Clipex anti-lift plate

[DorsetDear]

Hi,
I'm considering the clipper posts to use with sheep netting.
I liked the idea of moving the posts, but the anti-lift plate would make that very difficult apparently.
Are the Clipex post harder to remove than wooden stakes?
Clipex do the PASTURE post without the anti-lift plate BUT as I understand it that isn't compatible with sheep netting.
I don't know how the ECO Clipex post is different from the regular clipper post.
Can you somehow disable the anti-lift plate??

Do you HAVE to buy the special diver sleeve? It add a lot to the price of the whole project.
At first I would only be fencing 100 m. and slowly replacing Woden stake fences with Clipex as an when I needed to.

 

[David.]

I can't see it being a problem, surely it will just bend back on itself.
Regarding installing posts, they push in very easily with a loader no sleeve required.
Anything that drives by impacts, I'd have a sleeve personally so as not to distort the post top.
Putting posts into existing wire will be easier with a sleeve, because Clippex is if anything, too efficient at grabbing any horizontal wire that brushes against it. A length of suitable light tube for a sleeve would stop this, as well as giving a driving depth gauge. It is very bad to push the posts in a couple of inches too deep, because the wire will not then match up with the bottom clip.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

I don’t have any problem putting in clipex posts temporarily, and removing afterwards. You can usually wiggle them around a bit to get around what you’re calling the anti lift plate (presumably the barb on the back of the post?)
If you’re going to be using/lifting them a lot, I suppose you could either hammer the barb back in towards the post or angle grind it off.

 

[slackjawedyokel]

If you just bend that end bit in so it’s not a barb, it would be fairly ineffective.

 

[tepapa]

Eco posts usually fit standard hinges joint stock netting made by most manufacturers.
Clipex standard and beefy posts have clips that only fit x fence.

Yes you can pull them out again but it's easier with a tractor or something, obviously not as easy by hand.

No don't need sleeve but some form of cap to save distorting the top of the post, which can affect the top clip, is useful but not necessary.

 

[Bignor Farmer]

As above.

The posts pull out and reuse fine but I doubt you could pull many out by hand on our land. 2 people with a tractor/telehandler/digger and a chain will pull out 100m in a matter of minutes.

I have put up nearly 500m of temporary Clipex division fences for lambing this year. Standard posts, 5m spacing, netting only and timber strainers.
I will it all back up (except the strainers) in a few weeks time.

The quickest and easiest way to put the posts in is with a petrol knocker. I put in thousands with a 2 stroke eBay cheapy until I ran it over . I now have a Honda 4 stroke which definitely hits them in quicker but was 4 times the cost and is twice as heavy.
Only occasionally need to push one in with digger or post bumper.

I don’t use a sleeve, doesn’t seem to harm the posts much. Depth is easy to get right with a line wire.

I’ve seen farms put in hundreds of Clipex posts to repair old hinge joint wire and they only get 2 or 3 wires to line up and clip in. Looks a mess and a waste of money to me. Fine if the spacing works out.