Rope, wire and rigging for farms, orchards and tunnels
Practical, cost-effective rigging and tensioning hardware for trellising, fencing, tunnels and general agricultural use.
Wire, rope and rigging for the Garden Route's farms
Agriculture in the Garden Route covers a lot of ground – apple and pear orchards across the Langkloof, vineyards through Robertson and Stellenbosch into the Klein Karoo, dairy and stock operations along the coast, blueberry and stone-fruit polytunnels in pockets either side of the N2, and the year-round cropping that feeds Mossel Bay's processors. The lifting and rigging vocabulary that fits this work is different from offshore or industrial supply: cost-effective tensioning wire by the spool, short-link chain for gate and infrastructure rigging, polypropylene and polysteel rope for everyday tie-off, and the trellis fittings and turnbuckles that hold a vineyard or an orchard in its training shape for a decade.
From orchard trellis to polytunnel construction
Polytunnel construction is one of the steadier callouts – galvanised pipe clamps, tunnel chain, ridge wires and tensioning hardware kept in stock for the seasonal expansion and replacement work that runs through autumn. Where a farm operation includes a lifting machine – a telehandler, a winch on a tractor, a fixed hoist over a sorting bay or a feed-lot – the same load-test, inspection and re-certification regime that applies to industrial lifting applies under the South African Driven Machinery Regulations, and the Afrishore on-site test crew handles those callouts on the same Garden Route rotation that delivers stocked supply.
Practical pricing for production agriculture
Pricing for agricultural supply is built around the reality that margins on production are tight. The stocked range leans on cost-effective, fit-for-purpose gear rather than over-specified industrial gear – fibre-core wire rope where IWRC is overkill, polysteel where Dyneema is overspecified, Grade 80 chain rather than Grade 100 where the load profile doesn't justify the step up. Custom rigging quotes for irrigation rigging, dam-and-borehole work or specialised orchard installation are handled the same way as the industrial enquiries: send the spec, get a price and a lead time, collect from Mossel Bay or have it delivered the same week into the Garden Route farming belt.
Chains
- Grade 80 chain
- 3 mm tunnel chain
Steel Wire Rope
Rope & Twine
- Fibre ropes
- Trellis twine
Tools & Fittings
- Cutters
- Crimpers
- Wire joiners
- Ground anchors
Agriculture lifting equipment, stocked in Mossel Bay.
Stocked at 60 Bland Street, Mossel Bay, and supplied across the Garden Route – George, Knysna, Plettenberg Bay and Oudtshoorn – with on-site delivery and load-testing available within a 150 km radius. Same-week dispatch on standard items; sized, terminated and certified to order for project-grade agriculture rigs.
Need a quote for agriculture?
Send the spec – we'll come back with a certified, cost-effective solution.