Bartow has one delivery ZIP, and 33830 has to stretch over two different worlds. Inside the city grid, the fence is made of wood privacy panels, chain-link, vinyl, and aluminum pickets. The same ZIP keeps going out past the last sidewalk into ground where a fence means three strands of wire on posts, holding cattle.
What Actually Differs Between a Panel Pull and a Wire Pull
The seam matters on a single property too. Plenty of Bartow addresses have suburban fence at the house and old field wire at the back of the same parcel, left from when the land was used differently. Both come out in the same visit, priced as the two jobs they are.
The Metal Goes One Way and Everything Else Goes Another
Sorting on site is not tidiness for its own sake. Chain-link fabric, barbed and woven wire, steel posts, top rail, and aluminum picket are a metal stream. Polk County's own solid waste operation weighs scrap metal at its landfill on its own published per-ton rate, separate from the general waste rate. So the metal comes off the line as the fence comes down and travels on its own ticket, instead of going over the scale buried inside a mixed load.
Wood panel, rails, and vinyl are the other stream and priced by volume, which is why a hundred feet of six-foot wood privacy fence fills a trailer faster than four hundred feet of reeled wire will. Concrete footings are heavy material and are quoted as their own line item because pulling and hauling them is a different job from taking the fence off them.
What that means for you
You are not paying for one undifferentiated pile. The estimate says what is being removed, what is being separated, and what the footings add if you want them out. If you would rather leave the footings in the ground because something is going back in the same line, say so, and that line comes off the price. Where they do come out, the holes are backfilled, and the line raked level before the trailer leaves.
Just the metal, no fence? → Scrap Metal Removal →
Permits and Property Lines, Put Plainly
Permits: the published guidance is about putting a fence up
The City of Bartow's building department lists fences among the structures that need a permit, and its guidance is written around putting one up. Removal, on its own, is not something the published material addresses, which is exactly why it is worth calling the building department rather than making an assumption. Donny raises it at the estimate and will make the call with you if a replacement fence is going back in.
Property lines: where Polk Services stops
Florida has no statute governing the taking down of a fence that two neighbors built together. Where the position of a fence is genuinely disputed, the law works through doctrines about boundaries and long occupation, and those are matters between the owners and their own advisers, not something a contractor resolves from a truck.
So, the operating rule here is simple, and it does not bend. Polk Services will not pull a fence that is on a disputed line without written agreement from both owners. That is not a legal opinion, and it is not a judgment about who is right. It is the only way to take a fence out and be certain the job is finished when the trailer leaves.
Three Fence Questions That Come Up Every Time
Do you take out old barbed wire and field fence, or only residential fence?
Do I get anything back for the scrap metal?
Can you take a fence out and put a new one back?
Priced Off the Run, With the Footings Called Out Separately
Fence removal pricing is based on what comes out. Debris volume starts at a $300 minimum for the first four cubic yards, and long runs are quoted per project once the linear footage and the fence type are known. Post footings are their own line because concrete is a heavy material and is priced accordingly. If a new fence is going back in, that is a separate add-on with its own number, shown as its own line.
The Polk Services Standard on every fence job
Donny walks the job with you before he leaves, rakes the work area clean before he drives off, texts you 30 minutes before arrival, and gives you both a verbal and a written quote up front. No sub-crews, no surprise pricing, and the site left ready for whatever comes next.
Payment and scheduling
Cash, check, card, and electronic payment accepted. No processing fee on cash or check; Donny states the card fee when he quotes. Same-day and next-day scheduling is common in Bartow when the calendar allows, and long pasture runs are scheduled with the ground in mind so the machine can travel the line.
