Fencing

what about plastic ones from clqre made from recycled bale plastic

Anyone I know that use them, drill first as it’s difficult to drive.

Yeah, I bought a few last week, standard 4 inch roughs gone up by about 25% or €1, strainers gone up by €5

A friend sticks the water troughs out in the middle if the field. He gets 3-4 posts driven at the corners of the water tank and works back to the ditches with pigtails and string. You will get away with two on the diagonal corner his own recommendations is three minimum.

Two at either corner where ballcock is connected and one straight in front.

You use pigtails and string to then bring them back to the field boundary. You could add 4 more stakes. He thinks if he was doing it again he would drive 3-4 more to work the diagonals where he comes off.

Would like to know same myself as have a TAMs application in. Sounds very reasonable even then. What kind of posts and wire?

Plus or including VAT Tileman? Creosote posts I presume?

How much a strainer?

What are people paying for good 6' creosote stakes at the minute.

Local stockist is currently out of stock.

He only has 5' at €5.50 per stake.

Tia

McNamara's are charging about 11 euro for a 6ft, four inch diameter stake.

Is there still grants available for fencing?

Sheep fencing only AFAIK

I am using them at the moment to fence a farm. They are grand. I hace used both timber and clipex strainers as well. The clipex strainers are grand for short runs but you need wooden ones for longer runs.

I am doing it to Tams spec. A clipex strainer is 40+ euro grant spec timber ones about 22-30 euro. I got I think Woodfarm for 24 Inc vat

I was told about 1-2 issues, briars touching the wire and a clipex pole will cause an earth issue.

I definitely will use the clipex for replacement of intermediate posts in a lot of places from now on.

A Government agency used them in bog, a cow scratched her arse on a post and pushed the fence over.

Don't use steel in bog or near the sea, manufacturers won't stand over the guarantee.

Depends in the soft ground. TAMS spec is 6' posts you can drive them 30 inches. Even on soft ground you can tend to be into something hard at that stage. Have used 5' rebars on soft ground ( timber posts even really good ones only last 7-10 years at the most) and it works away. Most important thing with electric fences is a good shock.