landman said:
huntintn said:
Hunter 257W said:
I'm just curious how much a mile of such a fence would cost??
Said the 2 miles was costing him 15,000.
Sounds Way low
I know a 1,500 acre tract that it cost $250,000
for line clearing and high fence
Well, if you look at how long a fence would have to be to go around 1,500 acres plus the cost of clearing that much ground I don't think these two prices are that different. Consider this: 1,500 acres is 2.34 square miles so the perimeter of that property would require 9.5 miles of fence. Take the $15,000/mile cost and multiply that times 9.5 and you've got $142,500 for just the fence. And that assumes the 1,500 acre property is square which it almost for sure isn't and as the shape deviates from a square the fence is going to get even longer. If the 1,500 acres required bulldozer work to clear 9.5 miles, that is going to cost a lot of money too. So this one mile of straight line fence may be consistent with the $250,000 fence after all.
I had no idea whatsoever about the costs is why I asked in the first place. Are these chain link fences with the V shaped barbed wire holders on top of the posts? I would assume that's what we are talking about here?
Most high fence are not chain link, not much more the cattle standard woven wire fence, some time they even use it and make 2 runs, and when a dozier is cleans straight lines usually cost is much lower. You many times factor that timber is cut so they is an open space to drive a check fencing which can give return back. You also have to figure that a tract that large which this on e did have road frontage, sometimes alot which cuts down on clearing. Either way its a costly thing to do and many times
they have there own equipment as in this case. The real kicker is this owner was NOT a deer hunter, but a quail hunter who got tried of seeing 4wheeler, truck tracts, gut piles, etc were trespassers were showing up on his land