Fencing off a site

with it being the right time of year would you get some bare root trees in asap like hawthorn. Real long lasting job then!

It's the only fence to put around a site, lasts a lifetime, it stops children dogs and sheep and you can put an electric fence on outriggers on it for cattle

I take it is a site for a house.

Concrete post and rail, two rows of whitethorn on the cattle side of the fence, 2 rows of soft hedging on your side. Whitethorn hedging is only for stock proofing, you don't want that on your side as the thorns do fair damage to skin and could blind someone You'd also need some form of temporary electric fence to keep the cattle back to let the hedge establish for a few years.

I wouldn't go with concrete post and rail on its own, cattle love scratching there necks along them and they break easily enough, hence the need for the hedge.

Any other form of fencing such as barbed wire or sheep fencing isn't really appropriate for a site. If funds are tight a cheaper option would be to mound an earth wall and plant a hedge on it.

Almost all sites around here are fenced with 32 inch sheep wire (8/80/15 or 8/80/22 )with a strand of plain on top .300m which is most likely a U shaped fence of 100 x 100 x 100 would be somewhere in the region of 2k supplied and erected inc. vat .Thats ballpark but shouldn't be far away .

Most sites are cash only so no vat etc as receipt is not needed .

Concrete posts and chain link will probably treble the cost if you go for plastic coated chainlink .Done a job last year to that spec with 4 strands plain on concrete posts with plastic coated chainlink .Will have a look and see if I can find what it worked out at .Would do very little of those as its usually dig them in or get a minidigger .Hydraulic auger on loader works if stones are scare as does the engine driven auger but no fun if stones or roots present .You will need lean mix or concrete to do the strainers and props as well .