Economics of High Tensile Wire Fences

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Economics of High Tensile Wire Fences
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Planning Considerations

• Kind and class of livestock
• Predator control
• Operator preference

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High Tensile Wire Fences

• Easy to install and maintain
• Requires special equipment
• Easily powered to create psychological barrier
• Several contractors available
• Not easily moved
• Wire is difficult to handle if fence is moved

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Fence Construction - Wire

• High tensile wire fences (electrified) require 4
  strands of wire

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Fence Construction - Posts

• Corners required when fence deviates 5 degrees
• End assemblies located at gates, against
  buildings, where fence ends or begins

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Fence Construction - Posts

• Pull assemblies Same as corners, but installed
  in a straight line.
• Required every 2640 ft
• Line posts between the above structures
• 30 foot spacing for high tensile wire

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CORNER ASSEMBLY
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END ASSEMBLY
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PULL ASSEMBLY
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Fence Construction - Miscellaneous

• Gates
• Staples and fasteners
• Insulators, lightning protection, earth return
  rods, clamps, etc.
• Energizer

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Fence Costs - Wire

• High tensile, 200,000 psi
• 49 for 2640 feet
• White HTW for visibility
• 370 for 2640 feet

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Fence Costs - Posts

• End assemblies 27.70 each
• Corner assemblies 45.40 each
• Pull assemblies 45.70 each
• Line posts
• Wood 6.00 each
• Steel T 1.35 each

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Fence Costs - Miscellaneous

• Gate, 12 ft w/ latch 107.00 each
• Energizer 125 to 400 each
• In line strainers 3.30 each
• Earth return rods 6.00 each
• Lightning choke 11.00 each
• Lightning arrestor 5.00 each

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Fence Costs - Miscellaneous

• Insulated wire for around gate
• 6.50 per 50 feet
• Underground cable
• 15.00 per 100 feet
• Staples for barbed woven wire
• 8.00 per mile
• Staples for insulated high tensile wire
• 6.00 per mile

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Fence Costs - Miscellaneous

• Insulation tubes
• 0.10 per strand per line post
• 0.80 per strand per corner assembly
• 0.40 per strand per end assembly
• Nicopress sleeves
• 0.19 each

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EXAMPLE SITE 20 ACRES
1320 feet
660 feet
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Example High Tensile Wire

• 3 corner assemblies 136.20
• 2 end assemblies 55.40
• 130 wood line posts 780.00
• 5 strands HT wire 367.00
• 1 strand white HTW 554.00

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Example High Tensile Wire

• Gate latch 107.00
• Energizer 225.00
• In line strainers 79.20
• Earth return rods 36.00
• Miscellaneous 157.24

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Comparison - Example

• 20 acre site 2,497.04
• 3,329 / mi
• Typical contractor price is 1.40 per foot or
  7,392 per mile, materials labor
• Cost per acre (materials only)
• 124.85

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EACH SITE 20 AC.
Cost 2497 3,329 / mile 126 / acre
Cost 3171 3,247 / mile 159 / acre
Cost 2695 3,637 / mile 135 / acre