What palisade fencing is
Palisade is a steel security fence made from vertical pales bolted to horizontal rails, then fixed to steel posts set in concrete. The pales sit with a gap between them, so you keep sightlines through the fence while making it very hard to climb, cut or lever open. It is the fence you see around substations, pump stations, depots, warehouses and anywhere a site needs to look secure and be secure.
We fabricate palisade in our own workshop, so we can match the pale profile, height and post spacing to the job rather than to whatever a supplier happens to stock.
Pale profiles and heights
The pale shape does the work. The two we build most often are:
- W pale the standard corrugated profile. Stiff, hard to bend, good all-round security for commercial and industrial boundaries.
- D pale a rounded profile that reads a little softer while still being a serious barrier. Common where the fence faces a street or a public frontage.
Pale tops can be plain, single-point or triple-point (a spear top) to make climbing over the rail genuinely unpleasant. Heights typically run from around 1.8 m up to 2.4 m and higher where a site brief calls for it. Taller runs get an extra horizontal rail so the pales stay rigid across their length.
Where palisade beats chainwire
Chainwire is the right call for a lot of jobs and it is what we are known for. But there are boundaries where palisade earns its cost:
- Anti-climb and anti-cut. A rigid steel pale resists bolt cutters and boltless climbing in a way a wire mesh cannot.
- A harder look. Some sites need to look like a deterrent. Palisade does that at the front gate.
- Low maintenance. No mesh to sag or be pulled off tension wire over the years.
If you are weighing the two for a commercial boundary, tell us what you are protecting and how public the frontage is, and we will give you a straight recommendation. Sometimes the answer is palisade at the road and chainwire down the sides where budget matters more than street appeal.
Galvanised or powder-coated
Every steel component is hot-dip galvanised so it holds up outdoors for the long run. From there you have two paths:
- Galvanised finish the practical, lowest-cost option for depots, yards and industrial boundaries.
- Powder-coated over galvanised a colour finish (black is the usual pick) for frontages where appearance matters. The galvanising underneath still does the corrosion work; the powder coat adds the colour and a bit more protection.
Working with us
We have been fencing across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and the Hunter since 2004, and our crews are trained and ticketed for the tougher sites, including rail corridors and industrial yards. Palisade is a natural fit for that work, and because we fabricate in-house we can also build matching gates, brackets and infill panels for the same job.
Tell us the boundary length, the height you need and what the fence is protecting, and we will quote it.