Show us your fencing!!

doobin · September 30, 2014

A few pics of todays little job, 150m with two gates on some MOD ground

That wanky top strut for the box really spoils an otherwise excellent job.

spikeymikey · September 30, 2014

Thanks Doobin! I had to use what the mod supplied, I was expecting chesnut for the whole job but it was all softwood apart from the struts, which were fresh out of their woods.

Aaron · October 7, 2014

teepeeat · October 7, 2014

Just wondering if anybody has used the Clipex fencing system

Clipex Fence Solution | McVeigh Parker

Got about 150m of fence to replace with no machinery access and the slope is very steep so got to hump the gear in and do the job manually.

Clipex seems to tick the boxes as far as ease of installation and also seems relatively easy to move it at a later date which is a definite posibility in 3 or 4 years time.

Grateful for thoughts on Clipex or suggestions for an alternative approach to the job.

spikeymikey · October 8, 2014

Its very good, very condensed material wise compared to using timber and very easy to go up. whether its that much quicker than conventional stock fencing in good conditions im not sure. You don't need many tools and as long as you can drive the strainers in the inters are easy. You will need a gripple tool though and I would specify the g-pac 4mm and not the 3mm that they come with as due to the way the strainers work there is a lot of pressure on them and I have had a couple break. I mentioned this to McVeigh advising they weren't man enough. Price wise its very comparible with hc4 timber but gets expensive when you have a lot of direction changes and need a lot of strainers (nearly £70 for a two way strainer). They say that the beefy posts are good enough for direction changes up to 30 degress but they are not and the fence will pull them in! I have found that gently curving the lines works better and spreading the bend across a few posts, not something I would do normally though. Try some and see how you get on!