Clipex Fence

K.G. · 08-10-2020 01:37PM

So you werent happy with the posts but you wanted to take more for free.its 5 years since i used them and still happy with them.hilly place with dips and hills but no post moved and no problem driving them.just my experience

paddy 83 · 08-10-2020 02:37PM

My dear man the only thing free in life is the air we breathe. I payed full price for second’s posts. To me they were worth less than half price for all the above reasons. If you offered me this product at half price today I’d say no. So what was I getting for free?? The owner is also a fencing contractor and he told me he was going to use this rubbish on some other poor suckers farm claiming he had a knack for driving them without bending the top. God forbid you have to move a fence in the future only then would you realize the lack of quality in this Chinese crap. I’m assuming your working for them as they too used the free terminology.

emaherx · 08-10-2020 02:43PM

I found them great and easy to use. You are not meant to drive them with the pipe they supply, it's a protective sleeve to use with a normal post driver. I'd no issue with damaging top clips but could see how you would if driving them with their sleeve.

I'd have no issue recommending them to anyone, their straining post don't budge and there is no need for a tractor post driver, you'd put up a lot of fence in a day by yourself with this system and can fit a lot of posts in the back of a jeep or transport box. But I guess each to their own.

But they are a bit shiny...... I like shiny though

K.G. · 08-10-2020 02:46PM

paddy 83 wrote: »

My dear man the only thing free in life is the air we breathe. I payed full price for second’s posts. To me they were worth less than half price for all the above reasons. If you offered me this product at half price today I’d say no. So what was I getting for free?? The owner is also a fencing contractor and he told me he was going to use this rubbish on some other poor suckers farm claiming he had a knack for driving them without bending the top. God forbid you have to move a fence in the future only then would you realize the lack of quality in this Chinese crap. I’m assuming your working for them as they too used the free terminology.

"I saw these as seconds and offered to take another batch instead of a refund".anyway i ll stop now because some how i think id be wasting my time.

paddy 83 · 08-10-2020 03:31PM

“Ill like shiny things”
That’s like someone a simpleton would say. You must be working for them ðŸ˜‚

Anyway I’ll just reiterate from my main post. If your thinking of buying these posts just buy one first. Before you drive in into the ground to see the top bend ask yourself would you like this to replace your traditional posts on your farm? Ask yourself do you like the galvanized bar with the little Chinese spring and if your answer is yes then go for it. In the great works of Greg Judy “stay away from metal posts. Best thing to earth a fence”

emaherx · 08-10-2020 03:46PM

paddy 83 wrote: »

“Ill like shiny things”
That’s like someone a simpleton would say. You must be working for them ðŸ˜‚

Anyway I’ll just reiterate from my main post. If your thinking of buying these posts just buy one first. Before you drive in into the ground to see the top bend ask yourself would you like this to replace your traditional posts on your farm? Ask yourself do you like the galvanized bar with the little Chinese spring and if your answer is yes then go for it. In the great works of Greg Judy “stay away from metal posts. Best thing to earth a fence”

Wow third post and you have resorted to name calling. Good luck, I think everyone gets you don't like Clipex especially since you opened an account on boards.ie especially to voice that. But not everyone who disagrees with you is either a simpleton or working for the company you hate.

Lime Tree Farm · 08-10-2020 04:22PM

I forgot to post on Farm Sayings

"A bad workman always blames his tools"

_Brian · 08-10-2020 05:12PM

Lime Tree Farm wrote: »

I forgot to post on Farm Sayings

"A bad workman always blames his tools"

Am ass is an ass, big ears or not.

Pinsnbushings · 08-10-2020 07:47PM

I've driven more than 200 of these in the last 5 years, I bent 1 of the clips I think, find them brilliant for single strand electric fence, so quick to install and good as new 5 years on..granted they are a bit shiny but I'd rather that that be starting into replacing timber 1s now.. The original version didn't have the Chinese clip you talk about and about 10 insulators went missing, we put it down to cattle scratching because the shock wasn't great in the fence..

The only weakness I might see in them is straining wire around turns in fields, but I think they have a stronger stake for that and also a strainer system which I believe is good but haven't used yet.

Westernrock · 08-10-2020 07:50PM

He’d bend a crowbar in a bog....
I have 340 of them down for sheep wire with a strand of electric on top of them with the insulators. Would happily recommend them, easy to drive quick to attach the wire, the insulators can take a small bit of force to put in but I actually liked that because they are tight on the post then. I drove some of mine with a manual post driver over the drive sleeve no bother, but then I got lazy and drove some of them with the loader with the drive sleeve on them and in the end I didn’t even use the drive sleeve unless I had to tap them in rather than just push them down. Didn’t bend any clips or posts, out of the 340 posts I had to move maybe half a dozen to avoid stones as there is only about a foot of soil before hitting gravel here but that was as much bother as I had!

And I have no association with the company or the product before you get ideas!

