About Us
Jamie Stenhouse has been involved in agriculture & agribusiness since 1985.
Hawkeye Fencing was established in 2002 when Jamie and his wife Tina moved to Tamborine in the Gold Coast Hinterland QLD. The business focused on residential and acreage fencing which regularly involved the use of prefabricated wire and also chain wire. In 2006 a job involved fencing a horse property with imported Equimesh wire from the USA. These rolls were around the 160kg mark and rather than roll the wire out on the ground Jamie devised a lifting apparatus that fitted onto a fork lift enabling the wire to roll out in a vertical position. This machine was slowly developed further until in 2010 the machine (Ezywire) was patented and commercial development pursued. The fencing business was growing and going well.
Getting a new product to market is very expensive and difficult never the less during this time Ezywire was a finalist in the Australian Innovation challenge in 2012 and 2013. Ezywire also won the Agquip Farm Inventor competition sponsored by The Land newspaper in 2012. A lot of encouragement from fencing contractors and primary producers has helped to spur them on.
Jamie Stenhouse has been involved in agriculture & agribusiness since 1985.
Hawkeye Fencing was established in 2002 when Jamie and his wife Tina moved to Tamborine in the Gold Coast Hinterland QLD. The business focused on residential and acreage fencing which regularly involved the use of prefabricated wire and also chain wire. In 2006 a job involved fencing a horse property with imported Equimesh wire from the USA. These rolls were around the 160kg mark and rather than roll the wire out on the ground Jamie devised a lifting apparatus that fitted onto a fork lift enabling the wire to roll out in a vertical position. This machine was slowly developed further until in 2010 the machine (Ezywire) was patented and commercial development pursued. The fencing business was growing and going well.
Getting a new product to market is very expensive and difficult never the less during this time Ezywire was a finalist in the Australian Innovation challenge in 2012 and 2013. Ezywire also won the Agquip Farm Inventor competition sponsored by The Land newspaper in 2012. A lot of encouragement from fencing contractors and primary producers has helped to spur them on.