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Stokboard

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  • 28-01-2020 1:10pm
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    satstheway
    Registered Users Posts: 831 ✭✭✭


    Anyone on here use stokboard.
    What thickness would you need for sheeting gates and the bottom of doors?

    Thanks in advance


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    yewtree
    Registered Users Posts: 811 ✭✭✭yewtree


    satstheway wrote: »
    Anyone on here use stokboard.
    What thickness would you need for sheeting gates and the bottom of doors?

    Thanks in advance

    We use it here in calf shed and calving pen. I find it good, powerwashes down very well. I find smooth surfaces a lot easier to clean and disinfect. I have it riveted on to gates.
    I think it was the 4mm thickness we used. There is a heavier one. We got in from FRS a couple of years ago.


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    stretch film
    Registered Users Posts: 1,057 ✭✭✭stretch film


    3 6 or 9 ml
    Drill an oversize hole for Tec screw with big washer and don't over tighten. Allows for expansion.
    Great for temp windbreak for calves.


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    hildywildy
    Registered Users Posts: 10 ✭hildywildy


    What sort of money is stokboard, where would I get some in meath


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    satstheway
    Registered Users Posts: 831 ✭✭✭satstheway


    hildywildy wrote: »
    What sort of money is stokboard, where would I get some in meath

    Farm Relief Service seam to stock it nationwide.


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    tractorporn
    Registered Users Posts: 1,375 ✭✭✭tractorporn


    satstheway wrote: »
    Anyone on here use stokboard.
    What thickness would you need for sheeting gates and the bottom of doors?

    Thanks in advance

    I've sheeted a few gates with it this back end. I got 6mm from FRS. I'd say you could get away with 3mm for the bottom of doors as the 6 mm makes gates heavy but there isn't much in the difference in price


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    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    I got a 3 mm to try in a calf pen I think it was 22 Euro


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    satstheway
    Registered Users Posts: 831 ✭✭✭satstheway


    dohc turbo2 wrote: »
    I got a 3 mm to try in a calf pen I think it was 22 Euro

    How tou get on. What spaces do you have the cross members?


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    dohc turbo2
    Registered Users Posts: 838 ✭✭✭dohc turbo2


    satstheway wrote: »
    How tou get on. What spaces do you have the cross members?

    It’s on to a calving gate so was put on where it needed it’s temporary while calfs are young . There was no method on measuring , just where there was support drilled m6 hole and tec screw on


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    Earnshaw
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭Earnshaw


    Anyone use 9mm StokBoard on gates? How did you fix it on? Does it make the gate too heavy?


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    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Anyone use 9mm StokBoard on gates? How did you fix it on? Does it make the gate too heavy?

    9mm is overkill on a gate assuming it's a standard gate. 3mm would be more than sufficient with all the bars behind it.


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    bogman_bass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,057 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Anyone use 9mm StokBoard on gates? How did you fix it on? Does it make the gate too heavy?

    No advantage in it. In fact with the extra weight it will probably fall out sooner


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    bogman_bass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,057 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    It’s a great job to resheet a round feeder


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    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Anyone use 9mm StokBoard on gates? How did you fix it on? Does it make the gate too heavy?

    Put 9mm on a gate here
    Tex screw every 10-12” on every gate bar

    Do it once and do it right


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    White Clover
    Registered Users Posts: 4,594 ✭✭✭White Clover


    Earnshaw wrote: »
    Anyone use 9mm StokBoard on gates? How did you fix it on? Does it make the gate too heavy?

    6mm used here. It's there with at least 10 years and as good as day 1. Used Tex Screws. 4 bar gate, screws every foot or so.


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    satstheway
    Registered Users Posts: 831 ✭✭✭satstheway


    I went to buy 6mm but guy reckoned 3 would do and its great job.


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    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    It’s a great job to resheet a round feeder

    Do you have any photos of one you resheeted bass?


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    J.O. Farmer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,450 ✭✭✭J.O. Farmer


    Hard Knocks wrote: »
    Put 9mm on a gate here
    Tex screw every 10-12” on every gate bar

    Do it once and do it right

    I agree with most of your post but 9mm is very heavy for the job unless you're putting it on a big frame rather than a gate. It's not like your cattle are going to be walking on it.

    You'd have a job to damage 3mm on a gate even with the sledge with all the support of the bars.


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    Hard Knocks
    Registered Users Posts: 3,983 ✭✭✭Hard Knocks


    J.O. Farmer wrote: »
    I agree with most of your post but 9mm is very heavy for the job unless you're putting it on a big frame rather than a gate. It's not like your cattle are going to be walking on it.

