I see a lot of kids today, that really waste their money paying someone to pierce the cartilage between their nose nostrils.
I'm going to grab a box of hog rings and the special pliers that you use them with, and head downtown this morning to make some money!
If I setup shop on the sidewalk in front of a tattoo parlor, do you think they'd call the cops on me?!
Step right up for the fastest nose piercing in town, cheap too!
Maybe that hog ring would keep them from rooting around in dumpsters, like it keeps the hogs from rooting in the mud. Before I take this business venture on the road, I should test it out on a Guinea pig, any volunteers?
Look I've already got everything, we could do it this morning!
You have to admit, with that fine copper color, that would make a beautiful addition to anybody's face, especially a hogs!
As you can tell in the picture, at least with the hog rings I have, it's practically impossible to get a bite into the small holes of half inch hardware cloth. The nose of the pliers is in the way.
Sleeping on it, I reconsidered, I think due to ease of installation, strength, being able to cinch down on a connection, and that you can make it look very good by cutting off the extra, I would still go with the heavy zip ties.
I think under cover they'll last a real long time, in sun, not as long, but if it's in sun, it means it's exposed already, and easy to replace if and when it's needed.
Hey Howard, after going to the
Amazon page to look at your cage clips, I might actually prefer those. How do you apply them, just regular pliers? Are they strong enough to hold cattle panels together? Are they small enough to fit into half inch hardware cloth to attach the hardware cloth to the cattle panels?
Like I said, I used thousands of zip ties on all the connections on my tractor, I wonder how these would stack up cost wise to zip ties.
That's the beauty of these forums! There're a lot of experienced smart people, teaching me new tricks all the time, and their projects are great test labs for the rest of us.
Good job Howard! Once again, I didn't even know, what I didn't know!