Green farmer · 08-10-2020 08:02PM

Put down 50 of clipex sheep posts earlier in the year. Happy enough with them. Only issue is when I hit stones the clipex post goes abit crocked and I'd to take out and drive again a few inches away. Dont know how they'll be longterm, but I cannt see nothing that would prevent them lasting the claimed 30yrs. Tempted to try the hexagon timber stakes in comparison as they might look nicer on the eye. But either way, the object is to have something that will last and doesnt need to be redone every few years.

Tonynewholland · 08-10-2020 08:42PM

I’d imagine the contractors would prefer wooden posts in case they would end up going through a machine

einn32 · 08-10-2020 08:58PM

In Australia they use 'star pickets' mostly when fencing. They look similar to these clipex but are black in colour. They are everywhere so they must be good! We used to drive them with a pneumatic post driver. They fence was strained off decent timber posts set in concrete.

thetiredfarmer · 08-10-2020 10:57PM

emaherx wrote: »

I found them great and easy to use. You are not meant to drive them with the pipe they supply, it's a protective sleeve to use with a normal post driver. I'd no issue with damaging top clips but could see how you would if driving them with their sleeve.

I'd have no issue recommending them to anyone, their straining post don't budge and there is no need for a tractor post driver, you'd put up a lot of fence in a day by yourself with this system and can fit a lot of posts in the back of a jeep or transport box. But I guess each to their own.

But they are a bit shiny...... I like shiny though

I got my first batch of clipex today. Looking forward to the "shiny things":)
Did you put up any of the "Beefy Posts" for straining the wire ?
how did you drive them ? Is there a sleeve for driving them too?
Thanks.

cute geoge · 08-10-2020 11:10PM

I see there is an eco 2 clip post ,the standard 2 clip post and also a beefy post .The eco post comes cheaper bur would it be suitable for a permanent fence with standard posts also every second one

richie123 · 08-10-2020 11:37PM

The standard of galvaniseing these days especially on lighter steel is extremely poor these clipex posts will come no where near 30 years.i think it's a poor quality fence that won't stand the test of time.
If an animal puts it's head up against the base of a clipex post it'll bend.
A decent Scandinavian cresoted stake drove properly with a proper postdriver will go nowhere.

emaherx · 09-10-2020 07:43AM

thetiredfarmer wrote: »

I got my first batch of clipex today. Looking forward to the "shiny things":)
Did you put up any of the "Beefy Posts" for straining the wire ?
how did you drive them ? Is there a sleeve for driving them too?
Thanks.

This is one of my Beefy posts with straining kit, it hasn't budged since I put it up 18 months ago.

IMG_20190504_165702 by Farmer Ed's Shed, on Flickr

cute geoge wrote: »

I see there is an eco 2 clip post ,the standard 2 clip post and also a beefy post .The eco post comes cheaper bur would it be suitable for a permanent fence with standard posts also every second one

I'd say it depends on how straight your fence is, in a straight fence the strainers take most of the pressure the posts in between just keep the wire up.

Green farmer · 09-10-2020 08:37AM

richie123 wrote: »

The standard of galvaniseing these days especially on lighter steel is extremely poor these clipex posts will come no where near 30 years.i think it's a poor quality fence that won't stand the test of time.
If an animal puts it's head up against the base of a clipex post it'll bend.
A decent Scandinavian cresoted stake drove properly with a proper postdriver will go nowhere.

Only time will tell. I'm a sheep man, so none of my animals will bend any clipex posts here. Any recommendations to where youd source Scandinavian posts around munster ?

hopeso · 09-10-2020 09:15AM

Green farmer wrote: »

Only time will tell. I'm a sheep man, so none of my animals will bend any clipex posts here. Any recommendations to where youd source Scandinavian posts around munster ?

http://www.mcnamarafencing.ie/agri-animal/mcnamara-duraposts/

susign · 31-05-2021 11:38PM

emaherx wrote: »

Wow third post and you have resorted to name calling. Good luck, I think everyone gets you don't like Clipex especially since you opened an account on boards.ie especially to voice that. But not everyone who disagrees with you is either a simpleton or working for the company you hate.

Exactly my thoughts

memorystick · 25-10-2022 11:51PM

What’s peoples experience or knowledge of Clipex? With good stakes becoming a thing of the past, is this the new kid on the block? I’ve to fence 8 acres with 3 small paddocking half of it for sheep and handy stock. Any advice is we load per usual.

emaherx · 26-10-2022 03:27PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119793822#Comment_119793822

Easiest Fence I've put up, no machines needed and put up quickly, wire still tight after almost 4 years definitely my choice for future fencing projects.

TalkingBull · 26-10-2022 06:38PM

roughly how much are the clipex per post or for a pallet load Emaherx?

emaherx · 26-10-2022 06:58PM

No idea on current price was 2018 I think when I put the fence up. Was about €7 for the basic post but I didn't need a full pallet of them either. I also got a few of the beefy posts and strainer kits.

I ordered direct from clipex at the time, it's probably worth contacting them if you need a pallet load.

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