- Location
- Montgomeryshire
There's plenty of folk would be glad of the fence that's sat behind it....
Clipex Fencing
- Thread starter SilliamWhale
- Start date
There's plenty of folk would be glad of the fence that's sat behind it....
i also put that one there a long time ago,someones garden so belt and braces.....
Many years ago my father put up a lot of five strand electric fences (over forty years ago
)It was a task all summer to keep the grass off the bottom powered wires.
Eventually we disconnected the bottom ones, but the ruddy sheep would then escape, though perhaps the wires weren't as tight it looks like you've got them.
Ours ended up with a half net added to the bottom, leaving just the top two wires hot.
They've all been replaced with a full net and single top electric now.
No need for the bottom strand on the ground , the Clipex posts with the bottom strand with no insulators will be the best earth you could ever have . Don't waste a wire on the ground .
yes, i know what you mean we have had mixed results with electric for sheep, 2 wire to start with then 3...etc...they soon seem to know when there is a 'power' problem with it.Many years ago my father put up a lot of five strand electric fences (over forty years ago
It was a task all summer to keep the grass off the bottom powered wires.
Eventually we disconnected the bottom ones, but the ruddy sheep would then escape, though perhaps the wires weren't as tight it looks like you've got them.
Ours ended up with a half net added to the bottom, leaving just the top two wires hot.
They've all been replaced with a full net and single top electric now.
bigger energiser is what i will get one day more than the 6 k volts and 4 joules that i have currently, no pun intended.
Y Fan Wen
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- Location
- N W Snowdonia
Yes, you've got an earth every few metres.
yes could keep the bottom wire 'out of the ground' save it rusting - but i did it to see what it would tighten like against the metal as it was driven into the ground .
the wire above ground will need a nut /bolt /washers or some type of clamp on each post to keep good wire metal to post metal contact.also the best earth stake would go into 12months of the year wet ground and im not sure how clipe would cope with that....
the wire above ground will need a nut /bolt /washers or some type of clamp on each post to keep good wire metal to post metal contact.also the best earth stake would go into 12months of the year wet ground and im not sure how clipe would cope with that....
Just a thought, but why do you need an earth wire?
I've over ten miles of rylock fence with a single permanent electric top wire. All the net is stapled to wood posts which are pretty good insulators (especially on the two days a years that they're dry
).I used the post knocker to drive two twelve foot galvanised pipes into a boggy bit near the energiser, which are connected together to the earth terminal (it's also about the only place on the farm that's not into rock after a couple of feet).
These two bits of pipe work perfectly as the earth.
Coximus
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I've found that as long as the power level is high enough they dont short on vegitation as it should burn off, but any electric that is shorting seems to attract escape minded sheep
i forgot to say that what the photo shows is the start of the electric fence, a short 50 metre run down one side of an orchard - just out of shot is the shed with the energiser in, that bottom wire is actually the only earth for the system atm.Just a thought, but why do you need an earth wire?
I've over ten miles of rylock fence with a single permanent electric top wire. All the net is stapled to wood posts which are pretty good insulators (especially on the two days a years that they're dry
I used the post knocker to drive two twelve foot galvanised pipes into a boggy bit near the energiser, which are connected together to the earth terminal (it's also about the only place on the farm that's not into rock after a couple of feet).
These two bits of pipe work perfectly as the earth.
nothing much shows on the voltmeter so it must be good enough.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I'd get shot if I left that much ground.
trimmer head will just fit down there
if i'm careful - easier to stop shorts on leccie and someone else's garden so glypho use a bit restricted.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
trimmer head will just fit down there
I'm pricing a job at the moment, the chap wants electric, but doesn't want to lose any ground,
I'm thinking of going tight, then the hedge will take over the fence and they'll be 4 strands in the hedge.
You just do what he wants and get paid , advise him and then do the job , I had the same lastyear , a farmer with twisty ditches wanted every inch field side , it's very hard to tighten a twisty fence but I put in plenty of extra turmer posts and charged him for them .I'm pricing a job at the moment, the chap wants electric, but doesn't want to lose any ground,
I'm thinking of going tight, then the hedge will take over the fence and they'll be 4 strands in the hedge.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Have you put up any Clipex yet .I'm even toying with the idea of using clipex @james ds
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Not much, only where I couldn't get the driver, or repairs. Not many people have asked tbh. Doing a fair bit more Creo now.
I spoke to mark in fence and forget , 40 yr warranty , what do you think , they seem good value
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I spoke to them the other day because my usual supplier has run out. How much should I roughly be paying for 500 standards?