WHAT HAPPENED to you!!???