Bala Chain Link Fence, Pasture Fencing and Perimeter Systems

Two Things Decide the Fence in Bala: the Herd and Open Ground

In Bala, perimeter work starts with a question you rarely hear elsewhere: what are you keeping in? Across wide pasture and grazing land, where sheep, goat and cattle farming set the pace, a fence is far less a security wall than a boundary and a steering tool. It decides where the herd grazes, which parcel it cannot cross into, and which gate it is taken out through.

The second factor is the ground itself. On dry-farmed, thinly settled flats open to the wind, the line carries load constantly. The very same fence build stands straight for years in an orchard sheltered by trees, yet out on open ground, if post spacing is chosen badly, sway and leaning start within a couple of seasons. These two themes carry the logic behind every decision below.

Where Do You Start When Marking Out a Pasture Boundary?

Begin by finding the true length of the line. Pasture and grazing parcels are never neat rectangles, so adding two edge measurements off a map will not do; every break in the boundary has to be measured and totalled separately. Each break point means a corner post, and a corner post is never left without a brace, under any circumstances.

As you set the boundary, mark three things from the outset: access to water and drinking troughs, the route the herd takes back to the pen, and the points vehicles will drive through. Those three fix your gate positions. Cutting a gate in later means slackening a line you have already tensioned, so every gate planned up front removes work further down the road.

Splitting the line into sections during measurement and writing each one down separately also makes it far easier to drop material at the right point later. Note the north boundary as 600 metres and the east boundary as 450 metres, for instance, and how many posts and how many rolls of wire each section needs falls out on its own. That split saves particular time for farms fencing in stages rather than in one go.

One Fence Does Not Suit Both Sheep and Cattle

With cattle the issue is not slipping through a wide aperture; it is whether the wire takes the load. The animals lean on the fence, rub along it and scratch themselves, so a mesh aperture of 10 x 10 cm or larger is perfectly adequate, while wire thickness, tension and post frequency come to the fore. On cattle lines, welded products such as welded mesh panels hold their shape and give you a clear advantage.

With sheep and goats it goes the other way: they wriggle out through tight gaps, and lambs find the smallest opening there is. Here you want a 5 x 5 cm aperture, or a graduated mesh that closes up towards the bottom. Where the flock includes goats, climbing has to be allowed for too; the top edge must be tight and straight, and the bottom edge must leave no gap against the ground.

Farms running mixed stock often have to answer both needs on a single line. The practical answer there is to build the lower section to sheep spec with a close aperture and finish the upper section more economically. That arrangement keeps both groups in without taking the whole line up to the tightest mesh, and it pulls the total cost down noticeably.

Barbed Wire: Number of Strands and Height

The most common answer for a pasture perimeter is a run of barbed wire. Two variables have to be set correctly: how many strands you run, and what heights those strands sit at. Set the bottom strand too close to the ground and it fills with grass and rusts; leave it too high and small stock walks straight under it.

Farms that want the lower section closed off completely tend to run galvanised chain link fence near the ground and add two strands of barbed wire along the top edge. Working out total wire is simple: line length x number of strands. On a 2,000 metre pasture boundary, 5 strands come to 10,000 metres of wire, with roughly 5% added on top for ties and wastage.

Post Spacing, Bracing and Tension on Wind-Exposed Flats

On the open flats of Bala it is the post arrangement, not the wire, that decides how long a line lasts. 3 metres is an acceptable spacing on sheltered land, but on a straight run taking constant wind, tightening that spacing to 2.5 metres cuts the sway noticeably. Post length is chosen by adding the embedment depth to the fence height: a 1.50 metre fence needs 50-60 centimetres in the ground, which means a post of at least 2 metres.

The rule on bracing is plain: a braced tension post at every corner, beside every gate, and every 30-50 metres along a straight run. The brace is the only thing that stops tensioned wire pulling a post over; on long lines, leaving it out is the saving people regret most. If the farm is setting its own posts, easily handled steel tube posts make sense; where a permanent, maintenance-free line is wanted, concrete posts come to the fore.

Planning Crossings and Gates in Thinly Settled Country

In a district of wide parcels and scattered settlement, putting a gate in the wrong place means extra travel every single day. Think through the herd's route into pasture, the path of the vehicle carrying feed and water, and the tractor's entry to the field, each on its own. The opening used for herd movement has to be wide enough for the animals to flow through without crowding; a narrow gate tires the stock and strains the fence.

At field and pasture entrances a field gate is the practical answer. Do not take the clear opening below 4 metres for a tractor and trailer, or below 5-6 metres at entrances used by machinery. Leaving a separate pedestrian crossing where the shepherd or the staff come and go stops the main gate being swung open needlessly.

Allow, too, for the herd passing the same point over and over through the grazing season. The posts either side of a gate take far more punishment than the rest of the line, so gate posts have to go deeper than intermediate posts and must always be braced. Where the ground in front of a gate turns to mud and scours out, a gap opens along the bottom edge and small stock gets out at exactly that spot; checking this point at the start of the season is a good habit.

Dispatch to Bala, Prices and Site Teams

Material leaves our warehouse in Ostim. Bala is roughly 52 kilometres away and delivery is planned within 1 business day; on parcels near the town centre this normally runs smoothly, while for remote pasture points it is worth agreeing beforehand whether the vehicle can reach the parcel itself. Delivery is always charged, including addresses within Ankara.

Site surveys, by contrast, are free within Ankara. Looking at the ground in person settles the true length of the line, the break points, how hard the ground is and where the gates belong, and that is what gets the material list right first time. Installation is not a standard service; our teams attend projects of approximately 1000 metres and above. Pasture and grazing perimeters usually run past that figure, so a good share of the work in Bala falls inside it. The prices we quote include VAT.