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Ranch Fencing in Clifton, TX
Clifton is limestone and cedar country with a long history of sheep and goats. We build net wire, game fence, and pipe that holds on hard ground.
Clifton is limestone and cedar country with a long history of sheep and goats. We build net wire, game fence, and pipe that holds on hard ground.
Clifton sits on the Bosque River in the middle of Bosque County, in the hill country that Norwegian settlers took up in the 1850s. The ground here is nothing like the Waco blackland twenty five miles east. It is shallow soil over limestone, cedar in the draws, and enough grade that a fence line rarely runs flat for long.
That country has run sheep and goats for well over a century, and it still does alongside cattle and increasingly whitetail behind high fence. We build net wire, barbed wire, and pipe fence throughout Bosque County, with free written estimates.
Goats are the hardest animal in Texas to keep behind a fence. Fixed knot net wire with tight spacing at the bottom is the answer, not more strands of barbed wire. Our goat and sheep fencing guide covers spacing and cost.
A growing share of Bosque County acreage is managed for whitetail and exotics. We build 8 foot fixed knot game fence over rolling limestone, including the grade changes and draws that make it tricky.
Ashe juniper takes a fence line back fast out here. We clear the line ahead of the build and price the clearing as its own item so you can see what it costs.
Welded pipe for pens, corrals, and road frontage. On shallow rock, pipe set in concrete often outperforms wood posts that cannot get depth.
The fencing problem around Clifton is depth. In a lot of places you have twelve to twenty inches of soil sitting on solid limestone, and a post that wants to go three and a half feet down simply is not going to.
We drill. A hydraulic auger with a carbide rock bit gets through most of what is out here, and where it will not, we set shorter posts in concrete and change the brace geometry to make up for the lost depth. What we do not do is set a shallow post in dirt and call it good, because that is the corner that pulls in year two.
Grade compounds it. A fence dropping off a ridge into a draw pulls hard downhill, so corners at the top of a grade need bracing sized for the pull rather than the standard assembly. Our H-brace guide explains the geometry.
Net wire for sheep and goats runs $3.50 to $8 per foot depending on wire class and how much clearing the line needs. Barbed wire runs $2.50 to $5.50, and game fence $4.50 to $10.
Rock drilling is the Bosque County variable. Depending on how much limestone we hit, expect $15 to $40 per hole over a normal set, which on a mile of fence with posts every twelve feet is real money. We walk the line and probe before quoting so the number in the estimate is the number on the invoice. See the ranch fence cost guide for the full picture.
We work Clifton along with Meridian, Valley Mills, and the ranch country along SH 6 and FM 219. Bosque County is a normal run for us out of Waco.
Call any hour if stock is out or a storm has taken a line down. We patch first so nothing is loose on the highway, then schedule the permanent repair.
Fixed knot net wire, 47 inches or taller, with vertical stays no more than 6 inches apart at the bottom. Barbed wire does not hold goats no matter how many strands you run, and hinge joint wire lets them push through the bottom squares. Expect $3.50 to $8 per foot installed.
We drill into the limestone with a carbide rock bit and set the post in the rock itself, which actually holds better than deep soil once it is grouted or concreted in. Where the rock is too hard or too shallow, we shorten the post, widen the brace, and adjust the assembly so the geometry still carries the load.
Regularly. Eight foot fixed knot game fence runs $4.50 to $10 per foot here, with the rolling ground and cedar clearing pushing toward the upper half of that range. We handle the clearing, the grade changes, and the water gaps across the draws.
On a heavily cedared line, clearing typically runs $1.50 to $4 per foot on top of the fence itself, depending on stem size and whether you want the material burned, mulched, or windrowed. A cleared line builds straighter and needs far less maintenance, so it is rarely worth skipping.
Free written estimates. Emergency calls answered around the clock.
Most barbed wire fence around Waco runs $2.50 to $5.50 per foot installed, and game fence runs $4.50 to $10, so a written quote costs you nothing but a walk down the fence line. Call (509) 351-8404 or email info@brazosridgefence.com and we'll get you a free written estimate this week.
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