price check on fence building

[pdubdo]

Doesn't have to be rock-bottom cheap, just want a fair price: Here's the quote I got:
1. labor: $1/ft of 5 strand barbed wire fence built
2. corners/braces: welded, capped unused pipe (2nds)-- 1$/ft installed in concrete.
3. I supply wire, t-posts, concrete

This is for cleared, relatively even ground w/ 7 corners over about 2600 ft.

 

[callmefence]

Sounds cheap.
I would get 2.75 material and labor.
5 wire t post every 12 foot. pipe stiffner every 100 foot.welded pipe braces.
Be careful about putting up money or material upfront

 

[Kingfisher]

You can't build braces and tightness for $1 foot. Get another estimate and go look at both of their work.

 

[tdc_cattle]

Sounds awfully cheep.

 

[Rajela]

1. labor: $1/ft of 5 strand barbed wire fence built
2. corners/braces: welded, capped unused pipe (2nds)-- 1$/ft installed in concrete.
3. I supply wire, t-posts, concrete

I am not understanding number 2 ??????????????????

 

[callmefence]

1. labor: $1/ft of 5 strand barbed wire fence built
2. corners/braces: welded, capped unused pipe (2nds)-- 1$/ft installed in concrete.
3. I supply wire, t-posts, concrete

I am not understanding number 2 ??????????????????

Didn't make sense to me either

 

[pdubdo]

#2) He's got the pipe and will sell it to me for $1/ft. 8 foot posts. He'll cap them, and weld the horizontals.

They've got a very good reputation in the community and are backed up with work till mid-October. We'll see what happens. Thanks for the feedback.

 

[Kingfisher]

Where are you located pdubdo?

 

[callmefence]

That's a he'll of a deal. You said he's setting in concrete. Often means their not planting em deep. I would request to see the holes before he sets the post. (Keep em honest). Sounds like just using a h. Pay to have diagonal s you'll be glad you did. Especially at that price.

.he's basically giving you the labor on braces to sell the pipe. I can't make sense of it.

 

[pdubdo]

Where are you located pdubdo?

south central Oklahoma. For better or worse, Winstar is an easy drive from my place

 

[pdubdo]

That's a he'll of a deal. You said he's setting in concrete. Often means their not planting em deep. I would request to see the holes before he sets the post. (Keep em honest). Sounds like just using a h. Pay to have diagonal s you'll be glad you did. Especially at that price.

.he's basically giving you the labor on braces to sell the pipe. I can't make sense of it.

Good advice! Sounds like I need to be wary of a too-good-to-be-true kind of deal, but maybe a little extra on the tail end if it's good work.

 

[Kingfisher]

Well at least it's not rocky for the fellow. He'd have to have a great post pounder, a " work for food" crew and stolen wire to make a simple profit for $1 ft....

 

[Ronbrokmeyer]

That's the going rate around here in east central Texas. What you skeptics are not taking into account is the contractor is probably dealing in cash and not paying tax and has a "southern" work force.