    You'd have a job to damage 3mm on a gate even with the sledge with all the support of the bars.

    Didn’t know
    When I was buying I was told 9mm


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    bogman_bass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,057 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    gozunda wrote: »
    Do you have any photos of one you resheeted bass?

    Not handy. I just cut it to shape drilled hole in the stock board and cable tied it to the frame. Had to replace about 5 cable ties the second winter. Haven’t checked it yet for this year.
    Prefer the cable ties for that job because if it fails it’s not leaving a hole for muck and water to get into and no tek screws ending up in animas feet.

    I put the sheet on the inside of the feeder so the pressure from the bale is pushing it against the frame rather than away from it.

    It’s there at least 4 years now but I think it’s the 6 mm I got. It wouldn’t want to be any heavier or it would be to hard to curve round


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    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,261 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    Used it on a sliding door and also a part of a shed that's a straw bedded area for cattle. Sheeted to the ground and stokboard on the inside.


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    amacca
    Registered Users Posts: 6,841 ✭✭✭amacca


    Who have ye found to be the best supplier for stokboard?

    Thinking of sheeting the bottom of the inside of some bedded sheds with the stuff

    also thinking of making a couple of raised beds for veg etc and wondering if I could use a couple of thick sheets of it braced with plastic fence posts......would like not to be using scaffolding boards rotting slowly away.


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    bogman_bass
    Registered Users Posts: 5,057 ✭✭✭bogman_bass


    amacca wrote: »
    Who have ye found to be the best supplier for stokboard?

    Thinking of sheeting the bottom of the inside of some bedded sheds with the stuff

    also thinking of making a couple of raised beds for veg etc and wondering if I could use a couple of thick sheets of it braced with plastic fence posts......would like not to be using scaffolding boards rotting slowly away.

    Yeah but you can kneel on the scaffolding board


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    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,261 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    amacca wrote: »
    Who have ye found to be the best supplier for stokboard?

    Thinking of sheeting the bottom of the inside of some bedded sheds with the stuff

    also thinking of making a couple of raised beds for veg etc and wondering if I could use a couple of thick sheets of it braced with plastic fence posts......would like not to be using scaffolding boards rotting slowly away.

    Not sure if Talitech in Cork are the main importers? Might be worth contacting if you were getting a handy bit;
    https://www.talitech.com/product/stokbord-18mm/


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    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,374 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    It's a great job on the floor of s trailer. I had a 2 wheel trailer 6.5'X4' with a chequer plate floor. Sheeting went underneath. I used 12 stockboard for the floor. It will take a while to rot that....I think

    Slava Ukrainii



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    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    It's a great job on the floor of s trailer. I had a 2 wheel trailer 6.5'X4' with a chequer plate floor. Sheeting went underneath. I used 12 stockboard for the floor. It will take a while to rot that....I think

    I got a sheet of it when it first appeared and used it on a gate. With repeated wind / rain / UV exposure - its now starting to become friable with small bits along the edges breaking. So yeah slower than ply but still not immune to the elements. I think the best advantage is that it doesn't absorb water and its relatively light.


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    Omallep2
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭Omallep2


    bogman_bass wrote: »
    It’s a great job to resheet a round feeder

    What thickness sheet you go with?


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    quietsailor
    Registered Users Posts: 1,428 ✭✭✭quietsailor


    Bass Reeves wrote: »
    It's a great job on the floor of s trailer. I had a 2 wheel trailer 6.5'X4' with a chequer plate floor. Sheeting went underneath. I used 12 stockboard for the floor. It will take a while to rot that....I think

    Hi Bass, I was asking over on another thread about flooring a trailer and they directed me to you here.

    Did you have to add extra metal under the floor to give the stock board support?


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    Bass Reeves
    Registered Users Posts: 18,374 ✭✭✭✭Bass Reeves


    quietsailor wrote: »
    Hi Bass, I was asking over on another thread about flooring a trailer and they directed me to you here.

    Did you have to add extra metal under the floor to give the stock board support?

    It was a 6.5X4' two wheel trailer. The floor previously had been timber with, I had replaced with plywood and chequer plate on top. There is a lip front and back and two intermediate bars(cannot remember if box or angle iorn). I removed the chequer plate and plywood. I replaced the plywood with 12mm stockboard and placed the chequer plate back on top of the stockboard. Trailer is capable of carrying 5-600 kg loads of stone. I added no further support than was there already. However I have the chequer plate on top of it

    Slava Ukrainii



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