GallagherElectric Fence Reel | Durable and Easy-to-Use Reel for Polywire, Polyrope, and Electric Fence Tape | Set up Pastures, Paddocks for Grazing

Excellent durability. While other brands have fallen apart, these Gallagher reels keep working.

This is a good quality reel for the price. I have 20 acres of pasture split into 5 acre paddocks with permanent fencing. I've been using turbowire with this reel to further split the paddocks. during grazing season. The reel operates smoothly and feels well-built. I'm happy with it so far.

I'm using this reel and turbo braid electric fencing to limit graze my cattle on rye grass and clover. It makes work really easy. I can pen my cattle or change the amount of acreage they have in no time. I am taking out a lot of my permanent cross fencing now that I have this.

Cannot buy a medium geared reel for under $90 so I went this route. My comments about the Gallagher version: the plastic reel lock does work well, but I am afraid a run away cow will break it as it appears to be made of a brittle plastic. I prefer the metal locking bars for reels. They are also faster to engage and easier to disengage than Gallagher's plastic version which uses a decent to disengage.The reel mechanism is smooth and works well. One feature I really like which is unique to Gallagher is that you can hook the reel to something and then lock it. Absolutely love that feature as my rambunctious cows cannot knock it off the fence, they can only smack it. The slight downside is if it's a deer that gets Tangled in the fence and then panics, you have a big mess on your hands and/or a broken, expensive geared reel.I intensive graze and will never buy a non-geared reel again. This Gallagher is roughly equivalent with all other medium geared reels I have encountered (Stafix, O'Brien, etc) with the one slight advantage of the locking hook, but a detraction in the clumsy and plastic reel lock. I'd buy it again in a pinch but there are other options for $10 less but don't have Amazon shipping.Also, the hook they give you doesn't give you the option to energize the fence without a jumper wire. I threw the hook away and bought one that gives you the option to either insulate the hook or energize the fence. Saves a lot of time (and money as those jumpers aren't cheap.)

I do rotational grazing with cattle, and have several of these fence reels. They are much, much better than the cheaper economy fence reel Gallagher also sells. I also got one of those to try, and only use it if all of my good geared versions are in use. (And I curse it every time I have to use it!).These geared reels are easy to use and have held up very well for 3 years so far on the oldest ones I have. They're a little pricey, but well worth the extra initial investment.I use them with Gallagher's Turbo Wire, and am pleased with the combination.

I have two of these and have used them for years to move poly fence daily. Durable, easy to use, better than any other reel that I have tried, will be ordering more as our operation expands.

I have tried cheaper brand geared reels but the quality just doesn't compare to Gallagher. I will buy these from now on.

our 7th purchase. rotational grazing at its best. get the orange top gallagher posts also. worth 3.15 you pay.

It works as expected, and I trust (and hope) it will work for many years.