What Are Droppers?
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You might think that droppers are people with butter fingers who keep dropping stuff, or perhaps that they are birds that fly over and drop guano on the heads of people below. Well, neither of these suppositions is correct. In fact, droppers are strips made of wood, metal or plastic that are used to construct fences. Who would have guessed? Well, people who construct fences obviously know all about droppers even though I only learned of their existence recently.
A dropper is also called a 'batten' or a 'stay', which to my mind are equally vague terms for describing them but that's just my opinion. Droppers are commonly bent into a V-shape and come in a variety of lengths which you can buy in standard, pre-cut lengths or you can get them cut according to your individual specifications. You will need a fixing tool to help you to attach them as they are fixed to the fence with clips. Droppers are most often used in farm fencing to keep livestock within farm perimeters and can be galvanized to prevent weathering if they are made of steel or specially treated if they are made of wood. For electrified fences, it is best to use droppers that are designed to be used on this type of fence. Wooden fence droppers are the most eco-friendly since wood, unlike metal, is biodegradable. If you have a large fenced area and will need lots of wooden droppers, then it is best to get the pre-treated ones or you will be busy with the creosote until harvest time.
Anyone not accustomed to the structuring of fences (that's me) may be forgiven for enquiring as to the exact reason for employing this unassuming device with the strange moniker. In fact, there are two main reasons why droppers are used on fences. Firstly, they can take the place of fence posts and are much cheaper than fence posts. Droppers are also good for spacing fence wires and holding them in place. The second main purpose of droppers is to strengthen a fence and add to its flexibility, and the V-shape helps with this. Farmers will be pleased to know that droppers can help protect their fences from boisterous livestock as they take pressure off the individual wires and spread it throughout all the wires. The aim is to protect the fence as well as the livestock and a fence with a lot of tensile strength can help prevent animal injuries (unless it is a barbed wire fence) and absorb a lot of pressure without breaking. It is easier for a sprightly heifer to snap one wire in a fence and take off through the resulting gap than to break through a whole row of them, so fence droppers are pretty nifty doodads to have. Droppers are essential where there are wide spaces between fence posts. Livestock, the wily critters, can spread the horizontal fence wires and step through. Furthermore, droppers help to make fences more visible to members of the bovine persuasion.
Hopefully, this explanation of the nature and purpose of droppers will assist you if you are planning on entering the farming business and will need to put up a bunch of fences.
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