Use $1.25 to $5 per installed linear foot as a planning estimate. Total footage, strand count, post spacing, bracing, access, and ground conditions shape the installed price. Request a written quote for your fence and site.

There is no statewide ban on agricultural use, but municipal bylaws govern the rest and many restrict it in residential zones or near a public way. Some towns allow it only above a set height on a commercial fence. Because the rule is entirely local, we check with your building department first.

Fifteen to twenty-five years, and the galvanizing class sets the outcome. Class 3 coated strand routinely reaches the top of that span in a Massachusetts field. What usually fails first is the post line rather than the wire, since frost lifts driven posts a little each year until strands sag.

Four strands is the common answer for cattle, with three enough for a quiet herd on good ground and five for bulls or steep terrain that pushes animals against the line. Spacing tightens toward the bottom where calves test it, and horses belong behind smooth wire or mesh instead.