Hog Rings,heavy wire staples used to ring hog snouts to keep them from rooting. This is not the application I have in mind.

I use them all the time instead of tie wire, baling wire etc. I hook stock panels together, patch in fence in low spots, close feed bags, there are many uses around our ranch. I keep a few and the pliers in the tool box on the tractor, some in the work truck. I have a couple of places where the Coyotes have been coming through my barbed wire fence, I drove in 3/8 re-bar and tied it off with shoat rings. Around our garden & orchard we have 6' fence on 12' centered posts, when the fence got a little baggy on top, I ran some #14 wire along the top and tied it off with rings. My bush hog has a chain skirt, front and back to slow down the stones and such, I wanted to add a piece of tractor inner-tube to them, the rings will punture about anything, so I tacked the tube strips on the chains with hog rings.

These rings come,(in my area) in 3 sizes, Shoats, Pigs & Hogs, you can get them in feed stores, the,(special) pliers are about $3.00-$5.00 a pair.

-- Hendo (OR) (redgate@echoweb.net), January 08, 2001

Answers

Talked to a guy several years back. He mentioned his father drove an axe head into his leg while chopping wood. To hold it together until they could get him into the doctor, he secured the wound with hog rings.

-- Ken S. in WC TN (scharabo@aol.com), January 09, 2001.