Cost of fencing

jd06

His all
I have 250 meters of fencing to do with 3ftp sheep wire and 2 strands of barbed
I'm going to use the good cresote posts and roughly 6 trainer's.
I usually get a local lad to do it but his prices vary
I buy the gear and he charges pe meter as I will get the vat back and he's not registers

How much would it be all in per meters. E.g. 6 euro

Or how much should I pay him per meters if I buy all the equipment
Thanks in advance

J.O. Farmer

jd06 wrote: »

His all
I have 250 meters of fencing to do with 3ftp sheep wire and 2 strands of barbed
I'm going to use the good cresote posts and roughly 6 trainer's.
I usually get a local lad to do it but his prices vary
I buy the gear and he charges pe meter as I will get the vat back and he's not registers

How much would it be all in per meters. E.g. 6 euro

Or how much should I pay him per meters if I buy all the equipment
Thanks in advance

If you're buying the materials your only paying him for the labour. Get him to look at where you want the fence put up. Explain what you want done and ask for a price for the labour on the job. If you want to know what it's costing you per metre then divide by the distance.
I don't think there's a need to pay by the metre for a one off job. If he wants to be paid by the metre it's a simple sum of distance X rate.
It depends a lot on the run of the fence so hard to price without seeing it but I'd suggest 375-500 or €1.50-€2 per metre for labour.

Nekarsulm

Wire costing about 1.20 metre, barbed probably 20 cent metre. GOOD Creosote Posts seven or eight euro each. You need a post every 4 to 5 paces. Strainers , I don't know, use old ESB posts if you can. Cut them at 8 foot and point them. Plus hire of a post driver or Hitachi. Plus steaples.
Say 360 for wire, 700 for posts, 20 for steaples, plus driver. Plus Labour, or buy a Hayes wire strainer and diy.
If you have the posts all lines up and stood up, a half day with the post driver will be lots. Say 60 Euro hire?
That's about 1100 plus Labour.

IH784man

Where do you get the old the esb poles?See the odd few on donedeal but seem expensive,do you contact the esb and ask for a couple delivered

Nekarsulm

IH784man wrote: »

Where do you get the old the esb poles?See the odd few on donedeal but seem expensive,do you contact the esb and ask for a couple delivered

They are changing poles in the locality at the moment. They will give you the poles they remove from your own land, unless of course, they have got a "rub" of a hedgecutter / saw and are subject to a claim.....

I have bought sleepers, split them with the chainsaw, and driven them with a Hitachi. Serious stuff in those Russian sleepers.......

MIKEKC

IH784man wrote: »

Where do you get the old the esb poles?See the odd few on donedeal but seem expensive,do you contact the esb and ask for a couple delivered[/QUOTE
Be very careful with ESB poles, they changed them here a few years ago. They were rotten in centre. An 8 ft.x8 inch cresoted strainer costs about 20 euro,hardly worth bothering with poles

Miname

Get a lad in and let him buy the stuff and put it up. 250 metres if it's any sort of a reasonable run they'll have it finished by lunch time.

dodo mommy

Have a fencing job to do going to go with six foot stakes at about four yards apart and sheep wire (three foot) with a line or two of barbed on top would ye recommend a couple of lines inside the sheep wire to support it?

J.O. Farmer

dodo mommy wrote: »

Have a fencing job to do going to go with six foot stakes at about four yards apart and sheep wire (three foot) with a line or two of barbed on top would ye recommend a couple of lines inside the sheep wire to support it?

No there's no need just make sure you get the good high tensile sheep wire with the small holes at the bottom. There's 8 horizontal strands of wire in those.

Kevhog1988

i got a price of E5.50 per metre for labour only? With a run of almost 1km. I nearly fell out of my standing. Was i right in thinking i was being bulled??

Markcheese

theemigrant wrote:

i got a price of E5.50 per metre for labour only? With a run of almost 1km. I nearly fell out of my standing. Was i right in thinking i was being bulled??

I suppose a few quotes would soon tell you.., could depend a lot on the grade of posts and wire going in ...and wether its good straight runs or loads of dog legs and humps and hollows...

croot

theemigrant wrote: »

i got a price of E5.50 per metre for labour only? With a run of almost 1km. I nearly fell out of my standing. Was i right in thinking i was being bulled??

Yes

arctictree

I've got a lot of sheep fencing done over the last few years and its always €5.50 a meter all in.

jimini0

theemigrant wrote: »

i got a price of E5.50 per metre for labour only? With a run of almost 1km. I nearly fell out of my standing. Was i right in thinking i was being bulled??

That man knew you had plenty of the queens pound home with you, so he was chancing it.
I don't do fencing at all , I'm really crap at it, never drove a stake straight my eye sight is bad so the fence will be zig zag and I always leave the wire loose and forget to buy staples so I just tie it up with baler twine. So ill do it for €5 a metre labour only.