Electric fence stakes

[marsh89]

Only use Rappa metal stakes here they don’t break and bend back if you run them over. Well worth the little bit extra in the long run .

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Only use Rappa metal stakes here they don’t break and bend back if you run them over. Well worth the little bit extra in the long run .

I find them great until some plonker starts loosening the bobbins and then the wires all end up on the floor.

 

[Al R]

All you folks buying cheap stakes, of various brands, does that mean you have mixed colours and types in a run?

I’m not sure my OCD could cope with that.

I run sets all the same, got green old style Rutland, green new style Rutland (for Rappa systems) old style Rutland blue posts, new style Rutland blue posts, white horse posts (given to me) and bought about 250 second hand whiteish/yellow/tobacco-stained coloured posts which look like they could be Rappa? Also have some odds and sods with yellow, orange, black which are the emergency set.

Bit of a case of buy a minimum of 50-100 of each type then you’ve got a set then

 

[cattleman123]

I like rutlands there easy too work with from the bike seat and if they break you don’t break your heart … if you buy 500 Rutland ones is £500… if you buy 500 rappa ones it’s £1000… you can break a lot of stakes for that price difference

Well all of them...it would seem

 

[cattleman123]

Only use Rappa metal stakes here they don’t break and bend back if you run them over. Well worth the little bit extra in the long run .

When you have 100s of acres to fence....god they are hard work

 

[marsh89]

When you have 100s of acres to fence....god they are hard work

Alot easier to get the wire of than the plastic ones

 

[Jerry]

Buy them at a collective sale……for more than they were new…

 

[yellowbelly]

I do like the hotline stakes. I’ll have too get on the phone on Monday. I don’t think they are worth twice the amount myself.

We've some early Hotline ones that have gone brittle with been exposed to sunlight, I suppose. If you bang them down on a hard surface they shatter into 2 or 3 bits

Said I would give the new black ones ago as they 'felt' to be made of a bit different stuff and Rappa were now twice the price.

 

[steveR]

If you want cheap you can buy 500 for £395 delivered on ebay
Don't know what they're like but 79 pence each

My experience, is that all the "cheapies" appear identical, and probably come out of the same Chinese factory....

 

[Skintagain]

matching electric fencing stakes crikey I had never even thought about it. Weirdos

 

[George from SJM Planning]

matching electric fencing stakes crikey I had never even thought about it. Weirdos

I must be weird then, I hate having different coloured posts in a single string. I try to keep each paddock of a single colour. I buy mine off ebay and they can't promise a particular colour so I buy enough to do a whole paddock.
There is a tack room full of odd coloured posts that only come out in an emergency - or on rented land where I can't see them!

 

[Skintagain]

I must be weird then, I hate having different coloured posts in a single string. I try to keep each paddock of a single colour. I buy mine off ebay and they can't promise a particular colour so I buy enough to do a whole paddock.
There is a tack room full of odd coloured posts that only come out in an emergency - or on rented land where I can't see them!

Sort yourself out man. I am all about Diversity

 

[Al R]

Sort yourself out man. I am all about Diversity

It’s a pain in the a$$ when they have different hole heights, far easier that their all the same height spacings I’ll put 1 in a line a different colour where the fencing unit is so it can be easily spotted

 

[Ffermer Bach]

Someone was telling me, they had a great cow, however, she learned to knock over the electric fence post (below the insulator) in the strip grazing. Therefore she was kept inside, as she was too good a cow to go, he told me in the end they bought fence posts with the insulator at the bottom, so the post was live and that stopped her, so she could go out and join the other cattle grazing.

 

[George from SJM Planning]

It’s a pain in the a$$ when they have different hole heights, far easier that their all the same height spacings I’ll put 1 in a line a different colour where the fencing unit is so it can be easily spotted

Thats a good idea!

 

[Al R]

Someone was telling me, they had a great cow, however, she learned to knock over the electric fence post (below the insulator) in the strip grazing. Therefore she was kept inside, as she was too good a cow to go, he told me in the end they bought fence posts with the insulator at the bottom, so the post was live and that stopped her, so she could go out and join the other cattle grazing.

Yeah I’ve heard of people on NZ systems that cows live on electric say the same thing

 

[Bald n Grumpy]

Had a cow here that would just walk under she'd flinch every time the fence kicked but kept going, tried clipping her back and wetting it before she went out made no difference.

 

[Grassman]

Cheapo posts are the work of the devil.
Too brittle. Too soft. Bad spacing of wires. Hooks that are a pain to get the wire out of.
Have mainly rappa or Rutland which are dearer but long term won't work out any dearer and a lot less hassle.
I have some Rutland ones I bought around 40 years ago and most still good. Just the spikes rusted away on some.

 

[steveR]

Had a cow here that would just walk under she'd flinch every time the fence kicked but kept going, tried clipping her back and wetting it before she went out made no difference.

Got some Welsh Mountain Ewe in her breeding.....

 

[neilo]

Someone was telling me, they had a great cow, however, she learned to knock over the electric fence post (below the insulator) in the strip grazing. Therefore she was kept inside, as she was too good a cow to go, he told me in the end they bought fence posts with the insulator at the bottom, so the post was live and that stopped her, so she could go out and join the other cattle grazing.

We had a few cows that learnt that over the years. And had a few (ancient) ‘live’ stakes that came out when retraining was required. Worked a treat.

The trick was to nip it in the bud before they taught any others to do it, just like lambs that learn to get through fencing.