What does old fence weigh?

[hillbilly beef man]

I have 1200 ft of old barbed wire and rotted wooden post fence that I am going to have tear out and rebuild. I am trying to decide on whether to dig a hole and bury it or just haul it the landfill and have it gone off the place. I have a dump to haul it on, but just wondering if anyone knows roughly how many tons this would weigh. It costs $42 a ton to dump it here.

 

[M-5]

less than you think , If you want to scrap it pile it and set fire to it burn out the post. then you can sell it . it wont bring much. I dug out a 1/4 mile of web wire and barb wire from a burn pile 2 weeks ago. It prolly weighed 1000 to 1500# total
I didn't sell it I piled it out of the way till prices come up and I can get a big load of scrap to sell.

 

[backhoeboogie]

I sold quite a load of old fence to the junk yard. I suspect it is rebar now. Rolling it up was a pain in the rear because it kept catching grass.

On the flood plains I always dug and hole and flattened it in the hole. Down deep. Had to remember where the hole was for next time a flood took out the fence. Didn't want to dig in to it again.

 

[callmefence]

less than you think , If you want to scrap it pile it and set fire to it burn out the post. then you can sell it . it wont bring much. I dug out a 1/4 mile of web wire and barb wire from a burn pile 2 weeks ago. It prolly weighed 1000 to 1500# total
I didn't sell it I piled it out of the way till prices come up and I can get a big load of scrap to sell.

I try to stay round 190 but I'm about 220 right now.
M5 gave you your best bet.
Definitely your best bet. Prices right now are about 4 cents a pound. You'll get it off your place and half enough to take mama out for dinner.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

less than you think , If you want to scrap it pile it and set fire to it burn out the post. then you can sell it . it wont bring much. I dug out a 1/4 mile of web wire and barb wire from a burn pile 2 weeks ago. It prolly weighed 1000 to 1500# total
I didn't sell it I piled it out of the way till prices come up and I can get a big load of scrap to sell.

I try to stay round 190 but I'm about 220 right now.
M5 gave you your best bet.
Definitely your best bet. Prices right now are about 4 cents a pound. You'll get it off your place and half enough to take mama out for dinner.

What about the steeples? Dig a shallow hole to burn it in and then cover them up?

 

[callmefence]

less than you think , If you want to scrap it pile it and set fire to it burn out the post. then you can sell it . it wont bring much. I dug out a 1/4 mile of web wire and barb wire from a burn pile 2 weeks ago. It prolly weighed 1000 to 1500# total
I didn't sell it I piled it out of the way till prices come up and I can get a big load of scrap to sell.

I try to stay round 190 but I'm about 220 right now.
M5 gave you your best bet.
Definitely your best bet. Prices right now are about 4 cents a pound. You'll get it off your place and half enough to take mama out for dinner.

What about the steeples? Dig a shallow hole to burn it in and then cover them up?

Yeah I have a dedicated burn hole. We don't cover it up. Just a hole dug out to keep the debris from getting scattered. The heat of the fire seems to make staples and nails rust away quicker to.idk

 

[M-5]

Steeples are on church's . after I get burn pile cleaned a level I'll roll my 36" magnet over it and it gets the majority of staples and bits of wire

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Steeples are on church's

. Staples are used to hold papers together, steeples are to hold wire on wooden post.

 

[Bestoutwest]

Steeples are on church's

. Staples are used to hold papers together, steeples are to hold wire on wooden post.

You guys are both wrong, here they're called fence clips. :lol2:

 

[callmefence]

Had to fire a boy one time cause he wouldn't quit calling em u nails

 

[TexasBred]

Steeples are on church's

. Staples are used to hold papers together, steeples are to hold wire on wooden post.

Google "Fence Staples". :nod:

 

[hillbilly beef man]

Steeples are on church's

. Staples are used to hold papers together, steeples are to hold wire on wooden post.

Google "Fence Staples". :nod:

Google don't know hillbilly.

 

[M-5]

. Staples are used to hold papers together, steeples are to hold wire on wooden post.

Google "Fence Staples". :nod:

Google don't know hillbilly.

if you google" hillbiily "this is what you get

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

Steeples are on church's

. Staples are used to hold papers together, steeples are to hold wire on wooden post.

Google "Fence Staples". :nod:

Pains me to know that you and I agree on this one.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Google "Fence Staples". :nod:

Okay I did. Wish I wouldn't have. There are folks out there more twisted than here. "U Nails"???

"may also be used for attaching suspended ceilings to wood rafters"

There is more.

weight weight weight! Okay TB, eye sea watt ewe mint.

 

[Margonme]

Traditionally called fence steeples in this part of Kentucky. May be a colloquialism but that is a fact Jack!

In the midwest, many people (farmers/ranchers) pronounce the fastener driven into a post for holding wire as steeple. I grew up that way too. Emmett Redd. A Way with WORDS.

 

[NECowboy]

less than you think , If you want to scrap it pile it and set fire to it burn out the post. then you can sell it . it wont bring much. I dug out a 1/4 mile of web wire and barb wire from a burn pile 2 weeks ago. It prolly weighed 1000 to 1500# total
I didn't sell it I piled it out of the way till prices come up and I can get a big load of scrap to sell.

I try to stay round 190 but I'm about 220 right now.
M5 gave you your best bet.
Definitely your best bet. Prices right now are about 4 cents a pound. You'll get it off your place and half enough to take mama out for dinner.

Cheap dinner at best. Going back to the thread a about restaurant prices I can take my wife out for Mexican for 25 bucks between the two of us, American at least 40, red lobster at least 50, and if we want any kind of steaks figure at least 60!!

This is our favorite restaurant it's in the country in a little wood frame building surrounded by corn fields but the atmosphere and food quality is among best we've found:

http://thespeakeasyrestaurant.com/Home. ... irect=true