Fencing

brownswiss · 17-04-2022 1:16pm #1

Hi. Looking for recommendations on fence posts . I intend to permanently split a few of my larger fields with sheep wire . Recently I have been using creosote posts from the local co op. Think they came from Cavan . They are loosing their dark colour very quickly ( a bit like the head on the last Suffolk ram we bought ). Any recommendations on best value posts would be appreciated. I use 6' x 4" posts and drive them with a pot . Do you think the price hike in posts is permanent ?

893bet · 17-04-2022 1:24pm

I have used PDM and Octobthe last 2 years. Pulled some 5 foot octo out of a wet corner to replace with 6 foot ones and the 5 foot ones seem good as new (maybe 5 years old?).

Not impressed wiTh the treatment penetration of at least 1 of the octo strainers. One of them exploded right down the centre as it met a rock I assume while being driven by a track machine.

Images below of what I am talking about……. That said they seem a far better post to me that PDM as they are slower grown and seem denser/harder as a result.

cute geoge · 17-04-2022 2:22pm

what about plastic ones from clqre made from recycled bale plastic

Gudstock · 17-04-2022 5:04pm

FRS doing both creosote and octo poles, any reviews on their ones? Fed up with using so called long-life poles that are rotten after just a few years.

kollegeknight · 17-04-2022 5:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118938834#Comment_118938834

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

k mac · 17-04-2022 7:02pm

Has the price of stakes gone up along with everything else recently I know timber for building has increased so pressure its the same for fence posts

Easten · 17-04-2022 9:06pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118939919#Comment_118939919

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

DBK1 · 17-04-2022 9:57pm

€3.80 plus vat for larch 5 foot 4" pressure treated roughs from Flaherty's in Kinnitty, Co. Offaly last week. Just checked the docket from the last time I bought them which was June 2020 and they were €3.25 plus vat then.

Bass Reeves · 19-04-2022 10:07am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058242077/fencing

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.

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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.

k mac · 19-04-2022 2:27pm

Anyone priced any fencing lately for sheep wire and i row of mains on top i think i paid 5.50 a metre supply and erect about 2 years ago

White Clover · 19-04-2022 3:03pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118946532#Comment_118946532

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

Tileman · 19-04-2022 4:05pm

I got prices about 7€ end of last year to grant spec. It’s probably gone up another 0.50cents a meter since then

White Clover · 19-04-2022 5:51pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118946954#Comment_118946954

Plus or including VAT Tileman? Creosote posts I presume?

James2022 · 19-04-2022 5:53pm

Bought a bunch of strainers and couldn't believe the price increase. Bad time to be doing a lot of fencing.

893bet · 19-04-2022 6:43pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118947443#Comment_118947443

How much a strainer?

Tileman · 19-04-2022 7:22pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118946954#Comment_118946954

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118947429#Comment_118947429

yea plus vat. They were for creosote stakes. Fairly straight runs. About 700m. I decided not to do it in end. Was grant job but was building shed at same time and that went over budget so didn’t go ahead with fencing.

bought a pile of almost new sheep wire on done deal and will fence it myself. Will work out a good bit cheaper.

brownswiss · 20-04-2022 1:53am

I opted for 3" Octo creosote posts €7.29 ( I think ) from homeland. I have never used such a light post. It is a straight run. I will stick in a few PDM 4", possibly every 25 metres . It will be difficult to keep farms ticking over as the price increases of our inputs is insane. I priced Roundup today and I thought he was joking when he quoted me

blue5000 · 20-04-2022 10:37am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058106631/timber-prices

Someone is laughing all the way to the bank, a timber grower over on the forestry page got €13 a ton for stake wood.

Now I know there is a fair bit of work involved in taking a tree growing in a forest to having a creosoted stake in a fence, but they are getting well paid for it. There should be a bit of scope to cut out a few middle men if one farmer is growing a stake and another farmer is driving it into the ground.

Sami23 · 26-04-2022 10:59am

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

blue5000 · 26-04-2022 11:07am

Around €8, but that was a few months back. I’m hearing €30 for a strainer, at that price concrete single slats and a digger to dig a hole for them might be better value. Make sure you get the vat back on the stakes.