Fencing Contractor Pricing

skoger · 05-05-2015 10:43AM #1

Anybody get some fencing done recently? What sort of money do they charge per metre? Looking to price sheep wire with a strand of barb.

whelan2 · 05-05-2015 10:59AM

skoger wrote: »

Anybody get some fencing done recently? What sort of money do they charge per metre? Looking to price sheep wire with a strand of barb.

what length and do they or you supply posts and wire?

Buford T. Justice XIX · 05-05-2015 05:37PM

skoger wrote: »

Anybody get some fencing done recently? What sort of money do they charge per metre? Looking to price sheep wire with a strand of barb.

Have a look at the Farmers Journal this week, they give prices for different types of sheep wire.

Standard 5ft posts(@3.5 euro each) and light gauge 26inch wire(@30/50m), 32inch wire (@36/50m), 7ft strainers (@12), cost/m 2.25/m including vat for 26 inch and 2.37/m incl vat for 32 inch wire.

The figures wouldn't be far off, a bit more for barbed over electric fence.

Edit. Those figures don't include labour.

paddysdream · 05-05-2015 08:00PM

skoger wrote: »

Anybody get some fencing done recently? What sort of money do they charge per metre? Looking to price sheep wire with a strand of barb.

6 to 7 euro per metre at a guess.Depends on the lenght,amount of turns(extra strainers)type of ground(full of rocks or farmer wants it somewhere awkward)number of props needed(400m in 5 pieces more expensive than all in one run due to extra props and strainers).Cash or cheque ?.

Price would assume 6ft stakes, 8ft strainers propped,barbed staples and all ht wire with a strand of plain under sheepwire.Gate's hung would be extra(bigger post needed )

To be honest unless you knew the ground then pricing can vary a bit depending on lots of things.

All the prices in the journal last week use mild steel wire(pure sh**e in any fence esp. a permanent one)5ft stakes and 7ft strainers.Try straining 300m of light or medium sheepwire in a straight pull and come back and tell me how long it took to gather it up when it stretched and broke.!!

To do it properly use proper wire cause labour will cost at least as much if not more if priced labour only.Anyone at any amount of fencing will tell you of the pleasure of using medium wire and crap stakes!!!

razor8 · 05-05-2015 09:49PM

Paid €1.40 a metre cash this year for labour only driving by a post driver. Great work and well worth the money. That was for sheep wire with a top row of barb

FRS quoted me €2.70 a metre plus vat for same job

skoger · 05-05-2015 09:54PM

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

Have a look at the Farmers Journal this week, they give prices for different types of sheep wire.

Standard 5ft posts(@3.5 euro each) and light gauge 26inch wire(@30/50m), 32inch wire (@36/50m), 7ft strainers (@12), cost/m 2.25/m including vat for 26 inch and 2.37/m incl vat for 32 inch wire.

The figures wouldn't be far off, a bit more for barbed over electric fence.

Edit. Those figures don't include labour.

Just after seeing that there now

paddysdream · 05-05-2015 10:01PM

razor8 wrote: »

Paid €1.40 a metre cash this year for labour only driving by a post driver. Great work and well worth the money. That was for sheep wire with a top row of barb

FRS quoted me €2.70 a metre plus vat for same job

Normally would do that by the hour.Sometimes its easy to price labour only by the metre but only on a straightforward piece.

Nothing more annoying than arriving and the farmer decides that he better go and gather up the stakes and then presents you with 4 or 5 half rolls of wire and the usual classic "shur you wouldn't be long hammering in a few in the next field "

skoger · 05-05-2015 10:02PM

paddysdream wrote: »

6 to 7 euro per metre at a guess.Depends on the lenght,amount of turns(extra strainers)type of ground(full of rocks or farmer wants it somewhere awkward)number of props needed(400m in 5 pieces more expensive than all in one run due to extra props and strainers).Cash or cheque ?.

Price would assume 6ft stakes, 8ft strainers propped,barbed staples and all ht wire with a strand of plain under sheepwire.Gate's hung would be extra(bigger post needed )

To be honest unless you knew the ground then pricing can vary a bit depending on lots of things.

All the prices in the journal last week use mild steel wire(pure sh**e in any fence esp. a permanent one)5ft stakes and 7ft strainers.Try straining 300m of light or medium sheepwire in a straight pull and come back and tell me how long it took to gather it up when it stretched and broke.!!

To do it properly use proper wire cause labour will cost at least as much if not more if priced labour only.Anyone at any amount of fencing will tell you of the pleasure of using medium wire and crap stakes!!!

It would be the guts of 1000m in 4 or 5 bits. 2 of them would be rocky but fairly short. I don't need to do it all in one go. If i got a ballpark figure I could work out what I could afford and bring that to them for a quote

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