That $120/hr is a crew hour, not a manhour.
Also, cement was only a portion of what was used. I bet it was actually concrete as there most likely was sand, aggregate, and water in addition to the cement.
Rent a tow behind auger for $250, dig the holes yourself, build the fence, bask in your accomplishment.
Nah. Just dump straight Portland in there and call it a day. 
It’s that easy?
I’m 3/4 of the way through rebuilding 1000 feet of fence. I do about 80 feet each day I get the mood, which is not that often.
It is exhausting but not technical.
Of couse that requires a situation where you can drive your vehicle along the whole fence line. Which is not common for most backyards.
Nope. You can pull the auger easily by human power. Well, maybe not triathletes, you’ll need at least the upper body strength of a 13 year old.
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You must have nice neighbors.
When I bought my house the fences were either non existent or incredibly dilapidated. I proposed similar situations. I’ll do all the work, they just buy the material. I even get contractor discounts so the material would be discounted.
Two of the three neighbours said no. I was the one that wanted the new fence, I could pay the full amount. The one neighbour I have a good relationship with agreed.
Both of the neighbours who refused have since died 
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I got quotes to replace the fence from three fence companies and presented them to my neighbors. They would be responsible for half if we hired one of them.
Then I told them how much the materials would cost them if I provided the labor myself. It was significantly less, so they agreed.
Don’t cross BCtg!
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Surprisingly, both had nail-gun accidents. What are the odds?
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I just had 14 posts replaced on my 4ft cedar fence. I got three bids, ranging from 2-4K. The highest was from an independent and the lowest from a brick and mortar fence and deck company. I went with the lowest and am very happy with the results. I would easily exceed $2K in doctors and chiro bills if I did it myself 
Doesn’t work like that here. You can’t just rebuild a fence and give the neighbours half the bill, unless you want to end up in court and spend months and multiple times the cost of the fence on legal bills.
As part of a new build we once built a $250k fence. Imagine sticking your neighbour with half that bill.
ETA: On a different project, this client of mine had a $20M oceanfront property. His neighbour built a long fence between their properties, on their own side of the property line.
Except one post was 1/2" over the property line on to my clients property. If you looked down the row of posts, everything was perfectly in line except one post, and only just.
My client paid for a land survey, which is a couple of thousand dollars, and took his neighbour to court, forcing him to dig up and replace the one fence post back 1/2".
Needless to say, my client was a complete asshole.
I’m not saying anything!
In reality, both of those neighbours were well in to their 80s when I moved in. Nature just did its thing.
And no, Rick, my nail gun is not named ‘Nature’.
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It’s a matter of principle
You would sue your neighbour over a property line dispute that amounts to the width of your pinkie finger?
A) are they assholes?
B) Is the fence obnoxious and ugly?
Beautiful cedar fence. Not obnoxious at all and provides nice privacy between the two properties.
The section in question was also on an area that was steep, sort of overgrown heading down hill to beach access. Not an area you’d be sitting at and enjoying, but tucked away on basically an unusable part of the property. To even get a vantage point from which you could see the offending post is out of line with the others is difficult.
Was the neighbour an asshole? I’m not sure if they were reasonable before, but they sure were cold after their first interaction with the new neighbour (my client) was the threat of litigation.
I assume Jim meant by mutual agreement. I have always split the bill with my three different neighbors whenever one of the sides needs repair or replaced. We just verbally agree that we’ll split. I realize shit could escalate if one of the two parties renegs. If you have an asshole neighbor, then it wont work obviously.
Example… one of my fence neighbors needed to replace one side of his fence with another side neighbor (not me). It had been knocked down by a storm. I think technically the fence was on the other guys side of the line. That other neighbor refused to split the bill, said hed just leave the wreck as it was. Pets running free ( both housholds had backyard dogs)…
So my neighbor had to put up a new fence himself and paid the whole thing…on his side of the property line. Then a week later the other asshole neighbor removed the wrecked fence on his side, and voilà, got to enjoy the brand new fence and didnt cost him a dime…in fact he made $$ since insurance gave him money for the damaged fence.
Good to know!