THE FENCE THAT KEEPS GETTING PUSHED TO NEXT SEASON
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Everyone talks about the season. Almost nobody talks about the thing that actually decides whether your fencing gets done this year. The blokes worth having are booked months out. The young ones who would have learned the trade are on twice the money at the mine.
That is a supply problem, not a complaint about anyone. Rabobank has found across three straight quarters that around six in ten farmers still investing are putting money into on-farm infrastructure first. The demand did not go anywhere. The people did.
And a fence is two trades, not one. Somebody has to doze the line, clear it and pull the old fence out. Then somebody has to build the new one.
Here is what that actually means on the ground:
You leave messages and get one reply, weeks later, from the one bloke already booked out
The fencer will not commit to a date until the clearing bloke has been, so you are waiting on a wait
The cheapest quote is cheapest because the holes are shallower, and you find out in about the third summer
So the fence waits, you patch it on a Saturday, and the patch quietly becomes the fence
What this means for you: one crew that dozes the line, pulls the old fence out and builds the new one. One written estimate instead of two that do not line up. Strainers driven rather than dug, so the line holds through a wet and a dry. The same crew does the fabrication, the spraying and the dam work, so the next job is not another round of phone calls.
Here is the catch. I am one crew and I book out. I am not going to tell you I can be there next week when I cannot.
What I will do is come out and look. It is called the Fence Line Walk. I walk the run with you, then put one written estimate in your hand covering the clearing, the fence and any gates or grids. You also get told which parts are sound and do not need replacing.
It is free, and there is no obligation, whether you start this season or not.
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Book your walk. Fill in the form and I ring you to set a time that suits us both. It takes a minute, and you do not need to know your metres before you do it.
I come out and look. On your place, over the actual run, because the country sets the price and a photo does not show me what the ground is doing.
You get one written estimate. The clearing, the fence and any gates or grids, in one number. I flag anything I would leave alone. It is yours whether you book the job or not.
That is the whole thing. No deposit, and nothing to commit to.
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1. You deal with one outfit, not two. The clearing and the fence are the same crew, so nothing stops halfway waiting on somebody else to turn up.
2. The estimate covers both trades in one number. Clearing, fence and any gates or grids together, itemised, so you are not holding quotes that do not line up.
3. You get told what not to replace. Most runs do not all need doing. The stretches that are still sound get marked to leave alone.
4. Strainers go in driven, not dug. A dug strainer leans on its backfill. A driven one sits in ground that has never been disturbed, and it does not move.
5. You get access to more than a fencer. Fencing, earthmoving, fabrication, spraying and slashing all sit under one name, so the next job on your list does not start with ringing around again.
6. You are talking to the bloke doing the work. Cross & Co is Brodie and T.J., a family partnership. No rep, no office in between, one person accountable.
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| Keep patching it | Put a farm hand on it |  Get me out |
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|---|---|---|---|
| The line gets cleared before the fence | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| One written estimate before anything starts | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| The cheapest thing you can do today | ✓ | ○ | ✗ |
| Strainers driven into undisturbed ground | ✗ | ? | ✓ |
| You are told what does not need replacing | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| The job gets a date on it | ✗ | ○ | ✓ |
| The rest of your list gets done too | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Row three is the one I lose, and I have left it that way.
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One morning on your place, and a phone call before that to set a time. That is the whole of what it costs you.
One Written Estimate: The run, the clearing, and any gates or grids, itemised in one document you can hold before anything starts.
Nothing To Commit To: It is free, there is no deposit, and the estimate is yours whether you book the job with me or take it somewhere else entirely.
Gates Made Here: Gates and grids come out of my own workshop rather than bought in, so the fabrication sits inside the same job and the same estimate.
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You are probably here because one of these three is sitting somewhere on your list.
You Have Rung Around And Nobody Rang Back: Three outfits. One never replied at all, one promised a price months ago, and the good one is booked well out. So the job sits where it was. Book the Fence Line Walk and you get a call back to set a time, which is the part that has not been happening.
Doing It Yourself On Saturdays: Forty metres last weekend and your back is still telling you about it, with gear that is not really up to it. It holds. The end assemblies are the part that does not, and that is what turns up three years later when the fence goes slack and you are back at the start.
You Have A Run That Cannot Wait Another Season: The strainers are leaning and the bottom wire is down in three places. Most of the list can wait until things turn around. This one cannot, because one morning there are cattle out on the road and it is your name on it.
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The same people who walk your line build your fence. That is why the work holds, and it is also why there is a limit to how much of it I can take on in a season.
Jobs go into the book in the order the walks happen. Not in the order people first rang, and not by whoever is loudest.
The walk decides where you would sit: Where your job would land in the book is settled the morning I come out, not the day you decide you are ready. Sit on it for a month and the book has moved on without you.
I will not give you a number I do not have: You will not read "eighty percent full" here, because I do not run the book that way. After the walk I will tell you exactly where you would sit and I will not promise a date I cannot hold.
The season does not wait for either of us: When the book is full it is full, and the next gap is the next gap.
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"What is this going to cost me?"An estimate in writing, built on your actual run after the walk. Itemised, so you see what the clearing, the fence and the gates each come to, and which stretches I would leave alone.
"When could you start?"Honestly, it depends where the book is up to when you ring. The walk settles that, and you get a straight answer on the morning rather than a date I would have to walk back later.
"Is my job big enough to bother you with?"Runs of two and a half kilometres and up are where I am set up to be worth it. Under that, ring anyway. I will tell you whether it is worth my drive, and town fencing is a different trade.
"What is different about you and any other fencer?"A fencer builds the fence. Somebody else has to doze the line and pull the old one out, and that is the wait. I do both, so the clearing and the fence are one crew, one date and one estimate.
"What if I do not go ahead after the walk?"Then you have a written estimate, a list of what does not need replacing, and no bill. It is yours whether you book me, do it yourself or take it to someone else. Nothing was signed, so nothing is owed.
"The last fence I paid for went slack in three years. Why would yours be different?"It usually comes back to the end assemblies. They are the part that decides whether the fence stays tight, and the part that gets skimped when a quote is cheap. It is the one part I never cut.
"I do not know my metres, or what actually needs doing."You do not need to. That is what the walk is for. I measure it, and I tell you which stretches are sound and can be left alone. You only need to know which run is worrying you.
"I cannot find a single review of you. How do I know you are any good?"Because I have never asked for one, and I have never run an ad. Every job so far has come from someone asking their neighbour who did the fence. Meet me on the walk and judge for yourself.
"What actually happens after I fill in the form?"I ring you and we pick a morning. I come out and look at the run, and you get the estimate in writing after that. No deposit at any point, and it costs you nothing either way.
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When you book the walk, this is who turns up.
I am Brodie Cross. I have built fence across this district since 2023, and the Co is T.J., the other half of the family partnership. Two of us and the machines, out of Gunnedah, working the country around it.
The name is Earth, Ag and Fab because that is what a fence takes. Two trades: the clearing and the fence. I make the gates in the workshop as part of the second. That is how it grew.
Today that is graziers and mixed farmers within about a hundred kilometres of Gunnedah, on black soil that moves, which is what the fence is built for.
If you want the bloke who prices the fence to be the bloke who builds it, book a time.
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One morning on your place, one written estimateFree, no deposit, nothing to commit toJobs go in the order I walk themThe estimate is yours to keepBook the walk and I will tell you where you would sit. Leave it and the book moves on without you.
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