Fencing quote

[woody paul]

Figures off top of the head. Not bought any materials for about 7 months. Vat to be added if you charge it as well.

 

My rough sums are

 

8 posts @ £4 £16

4 rails @ £2.80 £11.20

net @ £1 p mtr £16 inc overlap

Barb @ £0.20 mtr £ 4.50

 

Labour £2.70 a mtr

 

 

 

 

Total £88.20 per unit

You missed out fixings.

Tree guards are a pain you just get started then its time to move on to next one if far a part allow time to travel between like moving kit and materials to the next.

[miker]

£100 a unit all in (£50-55 for materials). 2 men would do well to be completing a unit an hour with a post knocker by the time you have off loaded what you need and measured up at each location. It's not like doing a 300m straight run.

 

5 mins per post, 5 mins to put the 4 rails on, 5 mins for the mesh, 5 mins for the wire and 5 mins to get to the next one is your hour.

 

spot on there mate i reckon:thumbup1:

[Jimbob87]

Did some several years ago, all rails, no netting. Seem to remember them taking a LOT longer than we thought, fine if it's just a throw it together job but to get the spacings, heights and angles right took a while. Remember as its square all the posts have to look right from ALL angles.

 

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Yes i agree with u on this not as straight forward as you think i would imagine. Its got to be done well its the lords private parkland so needs to look good

 

 

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[Jimbob87]

£250 a day two men tractor and knocker 3 a day plus materials work it out 155 quid a go roughly

 

 

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[bobh]

It gets even harder to make it look right when the grounds not level, if one corner is in a dip then you can end up with one post not very far in the ground, not a bad idea to take some longer posts as well.

 

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[woody paul]

When I worked for someone we had a guards to put up on a piece of parkland, the any problem was they had to all face the same way. We landed up using a compass set it to north and work of that may be an idea when setting out.

[Jimbob87]

When I worked for someone we had a guards to put up on a piece of parkland, the any problem was they had to all face the same way. We landed up using a compass set it to north and work of that may be an idea when setting out.

 

 

Never thought of that

 

 

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[Kev Stephenson]

So Jimbob87 who has seen the job says 3 a day between 2 men and Dig-dug-dan thinks he can do 26 a day by himself. A bit of a difference there. Based on £250 labour a day (Dig-dug-dan can have all of that to himself as he will be working so hard) there is £3750 difference between quotes assuming identical material costs.

 

I would really hope you can do more than 3 a day especially with a tractor knocker as you have already said the ground will be easy knocking. Unless that is you have not told us there is 3 miles between each tree and the ground is currently 4 foot deep in brambles.

Edited March 22, 2014 by Kev Stephenson

[Jimbob87]

No trees close together clear parkland. Ok maybe four a day. 2hours each one its difficult to judge till you have done one theres a lot of faffing about with the posts i.e. marking out and getting square and with the net its pulling four short runs all the effort in a net is the tying of and tightening process this will have to be done four times on each section in my opinion its a job that will take longer than you think. Not particularly hard just awkward. Mite have to do one at home to see lol

 

 

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[RDB logs]

I have done quite a lot of these, and the best way to get everything square is to make a massive template out of 3x2 baton, leave one side hinged so you can get it on and off a tree and a diagonal across 2 of the corners to make it rigid. Even if you use it to mark the post positions with spray marker.

 

After a few you will probably throw it away but it helps get your eye in.

 

Then as mentioned use a compass to get them square to each other.

 

I would say you were about right on 4 per day.

 

I may also use 4" rails as they don't snap so quick when the cows lean on them!

Please post some pics when your done!

Good luck