Fencing Component Life Span

[centrarchid]

As I price an expansion of my fenced in area I have a little more information to work from. Poultry netting holds up pretty good through four years. Black plastic insulator materials is very much failing by 6 years. Over last couple months I have had a lot of fencing issues where the black plastic is becoming so brittle as to fail making for a short. The yellow insulators have yet to fail. Neither does will when too close to prescribed burn. Metal T-post and fiberglass post rods look like they can go another 20 years at least.

 

[snow5164]

The poultry netting you mention is nylon/plastic mesh ? If it’s put on as a roof ours lasted 2 summers then the cat fell threw it , we think the sun on it weakens it and it just snapped .

 

[Ghosty]

Ya, plastic for consumers is not made well. I worked at a plastics plant that made bins, totes, pallets, and lots of other stuff for distribution and packing for various companies. That is real plastic. They give us stuff that will rot, become brittle, and break in a year. The cheapest bucket we made came out of the machine in less than a minute, was made from regrind, and could be stood on as a stool before it completely cooled. These products would last for years until a forklift driver busted it and they sent it back for regrind.