We have lots of wire netting around various areas of our smallholding, fruit cages, chicken runs, etc.
A while ago I discovered 'hog clips' (do a search if you've not come across them before) and they have saved me a lot of time and cursing when joining wire netting and clipping it to support wires and so on.
However I am always trying to make my life a bit easier and I wondered if anyone here has experience with any of the types of hog clip pliers that take a strip of hog clips and feed them automatically as you use them.
I have a pair like these:-
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and they are essentially useless for me as in most cases I'm trying to clip two adjacent strips of netting together and you can't get the working end of the pliers in place between the two strips to place a clip. They're fine if all you want to do is hang a strip of netting from a support wire.
Thus, what I use nearly all the time is a pair of pliers like these:-
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that mine have a spring that gently pushes the jaws together so that the pliers retain a clip when it's inserted. Thus it's very easy to poke the 'nose'of the pliers between two strips of netting and clip them together. However on does have to load each hog ring individually (and carry a supply with you as you work) so automatic feed would make life easier.
So, I was woondering if any of the other styles of automatic feed hog ring pliers would work better for me. In particular this style:-
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look as if they might be better than the ones I have but it's not very clear, the video in particular is pretty useless for seeing them in a real situation.
Does anyone have any experience and/or recommendations?