I trying to fix my friendship…

What I want to know is how Applejack works those snips.
 
@TexasUberAlles  
She’s not using scraps, though, she’s got a roll of new fencing she’s cutting up. Actually, the scene would have done a better job of showing what it meant to if Rarity had replaced one section of fence and used the old piece to cut patches for a second.

@docarrol  
at no additional cost in time or material  
It… costs as much as a new section of fence; the whole point of using scraps to repair something is that the scraps are free and laying around anyway, so you don’t have to go and buy a whole new [whatever].

You’re trying to fix with the wrong gauge fence AJ.
 
To repair a hole in chicken wire you first cut about half the width of one of the “space holes” wider then the hole you are patching from the donner material (usually salvaged from an otherwise destroyed fence) in roughly the same shape. Make sure that as you cut that you do so as to leave pleanty of exposed ends and not to close to the holes. You next place the patch over the hole in a matching pattern and to fasten it use some pliers to wrap the loose ends on the patch around adjoining loops on the original fence in order to fasten the patch.
 
This is how to repair chicken wire because the price of that stuff adds up quick and is rather pricey.  
I just about freaked when Rarity through that section out but maybe it was just headed for the salvage/junk heap.
 
Edit:  
Oh, and it helps quite a lot if the patch is the same size hole size as the fence being repaired.

@docarrol  
Also, the time savings especially add up if their are multiple holes to patch in the same segment. Replacing the whole stretch at once fixes all of the holes (if there are more than once), at once, at no additional cost in time or material.

@Keith Mowz  
I think docarrol has a point, though. If it takes this much time to fix a tiny patch of fence, that time’s going to be missing from some other chore.
 
However, I am not a farmer. Take it with a grain of sugar.

@Blissey1  
>Florida  
I am so, so sorry. My condolences.

@TexasUberAlles  
its florida, it’s so hot and muggy they keel over as soon as they go outside.

@Blissey1  
don’t have those at the store I work at  
Good heavens, man– how are the schools in your area supposed to contain herds of toddlers? Barbed wire doesn’t work, they’ll just scale it!

@TexasUberAlles  
We defiantly don’t have those at the store I work at…
 
Ahh, Texas! That explains it.

Yeah, this one really shouldn’t have gotten exasperated looks. When you’re dealing with a farming family that has repeatedly had to have good selling seasons just to be able to afford stuff like medical care, of course they’re not going to just slap an entire new section of fence in there, they’re going to patch the hole.

OH MAH GAWD THIS IS SO TRUE IT PHYSICALLY HURTS, I HAVE LITERALLY DONE THIS EXACT THING ON THE RANCH THIS WEEK
 
@Blissey1  
I work at Lowe’s. this is literally how we fix the fences  

@cheezedoodle  
I work at Lowe’s. this is literally how we fix the fences around the garden department when thieves cut holes in them to steal stuff.

As the grandson of farmers, my grandparents were notorious penny-pinchers (I think everyone from the depression era was) and this is exactly how a fence would be fixed.

Trying to fix those fences you knocked over, Applejack? You silly pony.

Why can’t you just weld in a patched plate?!!

@gittonsxv  
Depends on the cost of new fence vs the cost of labor, or the cost of not being able to do other things when you’re spending so much time on that one task.
 
Plus, there’s the relative effectiveness of a patched fence - it’s more likely to break again around a patch, or need to be re-patched again sooner, or more likely to allow whatever it is to escape, compared to a whole new section, for example.

FENCES ARE INCREDIBLY COMPLICATED HELP

She’s like the kid that’s trying to fit the square peg through the round hole.

this scene is odd,  
why does she only have small wire left? Is it cost effective to redo a whole panel for a small hole?