Clipex Fencing

[David.]

Looks a good idea in theory, but I can see it going walkies as it looks easy to remove!

Not convinced yet. You only put a fence up once, so may as well do it properly.

What I thought 6yrs ago, 4-5" posts etc, buggers are going rotten now
Galvanised might just be the way.

 

[sherg]

What I thought 6yrs ago, 4-5" posts etc, buggers are going rotten now
Galvanised might just be the way.

someone else in the same boat as me its disgraceful

 

[Sheepfog]

What I thought 6yrs ago, 4-5" posts etc, buggers are going rotten now
Galvanised might just be the way.

I know what you mean. The supplier I get posts from guarantee them for 15 years. Not sure how it works though if they rot within that time, as I've not heard of anyone having to yet. Be interesting to see what happens if anyone does get problems in the future

 

[neilo]

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.

They'd be the 4 yr posts then? I think McVP's comparison was against their 15 yr posts.

Interesting about the wire, but then I'd already be paying a lot less than £110/roll that is quoted in another post.

 

[hillman]

It's €110 euros knock off vat back to mid nineties convert to sterling around 80 pound how does that compare?

 

[neilo]

It's €110 euros knock off vat back to mid nineties convert to sterling around 80 pound how does that compare?

That's more like it.

 

[exmoor dave]

What I thought 6yrs ago, 4-5" posts etc, buggers are going rotten now
Galvanised might just be the way.

our landlords did the same, used 4-5" posts in the hope they would last longer next to the sea. all rotted off now! after not many years!

silly buggers, pulled out a concrete post fence first thou, that had stood for 60yrs, and replaced with wooden posts.
luckily the concrete posts were pulled out carefully and stacked near the new fence, which having rotted off, we are going to be paid a nice little earner under our own HLS agreement to put the concrete posts back in! (which i can do with the post basher's rock spike and my attachment)

 

[SilliamWhale]

It seems if the clipex was a little bit cheaper it would be viable and better?

Certainly if you could do a lot more in a day it looks attractive.

 

[SilliamWhale]

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.

Galv or not?

how did you attach the netting?

 

[Woolless]

Looks pretty easy to put up and it would be fairly easy to take down and move as well. So could perhaps be used as semi-permanent fencing? For instance, a two-year grass ley in an arable rotation could be fenced using that, rather than electric fencing. Two years later move it to the next block.

Feasible?

 

[SilliamWhale]

Looks pretty easy to put up and it would be fairly easy to take down and move as well. So could perhaps be used as semi-permanent fencing? For instance, a two-year grass ley in an arable rotation could be fenced using that, rather than electric fencing. Two years later move it to the next block.

Feasible?

Not for me. Would rather go electric for that.

 

[neilo]

our landlords did the same, used 4-5" posts in the hope they would last longer next to the sea. all rotted off now! after not many years!

silly buggers, pulled out a concrete post fence first thou, that had stood for 60yrs, and replaced with wooden posts.
luckily the concrete posts were pulled out carefully and stacked near the new fence, which having rotted off, we are going to be paid a nice little earner under our own HLS agreement to put the concrete posts back in! (which i can do with the post basher's rock spike and my attachment)

We had a railway line through the farm in Glos. Network Rail paid a contractor to put stock netting + 4 barbs on new tanalised posts a few years ago. To do so, they pulled out all the sound 6" square creosoted posts that had been there for at least half a century. When I queried it, they told me the job would be inspected and, if they'd left any old posts in at all, they wouldn't be paid. What nonsense.

 

[Filthyfarmer]

Still would like to know the reasoning behind banning the arsenic treated ones?
Answers probably in it's name.......

15yrs is still not long enough for the class 4 ones and Mcveigh Parker only say it's a "desired" life....

Creosote looks a winner even at double the price........ Or galv maybe

 

[exmoor dave]

We had a railway line through the farm in Glos. Network Rail paid a contractor to put stock netting + 4 barbs on new tanalised posts a few years ago. To do so, they pulled out all the sound 6" square creosoted posts that had been there for at least half a century. When I queried it, they told me the job would be inspected and, if they'd left any old posts in at all, they wouldn't be paid. What nonsense.

here, the contractors doing the job on behalf of the landords said they "didn't like fencing on concrete posts cause its too fiddly".........FFS just screw a 4ft piece of half round rail on the post and staple wire on as normal!
the posts even have the holes already there for the screws to do thro!
still it will be a nice earner for me

 

[Thick Farmer]

Galv or not?

how did you attach the netting?

Galv. The angle had a lot of holes in it (it was the rails from a security fence we took down) so we wired the netting to the posts.

 

[JohnGalway]

I can see the tag line for here...

"Simple to steal, look out, pull up, and GONE"

Too easy to remove I reckon.

 

[Blue.]

I can see the tag line for here...

"Simple to steal, look out, pull up, and GONE"

Too easy to remove I reckon.

Put some 30000 volt signs on it?

 

[JohnGalway]

Put some 30000 volt signs on it?

They're not that dumb, more's the pity... actually more's the pity I don't have 30000volts to run through it

 

[Andy26]

They had it on their stand at Lamma, will give it a closer look tomorrow.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

They had it on their stand at Lamma, will give it a closer look tomorrow.

Saw it today. Impressive.