Pricing a rabbit job. pt2

[Rabbithunter 456]

Does anybody make use rabbit fencing as a mean of preventing rabbit's access to land? I have one or two upcoming jobs and need to explore every possibility.

 

Obviously fencing is a lot of hard work, but i know a lad or two that i'm sure wouldn't mind lending a hand.

 

What sort of prices would you lads/lasses say for rabbit fencing ?

[ratkilla 35]

£10's a meter

[richie 1]

i suspose you have to take into account all the poles/stakes your going to use, the wire to run the length of the fence to give its strength and the time its going to take to dig down 12 inches down and back to bury the bottom of the fence. ive just finished a small job for a farmer. each pole cost £5, fencing cost £35 per 50 metres and the wire cost £0.20p per foot. and this weekend im installing 3 drop boxes to work with the fence.

 

richie

Edited May 29, 2007 by richie

[TOMO 26,646]

last company i worked for did this work. they used to charge £15 per metre

[Guest Ditch_Shitter]

Hang about. Isn't anybody spotting the glaring anomily in all this " How much to you Professionals charge for ye work? " craic?

 

I once needed a Plumber. He came and did a first rate job and charged me one hundred pounds. A mate of mine is a Professional Plumber. He saw I needed a similar job doing here. He did it for me and that was that. A favour.

 

I'll kill some pest, for a friend, as a favour too. But if Tom, Dick or Harry wants it doing, I charge my Professional rates. I charge these rates in order to help compensate for the Thousands of pounds and countless hours I've put in ~ and still am ~ in order to become of a Professional standard.

 

Now, Rabbithunter; What Training, Experiance and Certification have you achieved to make you Qualified to lay possibly miles of 'Rabbit Proof Fencing'? What Guarantees can ye provide that ye work will be of a Professional standard?

 

Not trying to piss on ye fire mate. But the fact is that before anyone can start considering what Professionals charge, shouldn't one first become a qualified man of that trade? What are we to hear from ye next? " I've met a farmer with a major rat infestation. How much to you Professional Pesters charge? Only I'm off down to B&Q in the morning, to buy a tub of poison and some traps. " ?

 

See where I'm coming from? If you're an ambitious Handy Man, ask Handy Mans rates. Enthusiastic youngster and a couple of mates? Who's fetching and operating the Digger then?

[snoopdog 1,256]

what that hell do you nee a digger for ditch they are putting a rabbit fence up and i think if they can get the work ..crack on and they should also charge the going rate if they can get if they dont do the job right which iam sure they will do...then they will have to get a proffesonal in so that makes everybody happy exsept the customer ...everybody got to start somwhere whos going to take over you ditch when youi retire ...your are to tight to learn sombody ......maybe a young lad is starting to poach some of your work now folks start missing things when they get older leaveing baited traps abd things ...give the young ens a chance ditch.. rabbithunter go in at twenty pound a meter .....you can always drop your price but its hard to put it up.. :thumbs-up:

[Guest The Big Fish]

what that hell do you nee a digger for ditch

 

They will need a mini digger to dig the trench that the wire will be inserted into. A PROPERLY installed rabbit fence will have the bottom foot of wire buried into the ground.

They could dig the trench by hand i suppose, but they will make no profit out of it.

[Rabbithunter 456]

A PROPERLY installed rabbit fence will have the bottom foot of wire buried into the ground.

 

I always thought it should be 18"

 

 

The question was asked, by a novice. And ditch has certainly give me the explanations i need, to stop me fencing with his wise choice of words such as "certification" & "guarantee"

[Guest The Big Fish]

Well, weve always put them in at a foot deep, i think you will find that the specialist plough that ploughs the furrow and inserts the wire at the same time also burys the wire at a foot.

[richie 1]

correct me if im wrong please... but a fence should be buried 12 inches deep and sloping back towards the area their coming from. but its not worth putting up a fence unless your going to install a certain number of drop boxes to stop the rabbits from either digging underneath, biting through or trying to jump over which will cause it to bend down. they will have no need to dig if they can use the drop box entry point.

 

 

richie

 

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Edited May 30, 2007 by richie

[steamingutpiles 117]

Here in Australia AUD$52.00 per metre.

[RatSnatcher 0]

whats the exchange rate at th moment ST piles?

 

I'd be using a digger......otherwise you just aswell be on the chain gang

Edited May 31, 2007 by RatSnatcher

[snareman 3]

whats the exchange rate at th moment ST piles?

 

I'd be using a digger......otherwise you just aswell be on the chain gang

gee whiz, i remember when the great wall of china was a wire fence , and that took some digging , i,ll just stick to the snares .

[moley 115]

whats the exchange rate at th moment ST piles?

 

I'd be using a digger......otherwise you just aswell be on the chain gang

gee whiz, i remember when the great wall of china was a wire fence , and that took some digging , i,ll just stick to the snares .

 

you havn,t half worn well