How much for a fence?

That is a interesting video arthurD. That really is quite a decent fence, no wonder it cost that much.

The cave at the start is Punchbowl Cave (2WJ-8) at Wee Jasper, I’ve spent many day wandering around in there.

I just watched an interesting csiro video on youtube that features the mulligans flat wildlife sanctuary, and they describe the fence toward the end of the film. You can see why it’s not a cheap fence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWI60oYJYnk

Special gates, electric lines, and remote sensing and video gear, all adds up.

Pity about the wash-over – possibly could have been prevented if they had put a few trash fences (low lines to catch trash from overland flows) upstream from the main fence.

Planting out the swale area with tussock grasses and the like would be a more long-term trash filtering solution.

Feb17, you are better off getting into the domestic fencing business. Our 23 meter (1.8 meter high) comined brick peir & merbau courtyard fence cost (inclusive labour) around $5000. Then we had the double swinging matching gates at end of fence installed, which cost just shy of $2000. From what I here, colourbond (although ugly) cost similar, about 80% the cost of what we had erected. Avoid Guvie work and all the paperwork and loopholes that go with it, and go for domestic cash in hand work.

astrojax said :

Inappropriate said :

I’ve seen the fence and it’s no mere chainlink fence. And to add to what others have said: it’s not in a readily accesible location, would taken a lot of man hours to build.

‘person hours’, surely; though it is strangely inappropriate to use this sort of sexist language… 😉

Musta been man-hours. I work with a bunch of chatty women and I reckon by the time they got through their quotas of committe meetings and OH&S rants, the cost would’ve doubled easy.

Inappropriate said :

I’ve seen the fence and it’s no mere chainlink fence. And to add to what others have said: it’s not in a readily accesible location, would taken a lot of man hours to build.

‘person hours’, surely; though it is strangely inappropriate to use this sort of sexist language… 😉

I’ve seen the fence and it’s no mere chainlink fence. And to add to what others have said: it’s not in a readily accesible location, would taken a lot of man hours to build.

I would like to think that the $1.3m was not just for a good quality fence, but all planning, mapping etc work that would have had to go through the bureaucracy for it to happen.

Yes you are out of touch with the cost of modern fences.
For what it is, that would be about standard for a fence that must keep feral animals out.

Have you seen the fence? Slightly more to it than ‘good quality chain mesh’.