Make Your Own Handy Tools

Craft your own wire splicers for fencing repairs, and a sprayer tip-cap remover to save your fingers.

- By Dave Mowitz

Make a Wire Splicer out of a Bolt

Are you looking for a surefire way to tie off high-tensile wire but have run out of crimp loop sleeves or couplers? Or are they simply not doing the job?

Take a tip from farmer Ray Menke of Fort Madison, Iowa. He keeps several homemade wire splicers in the pickup and side by side for making quick fencing fixes.

Equipment and Tools

• Angle grinder equipped with cutoff disc

• Vise