The Fencing Picture Thread

ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
how do you knock in clipex fencing posts? they look awkward to get in straight being so thin?

did you use there strainers?

and how does it work price wise to standard wood post?

tia
We push them in with the knocker or sledge hammer, or lump hammer.
We usually use creosote strainers or redwood.
It’s more expensive a metre but they will last longer and it’s less labour
 

DrDunc

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
how do you knock in clipex fencing posts? they look awkward to get in straight being so thin?

did you use there strainers?

and how does it work price wise to standard wood post?

tia
I knocked them in with a £30 clipex man killer (15kg)
mankiller bubble.jpg


Araldited the level bubble on and was getting the posts pretty square.

Also used creosoted redwood for strainers.

Per 20m stretch stabs (wooden posts 3"x3" square 5'6" class 4 kiln dried and pressure treated at 10 foot spacing) is 7 of @ £3.53ea = £24 .64

For 20m clipex, 4 standard and 1 "beefy" stake,4x£5.20 + £7.70=£28.50

Wire is the same if you use the X form net and 2 plain. You could save £3 per 20m using cheaper net.

Clipex insulators aren't cheap @60p each, but seen like they'll last, but that's another £3 per 20m if the hence has a top hotwire.

All in then, wood about 50p per meter dearer for an electric top wire fence. (Wood £24.64 per 20m, clipex £34.50 per 20m plus wire plus strainers).

Clipex far quicker to put up. Pull net abs plain wire to middle, the X form net will stand up.

Then put in stakes. Don't put then in before pulling up wire or the net will chop onto the wrong position when it stands up.

Class 4 treated wood should be good for 15+ years.

Clipex should be good for 30+ years, but it does look awful compared to wood:D
 

nb844

Member
The only time I’ve seen clipex is when I was asked to put in telegraph pole strainers and pull up the wire so the customer could put clipex in himself. Was all fun and games pushing them in with the loader until we did a stretch by a wood and they spring off in all directions and you can’t get them back without bending them!

Can buy proper creo posts for less than clipex so that’s the route I normally take
 

Mouser

Member
Location
near Belfast
I knocked them in with a £30 clipex man killer (15kg)
View attachment 774394

Araldited the level bubble on and was getting the posts pretty square.

Also used creosoted redwood for strainers.

Per 20m stretch stabs (wooden posts 3"x3" square 5'6" class 4 kiln dried and pressure treated at 10 foot spacing) is 7 of @ £3.53ea = £24 .64

For 20m clipex, 4 standard and 1 "beefy" stake,4x£5.20 + £7.70=£28.50

Wire is the same if you use the X form net and 2 plain. You could save £3 per 20m using cheaper net.

Clipex insulators aren't cheap @60p each, but seen like they'll last, but that's another £3 per 20m if the hence has a top hotwire.

All in then, wood about 50p per meter dearer for an electric top wire fence. (Wood £24.64 per 20m, clipex £34.50 per 20m plus wire plus strainers).

Clipex far quicker to put up. Pull net abs plain wire to middle, the X form net will stand up.

Then put in stakes. Don't put then in before pulling up wire or the net will chop onto the wrong position when it stands up.

Class 4 treated wood should be good for 15+ years.

Clipex should be good for 30+ years, but it does look awful compared to wood:D
Why do you need more wooden posts than clipex for same wire and distance?
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
Why do you need more wooden posts than clipex for same wire and distance?
Wooden posts are in ground about 16 inches, clipex must be nearer 22 inch. Presumably being deeper they won't get bent over as much by cattle when the barsteward electric goes off?

My concern was hitting stone on my shallow soil land, but the metal stakes seemed to shatter the sand stone quite easily.
 

Mouser

Member
Location
near Belfast
Wooden posts are in ground about 16 inches, clipex must be nearer 22 inch. Presumably being deeper they won't get bent over as much by cattle when the barsteward electric goes off?

My concern was hitting stone on my shallow soil land, but the metal stakes seemed to shatter the sand stone quite easily.
So using 6' wooden posts then less will do.
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
So using 6' wooden posts then less will do.
If you've ground that'll take then, then go for it

Are they creosoted posts? Don't see how saving a few pence a meter in materials now is a saving over the life of the fence if the fence lasts double the lifetime for those few pence?
 

Mouser

Member
Location
near Belfast
If you've ground that'll take then, then go for it

Are they creosoted posts? Don't see how saving a few pence a meter in materials now is a saving over the life of the fence if the fence lasts double the lifetime for those few pence?
Was just wondering why you calculated for different numbers of posts that's all. Some on here are great at adjusting numbers slightly to make their point look better.
If I was fencing it would be creo posts and bt poles simply because I don't like the look of clipex.
 

Greenbeast

Member
Location
East Sussex
No pictures from me recently but thought it was a good place for questions.

Strut strainer or box strainer?

Always shied away from box becuase it looked a faff, but after watching a recent video on the method i'm now thinking it may be easier overall. Because the tractor can knock in the second big post and i haven't got to dig in a strut.

Thoughts?

Also, i've been tying my latest fence because i can't afford gripples right now, i'm getting better but how does one tie pig netting, the video guide i watched he was doing individual stranded wires with plenty of gap between, when you get down to the bottom two gaps on pig netting it's bloody tight for space!
 

tepapa

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
Also, i've been tying my latest fence because i can't afford gripples right now, i'm getting better but how does one tie pig netting, the video guide i watched he was doing individual stranded wires with plenty of gap between, when you get down to the bottom two gaps on pig netting it's bloody tight for space!
Practice
 

ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
I like a box strut but only do them with two strainer posts ifs soft ground or a bad angle for a normal strut, they are easy but I like to use a gripple in the wire and get it very tight so it nearly pushes the strainers back
 

nb844

Member
There’s no one answer to which strainer to use, it’s all about what’s appropriate for the job. Very often I’ll end up using angle, box and turkey perch on the same job, it’s all about the ground conditions.

As for tying off, it’s all practice
 

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