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Does anyone know and can recommended someone who is able to erect post and rail fencing for a reasonable price?

We've been getting quotes recently to have new fencing installed and the quotes we're getting for the labour involved is more than friends who work in the Police, doctors and teaching get per hour.

If anyone knows anyone who can do a decent job, then do get in contact with us. We are based between Ely (Cambs) and Newmarket (Suffolk). We need about 320 posts being put in and triple rails. We are supplying all the fencing ourselves.

Also, if anyone knows a good place to buy the white strong plastic flexi-rail tape (not electric fencing), can you let us know where you got it from as we can't remember the name of the company who sells it. Thanks.
 
try clarks of walsham i hear they do that type of fencing. Also let me know if you find anyone reasonable as I may need some doing soon too!
 
do you mean Studrail, is that the white flexi-stuff you mean?
sorry, can't really help, unless you want to hire my OH, who loves hard work, loves whacking in fence poles by hand, and is a perfectionist about getting the posts absolutely perfectly in line...!
 
£300 would be the cheapest quote we've been given per day! And of course, some say a day is 7 hours work, and some say 5 hours work. Doesn't take much working out to see how much they are on per hour! Sorry, just can't justify paying somebody that amount, however professional they are. It's just manpower we need.
 
Its not cheap getting someone in to do fencing. I fenced about 10 acres a couple of years ago and it didnt take long at all. I was luckily enough to be able to borrow an old 26 ton slew and actually pushed the posts in but then again i only did it as it was clay soil but i wouldnt recommend it in other soils. You could always hire a hydraulic post borer only 45quid a day and do it your self. Its quite easy but just takes time.
 
Try phoning around your local farmers - a friend of mine had her husband's farm boys do it and they got it done in a day with a JCB.
 
Fencing contractors dont put up fencing for fun. Machinery costs money, travel to and from jobs, and who pays them in betwean jobs, when its too wet to work or the ground is frozen solid. Trying to compare prices with employed people who dont have to worry where their next contract comes from , or paying the wages, is possibly the daftest thing Ive seen on this forum yet.
 
So presume you're a fencing contractor then? So am I supposed to pay someone for the days they can't work? I'm self employed myself, and if I don't work some days, I don't expect my previous and next client to have to subsidise my non-working days. I know I'm not the only one on this forum who thinks the same about fencing prices, judging by the amount of PM's I've had about this thread.

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I do intend to speak to our local farmer to see if he will allow the use of his tractor with the bucket on, to thump them in as has been suggested by a lot of people.

At least we've got our posts and rails a lot cheaper than the quotes we were given.
 
They don't dig holes by hand all day and work like a dog ,,there should be no comparison a jobs a job ,and a price is a price ,,there jobs are not really physical .
 
Mike007 said:
Fencing contractors dont put up fencing for fun. Machinery costs money, travel to and from jobs, and who pays them in betwean jobs, when its too wet to work or the ground is frozen solid. Trying to compare prices with employed people who dont have to worry where their next contract comes from , or paying the wages, is possibly the daftest thing Ive seen on this forum yet.
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^^^^ Rarely truer words, on here.

3 years ago I sold my fencing business. At that time, I was charging out work at £16 pm, and that was with me supplying the materials. There were at that time, a Newmarket company who were doing first class work, with all creosoted materials, at £12 pm. How they managed it, I've no idea.

OP, be very careful with the materials which you choose. Tanilised posts will rot at ground level, and possibly within 4-5 years, the modern standard of timber treatment is dire. It's better to pay a little extra, and have creosoted materials, and the best that I've seen are Chase Supplies from Brandon. They are VASTLY better that the frightful stuff sold by Calder and Grandidge, who are closer to you.

Unless you are knowledgable, and if you supply your own materials, then when the posts rot, and if they're only tanilised, then THEY WILL, and the person erecting the fence will understandably disclaim all responsibility for the materials which you bought.

All so often, the route that seems the cheapest, ends up as the most expensive.

Alec.
 
Penniless said:
So presume you're a fencing contractor then? ......... I do intend to speak to our local farmer to see if he will allow the use of his tractor with the bucket on, to thump them in as has been suggested by a lot of people.

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Further to my last post, no decent post and rail fence was ever put in with a tractor and a bucket. The competent Fencing Contractor will have a purpose made post driver. He will take a pride in his work, and if you select the correct materials you will have a fence which will give you 30 years of service.

Alec.
 
Could you not buy your own tractor and use your own money to pay for machinery?
Fencing contracters might seem cheap then..
 
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