Hippo safety fence

[Labaire]

Hi all, I am not new-I used to post as MotherOfChickens, took some time out and now Admin won’t return my calls to reinstate my account ?

anyway, I was wondering if anyone had used the above in a very windy place please? Having a wee track put in hopefully and this looks it might do-except I live somewhere that frequently has 60+mph winds.

 

[FFAQ]

I have never used it but just had a quick Google and found it at £100+ for 100m. Seems like an expensive alternative! Would electric tape attached to wooden posts not work just as well for a fraction of the cost?

 

[Rowreach]

It's the wind that does for tape, even the wide stuff. I looked at the Hippo fence but they even say on the site (iirc) about repairing after storm damage, so clearly it doesn't withstand strong winds.

I went for the ordinary 5cm wide electric tape, extra strong brackets and wooden posts, and just replaced it when the wind damage took its toll.

I'd be interested in hearing some real life reviews though.

PS You'll always be MoC

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

*waves to MoC*
Hope you get some answers as I've not used that.
Friend on Cumbrian coast/Hill uses the Field guard tape (as I do) so much more expensive but my oldest is now over 30 years old and apart from having to re-tension it a couple of times the 1st winter, it's lasted longer than the wooden posts for both of us!!

 

[Pearlsasinger]

It's the wind that does for tape, even the wide stuff. I looked at the Hippo fence but they even say on the site (iirc) about repairing after storm damage, so clearly it doesn't withstand strong winds.

I went for the ordinary 5cm wide electric tape, extra strong brackets and wooden posts, and just replaced it when the wind damage took its toll.

I'd be interested in hearing some real life reviews though.

PS You'll always be MoC

Hello MoC, nice to see you again.

We use electric rope - the thick stuff, not the cheese-wire type. It survives the winds at the top of the Pennines where the lamposts and telegraph posts lean away from the prevailing westerly winds. It doesn't last for ever, though!

 

[Labaire]

Hi ?
Yeah standard leccy tape does not do here, I use rope and wooden posts for temp fencing (and am happy with my choices). This will also partly be a perimeter fence and I want it to look nice but cheaper than post and rail also nice! Tbh we always have storm damage and have learned that flexible stuff that’s easy to repair is better than more permanent rigid stuff that’s more difficult (eg with poultry pens etc). I just wondered if this stuff being properly tensioned and fixed etc might be an option. Will check out the field guard tape!

 

[Rowreach]

Hello MoC, nice to see you again.

We use electric rope - the thick stuff, not the cheese-wire type. It survives the winds at the top of the Pennines where the lamposts and telegraph posts lean away from the prevailing westerly winds. It doesn't last for ever, though!

That's interesting, how does it work visibility-wise?

 

[Labaire]

It's the wind that does for tape, even the wide stuff. I looked at the Hippo fence but they even say on the site (iirc) about repairing after storm damage, so clearly it doesn't withstand strong winds.

I went for the ordinary 5cm wide electric tape, extra strong brackets and wooden posts, and just replaced it when the wind damage took its toll.

I'd be interested in hearing some real life reviews though.

PS You'll always be MoC

well I’d quite like my old log in back if I stick around

 

[laura_nash]

Hello MoC, nice to see you again.

We use electric rope - the thick stuff, not the cheese-wire type. It survives the winds at the top of the Pennines where the lamposts and telegraph posts lean away from the prevailing westerly winds. It doesn't last for ever, though!

We use the electric rope too, stands up well to the wind. Not sure I'd want it on its own though for visibility, mine is all inside dry stone walls.

 

[Sprig]

We just use poly wire on reels for ours. Never had any issues and it will stay nice and tight in the wind. I have never had any issues with horses going through it but you could always tie a few bits of tape along it at regular intervals when you first put it up, just to ensure that they know where it is. I don't like rope or thick tape as they will not always break in an emergency. I would rather replace a length of fencing than my horse.

 

[honetpot]

Hello MoC, nice to see you again.

We use electric rope - the thick stuff, not the cheese-wire type. It survives the winds at the top of the Pennines where the lamposts and telegraph posts lean away from the prevailing westerly winds. It doesn't last for ever, though!

I live on the edge of the fens and the wind can sometimes be like you're in a Sahara dust storm, and I use rope on clipex posts,
https://mcveighparker.com/fencing/t...S0Jl9_EqJdhhw8VmqMZApioZlo1rCU_RoCXGAQAvD_BwE
I like that you can adjust the height like on a plastic post , as well as put wire mesh if needed.

 

[Pearlsasinger]

We use the electric rope too, stands up well to the wind. Not sure I'd want it on its own though for visibility, mine is all inside dry stone walls.

