Concrete posts?

foxylock

Does anyone here use concrete posts for fencing? I have about 300 metres of fencing to do shortly and I'm thinking if the price difference wasn't too great the concrete option would be more permanent and maybe more economical in the long term. I would do the labour myself so would save there. It's a sheep fence and I reckon about 5 Euro a metre would get me good quality stakes and high tensile wire, but I can't help thinking concrete, concrete, concrete........

Bizzum

If they were good enough for the Land Commission, they're good enough for me!
5' concrete posts without bedding in concrete can come loose. 6' will hold tight in good ground.
You'll be warm driving them with a sledge:D

blue5000

Hi foxy you should be able to get old slats to do the job either v cheap or free. I know one lad who replaced slats, and buried the old ones. Insulation might be a problem , but an egg should be ok about 2 foot out, and use a ratchet to strain the wire.

MickeyShtyles

Have a few sleepers hanging around, would they work?

sonnybill

Anyone buy concrete stakes In the west lately ? What kind of money ?

severeoversteer

sonnybill wrote: »

Anyone buy concrete stakes In the west lately ? What kind of money ?

moylough concrete do them, would be the best and probably cheapest aswell in the west

hopeso

They can't be any worse than the timber stakes anyway......A good bit more work involved in erecting the fence, what with digging for the stakes, and tying the wire to them after, but they will still be perfect in 20 years time....

Muckit

Pat Kelly Precast Ltd, Drum outside Athlone. Has them in 6' and 6'6".
Job for life

sonnybill

Muckit wrote: »

Pat Kelly Precast Ltd, Drum outside Athlone. Has them in 6' and 6'6".
Job for life

Thanks Muckit , yeah only job when you done , you done , fed up replacing timber stakes

49801

Surely clipex would be as good an option and lot less labor. Put in concrete or creocoat strainers.

patsy_mccabe

I passed a field fenced with Clipex recently. Looks a good job but very industrial looking.

Aravo

Have applied for some grant fencing. If approved, Will def consider clipex with concrete or very heavy strainers.

49801

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I passed a field fenced with Clipex recently. Looks a good job but very industrial looking.

Tend to agree with you if i am honest. That said it’s a life time job.

kerryjack

Lad down ourway made his own, some job had all paddocks fenced off with concrete posts he dug all holes by hand he was an animal, that was a time when lads used to do all this work in this time of year when things were quite. They wouldn't be hard to make and if you had one of those petrol orgars for digging holes might be a good enough job.

Dunedin

Roughly How much are each 6 foot concrete post each.

hopeso

What do people use to drive Clipex posts? I always feel that the top clip would be very easy to damage if using a sledge hammer.....

Odelay

Does the galvanized scrape off the clippex when driving it into the earth? Would have thought it would rot away once the galvanize is rubbed off?

Muckit

patsy_mccabe wrote: »

I passed a field fenced with Clipex recently. Looks a good job but very industrial looking.

You'll never be cutting it up for firewood though!

mayota

Dunedin wrote: »

Roughly How much are each 6 foot concrete post each.

€8.50 or so for 6’6”. €7.50 for 5’6”.

49801

hopeso wrote: »

What do people use to drive Clipex posts? I always feel that the top clip would be very easy to damage if using a sledge hammer.....

There is a petrol engine yoke same size as a strimmer engine that you place on top and it vibrates it in. So no post knocker of sledgehammer needed. Think most drive a pilot hole with a bar first though.