Speaking of Chain Link Fence prices.....

Old Vet · #21 04/07/12, 09:48 PM

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Originally Posted by salmonslayer

Lots of good ideas thanks; we arent wedded to chain link (even less so now!) and we are taking a step back and re-thinking. We do want this to look nice since its basically surrounding our front yard but I like some of the wooden fence ideas. I dont know why but chain link intimidates me when it comes to installing it even though we have done all manner of other fences with no problem. We dont even have a problem going with older used fencing material if we did chain link since we like an older look but so much of what was available (of just about any steele or metal) has gone to scrap around here.

I taught a lot of people to build a chain link fence. One group was community prisoners a group of women that built a fence for the Forestry Commission and after a day working on it they all tole me how easy it was and planed to build one at home when they get out.

wendle · #22 04/07/12, 10:09 PM

Chain link fencing is only about 80.00 for a 50 ft 6 foot tall roll. That is without posts, but surely they aren't that expensive. I suspect the labor is the bulk of your costs.

lazyBum · #23 04/07/12, 10:55 PM

I did a run of fence that long 2 years ago. Material costs came to around $700 and I had left over pieces. I did all the work myself. I cemented the end posts, the line posts I drove in and cut off the mushroomed part with a cordless saw.

PD-Riverman · #24 04/08/12, 07:55 AM

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Originally Posted by ninny

You're thinking about spending 2K for a fence to keep in a $5 chicken? What's wrong with this picture??? That's like people spending $10k on a solar system so they can save $15/mo. Something wrong with the math.

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I think the thing that is "Wrong With This Picture and Math" is your Attitude. Your Remark Was VERY un-called for. Why would You belittle yourself on a public forum to make a statement like this?

There is a neighbor of mine that spent $65,000 on a car that she mainly drives to the grocery store---Is This wrong to you?

A Lady I know wears several rings on her fingers that cost more than $30,000--Is this wrong to you?

A couple I know bought a $475,000 home to live in----I bet you think a $3000 dollar used trailer would have been smarter?

Its nothing out of your pocket if a man wants to spend $2000 to keep his chickens on his property.

I see it as Their business how they and you spend Money.

Salmonslayer If I lived near you I would help you put it up and save about $1000 bucks.

oregon woodsmok · #25 04/08/12, 10:18 AM

There is a fence used around here that is very attractive.

Green pressure treated posts, 2X4 non-climb (horse wire) and then it is topped with another round green pressure treated post. It looks very nice. Of course it is nearly impossible to buy good arsenic-copper pressure treated posts any more. Maybe a farm supply store would have them.

The horse fence looks good and the kennel wire looks really good (2x2 square non-climb).

I don't actually think chain link looks good. Even though I have it, I always think it looks like a junkyard fence.

oregon woodsmok · #26 04/08/12, 10:19 AM

Cheapest is usually field fence, and you could do that and train climbing roses or grapevines on it to make it look better.

newcolorado · #27 04/08/12, 12:17 PM

Where I moved from had horse fence 5' down the side of my field and hehind across. Park/ city paid to put it up. People climb it over in to my place to get balls. Wood posts and the top rail of 2 x 6's As far as looks okay but top rail would come off and had to be bolted on. I have seen a guy just grab top and hop over in to my garden. V wire and they would make holes in it to get their feet. City guy said time they were done getting that fence installed chain link would have been just as cheap. Some the fence had the top rail laying on the ground. Yes it was put up by a fenceing company.

I need some fence to go across back of lot as I want garden bed out there. I am glad you mentioned chink link price. 100 foot wide lot. Chain link in front and it would not hodl achick as could go under and cats and small dogs. Posts are set in cement. A row of cement. Not tall. Driveway pad is not fenced on the side or back. Here you mut have a pad to park off the street. North of me the chain link goes from like back of house to the alley. So fenc on teh south but she has said thinking of soem fence in there. That would divide me off from them on that side, Back 100 I will have to foot the cost, and by the parking pad. Deer come in where no fence. Around the parking p[ad and to the neighbor chain link I would guess around 50 or so feet. That would need to match the chain link in front. I need something cheap across the back and maybe down the side. Two places across the alley from me one has low picket fence and the other 6 foot board fence. So all kinds of fences around here. Down on the corner has cut off trees and vines.

salmonslayer · #28 04/11/12, 08:32 AM

Just an update for those who are interested in the prices of this type of fence. We refined our requirements to a heavier guage of post and wire thanks to the help from Possum Belly (thanks man) and have had two further bids; one for $1551 and the other for $1600...compared to the first bid of $2200. This is for now 137' and one entry gate and "dog tight" as they say.

WE are experienced in installing field fencing, barbed wire fencing, wood fencing etc. but we have significant landscaping and flower gardens around the farmhouse and since this is our forever retirement home we want something that is in keeping with the age of the home (1938) and I just dont feel competent to do chain link since we have never done it before. We have 460' of road frontage and we will do the field fencing along most of it so the chain link will just be in front of and on the side of the house. We found an old photo of our place from the early 50s that had a chain link fence similar to where we are installing ours so it seems to fit aesthetically.

To us, fences are not only boundaries, they are backdrops to plant against and as has been suggested above, we will have vines, bushes, and trees ready to go. At this point we are still thinking it over but we are inclined to go with the $1600 bid because the contractor is a very professional young up and coming local guy who we have verified as being a good installer (we have a friend who used him and was happy).

Its a lot of money but I think your perspective changes when you get older and have settled in your retirement place. We no longer have to think of resale value or pleasing anyone but ourselves which really frees up your thinking.