Fencing prices?

[RGrizzzz]

Does anyone have any tips on when welded wire fencing goes on sale? I usually need 100' of 5' fencing for fruit trees. I typically go with the 2"x4" grids vs the cheaper 4"x4". This has worked well, short of the few trees bears have gone after. Looking at prices this year, prices seem significantly higher than previous years. I've checked Tractor Supply, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. Where and when should I be looking?

 

[Smokegobbler]

Tractor Supply has it on sale every couple of months. Usually $15 to $20 of a roll (sometimes more). The most recent sale ($15 off) just ended Saturday.

 

[RGrizzzz]

Tractor Supply has it on sale every couple of months. Usually $15 to $20 of a roll (sometimes more). The most recent sale ($15 off) just ended Saturday.

Now you tell me! I know they occasionally have coupons too. There's a new TSC opening near me in the next few months. Hopefully they run some sort of grand opening offers and deals.

 

[Hoytvectrix]

I have not found many of the 2x4 inch welded wire rolls on sale ever since I went with these for cages. I wish I would have known about the TSC sale. This post motivated me to go through and set several price alerts through Google Shopping. I think you can find the 5' x 150' rolls of concrete remesh for slightly cheaper than the 2x4" 5' x 50' rolls (about $30 bucks cheaper for 150 feet), but the remesh is much harder to work with. The concrete remesh occasionally goes on sale even cheaper, but other than the Tractor Supply sale I have never seen a price difference for the 2 x 4" welded wire across locations or retailers.

 

[RGrizzzz]

I have not found many of the 2x4 inch welded wire rolls on sale ever since I went with these for cages. I wish I would have known about the TSC sale. This post motivated me to go through and set several price alerts through Google Shopping. I think you can find the 5' x 150' rolls of concrete remesh for slightly cheaper than the 2x4" 5' x 50' rolls (about $30 bucks cheaper for 150 feet), but the remesh is much harder to work with. The concrete remesh occasionally goes on sale even cheaper, but other than the Tractor Supply sale I have never seen a price difference for the 2 x 4" welded wire across locations or retailers.

I feel like I used to be able to find 100' rolls of 60" at TSC for about $100. I've been cutting them in 7' lengths, which gets me about 14 cages. Current price is $150. I might need 2 rolls for camp, and 1 for home this year.

 

[356]

I got some on Temu for this very purpose. Took about ten days to get it, but came from a US based warehouse.

CAPHAUS 5'. 14 Gauge Galvanized Welded Wire Mesh Size 2 inch by 4 inch, 50' was $69 including shipping, plus I had a 20% off coupon (search for discount codes).

 

[bigboreblr]

I got some on Temu for this very purpose. Took about ten days to get it, but came from a US based warehouse.

CAPHAUS 5'. 14 Gauge Galvanized Welded Wire Mesh Size 2 inch by 4 inch, 50' was $69 including shipping, plus I had a 20% off coupon (search for discount codes).

How does the 14 look and hold up? I thought 11 was the common gauge size. I use 10 feet of 4ft fence and works pretty good. A little nibble here n there, but central leaders out of 45 or so trees all have been good.

I bought some surplus ends from a local hobby farm. Probably 500ft worth of 10-25ft ends for $150. Some divided up to 8 or 9 ft and still was fine in 4ft.

Th bulk of my trees are 3 years old bareroot purchases. Pretty much all of them I can take the 10ft our and cut it in half to 5ft for permanent trunk protection. Probably can get 12 or so next tree cages from thinning those ones down.

tractor supply has 330ft 47" sheep fencing for 254. That $7.60 per 10ft cage. $150 5ft tall 2x4 is $150 or about 10 bucks per tree using 7ft.

Wasn't that impressed buyng 1/2" mesh for camp last year from amazon. Was kinda flimsy compared to other hardware mesh. I do 3ft sections of 4ft tall mesh at camp. All central leaders have looked good. I dump branches around the tree to prevent the deer from getting right up to it. All central leaders have remained intact up there except one. Probably around 30 trees so far. That 1 tree I didn't branch up around it well enough. All in food plot edges too, so the deer show up more often than typical deep woods activity. Most of these trees were grafted by me, so not a ton of money invested in them.

