Farm Fencing Hills District

Rural Fencing for the Hills District Properties

Ask three contractors for rural fencing in the Hills District and you may get three different answers. The difference usually comes down to whether anyone has looked at acreage in Dural and Glenorie sitting a short drive from dense new estates before pricing the job.

There is a pattern to rural fencing jobs in the Hills District, where the housing is largely everything from 1970s brick on quarter acres to brand new estate housing. A whole street tends to reach the same point at the same time.

Half the skill in rural fencing around the Hills District is knowing what not to disturb. Established gardens, old services and long boundaries that need setting out properly before anything is ordered all sit in the way of the obvious approach.

We are based at Wentworthville and cover the Hills District regularly. Call 0492 879 796 to book a site visit and a fixed written quote.

Getting Materials Onto a the Hills District Site

Neighbouring properties, verges and driveways get protected. Around the Hills District we allow for a canopy of established trees that keeps timber damp through winter, because a delivery in the wrong place causes more trouble than it saves.

Where machine access is not possible, we say so in the quote rather than discovering it on the morning. Hand excavation on Wianamatta shale clay grading to sandstone along the northern ridges is slow and it should be priced honestly.

Specification Notes for the Hills District

Material selection here is driven by exposure and by use. Once you allow for clay that moves seasonally enough to matter for any retained face, the finish and the fixings decide the service life more than the substrate does.

There is no premium in over-specifying something that was never going to fail. We put the money where the Hills District conditions actually attack the job, which is generally at ground level and at the fixings.

• Hinge joint has vertical stay wires that flex under impact and return, which is why it survives stock pressure.
• Barbed wire and horses are a poor combination on any boundary a horse will lean on.
• Gate posts on a farm gate carry a long lever arm, so they are strained and braced rather than simply concreted.
• A sight rail or top wire gives an animal something to see, which stops it walking into the line at speed.
• A wire fence holds its shape because of the strainer assemblies at each end, not because of the intermediate posts.

The Faults We See Most Often in the Hills District

We are based at Wentworthville and the Hills District is well inside our regular run, so a site visit is a short trip rather than a scheduling problem.

• Mesh that has been pushed out of shape by stock leaning on it
• Strainer assemblies that have pulled and let a whole run go slack
• A boundary that no longer contains what it needs to contain
• Gates that have dropped and now drag through the dirt

Types of Rural Fencing for the Hills District Properties

Why the Hills District Sites Need a Site-Specific Approach

Tree cover and root zones matter around the Hills District. Roots are worked around rather than cut through, both because the tree matters and because a cut root under a footing is a future problem.

On rolling ridge country with acreage in the north and dense estates in the west, a level change has to be resolved rather than hidden. We work out whether it is stepped, raked or retained on site with you, before anything is measured up for order.

It is worth knowing about rural residential blocks where stock and privacy both matter before you commit to a design. It does not rule anything out, but it changes the detail and it belongs in the quote rather than in a conversation on the day.