Does anyone have a tie wire reel? Wondering if you can roll up larger spooled wire on it or if you can just add a small spools and unreel off as you use it.
I have several thousand feet of tie wire and trying to figure best way to unspool and use it. It’s probably a hundred pounds or more. Need it in three or four pound spools.
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Is it something you could put on a homemade turn table and wind/unwind?
Maybe. It’s a booger of a big roll. Got it for a good deal but I have to get it down smaller somehow. Thought about hand rolling it on a piece of thick dowel rod but it’d have tight curly q’s in it. Needs to be slightly more rounded. Maybe if I’m careful I could do it so it’s more rounded.
Maybe someone around you has a lathe that you could chuck up about a inch dowel rod in, and wind it on slow speed around the dowel.
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I don’t have an answer for you daddy worked at a wire mill and use to bring me big bundles of scrap annealed wire in all sorts of sizes never found a perfect way to wade it up. I’d just wrap big hanks of it around my hand and stuff it in my bucket or basket.
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I have a reel that holds about 3 lb. If it were possible i would take and rool up about 4 rolls and let the rest sit untill i needed more. I dont know if a roll is 3 or 5lbs.
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If the big roll has a hollow center, you could make a stand to hold the wire using a piece of galvanized pipe. Then take a 2 inch piece of pipe weld a plate on the back of it with a piece of 3/8" steel rod through the center of it. Cut a small notch in the front of the pipe just big enough to hold a bent over piece of your wire then you could use a drill to slowly transfer the wire from the big spool to the small spool.
When you have a roll the size you want on the smaller spool just slide it off secure the end so it doesn’t go haywire and start over. It is a little work on the front end but if the spool is as big as I am picturing it will save a lot of work and aggravation in the long run.