How do you store your electric fence posts neatly!

[Spottyappy]

Help needed as mine keep making a take over bid, and I have no idea what I can do to improve the way I store the tall electric fence posts.
They are in a corner, tied with bale twine,but periodically they break free, collapsing all over the floor, and surrounding area and cause a trip hazard.
Anyone found a good way to keep them handy but tidy and safe?
TIA.

 

[QuantockHills]

mine are in a corner, in an old blue plastic drum... stops them falling over.

 

[Auslander]

Mine are tied together in a bundle at both ends, with a connecting strip of baler twine, and hung off a hook on the wall

 

[milliepops]

if they haven't broken off, some are designed so the bottom of one can clip into the top of another, so I pair them all up and then cable tie through the holes in the middle of the uprights, that keeps them all nicely under control

 

[JillA]

mine are in a corner, in an old blue plastic drum... stops them falling over.

Brilliant idea, I've got loads of old drums. Mine are currently in a corner but with their feet trapped in an old small pallet

 

[ester]

our main storage is a wheelie bin but I don't think the 4fts would fit in that but I've realised I have no idea where we actually keep those!

 

[paddy555]

mine are in a corner, in an old blue plastic drum... stops them falling over.

this is what I do.

 

[Fanatical]

Tied together top and bottom with baler twine in 'packs' of 10. They don't seem to come undone.

 

[lamlyn2012]

Tied together top and bottom with baler twine in 'packs' of 10. They don't seem to come undone.

This is what I do, then store them in a large bin.

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

Mine stand up in a dustbin.

 

[Fransurrey]

They're currently in a messy pile behind the shelter. Oops...

 

[oldie48]

mine are in a corner, in an old blue plastic drum... stops them falling over.

Me too.

 

[Hallo2012]

mine are in a corner, in an old blue plastic drum... stops them falling over.

ditto

 

[Spottyappy]

Seems a plastic drum or dustbin is the way forward, then!
Thanks, all.

 

[AandK]

In bundles of ten, bound with ductape top and bottom to keep them in line.

 

[Meredith]

Mine are in a drum too. There is no point( gettit! ) in tying mine up as I use them all year.

 

[Pinkvboots]

I feel very untidy mine are just chucked on the floor in the garage

 

[meleeka]

Mine are in a black plastic dustbin

 

[scats]

In a dustbin in the hay barn. Inevitably I have a fight when I try to remove one and it brings a load others with it, which then promptly end up all over the floor. There’s usually swearing...

 

[southerncomfort]

Mine are in an old stable I use for storage. There was a wall mounted plastic feeder/manger in the corner so I took the plastic bowl out and use the metal frame to contain my fencing posts.

 

[Slightlyconfused]

Mine are in the garage in a old feed bin with the tape on a hose reel next to it.

 

[Snow Falcon]

Dusttbin but if I have to take some out I put them in an old feed bag and tie up with baler twine.

It's tape I have an issue with. Why and how does it manage to tangle up even when you only wrapped it round your arm 5 minutes before? 😠

 

[tankgirl1]

I wrap mine with a bungee which also doubles as a handle for carrying them

 

[tankgirl1]

It's tape I have an issue with. Why and how does it manage to tangle up even when you only wrapped it round your arm 5 minutes before? 😠

I have a bundle of electric rope which has been sat in the shed for 3 years because I can't face trying to untangle it so I can flog it

 

[Equi]

Mine are thrown into a shed that has nothing else but them in it, and i close the door. Voila, tidy! I coudln't even face opening the door to make starve pens this year tbh. Horses have had their stone paddocks and let on to the long grass. They're actually skinnier this year than last :/

 

[SEL]

I'd love to know how you lot get to store yours away right now when I've had to drag every single flippin post into use (Inc the wonky ones) to try and reduce fat horse grass intake!

 

[milliepops]

I'd love to know how you lot get to store yours away right now when I've had to drag every single flippin post into use (Inc the wonky ones) to try and reduce fat horse grass intake!

I have quite a collection previously had to double fence Kira at old yard to avoid fisticuffs, and now her fencing is done for me, so I only need it for strip grazing the oldies!

 

[meleeka]

In a dustbin in the hay barn. Inevitably I have a fight when I try to remove one and it brings a load others with it, which then promptly end up all over the floor. There’s usually swearing...

This doesn’t happen if you store them upside down, so with the point up.

You’re welcome 😉

 

[3OldPonies]

I've tried old dustbins, feed bags and tying in bundles, they still manage to escape somehow, or if I want one I get ten at once!

What really annoys though is not just how tangled the tape gets, but how does it turn into spiraling ringlets when I'm trying to get it to lie flat back on the spool?

 

[scats]

This doesn’t happen if you store them upside down, so with the point up.

You’re welcome 😉

Thank you! But I am so accident prone that I would probably end up impaling some part of my body on the spikes!