Fencing costs

Are Creosote posts from the North or Clipex posts the best option for stakes these days ?

Good quality Tornado 32 inch high galvanised high tensile sheep wire is about 175 Inc vat/100m. Good quality 6 foot x 4 inch imported treated pine posts are about 12.50 each Inc vat. Priced this week.

Tinselly high tensile sheep wire 100m was 220 including vat .so about 178€ ex vat.

Octo 4-5 inch post were &12 each. Rip of barb wire was €72 for 200m.

Strainers &30 each

prices this week.

For a small job no way would anyone at it for a living be doing it for 2 or 2.50 euro a meter.Charging 80 an hour here for tractor, two men and a postdriver. Erect only on a per m basis is anything from 3.50 to 5.50 a meter depending on the job.Thats 32 inch ht sheepwire with strand of barbed over and ht plain under. Gates are extra.

Gone away totally from supply and erect due to carrying the credit cost, a bad pay or slow pay will take the gloss off a job plus the complaints when a stake rots after a few years despite being told "arra shur get the cheapest stakes to keep down the cost"

Have a waiting list which is about 6 months at this stage (stopped for a few weeks for lambing) so a fair few farmers spending on fencing at the minute.Not many TAMS jobs but the ones going for it are usually doing single strand electric.

Well you wont do much of a sheep wire fence using 6ft or 7ft strainers.Any sheepwire fence esp. one with a strand of barbed over requires 8ft strainers.

The difference is that i have to stand over the quality of my work.At it a long time now and no poin̈t in working for nothing.

Any lad is worth 150 a day.Add in tractor and postdriver and a few bob for me plus consumables all adds up.

The tractor ,chainsaw etc doesnt run on fresh air plus tools are not cheap.The order book tells me i aint over pricing.Every contractor around here are in or around the same rate.

Bass, some of the TAMS approved posts are only fair. There's another level of quality above them that will work out cheaper/year in the long run. As like everything in life, you generally get what you pay for.

Wee bit saucy for 3 strands of barbed but is it a " i need it done yesterday " job? Those command a premium!!!

That or he doesnt want to do it.Probably 3 inc vat although you wouldnt get rich at that.

The ones I am buying have a 15 year warranty. I have only bought a dozen of the 6'X3" posts I wanted them for tie off points at gates etc where there is only 1-2 spans to a corner. Nothing wrong with the strainers AFAICS. They are good for 30 years IMO for electric fencing they can be driven another 10-15" in 20 years time ( it will not be my problem) as God willing I will be over 80 then. I was not too worried about the dozen wooden ties off I just bought them where I bought the strainers.

I never get this just because it cheaper than I buy it must be sh!te. Recently in the vets and a farmer was buying Ivomec Super 2X500mls for over 400 euro. Sitting on the shelf behind the counter was a multi pack of Bimectin plus 1.25L for 175 euro.

I have nearly 5.5Km of fencing put up in the last 8 months. To an extent needs must. I have used clipex with a 30 year warranty I think. Half the strainers I used were clipex the other half were timber strainers. The clipex were 33+vat the timber were 24 Inc vat, I have used about 130 strainers

If I was fencing the ditch I be using the clipex sheepwire fence posts and there strainers if it was a small run

But that is NOT what OPs neighbour is doing he is using 5'treated posts. My posts earlier were in relation to what was fair compensation if OP paid half the cost. I am not saying what should have gone into fencing it I am pricing what I suspect went into it knowing the intermediate posts were 5' treated and probably bought out of the local co-op.

Thanks for all the replies on costs. I measured the length of fence between myself and neighbor. It is 120m. If i gave him €400 i would say he is well covered, mainly split steaks he used with a few heavier rounds on bends. The fella he got to do it done a mighty job on it.

I was thinking maybe around 300 on materials and labour but didnt want to go in to low incase i was way out with the price. Sure he might throw a fifty back to me for a pint! Either way, i am delighted to see it fenced and i wasnt going to get to it any time soon.

I can't seem to see anywhere with the sheep wire clipex? I have two acres with about half it to fence

60 euro for delivery though

I could be hooked up to a tractor battery and I wouldn't give 12.50 for timber posts ! Plastic, metal, or concrete for that money IMO.