User's Manual

Ingal Civil Products
page 7
Release 002
Flexfence
For fences greater than 600m
1. Attach safety check ropes and machine swage cables at
leading or high-end anchor and attach to anchor bracket.
2. At 1st tension bay, install the hydraulic tensioning unit
between a clamp on the 1st cable and the bottom of a
post located 5m away. Pretension the cable to 800kg
and clamp off to a post.
3. Repeat process for each cable. Clamp off each cable to a
different post.
4. Cut cables on un-tensioned side of clamps and machine
swage fi ttings. Assemble tension fi ttings.
5. Relocate to 2nd tension bay and repeat above process.
Continue until all tension bays are completed.
6. At other anchor, pretension cables, clamp off to a post,
attach safety check ropes and machine swage fi ttings.
7. Once cables are attached at anchor bracket, relocate to
the centre tension bay.
8. Attach the tensioning rig and tension in accordance with
Table 2 from the bottom up.
9. Relocate from the centre bay outwards repeating tension
process.
10. Once complete, relocate to centre bay and repeat
tensioning in this bay only.
Table 2:Tension Requirements
Ambient Temperature Tension Force Required Hydrapac Gauge
(Degrees C) (kg) (Bar)
-10 2600 265
-5 2450 250
0 2300 235
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