Clipex Fencing

joe soapy

Member
Location
devon
Yes to the drive all.
Contractor type tool much better.
Personally I pull up some of the slack with a monkey chain before starting with the gripples. If just using gripples it'll be feet not inches.

Think a lenth of weighted channel is better for hand driving stakes, saves a lot of lifting high up,,
There is a chart somewhere on distance per roll needs to be pulled for tension to be correct.... ie. if pulling 4 rolls to meet in middle, how big a gap to leave
 

Pilgrimmick

Member
Location
Argyll
@Mc V
Hi, yes as Clipex is made solely for us, but as you'll be aware it is an Australian invention, so is imported we have suffered on the exchange rate post Brexit around 15% plus the price of zinc has increased hugely. One of the main agricultural product manufacturers, IAE has had a similar prices increases because of the material costs, we are currently selling huge amounts and therefore have to re-stock at the increased prices.

We are aware Hampton's have increased all their other products by over 15% it may be so their prices are for their existing stock. You may wish to consider the Eco post which works with standard hinge joint stock fence as this is more comparable at 2.5mm to the Hampton post where as our standard post is 3mm and much stronger. There is also the issue that the Clipex post and Staplelok post aren't a like for like product but obviously if both are suitable for your fencing and terrain then price is of course an issue for you.
What is the latest strainer post like, the design seems to have changed a couple of times? How much are they, list price?
I still have some concerns, so will probably start out using a few eco posts to replace rotten stobs and see how they work on the stony ground here.
Have the issues with the knocker tops popping off been addressed?
 

Dave.tiv

New Member
Just having a read though the thread. For what’s its worth I have the deer fencing in this and wouldn’t recommend, many many issues. Any one remember what happened with concrete posts?! Sick to wood!
 

jellybean

Member
Location
N.Devon
Yes come on David, you need to give more details. I have my own reservations about Clipex but I am sure it has its place on the right ground. Having fenced 70 or so properties for deer I know for sure that many of them would have been impossible with Clipex due to the terrain. So we need to hear your experiences otherwise how can people make an informed choice.
 

tepapa

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
Clipex and Waratah fencing stakes. Times move on so wondering what you fencing contractors and your customers think of them.
The trouble with waratahs is that nobody imports them into the UK, good posts otherwise.
The problem with clipex is the farmer only see's the price of them and will ask for standard posts in some situations when they'd be better with beefy posts such as clay ground and high pressure areas with cattle.
 

HarryB97

Member
Mixed Farmer
Clipex and Waratah fencing stakes. Times move on so wondering what you fencing contractors and your customers think of them.
Love the Clipex system and X fence wire. I alternate standard and beefy posts on all my fences with there clip on insulators above which are great. The posts drive in better than wooden ones in normal soil and gravel and the beefy ones are probably equally as hard to drive in as a wooden posts which is surprising. It's also great just walking along and clipping the wire in rathen than spending hours stapling! I'm not sold on the strainers. I do use them but weld extra steel on the breast plates to double the size of them which definitely makes them a lot better. The most annoying thing is as you are tensioning the wire you have to keep going back to the strainers to make sure the wire has not slipped down the strainers as you can not hit a few staples in to hold it where you want it.
 

tepapa

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
Love the Clipex system and X fence wire. I alternate standard and beefy posts on all my fences with there clip on insulators above which are great. The posts drive in better than wooden ones in normal soil and gravel and the beefy ones are probably equally as hard to drive in as a wooden posts which is surprising. It's also great just walking along and clipping the wire in rathen than spending hours stapling! I'm not sold on the strainers. I do use them but weld extra steel on the breast plates to double the size of them which definitely makes them a lot better. The most annoying thing is as you are tensioning the wire you have to keep going back to the strainers to make sure the wire has not slipped down the strainers as you can not hit a few staples in to hold it where you want it.
Surely you'd just get a couple cheap g clamps to hold the wire at height 🤷
 

DrDunc

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Dunsyre
Surely you'd just get a couple cheap g clamps to hold the wire at height 🤷
Obvious after you've said it 🤣

Are the clipex strainers the way to go?

I'm using the stakes (even the odd beefy in soft ground! 😂), but setting creosote strainers and brace. Think they look far "nicer" than metal ends, but with the price difference getting less, will the creosote last for 4 decades?
 

Hilly

Member
Obvious after you've said it 🤣

Are the clipex strainers the way to go?

I'm using the stakes (even the odd beefy in soft ground! 😂), but setting creosote strainers and brace. Think they look far "nicer" than metal ends, but with the price difference getting less, will the creosote last for 4 decades?
No fancy using box barrier ?
 

ARW

Member
Location
Yorkshire
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we put miles of it, creosote strainers and struts
We set the strainers and pull the wire and barb in one go then knock the posts in last, clip and and we are done.
we also have a customer who slips fields with it so we can easily put it up and take it down, works great
 

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