Clipex - Fencing Tips

[Jerry]

Got a bit of fencing to do and tempted to try Clipex posts for a change. (Or the new offering from Mole Valley??)

Thinking about getting creosot strainers and maybe cut telegragh posts for any big bends knocked in by some one with a post basher.

And then clipex posts and wire by myself and at my leisure.

Any tips?

Not got much in he way of fencing tools other than a decent set of fence pliers and a manual wire puller.

I see there and some fancy wire tensioners and I will need stock net clamp.

 

[Willie adie]

Someone here knocked in the clipex posts with a man killer,
They put on barbed lines though rather than rylock

 

[Henarar]

I made a cap for for driving the clipex posts out of some round tube with a thick plate on the end and just tap them in with the sledgehammer

 

[Y Fan Wen]

Got a bit of fencing to do and tempted to try Clipex posts for a change. (Or the new offering from Mole Valley??)

Thinking about getting creosot strainers and maybe cut telegragh posts for any big bends knocked in by some one with a post basher.

And then clipex posts and wire by myself and at my leisure.

Any tips?

Not got much in he way of fencing tools other than a decent set of fence pliers and a manual wire puller.

I see there and some fancy wire tensioners and I will need stock net clamp.

Remember you have to put up and tension the wire between the strainers and corners 'before' you put the Clipex posts in.
I use a piece of plastic rainwater guttering between post and wire to stop the clips catching the strands.

 

[HarryB97]

Put your line wire and net in first then the posts and finally the top wire. I have a beefy post every second post. The beefy posts take some driving in but the standard posts go in with a few taps from a 300kg weight on a nocker. If you are in rocky ground then be careful as you will bend the standard posts or deform the top of them.

 

[Jerry]

What post spacing?

this is for sheep mainly, along side hedge.

 

[HarryB97]

What post spacing?

this is for sheep mainly, along side hedge.

I go 5 metres

 

[spin cycle]

What post spacing?

this is for sheep mainly, along side hedge.

depends on how tight you can get wire. . tighter then less posts

also wire quality.....mcveighs x knot you can pull up to 35m so tight it'll stand upright on it's own...I've gone 10m gap on occasion

and YES..it does keep my lot in..finally and despite my 'reputation"....and stopped a neighbours cows after they'd escaped a mile away after going thru two of their own

you can buy a 'sleeve' to go over the clipex posts and then I push them in with forklift to correct ht....I also tighten wire with straps/post/forklift

 

[Tamar]

What post spacing?

this is for sheep mainly, along side hedge.

I do 4m on a straight run with no hedges either side. That's for cattle and sheep, so you could easily do 6m.

Saw some in Australia that were 15-20m per post, for sheep only.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Put a few clipex in around the a small paddock and used barb wire .
This fits the small posts ,not the big ones

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[Blue.]

I use box type crash barrier for strainers and 75mm tube for turns,tension in the middle of a run using gripples.

Use a piece of tube with a cap when driving the posts,if you get a tube the right length it stops the netting from clipping into the post as you drive it,also a good guide for depth.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I plan to try clipex at some point, and when I do I will try and buy a petrol driven driver for the posts. Neighbour has one (or did anyway) in his workshop, said it wasn't any good for wood posts so was for sale.

 

[Lincs Lass]

I plan to try clipex at some point, and when I do I will try and buy a petrol driven driver for the posts. Neighbour has one (or did anyway) in his workshop, said it wasn't any good for wood posts so was for sale.

A pair of ear defenders ,itll rattle on steel posts

 

[Jerry]

Just priced up Creo posts on the McVeigh Parker web site vs Mole Valley Creo posts like for like.

There is a huge difference, MV at £6.70 per post vs McV P at £9.81 for 1650X90 posts.

Are the web prices on McV P real prices?

For the job I want to do the creo wood stakes work out at £1.7k inc wire with 3m spacing on posts.

MV's own steel stakes at 6m spacing comes to £1.3k but still with ceo strainers.

So if you consider the wood stakes would need a fair extra charge to bash in with a contractor the MV solution looks a lot cheaper.

 

[Henarar]

Just priced up Creo posts on the McVeigh Parker web site vs Mole Valley Creo posts like for like.

There is a huge difference, MV at £6.70 per post vs McV P at £9.81 for 1650X90 posts.

Are the web prices on McV P real prices?

For the job I want to do the creo wood stakes work out at £1.7k inc wire with 3m spacing on posts.

MV's own steel stakes at 6m spacing comes to £1.3k but still with ceo strainers.

So if you consider the wood stakes would need a fair extra charge to bash in with a contractor the MV solution looks a lot cheaper.

Did you price clipex from McV P

 

[Jerry]

Did you price clipex from McV P

No prices on the web so will have to call them next week

 

[spin cycle]

where are mvf metal posts listed?....never seen them

 

[tepapa]

Just priced up Creo posts on the McVeigh Parker web site vs Mole Valley Creo posts like for like.

There is a huge difference, MV at £6.70 per post vs McV P at £9.81 for 1650X90 posts.

Are the web prices on McV P real prices?

For the job I want to do the creo wood stakes work out at £1.7k inc wire with 3m spacing on posts.

MV's own steel stakes at 6m spacing comes to £1.3k but still with ceo strainers.

So if you consider the wood stakes would need a fair extra charge to bash in with a contractor the MV solution looks a lot cheaper.

Bit of an unfair comparison with creo posts at 3m and MV steel posts at 6m.

Do you think the steel posts are any stronger or better then the wooden ones to allow you to space them at twice the distance?

 

[Jerry]

Bit of an unfair comparison with creo posts at 3m and MV steel posts at 6m.

Do you think the steel posts are any stronger or better then the wooden ones to allow you to space them at twice the distance?

Just what they said....and have heard people go 6m with clipex along a hedge

 

[ARW]

Just priced up Creo posts on the McVeigh Parker web site vs Mole Valley Creo posts like for like.

There is a huge difference, MV at £6.70 per post vs McV P at £9.81 for 1650X90 posts.

Are the web prices on McV P real prices?

For the job I want to do the creo wood stakes work out at £1.7k inc wire with 3m spacing on posts.

MV's own steel stakes at 6m spacing comes to £1.3k but still with ceo strainers.

So if you consider the wood stakes would need a fair extra charge to bash in with a contractor the MV solution looks a lot cheaper.

Mcveigh’s creosote posts are actual creosote that burns your skin and will last
Mole valleys creosote posts are painted brown, it’s a tan oil treatment like tanalised but with oil.
It’s easy to get caught with this they say it’s creosote it’s actually creocote/tan oil but sold as creosote, it doesn’t burn your skin or contain tar, it’s cheaper and doesn’t penetrate the post as it’s not heated during treatment like creosote
You pay for what you get!
Never base mcveigh’s prices from their price on the internet it’s way off
From an experience 5 years ago mole valleys steel posts were some shite tin foil post that bent and twisted while you tried to knock it in, a crap copy of Clipex, I could be wrong on this as it was a while ago