Fencing prices?

[bwoods11]

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.

 

[bigboreblr]

Tubes seem to not be that successful. Often see over half of them failed. Maybe not the tube's fault, could be watering too.

Buying trees are only worth it if you fence them right. Plant as many as you're gonna buy good fence for.

Never used cattle fence, but I would only use it if I was going to keep it there permanently, or reuse it in a few years for a new round of trees.