Stock Fencing

[Bourne in Canterbury]

Hi, 

I have seen some older posts on the subject of Stock Fencing and wondered if anyone could help.

We cover grounds maintenance, and have done dozens of small 50/100lm jobs with stock fencing. I have been asked to give a guide price on 4000lm of stock and single barbed. Decent tractor access, not withstanding any gates or stiles, is there a guide to lm pricing?. 

Thanks in advance

Colin

 

 

[Matthew Storrs]

16 minutes ago, Bourne in Canterbury said:

Hi, 

I have seen some older posts on the subject of Stock Fencing and wondered if anyone could help.

We cover grounds maintenance, and have done dozens of small 50/100lm jobs with stock fencing. I have been asked to give a guide price on 4000lm of stock and single barbed. Decent tractor access, not withstanding any gates or stiles, is there a guide to lm pricing?. 

Thanks in advance

Colin

 

 

£6 a meter for good quality stock netting on either uc4 posts or Chestnut would be about right, plus 2x stands of barb. That would be done with quality strainer assemblies not bodge stuff. Roughly it works out at about half and half materials and labour. Adapt as you see fit. Big long lines with minimal turns of direction could be cheaper but awkward stuff needs to be more IMO.

[LeeGray]

£8/m good quality ht stock, 3ht flat wire or 2 barb for me assuming less than 100m pulls, but probably more like £6-7 if you can get a good straight level pull. Intermediate every 2m. 

[gdh]

£5+ for oak stakes, high tensile netting, single barb. Usually a lot of turns.  

 

Plenty of people cheaper with softwood stakes near us, Mid Wales. 

[LeeGray]

That’s cracking value, I’m paying £3.90 plus vat for a 15yr 110mm softwood post alone, another £8/strut and £27/strainer. How much are the oak stakes down your way gdh? Are they split or just peeled rounds?

[aspenarb]

Ground conditions ? look before you leap, you really do need to know whether you will be using a post knocker, auger or explosives.

 

Bob

 

[Matthew Storrs]

34 minutes ago, aspenarb said:

Ground conditions ? look before you leap, you really do need to know whether you will be using a post knocker, auger or explosives.

 

Bob

 

This!!!! 

 

The ground will make or break a job.  We’ve done 400-500 meters a day in good ground and straight runs.

Generally though with 2 of us and a digger and postknocker we tend to average about 200-250 meters a day In average agricultural ground, 100 meters if I’m on my own. Up here on Dartmoor it’s generally either soft peat ground (which has problems of its own) or its just granite everywhere!!

 

 

 

[gdh]

1 hour ago, LeeGray said:

That’s cracking value, I’m paying £3.90 plus vat for a 15yr 110mm softwood post alone, another £8/strut and £27/strainer. How much are the oak stakes down your way gdh? Are they split or just peeled rounds?

They cost us about £3 to make for split oak. Strainers I value at £20. Our last lot of cresote stakes we bought was either 3.20 or 3.40 I think. 

 

We don't do much fencing, just us and a few neighbours but it's the erecting I find the bigger variable. When you have to start rock spiking you can quickly lose time.

 

 

[Matthew Storrs]

I get ex- telegraph poles which have been cut, pointed and re-treated. Think there about £12+vat and they come in sizes varying from 6”dia up to 12” dia which I use for gateposts. Intermediate I use Split Chestnut which is about £2.20 plus vat for a 6ft stake.

[Matthew Storrs]

UC4 is quite a lot more expensive but im

not convinced it would last as long as the telegraph poles!