[GWN7]

A friend of mine decided he wants a fence (actually his wife did) and she asked for recommendations of builders. I said why don't you build it yourself and talked myself into a job. My friend is a mechanic and knows which end of a hammer to use, just no time. So now I have about 220' of fencing to build. She wanted cedar but changed her mind when I started quoting $$'s.

I don't drill and set posts but I know a guy who does .....or so I thought. Last job the driller did last year he blew the motor on his self propelled auger machine. He was told it would be $4,000 to rebuild it and as he turned 65 years old he said screw it "I'm retired".

So I'm looking for a new driller and the prices I've been quoted are high. $15 a 4" hole to drill, $15 a 4" post to set, $5 a post for gravel and $4 a hole to clean up the drilling mud. I think we will need 30 holes and at $39 a hole that's $1170.

What do you pay where you live?