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Fencing - like most other things - is made in China or other countries ..... so tariffs are adding extra price jumps. Tariffs .......

 

[356]

How does the 14 look and hold up? I thought 11 was the common gauge size. I use 10 feet of 4ft fence and works pretty good. A little nibble here n there, but central leaders out of 45 or so trees all have been good.

I bought some surplus ends from a local hobby farm. Probably 500ft worth of 10-25ft ends for $150. Some divided up to 8 or 9 ft and still was fine in 4ft.

Th bulk of my trees are 3 years old bareroot purchases. Pretty much all of them I can take the 10ft our and cut it in half to 5ft for permanent trunk protection. Probably can get 12 or so next tree cages from thinning those ones down.

tractor supply has 330ft 47" sheep fencing for 254. That $7.60 per 10ft cage. $150 5ft tall 2x4 is $150 or about 10 bucks per tree using 7ft.

Wasn't that impressed buyng 1/2" mesh for camp last year from amazon. Was kinda flimsy compared to other hardware mesh. I do 3ft sections of 4ft tall mesh at camp. All central leaders have looked good. I dump branches around the tree to prevent the deer from getting right up to it. All central leaders have remained intact up there except one. Probably around 30 trees so far. That 1 tree I didn't branch up around it well enough. All in food plot edges too, so the deer show up more often than typical deep woods activity. Most of these trees were grafted by me, so not a ton of money invested in them.

The 14g is the minimum I would use, but it did OK....it's thicker than chicken wire, and easy to work with. So far deer and coons have stayed out, but if they climbed it, I would likely collapse. I also used it for my exclusion cages with good results. The best price I found for 11G was Lowes--about $200.

 

[RGrizzzz]

The 14g is the minimum I would use, but it did OK....it's thicker than chicken wire, and easy to work with. So far deer and coons have stayed out, but if they climbed it, I would likely collapse. I also used it for my exclusion cages with good results. The best price I found for 11G was Lowes--about $200.

I've used mostly 14 gauge for the last 3 years. It's held up fine, except for the 4 cages the bears found. They bent back into shape just fine.

 

[rocksnstumps]

I use 14 ga mostly but will use two stakes to hold it in place. Otherwise as mentioned the critters do bend it up. But I also have a good supply of old t-posts so doubling them up does not figure in the value equation vs a heavier gauge fence material

 

[g squared 23]

I don’t go cheap anymore on cages. I use this along with 2 T posts.

https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/red-brand-woven-field-fence-330-ft-l-x-47-in-h-3610163

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[Double Creek]

I have almost 100 trees that I need to swap from tubes to cages over the next year. Not looking forward to it!

 

[Hoytvectrix]

I have almost 100 trees that I need to swap from tubes to cages over the next year. Not looking forward to it!

I'm in the exact same boat. I am likely just going with 1-1.5 foot diameter cages depending on the tree species. The 1-3 years they were in tubes helped most get up high enough to where the trees will be out over a 5 ft cage in a year or so.

 

[marlin]

Concrete mesh from Menard’s. Bigger squares but cheaper. 5’ x 150’ rolls are 149.00 and you’ll get 11% rebate on top of that.

 

[keets]

cheapest I found last year was Menards, watch and wait for a sale, +11% off

 

[RGrizzzz]

cheapest I found last year was Menards, watch and wait for a sale, +11% off

Will they ship for free?

 

[keets]

no

 

[Bowsnbucks]

5 ft. X 150 ft. rolls of concrete mesh a couple years ago cost about $108 here. I know because I bought rolls at that price. Now ...... they're $238. Made offshore. When businesses say they're going to keep costs low (and people think "costs" are what they will pay) - they do not mean prices!!! Cost and price are 2 different animals. Keeping costs down means wages/pay/benefit levels. By moving manufacturing plants of any kind offshore - what businesses are telling U.S. workers is ...... "you're paid too much." So they move to poverty-level countries like India, China, Singapore, Indonesia, Pakistan, Mexico, Honduras, Bangladesh, Viet Nam, etc. that have no environmental laws or any real enforcement.

So ...... "costs" go down - prices go up. Big money is in the driver's seat, brothers. If you can get 150' rolls of 5' concrete mesh for $149 ..... I'd race to buy while the getting's good. These days, that's a steal.

 

[silver_yummies]

Menards