We have drystone walls as boundaries with electirc fencing inside it but we use plastic posts and elecrtric wire to divide the fields into tracks and no horse has ever gone through accidentally, although I must admit that full-maned cobs have been known to work out how to get to the other side, sometimes.

ETA, one of our boundary walls is actually on the neighbour's land and is much lower than ours, we have wooden posts with electric wire as our boundary.

 

[ycbm]

Hi MoC, nice to see you back. I use either thick white electric rope where i need visibility or sheep wire against walls where I don't, nothing else will withstand the winds up here.

A friend has very expensive tape fitted perfectly and it still doesn't last.
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[Labaire]

That's interesting, how does it work visibility-wise?

I have used it as a perimeter fence (didn't have any choice temporarily)-the green stuff I put tape on, the green and white I've had no issues with. Even better was some blue and yellow rope (not twine) that Kramer did, but seemingly for one year only.

I know rope has a bad reputation but I always put in breaking points and have ponies that are respectful of electric fencing (thank the gods). Tape is useless here-I actually have about 50m of it up right now to fence part of a track as ran out of rope, 40mph winds and it just acts like a sail although that is with electric fence posts. Rope/wire might be an option done professionally, I think OH will calm down about having to have post and rail once we get the quote lol.


Thanks all!

 

[Tiddlypom]

Hi MoC! Welcome back.

Although I'm not in hill country, it's still windy here, we're in the Cheshire Gap.

Tall white posts with 2 strands of string top and bottom, plus a middle strand of thinner 12.5mm tape for visibility, works well for me. If the tape is the top strand, the posts blow over, but not when it is in the middle. Posts every 3 paces, and alternate which way the post faces (though it looks that I didn't quite follow my own rule here ).

 

[splashgirl45]

hello M.O.C. welcome back, hope you stay around and manage to get your old name back

 

[OldNag]

No fence advice to offer, but posting to say welcome back

 

[TPO]

No fence advice to offer, but posting to say welcome back

Snap!

Hi MoC ? so nice to see you back ?

 

[ihatework]

Some people local to me have used it (not sure if hippo or another brand along same concept) and it has very quickly weathered and warped, to the point it needs to be replaced

 

[Labaire]

Some people local to me have used it (not sure if hippo or another brand along same concept) and it has very quickly weathered and warped, to the point it needs to be replaced

good to know-it’s easy to forget in summer quite how bad it gets here. Something more agricultural is probably best!

 

[Jellymoon]

Prob get shot down here, but what about metal wire on wooden posts? Electrify the too strand. Maybe with horse netting underneath.

 

[Labaire]

Snap!

Hi MoC ? so nice to see you back ?

hello M.O.C. welcome back, hope you stay around and manage to get your old name back

No fence advice to offer, but posting to say welcome back

Snap!

Hi MoC ? so nice to see you back ?

thank you all-my posts are/were being moderated so my replies were taking ages.

 

[Labaire]

Prob get shot down here, but what about metal wire on wooden posts? Electrify the too strand. Maybe with horse netting underneath.

definitely an option.

 

[The Fuzzy Furry]

thank you all-my posts are/were being moderated so my replies were taking ages.

Really? Have you been told why? V sorry to read this!

 

[LouisCat]

What about Horse Rail? ?

 

[Goldenstar]

Prob get shot down here, but what about metal wire on wooden posts? Electrify the too strand. Maybe with horse netting underneath.

That’s what we are doing with our new field for the interior fence it’s being double fenced all way round .
The outer fence with be the repaired original fence .
The inner will be horse net with a electric rope .

 

[milliepops]

What about Horse Rail? ?

a yard near me has this but they are fairly sheltered.
My YO has the hotcote wire sold by Horserail which seems good, I wouldn't have said the visibility was great but the horses sure know it's there.

 

[Tiddlypom]

Really? Have you been told why? V sorry to read this!

I think that they are doing it routinely with 'new' posters now, until they have proved to be benign. Probably as a result of all the spam marketing threads.

MoC, you could have made a new username based on your old one such as MoC1 .

I keep reading your new username as the word used for a particular part of female anatomy . That'll just be me me, though...

 

[Labaire]

I think that they are doing it routinely with 'new' posters now, until they have proved to be benign. Probably as a result of all the spam marketing threads.

MoC, you could have made a new username based on your old one such as MoC1 .

I keep reading your new username as the word used for a particular part of female anatomy . That'll just be me me, though...

well, it’s Gaelic for ‘labourer’. It’s my dog’s registered name and doesn’t sound anything like labia if that helps?

and yes, new poster moderation.