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East of Broken Bow | I have a friend who makes continuous corral fence. Says that there is some profit in it, a little more if you can source reject/blemished materials, and quite a bit of money in it if you custom make it on site. He will do anything from build it to fit your setup and posts, to building you a whole corral in a prepared site (cleared of anything in the way of the fence and any big weeds shredded). Says the real money is in building a little horse arena for Drs and the like.
A couple pointers, if you are doing everything from the ground up, walk it out with the owner, and put flags and clearly mark on the ground where the gates will be, how wide, which way they will swing. Dig the post holes for the corners, and string twine from the corners so they can 'see' the corral, and get another OK before moving on. Take pictures, and have them OK the pictures for a record. Use whatever posts they approve of, you can make suggestions, but they have the final say. If you don't feel comfortable with what they want' don't do the job.
If you are putting them up to replace existing pens, walk the pen with the owner, and clearly mark what posts stay, and what posts get replaced. Have them marked with a can of spray paint, a different color to keep than replace. My friend has a lot of business from older farmers/ranchers who want their pens fixed up but not necessarily replaced. He replaces any bad or iffy posts, and then custom makes the panels to fit the lengths of the runs in the pens. Says that the landowner really smiles when he brings in a stack of continuous fence, and it exactly fits the space he has for it with no waste.
If you sell continuous fence, you need to have clips, bolts, extra splices, etc on hand for their installation
That said, freestanding panels are really gaining in popularity, and are easy to sell here, too. An advantage to them is you don't need to worry about carrying extra hardware for them. | |
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Free standing panel or continous fence sell better?
