Clipex Fencing

Wooly

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Romney Marsh
Can't figure out what strainers cost but if they were steep you could still use good old telephone poles for that and maybe bring cost per m down?

Exactly what I thought. A few decent telegrapgh poles as strainers and Clipex for the middle. Especially as it looks like you have to wrap the netting around the Clipex fence strainers to start.

Link for anyone interested :
http://www.mcveighparker.com/content/clipex-fence-solution
 

hillman

Member
Location
Wicklow Ireland
First I have heard about it looks a good idea only worry would be loss of galvanise between posts and wire ,leading to breakages :scratchhead:
As our climate isn't as dry as the Aussies , nice system do
 

Thick Farmer

Member
Location
West Wales
Mcveigh parker are saying it is 50% quicker to erect and is in the region of £3.06 metre (wire, barbed wire and posts), against £2.51 / metre for typical farm fence.

Materials cost for a typical farm fence are more like £1.80/m around here. The wooden posts account for around £0.80 of that.

It does look like a good idea though. We did some a while back just using angle iron as the stakes and it wasn't too bad.
 

Thick Farmer

Member
Location
West Wales
I get my wire direct from the manufacturer. You only have to buy a pallet load and it can save around £30 on a 100m roll of netting and about 12.50 a roll on the barbed wire. Staples are roughly half the price too.

I've included for strainers every 100m @ £6 each and struts £2.50 each. Round posts £1.50 each.
 

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Wha
I get my wire direct from the manufacturer. You only have to buy a pallet load and it can save around £30 on a 100m roll of netting and about 12.50 a roll on the barbed wire. Staples are roughly half the price too.

I've included for strainers every 100m @ £6 each and struts £2.50 each. Round posts £1.50 each.
What strainers are you using @Thick Farmer ? Is that tornado wire?
 

S J H

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Bedfordshire
Our timber comes from James Davis, but through our merchant, good timber, I only use 8' 7-8". I only tornado torus wire, it's more expensive, but better to work with. I can't buy it direct, as I don't want to be upsetting my local merchants nor do tornado, so I buy per pallet, at a rate I'm pleased with. I couldn't get anywhere near £1.80 per metre though.
 

Thick Farmer

Member
Location
West Wales
Our timber comes from James Davis, but through our merchant, good timber, I only use 8' 7-8". I only tornado torus wire, it's more expensive, but better to work with. I can't buy it direct, as I don't want to be upsetting my local merchants nor do tornado, so I buy per pallet, at a rate I'm pleased with. I couldn't get anywhere near £1.80 per metre though.

I'll get a price tomorrow - maybe we can do a deal!
 

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