High calibre workmanship exemplified at Best Practice Days
Palmerston attendees introduction
Hi all, from the top of the South. The South Island Best Practice Days were held in Southland and Otago with very good turnouts. It was great to have Simon Fuller demonstrating fencing techniques, footings, gate hanging on a slope and setting netting in hill country, in Southland. Considerations from a fencers point of view – thinking about the safety of getting onto the fence line and out again without any mishaps eg: tracks, weather conditions and thinking about how you are going to tackle the fence line, marking out etc. Spending time at the start results in a top fence line.
PARTNERS It is great having our Partners in attendance at these Best Practice Days. Gold Partners Waratah (Brendon Crequer) Stockade (Warren McSkimming, Mike Billinghurst & Scott McInnes) Gallagher (Lindsay Whyte & Simon Vontunzelman)
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Summit Steel & Wire (Tom Hill) Bayonet (Dean Ormond & Marcus White) Silver Partners Beattie Insulators (Ivan Beattie) Strainrite (Donald Cornwell) Bronze Partners Delfast (Pomare King) Kinghitter (Matt Cobb) Fence Pro (Toby Currie) There is a lot of time and effort goes into running these days and it’s great to meet our Partners first hand and talk about product and who to contact when needing materials and tools for the job at hand. They are only a phone call away and they need feedback on how good their products are. If there is a problem, they can’t fix it unless they know there is a problem. Its a two-way street and if you need product for a job give them plenty of warning, materials don’t just appear out of thin air.
It was great to have FCNZ Board Members attending Best Practice Days. Thank you Steve Mee for organising the venue in and time spent setting up the site in Benmore. Thanks to Phil Cornelius and Mike Renner for being part of the Palmerston day and networking with everyone.
PALMERSTON Thanks to Nick Terry and your amazing team of employees for setting up a great site that showcased all the different products from our Partners. From posts, Waratah fencing, stays, rabbit netting and strainers, Stockade, cleaning your tools and servicing to stapling the line, Bayonet deer fence on the finished line, Gallagher electrics all linked up and paralleled, Summit Steel & Wire Netting being run out with the new
netting machine, tied off, tensioned and stapled off, the Beattie range of insulators WIRED MAGAZINE
