Yall's turn to help me with a fence question....

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A few months ago, I asked this same question on another board and never did get a good answer.....

I know this is a small thing in the bigger scheme of things, but I gotta know..
I saw a video one time, of how they make Teepost clips and they come off the bend,stamp line in a pretty orderly fashion but that's not how they come to us in the buckets or bags.
Do the companies go around to the insane asylum halfway houses and vet specific people..looking for the most perversely sadist sonofagun they can find, awarding the job to the one that can tangle the dang things up the most in the shortest amt of time as they bag them up?
Is there some sort of federal law or rule that says that's the way they have to be bagged?
Do they get paid a bonus if random samples indicate it's impossible to get a single clip out without tearing the container open and dumping the whole wad of clips out on your tailgate?
Do they send them to specialized school to learn how to turn individual clips into a single wadded up tangled mass?
Does their QA guy reject the whole run of clips if he finds one bag you can get a single clip from all by itself?
I bought a bag of a hundred 5/0 treble fish hooks one time, the ones for dough bait with the springs on the shanks that weren't tangled up as bad a bag of teepost clips are.
 
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So after launching a special investigation into the ins and outs of the clip industry I have found that they are in league with the Illuminati and their ultimate goal is to keep everyone so busy with detangling these blasted things that we need longer have time to do special investigations into them anymore....

Seriously, I had the same question yesterday. I had 700ft of fencing to clip. Fortunately my wife came out and helped me by taking the clips out of the bags and handing them to me. I told her that the hardest part of putting clips on a fence wasn't aligning the fence if it was off a little or making sure the darn thing were secured nice and tight but that it was just getting the blasted things out of the bags!:barnie
 

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It is my understanding that bags of t-post clips are used as testing in anger management classes for the criminally insane. Nobody passes, don’t pass Go and nobody gets a get out of jail card.
 

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I've always been the one with patience and would sit and detangle fishing line by hand without cutting it and throwing it away, so I have dealt with them okay. However, being a prankster, I gave a pack to the SIL that is ADD cause he wanted to help me with the fence.....needless to say, after about 5-10 minutes he was chssing the bag and asked me if there was a secret in getting them out of the pkg just 1 at a time....I said yep....ya just have to hold your tongue right and they will just let go of each other....well, ya never seen a grown man twist his tongue in so many ways in your life....:lol: :gighe finally came to me and told me that he couldn't find the right position....I asked him how it felt to be playing with the adult version of a barrel full of monkeys?.....he still didn't get it, so I told him ya just gotta work them 1 at a time....he asked if there was something else he could help with....:)
 

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We just finished about 950' of fencing yesterday and I've discovered that if you hold on to one clip and shake it up and down most of the other clips will fall off it, making it easier to grab the one clip you need.
 

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