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I'm wondering if anyone can tell me an approximate cost for how much chain-link fencing costs for an entire acre. Also planning on putting up a couple-few feet high rock wall in front with it being higher for a gated entrance. Looking for any kind of suggestions or experiences
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Originally posted by lakepuna
I hope I'm posting this is the best forum.
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me an approximate cost for how much chain-link fencing costs for an entire acre. Also planning on putting up a couple-few feet high rock wall in front with it being higher for a gated entrance. Looking for any kind of suggestions or experiences :
It depends on how tall it will be. You can get a rough cost of materials by determining how many feet around total, then going down to Home Depot to look at the mesh, poles and hardware. Be aware, there is cheap chain link material and more expensive. The cheap stuff will turn to rust in two years, so how cheap is that? The cost around here isn't the fence material, it is the cost of getting the posts into the ground, because the ground is lava, not dirt. You can do it yourself with a jack hammer rental from Home Depot but after the first post hole, that idea won't seem so great. Hiring somebody with a trackhoe and a jack hammer attachment will charge $150 per hour and it will take at least 2 or 3 days to dig holes around an acre, if it is all level and there isn't some huge lava boulder they run into.
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It also depends on the gauge of the wire in the chain link, the quality & wall thickness of the fence posts & DIMENSIONS of YOUR lot....
Example, suppose you would like to enclose 40,000 sqft (AKA close to all of an acre)
If your lot were 200' x 200' you would need 800 linear ft of fencing
If your lot were 1000' x 40' you would need 2,080 linear ft of fencing
Three years ago we were getting rough quotes for our 5' fence with a range ave $10/lin ft for link installed & $100/lin ft rock wall....but there was a wide range in our quotes...
ADD: Found the old post with the costs we went with:
http://www.punaweb.org/Forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=13830
"Our quote would not do much for you, as it was a replacement, so included removal & rolling of old fence, and installing 5' chain link with top bar, tension wire & multiple openings....around $20/ft (not counting the cost of the gates....)"
Our gates were far more $$ as our dog had developed a taste for pulling apart chain link...
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$10/lin ft for link installed
Earlier this year I was given a rough quote of $8-10/LF for T-post and hogwire, so either prices have gone up or someone needed to repair their boat...
I suspect that labor costs are much lower if the fenceline is driveable, as with a ripped lot (or very flat pahoehoe).
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For a full acre, you'll probably save some money going with hog wire instead of chain link fencing
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I recently got a verbal quote for a hogwire fence around one acre in Eden Roc. $16,000. The price per foot was $17.
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Livestock fencing is a lot cheaper than chain link. I recommend the 330' rolls of 48 inch. You can run a strand of barbed wire above that if you need it to be a little taller. And you can get the galvanized T-posts in the lava with a pick axe, o'o bar, and a post driver. I recommend getting fencing at Dells or Mirandas. Get the level 3 or whatever its called, it costs a few dollars more but will last the longest. All the fencing at Home Depot is garbage. The only thing I would buy there is the post driver, the pick axe, and the livestock gates and hardware.
We got quotes to fence one side of our 3 acre lot and I don't remember what it was but I remember thinking that if we were completely fencing the lot (the other sides were already fenced) it would cost more than the lot did, so we did it ourselves. It was a lot of hard work but it was the only way we could afford it. All told I put in just over a quarter mile of fencing and at least half of it was unripped lava.
Forgot to add, if you need to sink a t-post into solid lava rock, another way it can be done is to buy a masonry bit for a hammer drill. HD sells one large enough and it fits a regular cordless drill (it works with a hammer drill or regular drill). You'll have to break the spade thing or whatever it called off the t-post, which can be done with a heavy hand mallet. Alternatively you can leave it on and it will break off on its own when it meets the rock during pounding with the post driver. Drill the hole as deep as you can, then pound the post in using a post driver. It will be stuck in there forever.
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break the spade thing or whatever it called off the t-post
Or turn the T-post upside down. I've seen at least one fence like that.
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Home Depot was just to get some pricing with everything in front of you. The topic was originally chain link which is a lot more complicated than it looks and all kinds of necessary parts. Yes, the fencing at Home Depot is really bad and will corrode in a few years. Miranda has the better quality fencing and not that much higher. The hog wire also tends to corrode rapidly, and that is what looks like hell in some areas. The estimate for hog wire around an acre sounds about right and chain link will be at least twice that much.
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break the spade thing or whatever it called off the t-post
Or turn the T-post upside down. I've seen at least one fence like that.
That only works if you're not using a post driver. But come to think of it, you might be able to knock the spade thing or whatever it's called off with the post driver using your suggestion. Next time, I'll try that.
