The invention belongs to the technical field of chain-link fence machines, and particularly relates to a single-needle machine of chain-link fences which comprises an underframe, a driving mechanism,a main transmission mechanism, a mesh knitting mechanism and a turnover plate mechanism; the mesh knitting mechanism is slidably connected to the underframe and can reciprocate relative to the underframe; the mesh knitting mechanism comprises a knitting frame, a plurality of positioning needles, a rotating shaft and a first auxiliary transmission mechanism, the plurality of positioning needles arefixed on a fixing bar fixed on the knitting frame, each positioning needle is connected with the rotating shaft through a rope, the rotating shaft is rotatably connected to the knitting frame and isconnected with the driving mechanism through the first auxiliary transmission mechanism, and the rotating shaft is driven to rotate; original collision type transmission of the positioning needles ischanged into rope transmission, so that noise is reduced, components can be protected to a great extent, and the service life of each positioning needle is prolonged; the rebound speed of the positioning needles is greatly also increased by adopting the rope transmission, and therefore, one positioning needle can be used for replacing the original two positioning needles.