Fencing costs.

[T Hectares]

I'm looking at putting up 2400m of stockfence around one field.

What sort of money would I be looking at for a contractor to put up round posts, stock netting and two barbed wires ?
Price to include removing old fence,

I would provide materials.

 

[mooresft]

depends on the ground etc, but the cost of installing the fence should be £2, people will say a little more than that i expect.
Taking down the old fence will probably be charged by the hour.

 

[Beef farmer]

Il will cost you 10k time you finish. And the posts will rot off in about 5 years.

 

[Goweresque]

Il will cost you 10k time you finish. And the posts will rot off in about 5 years.

I've recently done over 5000m of stockfence plus one strand of barbed, with creo strainers and plastic posts for under £4/m erected. Thats me doing the prep, and buying the materials, contractor erecting. I'm hoping it will see me out. It would have been slightly cheaper if I'd gone for creo timber posts as well. There's absolutely no point using 'treated' posts nowadays, you might as well throw your money down the drain.

 

[Beef farmer]

I've recently done over 5000m of stockfence plus one strand of barbed, with creo strainers and plastic posts for under £4/m erected. Thats me doing the prep, and buying the materials, contractor erecting. I'm hoping it will see me out. It would have been slightly cheaper if I'd gone for creo timber posts as well. There's absolutely no point using 'treated' posts nowadays, you might as well throw your money down the drain.

How old are you?

 

[Goweresque]

How old are you?

46

 

[Beef farmer]

No chance will it see you out.

 

[Beef farmer]

But I will see you past 50.

 

[ollandroverman]

Strainers will not last the distance ( some margin short, judging by mine), but the rest should last the course.
Surely?

 

[biggmw]

What are these plastic posts like to work with?

Where would I aquire some...... pet hate is the lack of quality now of wood....

 

[Goweresque]

What are these plastic posts like to work with?

Where would I aquire some...... pet hate is the lack of quality now of wood....

There's various suppliers, I got mine from Stow Agricultural.

https://www.stowag.com/

They are actually pretty easy to work with, IF you have the right kit. By pure chance my contractor had just bought a post driver with a 60mm rock spike, and the posts were 60mm. So he rock spiked a hole, and just slid the post into the hole. Then stapling was done with a pneumatic staple gun I bought, as trying to knock staples into plastic posts by hand is a recipe for squashed fingers and swearing. The contractor thought it was faster than putting wooden posts up, there was no problems with broken posts and ones that go off line. And he liked the staple gun so much he plans to get himself one.

 

[Goweresque]

No chance will it see you out.

I've got stockfence and plastic posts I put up myself 20 years ago, its still in perfect nick, can't see why I shouldn't get 25-30 years out of this lot.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I think it is £1.70/metre for putting up a fence, I would use fence and forget posts and either new creosoted or telegraph pole strainers

 

[tepapa]

In your part of the country i recon it would be about £2.50/m install and £1/m removal (tidily, not dragged out with loader) but a lot depends on length of run, how many corners and type of ground.

 

[S J H]

No chance will it see you out.

It will if it's proper Creo

 

[tepapa]

Strainers will not last the distance ( some margin short, judging by mine), but the rest should last the course.
Surely?

Tantalised or creo strainers? Creo should last 30+ years easily if you buy properly treated ones. You can forget tantalised.

 

[Post Driver]

Hi @T Hectares,

I will be working in the Theale area of Berkshire in 2 weeks time and would be happy to come out and price the job for you

 

[7600-four pilot]

80% of around the stakes I put in 8 years ago have to be replaced, Dad put in stakes under the old scheme in the mid 80's most are still serviceable. The oak stakes Dad split in the winter of 61/62 I have to use a battery drill to drill a pilot hole into first because its impossible to knock the staple in it's so hard! Next doors farm but one has a gatepost put up in the last decade of the 19th century and still hangs a gate, mind you that was golden chain. Don't make em like they used to. We now use railway sleepers cut in half length ways, pointed and used as strainers. Stakes that are bought in now gets dried down to 10ish % moisture and dipped in traditional coal tar creosote up to half way up the stake for up to three months.

 

[Co down man]

How do you split the sleepers in half

 

[Einstien]

Slightly different - trying to get post and rail straight with cheap modern timber rails is near impossible...

You get what you pay for I guess!