Farm fencing is a different trade to garden fencing, and most contractors who search well for it do not actually do it. Ben works agricultural contracts across South Wales — long runs, hard ground, proper materials.
The materials are the first difference. Creosoted strainers rather than treated softwood on the corners, HC4-treated intermediates in ground that stays wet, high-tensile line wire that holds its tension, and bracing at every strain point. Domestic fencing materials simply do not survive on a farm boundary, and the cost of redoing a run because the spec was wrong dwarfs the saving.
The second is scale and ground. Agricultural runs are measured in hundreds of metres, often across wet, peaty or steeply sloping land with no easy access. Ben has completed a 1,000-metre grant-specification run at Nant-y-Fedw, 500 metres of stock fencing and 200 metres at Gadlys farm, using tracked-machine access where wheeled plant would sink.
Beyond the boundary itself there are the entrances, field gates and hanging posts that take the daily punishment, plus equestrian work — post and rail, paddock divisions and ménages built alongside a groundworks partner. It is all quoted from a walk of the actual line rather than a figure per metre given down the phone.
Yes — grant-specification work is a regular part of the agricultural side, including a 1,000-metre run at Nant-y-Fedw farm built to scheme spec. Bring the scheme requirements to the site visit and the materials, spacing and build are set to meet them.
Base is Bridgend and the regular patch is roughly 30 miles across South Wales, but agricultural contracts are larger and longer-running than domestic jobs, so for the right run it is worth travelling further. Ask and Ben will tell you straight whether it works.
Materials, scale and ground. Farm work uses creosoted strainers, HC4 intermediates and high-tensile wire strained hard, over runs of hundreds of metres on ground that often defeats wheeled plant. Garden fencing materials and methods will not survive on a farm boundary.
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Farm boundaries, grant-spec runs, stock netting and gates — proper agricultural fencing for working land.
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