Fencing: How do you do yours?

[Grassman]

Doing fencing and land improvement is expensive. Especially if using a professional contractor.
You need a good talk with the tenant and decide on an agreement that suits both and then get a land agent to do the paperwork.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

Get a fencing contractor round and show him what you want. If it's patching up and not too expensive, charge a third in rent to your grazier. If it's a right royal rebuild, divide by 10 and charge that.

Or use electric string, er I mean fencing.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I recon if you want to keep owning the land, I would do the worst 10% of the boundary fencing every year, until it is sorted, and take it on the chin I think. But charge rent too, I have heard of these "rent free but sort the fencing out jobs", someone always comes off worse from that I think.

 

[Plopper]

Yeah definitely. We dont want to fall out just want it right from here on in

Where in Yorkshire are you ? im looking for land to rent ....

 

[unlacedgecko]

Did you not read the bit where the grazier isn't paying any rent? And the fence repairing was to be in lieu of rent?

Top end grazing licence - £100/ac. That’s for reseeded/young leys, sprayed and ferted with good fencing.

Stock net with 2 strands of barb on top - I’ve had various quotes £5-8/m. That £3k isn’t going to buy a lot of fencing.

 

[Humble Village Farmer]

There's a difference between "you're responsible for the fencing" and "I want the fences upgraded to a standard of my choosing"

Personally, as above, proper fencing will suck all the profit and goodwill out of the job, but if you undertake the fencing yourself, it will be done as you want it and you might attract a better quality tenant.

 

[True North]

I recon if you want to keep owning the land, I would do the worst 10% of the boundary fencing every year, until it is sorted, and take it on the chin I think. But charge rent too, I have heard of these "rent free but sort the fencing out jobs", someone always comes off worse from that I think.

Yeah I think that's been the biggest take-away from this discussion really for me and that's the plan, sort out a field at a time.

We want to sort the fencing and even if the costs don't cover it at least it's a contribution to an outgoing business cost.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

my other advice would be fence with creosoted posts, nothing more heart breaking than seeing post rot off after 8 or 10 years, or as a bare minimum use creosoted/telegraph post strainers (so when the intermediate posts rot, the wire keeps it's tension). As far as high tensile/mild steel, the fencing supplier told me, he has noticed, those who's father used HT use HT and those who's father used mild steel, use mild steel! This area seems to be all mild steel, but I have a sneaking suspicion high tensile is better (I just don't know how to use it - I know that sounds silly but it's the truth!).

 

[davidroberts30]

my other advice would be fence with creosoted posts, nothing more heart breaking than seeing post rot off after 8 or 10 years, or as a bare minimum use creosoted/telegraph post strainers (so when the intermediate posts rot, the wire keeps it's tension). As far as high tensile/mild steel, the fencing supplier told me, he has noticed, those who's father used HT use HT and those who's father used mild steel, use mild steel! This area seems to be all mild steel, but I have a sneaking suspicion high tensile is better (I just don't know how to use it - I know that sounds silly but it's the truth!).

8 or 10
they are lucky to last 5 year here nffp